Author Archive: UC Tech News
UC Tech News
December 12, 2018
All Articlescollaboration, Hackathon, Health Hack, Healthcare, Marissa J. Ventura, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Marissa Ventura. They came from across the country to dream up ideas, using technology, to improve patient engagement and their experience in today’s health-care system. Whether it involved crowd-sourcing, blockchain technology, or Alexa skills, more than 200 undergraduate and…
Read more about Hackathon Draws Fresh Ideas for Patient Engagement
UC Tech News
December 5, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesCybersecurity, Information Security, Scott Seaborn, UCOP
By Scott Seaborn. On May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went live, significantly changing the international privacy landscape and raising the regulatory stakes for institutions and companies working with the personal data of persons in Europe. …
Read more about What Does Europe’s New Privacy Law Mean for UC?
UC Tech News
December 5, 2018
All ArticlesCHEC Conference, collaboration, Events, Procurement, Thomas Trappler, UCOP
By Thomas Trappler. At the California Higher Education Collaborative (CHEC) conference on October 1, 2018, David Willson, manager, Strategic Technology Acquisition at UC Berkeley, and I accepted a Focus on Efficiency award on behalf of the whole UC IT strategic sourcing community. The award recognizes UC for creating a partnership between the UC procurement and IT communities that has successfully improved the effectiveness, efficiency, and outcomes of IT strategic…
Read more about IT Strategic Sourcing Wins Higher Ed Award
UC Tech News
November 28, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesDr. Amy Sitapi, Dr. Brian Clay, Dr. Marlene Millen, Healthcare, innovation, UC San Diego, UC San Diego Health, UCSD
By Amy Sitapati, Brian Clay, and Marlene Millen. Thanks in no small part to digitization, medicine today is much different than the medicine of yesterday. Plenty has already been written about how electronic health record (EHR) systems amplify the time,…
Read more about Why Doctors Love Their Computers
UC Tech News
November 28, 2018
All ArticlesCybersecurity, Information Security, UCOP
Online shopping continues to grow in popularity. This past Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day ever in the US, and broke records in mobile sales. Unfortunately, the ease and convenience of online shopping makes the holiday season…
Read more about Protect Yourself while Shopping Online
UC Tech News
November 28, 2018
All ArticlesEvents, Procurement, UCOP, webinar
Learn from Cisco professionals about the new UC contract with EPlus for Cisco procurement and about UC’s formal strategic relationship with Cisco. You may think of routing and switching as the core Cisco technologies. Well, over the past few years…
Read more about Save Dec. 12 for Webinar: UC’s Cisco Agreement – More than Routing and Switching
UC Tech News
November 14, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesiGlobal, ISSM, Jeané Blunt, Services for International Students and Scholars, SISS, Sunapsis, UC Davis, UCD
By Jeané Blunt. When most people think about UC Davis – agriculture, animal science, and even Gunrock the mustang may come to mind. They likely don’t realize that UC Davis is home to more than 10,000 international students and scholars…
Read more about UC Davis Streamlines Services for International Students and Scholars
UC Tech News
November 14, 2018
All ArticlesAccessibility, Closed captioning, Todd McGill, UC Irvine, UCI, Youtube
By Todd McGill. Released via GitHub on July 27, 2018, the YouTube Caption Audit is a distributable web application that reports uncaptioned public videos for a given YouTube channel. Surprisingly, this is not something that can be done within the…
Read more about YouTube Caption Audit Tool Now Available from UCI
UC Tech News
November 14, 2018
All ArticlesProcurement, tariffs, Thomas Trappler, UCOP
By Thomas Trappler. In March 2018, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a report detailing its investigation of China’s trade practices related to intellectual property. To address issues surfaced in the report, the USTR subsequently announced additional tariffs…
Read more about Tariffs Impact Pricing under Some UC Systemwide IT Agreements
UC Tech News
November 7, 2018
All Articles, Feature Articlesagriculture, AgTech, computer science, Lindcove Research and Extension Center, LREC, SmartFarm, Susan Rambo, technology, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Susan Rambo. Computer science researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, are using the internet of things to prove that smart farming can be a farm implement as basic as the tractor and plough. The husband and wife…
Read more about Wireless Smart Farming to Keep Frost Away From Citrus