Author Archive
Charlie Chan scholar Yunte Huang on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to Yunte Huang, poet, professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, and author of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. In the book, Huang combines a personal narrative of his research into American literature's most beloved (and [...]
Radio Causeway: Matthew Neeley, Ph.D. on Quantum Computers – Nov 30, 2010
Project Scientist at Lincoln Laboratory at MIT and former UC Santa Barbara Graduate Student in Physics, Matthew Neeley, Ph.D. talks about his recent paper in Nature on his team's breakthough in quantum computing. Dr. Neeley is an alumni of the Martinis Group at UC Santa Barbara. The breakthrough work has shown for the first time the [...]
Radio Causeway: Christopher Kruegel, Ph.D. on his Advancement in Computer Security – Nov 23, 2010
Christopher Kruegel, Ph.D. stops by Radio Causeway this week to discuss his new computer security advancement. Dr. Kruegel and his team have developed a way to stop computer viruses from harming your computer after the virus or worm has made it into your computer. Dr Kruegel is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa [...]
Radio Causeway: Brett Williams of Direct Relief International on Haiti’s Cholera Outbreak – Nov 16, 2010
Brett Williams, Director of International Programs for Santa Barbara based Direct Relief International comes to Radio Causeway to discuss his latest trip to Haiti working to battle against Haiti's cholera outbreak. Recent United Nation reports expect upwards of 200,000 Haitians will become infected with cholera. Direct Relief [...]
Artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats. In addition to his well-known projects like selling his thoughts, creating pornography for plants, and genetically engineering god, Keats writes about language for Wired magazine. His new book, Virtual Words: Language from [...]
Radio Causeway: FUNd Drive Celebration with artist Devin Seguin – Nov 9, 2010
For the Radio Causeway KCSB FUNd Drive Celebration, visual artist Devin Seguin will be in studio speaking with Pav & Tim about his artwork and the projects he as been involved in. Devin Seguin has contributed artwork to the surfboard maker Backyard Boards (BYB), and bands Shock & Awe, The Q, and Candye Kane. In honor of the [...]
Film critic David Sterritt on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to film critic David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics and former longtime critic at the Christian Science Monitor. Sterritt's books, from titles on Jean-Luc Godard and Alfred Hitchcock to more recent ones on B-movies and even the television sitcom The [...]
George Duarte’s Chronometricz profiled in The KCSBeat
This week The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall's column for the Santa Barbara Independent on everything to do with KCSB, takes a look and a listen to Chronometricz, a Friday-night hip-hop and dance institution since 2007:Host and DJ George Duarte, also known as XTEK OVERLOAD, has led just the kind of life and career to acquire the skills to pull this off. [...]
Poodle Radio Visits Warbler Records and Talks Best-Of
First on this week's Poodle Radio, the radio program of the Santa Barbara Independent, is a refreshingly noncommercial discussion of this year's "Best Of" issue, an examination of local preferences in everything from burgers to coffee shops to wedding spots. Colin Marshall is joined by longtime Indy writer D.J. Palladino, who talks about what it's [...]
Documentarian Nicholas Sherman on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to documentary filmmaker Nicholas Sherman, director of Soundtracker: A Portrait of Gordon Hempton. Hempton, one of the world's best-known field recordists, has dedicated his life to traveling the United States and the world to create "sound portraits" of distinctive places. In [...]
