CROSS - Center for Research in Open Source Software

Training the Next Generation of OSS Leaders
CROSS students creating open source software
CROSS was founded based on the success of former UCSC student Sage Weil with the Ceph open source storage system. At CROSS, we create open source leaders by blending open source software strategies with graduate-level research in a concentrated environment of mentorship and interaction with world class industry, academia, and open source experts. CROSS transfers cutting-edge technology from student research to industry via successful open source projects.

Working with Industry

Industry partners are critical to our success. Our proximity to Silicon Valley allows us to match UCSC's world class researchers with experts from leading tech companies, start-ups, and top open source experts. We draw from this expertise to choose projects to maximize impact and success.

Contact us about becoming an industry member.
CROSS Members: Toshiba, Micron, Seagate, Western
              Digital, Huawei, Samsung

Footbridge in UC Santa Cruz redwood forest and ants
              collecting food
Eusocial Storage Devices

CROSS industry members are working with our students and faculty on the design of fabric-connected, "eusocial" storage devices that can communicate with each other to provide collective functionality while still assuming frugal resources within devices. Open source prototypes emerging from this effort will form the blueprints for future standards efforts.

Baskin Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Email: cross-info@ucsc.edu Telephone: 831-459-1932
CROSS, 1156 High St, MS:SOE3, Santa Cruz, CA 95064