By Bill Green. One hundred fifty years ago, it was not uncommon for friends and neighbors to band together to help one another build a barn. It made for quick work, and just a bit of effort from everyone completed…
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Thursday, May 16 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, affectionately known as GAAD. The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different abilities. That means that’s the day you make…
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May 8, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Mark Hersberger. The University of California San Diego was collecting test scores and other learning metrics from 3.4 million students engaged in its offering of 90 massive, open, online courses (MOOCs). However, due to incompatibilities between the data format…
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Registration for the 2019 UCTech Conference, held at UC Santa Barbara, July 15-17, is now open! This year’s theme is “IT Uncorked – Unleashing the potential of our IT ingenuity”. From its humble beginnings as a 21-attendee “academic” software…
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May 1, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Valerie Polichar. The UC Research IT Committee (RITC, or “Ritzy,” as we like to call it) is a subcommittee of the UC IT Leadership Committee (ITLC). Just over four years old, the current iteration of RITC started…
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Jennifer Urban is a clinical professor of law at UC Berkeley and she was a featured speaker at the 7th Biannual UC Cyber Security Summit at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus on April 17. In this video, Professor Urban…
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Registration has opened for the 2019 Information Security Symposium, held June 18-19 at UC Davis. The theme is Connect, Share, Fortify, and the attractions include: More than 100 information sessions, along with hands-on labs 25 leading security and technology vendors…
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April 24, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Tom Andriola. Last month marked five years since we started publishing the UC IT Blog. In that time, the blog has evolved to become what I call “the story of us” – 8000 IT professionals serving the University of…
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Alzheimer’s disease affects people all over the world and Kumaran Akilan’s family is no different. As the first-year student from Cupertino waits to see if his grandfather’s mild cognitive impairment is indeed Alzheimer’s, Akilan has been busy deciphering a new…
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April 17, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Rita Rosenthal. Imagine working with someone closely for over 10 years, talking on the phone weekly, yet never meeting each other in person. Or starting a technical project, only to learn several months in that another department on campus…
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