Author Archive: UC Tech News
UC Tech News
March 9, 2022
All ArticlesBerkeley IT, CIO, diversity, equity, inclusion, Jenn Stringer, UC Berkeley, UC Tech Exec, UCB
By Jenn Stringer. Becoming a first-time CIO during the pandemic certainly was trial by fire! What I appreciated about the experience is how the campus really came together to problem solve and the administrative and academic interests of the campus…
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UC Tech News
March 9, 2022
All ArticlesAl Covington, Associate CISO, Black History Month, Charron Andrus, diversity, Dr. Carmen Robinson, equity, inclusion, Information Technology, UC Berkeley, UC CIO, UC Santa Cruz, UC Tech Assembly, UCB, UCOP, UCSC, Van Williams
Watch the UC Tech Assembly: Black Leaders Panel, which took place on Monday, February 28. The discussion featured Black members of our UC Tech community from various levels of leadership. Topics ranged from personal stories to allyship advice, to…
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UC Tech News
March 9, 2022
All ArticlesEvents, UC San Diego, UC Tech, UC Tech 2022, UCCSC, UCSD, virtual event
By Mark Hersberger. Mark your calendars for August 15-17, 2022, for UC Tech, hosted by UC San Diego. This year we’re offering a hybrid conference for maximum flexibility, including: A virtual component, with all keynotes, breakouts, and panels livestreamed…
Read more about UC Tech Returns August 15-17
UC Tech News
March 2, 2022
All Articlesbenefit, IT Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Systemwide, systemwide IT agreements, Tom Trappler, UC Systemwide Procurement IT
By Yvonne Tevis. Efforts led by UC Systemwide Procurement’s IT strategic sourcing team achieved almost $70 M in “benefit” for UC in fiscal year 2021 by negotiating contracts with suppliers. That is $25 M more than in the previous year!…
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UC Tech News
March 2, 2022
All ArticlesInternational Women's Day, UC Berkeley, UCB, WIDS, Women in Data Science, Women in Data Science Berkeley, Women's History Month
UC Tech News
March 2, 2022
All ArticlesDaniel Kane, electrical engineering, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Shadi Dayeh, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Daniel Kane. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $12.25 million grant to the University of California San Diego to develop and enhance brain-sensing and brain-stimulating platform technologies to enable treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy. The project is led…
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UC Tech News
February 23, 2022
All ArticlesEpic Health, Information Technology, Kristen Godfrey, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UCD
By Kristen Godfrey. UC Davis Health has won gold stars for improving patient flow! How? By creating a program to address everything from reducing the time doctors spend walking from patient to patient, to decreasing the time patients spend waiting…
Read more about Patient Flow Program at UCD Health: A National Gold Star Winner
UC Tech News
February 23, 2022
All ArticlesArtificial Intelligence, improvisational jazz, Project REACH, Shlomo Dubnov, UCSD, University of California San Diego
By Josh Baxt. Go to any jazz club and watch the musicians. Their performances are dynamic and improvisational; they’re inventing as they go along, having entire conversations through their instruments. Can we give computers the same capabilities? To answer that…
Read more about Computers in a Jazz Ensemble? Inventing Improvisational AI
UC Tech News
February 16, 2022
All ArticlesAmazon Web Services, AWS, Cloudera, collaboration, data management, Project Management, RDMS, Risk Services Data Management System, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Susan Whitney, UC Office of the President, UC San Diego, UCOP, UCOP Risk Services, UCSD
By Susan Whitney. I want to tell the story how a systemwide group successfully delivered a complex, well-architected, cross-functional team solution, on time, and within budget. In 18 months, we re-architected and migrated the UCOP Risk Services Data Management System…
Read more about Data Management in AWS: A UC Collaboration Success Story
UC Tech News
February 16, 2022
All ArticlesBerkeley Engineering, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, DEI, diversity equity & inclusion, Diversity in Tech Symposium, EDGE in Tech Initiative, EDGE in Tech Initiative Athena Awards, UC Berkeley, UCB
Register for the Diversity in Tech Symposium: Advancing Climate Resilience presented by EDGE in Tech Initiative at the University of California, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and Berkeley Engineering. This virtual event takes place March 10–11, 2022 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m….
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