Author Archive: UC Tech News
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…
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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
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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…
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UC Tech News
December 18, 2019
All Articlescollaboration, ITS, Nick Endsley, Promapp, Rick Greene, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UCB, UCOP, UCSD, Yvonne Tevis
By Yvonne Tevis. This is the story of how three UC employees – from three separate campuses – got what they wanted because they worked together. What did they want? As process improvement people, they wanted tools. Specifically, a tool…
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UC Tech News
December 18, 2019
All ArticlesEdTech, Educational Technology Services, Events, Paul Jamason, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Paul Jamason. We always need the right tool for the job. But sometimes we don’t know what that tool is. Thankfully, along came the sold-out Fall 2019 EdTech Showcase on September 20, which highlighted the numerous ETS instructional tools…
Read more about UCSD’s EdTech Showcase a Success!
UC Tech News
December 11, 2019
All Articles, Feature Articlescloud infrastructure, Procurement, Systemwide, Thomas Trappler, UC Procurement Services, UCOP
By Thomas Trappler. Since 2013, the UC wide agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Agreement# UCOP-19) has made AWS products available for use under terms and conditions aligned with UC’s needs, policy, and the law. Effective October 1, 2019,…
Read more about UC Gets Discount for Amazon Web Services