Monthly Archive: September 2018
UC Tech News
September 26, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesCultural Heritage Engineering Initiative, Turin, UC San Diego, UCSD
A collaborative group of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, traveled to Turin, Italy, recently to digitally map an entire portion of the city—complete with historic architecture, expansive murals and stunning works of art. Digital data will be…
Read more about Using Science and Humanities to Step Back in Time
UC Tech News
September 26, 2018
All ArticlesAccessibility, electronic accessibility committee, Siteimprove, Yvonne Tevis
By Yvonne Tevis. Website accessibility just got a bit easier at UC. You probably already know that everything we put online – from websites, to PDFs, to images – needs to be accessible. That means it must be designed so people…
Read more about UC Gets Systemwide Website Accessibility Checker
UC Tech News
September 19, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesBlum Center, Haiti, Haiti Tech Summit, Julia Chen, Michael Dennin, UC Irvine, UCI
By Julia Chen. This past June, over 100 speakers from around the world convened in Cotes de Acardins, Haiti, at the second annual Haiti Tech Summit. Among them was UC Irvine Dean Michael Dennin, a renowned scientist, author, and professor….
Read more about Haiti Tech Summit Encourages Innovation through Technology
UC Tech News
September 19, 2018
All ArticlesInformation Security, IS-3, protection levels, Robert Smith, UCOP
By Robert Smith. The University of California has a brand new information security policy! UC President Janet Napolitano signed the policy, BFB-IS-3: Electronic Information Security Policy, on September 7, 2018. In an increasingly collaborative world that depends upon shared…
Read more about UC Adopts a New Information Security Policy
UC Tech News
September 19, 2018
All Articles, Announcements/EventsCybersecurity, cybersecurity awareness month, Events, NCSAM
UC campuses are gearing up for their annual October cybersecurity education campaigns. These include a few events, open to everyone, that you may want to attend. The events are listed below, but check the event information on the systemwide…
Read more about Don’t Miss Out – UC Cybersecurity Awareness Events
UC Tech News
September 12, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesClaire Mizumoto, Cyd Burrows-Schilling, ITLC, Research IT, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Claire Mizumoto. Research Cyberinfrastructure…Research IT… Research Facilitator…Research Champion…. concierge… white glove… Whatever you choose to call it, it’s direct “high-touch” support for campus researchers. The overall objective is to advance researchers’ work and increase sponsored research at the University…
Read more about Finally! Centralized Support for UC Researchers
UC Tech News
September 12, 2018
All ArticlesProject Management, Savannah Gray, Tom Andriola, UC Berkeley, UC CIO, UCB, UCCSC
By Savannah Gray. Fun sessions that bring people together at the annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) are the “birds of a feather” meetings. Separate from the formal agenda of events, these are organized by different communities of interest as…
Read more about UC IT Project Managers Create a Systemwide Community
UC Tech News
September 5, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesData Science, Fernando Perez, Jupyter, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Robert Sanders. You may not have heard of Jupyter Notebooks, but they’re taking the data science world by storm and becoming the go-to tool for sharing and improving computer code, documents, data visualizations and more. Students in UC Berkeley’s fastest-growing…
Read more about Pioneering Data Science Tool — Jupyter — Receives Top Software Prize
UC Tech News
September 5, 2018
All ArticlesCybersecurity, UC Cyber Summit, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, UCR, UCSC
Register now for the UC Cyber Summit at UC Riverside on October 24. Seats are filling up fast for this popular biannual event. The summits are hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center to provide continuing education and networking…
Read more about UC Cyber Summit Draws Cyber Experts to UCR