Monthly Archive: January 2020
UC Tech News
January 29, 2020
All ArticlesCalifornia, Chief Privacy Officer, Cybersecurity, data, Data Privacy, Kent Wada, privacy, UC Los Angeles, UCLA
By Kent Wada. In case you missed it, the people of the State of California have voted to include privacy as an inalienable right. Go look for yourself: it’s right there in Article 1, Section 1 of the California Constitution:1 CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION,…
Read more about Privacy and Its Big Brother, #internet50
UC Tech News
January 29, 2020
All ArticlesCultured Data Symposium, data, Data Science, Events, registration, technology, UC San Diego, UCSD
On February 7 and 8, UC San Diego will host the Cultured Data Symposium, bringing together experts from data science and the arts and humanities to examine the emerging relationship between data and culture. The symposium will feature two keynote…
Read more about Register for UCSD’s Cultured Data Symposium
UC Tech News
January 22, 2020
All Articlesata, SafeTREC, TIMS, transportation, Transportation Injury Mapping System, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Kara Manke. As programs manager for Bike Bakersfield, a nonprofit bicycle advocacy coalition in Southern California, Asha Chandy hears scary stories all the time about bike collisions and near misses. “One guy told me that he was almost sideswiped…
Read more about Street Story – A Platform for Community Engagement
UC Tech News
January 22, 2020
All ArticlesAccessibility, Amazon Web Services, Artificial Intelligence, CHIME, diversity, Google Cloud Platform, Healthcare, inclusion, Mark Cianca, UCCSC, UCTech, UCTech 2019, Yvonne Tevis
By Mark Cianca and Yvonne Tevis. Diversity and Inclusion Get the Spotlight The UC IT community is focusing on diversity from all angles. A new “Diversifying the IT Culture” track boasted 16 sessions at our big annual UC Tech…
Read more about Top 5 UC IT Stories for 2019
UC Tech News
January 22, 2020
All ArticlesCommunity, Survey, UC IT, winter break
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Winter Break Poll! The purpose of this poll was to have a bit of fun and learn more about our UC IT community, it is not meant to be reflective of UC…
Read more about Winter Break Poll Results
UC Tech News
January 15, 2020
All Articlesapp, data, mobile, Rose Rocchio, smartphones, UC Los Angeles, UCLA, ZAP, Zenith App Platform
By Rose Rocchio. Do you want to modernize your communications, ease off on the email? Learn how UCLA’s Zenith App Platform (ZAP) can help you build “an app for that.” Using ZAP, UC organizations can create the mobile environment…
Read more about Up Your Game: Build a Data-Driven App with UCLA’s ZAP
UC Tech News
January 15, 2020
All ArticlesBill Buchanan, Cybersecurity, cybersecurity awareness month, Floppy and Cow, UC Davis, UCD
By Bill Buchanan. Meet Floppy and Cow, a couple of characters at UC Davis. One has an uncanny ability to misuse technology, sometimes in spectacular fashion. The other understands how tech works. Together, they debuted this past fall in
Read more about Floppy & Cow: Making the Internet Safe Again
UC Tech News
January 15, 2020
All ArticlesCommunity, poll, UC IT
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UC Tech News
January 8, 2020
All ArticlesAhmed Eldawy, data, Data Science, Dataset, Holly Ober, maps, UC Riverside, UCR, UCR STAR
By Holly Ober. Let’s say you’re doing research that requires millions of geotagged tweets. Or perhaps you’re a journalist who wants to map murders in Chicago from 2001 to the present. You need to find large spatio-temporal datasets — but…
Read more about Free Dataset Archive Helps Researchers Quickly Find a Needle in a Haystack
UC Tech News
January 8, 2020
All Articlescyber-risk management, Cybersecurity, Events, UC Berkeley, UC Cyber Security Summit, UCB
Save the date for the ninth biannual UC Cyber Security Summit, which will be held at UC Berkeley on April 15, 2020. The summit is UC’s semiannual meeting that brings together people from across the university to discuss and…
Read more about Don’t Miss the April 15 UC Cyber Security Summit at UC Berkeley