Monthly Archive: July 2020
UC Tech News
July 29, 2020
All Articles
By Traci Farrell. True or false: Different types of UC data require different levels of protection. Do I even have to tell you the answer? (Hint: It’s true.) At UCSF, our data powers our work in healthcare, research, education, and…
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UC Tech News
July 29, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Christopher Longhurst, Dr. Robert "Chip" Schooley, UC San Diego, UC San Diego Health, UCSD, UCSD Health, webinar, Youtube
Do you wish you could get COVID-19 information directly from the experts? Get help sorting fact from fiction? You’re in luck! Physicians at UC San Diego Health have launched the COVID-19 Grand Rounds Series, a six-part, live video symposium…
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UC Tech News
July 29, 2020
All ArticlesAI, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Pieter Abbeel, robotic systems, robotics, Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley Robotics Learning Lab, UCB
When children play with toys, they learn about the world around them — and today’s robots aren’t all that different. At UC Berkeley’s Robot Learning Lab, groups of robots are working to master the same kinds of tasks that kids…
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UC Tech News
July 22, 2020
All ArticlesAnnelie Rugg, coronavirus, COVID-19, remote work, UC Los Angeles, UC WIT, UC Women in Technology Committee, UCLA
By Annelie Rugg. We’re well past 100 days of the COVID-19 quarantine and still counting. Everything we thought we knew, including how to balance work and life, has required us to change, at least for now. And while we yearn…
Read more about Managing Well in a Remote World: Lessons from the UC Women in IT Community
UC Tech News
July 22, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Events, remote work, UC Los Angeles, UC Tech, UC Tech 2020, UCCSC, UCLA, UCTech, virtual, webinar
Registration for the Virtual UC Tech Webinar on August 11, 2020, is now open. The theme is “The UC Response to COVID-19.” Registration is required but there is no registration fee. Don’t wait until the last minute to plan…
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UC Tech News
July 15, 2020
All ArticlesKatie Chappell, Office of Information Technology, OIT, Student Affairs, Student Affairs IT, UC Irvine, UCI
By Katie Chappell. Getting hands-on project experience is critical for most students in any field. At UC Irvine, in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, all ICS majors are required to take a capstone course so they…
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UC Tech News
July 15, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, One IT, remote work, Rita Rosenthal, student outreach, UC Berkeley, UCB, Zoom
By Rita Rosenthal. Like many colleges and universities across the country, the demand for technical teams to expand existing services or build new services in support of the campus community during COVID-19 has been at a steady hum. Early in…
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UC Tech News
July 8, 2020
All Articlesassociate dean, IT Governance, Kevin H. Souza, UC San Francisco, UCSF, UCSF School of Medicine, UCSF SOM
By Kevin H. Souza. In 2018 the news media broke stories about the company Cambridge Analytica and its questionable business practices. News services reported that the company acquired personal data of Facebook users from an academic who had collected the…
Read more about Where’s the Data? UCSF’s IT Governance at Work
UC Tech News
July 8, 2020
All ArticlesEnterprise Systems Renewal, Financial Information System, FIS, Mark Hersberger, Oracle, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Mark Hersberger. On July 1, UC San Diego’s Financial Information System (FIS) entered production with the release of Oracle Financials Cloud, a world-class financial system, and Concur, a new travel and expense system. FIS is a signature component of…
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UC Tech News
July 8, 2020
All ArticlesCommunity, holidays, Instagram, shelter in place, UC IT
July 4th is usually full of barbeques, fireworks, and parades. This year was a little different. We asked coworkers from around UC to show us what their Independence Day looked like. Here are some of our favorites! View these…
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