Author Archive: UC Tech News
UC Tech News
September 12, 2018
All ArticlesProject Management, Savannah Gray, Tom Andriola, UC Berkeley, UC CIO, UCB, UCCSC
By Savannah Gray. Fun sessions that bring people together at the annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) are the “birds of a feather” meetings. Separate from the formal agenda of events, these are organized by different communities of interest as…
Read more about UC IT Project Managers Create a Systemwide Community
UC Tech News
September 5, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesData Science, Fernando Perez, Jupyter, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Robert Sanders. You may not have heard of Jupyter Notebooks, but they’re taking the data science world by storm and becoming the go-to tool for sharing and improving computer code, documents, data visualizations and more. Students in UC Berkeley’s fastest-growing…
Read more about Pioneering Data Science Tool — Jupyter — Receives Top Software Prize
UC Tech News
September 5, 2018
All ArticlesCybersecurity, UC Cyber Summit, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, UCR, UCSC
Register now for the UC Cyber Summit at UC Riverside on October 24. Seats are filling up fast for this popular biannual event. The summits are hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center to provide continuing education and networking…
Read more about UC Cyber Summit Draws Cyber Experts to UCR
UC Tech News
August 29, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesJulia Chen, UC Davis, UCCSC, UCCSC 2018, UCD, video
By Julia Chen. This year’s annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) saw over 600 attendees and 150 sessions, making it the largest conference yet. UC IT professionals gathered at UC Davis for three days of fantastic panels, activities, and networking…
Read more about UCCSC 2018 Video Recap: Sustainable Solutions
UC Tech News
August 29, 2018
All Articlesfirst-timers, Jeané Blunt, UCCSC, UCCSC 2018, UCOP
By Jeané Blunt. I recently attended the University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) at UC Davis. This year’s conference was held August 13-15th and had over 600 attendees, making it the largest since UCCSC’s inception in 1983. Being a…
Read more about UCCSC: A First-Timer’s Perspective
UC Tech News
August 22, 2018
All Articles, Feature Articles2-step verification, Community, Jeremy Rosenberg, outreach, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Jeremy Rosenberg. UC Berkeley recently completed a whirlwind project to enroll all 25,000 staff and faculty into its 2-Step verification program (and even managed to pick up 6,000 students along the way). To meet the aggressive schedule set by…
Read more about Stepping Up to Better Security at UC Berkeley
UC Tech News
August 22, 2018
All Articlesblog, Tom Andriola, UC CIO, UCOP, welcome
By Tom Andriola. Over 200 people learned about and subscribed to the UC IT Blog at this year’s UCCSC. This is just fantastic. That’s 200 more people who will read your UC stories; 200 more people who will learn about…
Read more about Big Jump in Blog Subscribers
UC Tech News
August 15, 2018
All ArticlesOSN, SDSC, Supercomputer, UC San Diego, UCSD, WBIDH
The West Big Data Innovation Hub (WBDIH) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego is one of four regional big data hubs partner sites awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for…
Read more about West Big Data Hub at SDSC to Partner for Data Storage Network under New NSF Grant
UC Tech News
August 15, 2018
All Articles, Announcements/EventsITLC, Larry L. Sautter Award, Sautter Awards, Tom Andriola, UC CIO, UCCSC
Ten teams across the University of California won the 2018 Larry L. Sautter Award for using information technology to make university operations more effective and efficient and to better serve faculty, staff, students and patients. Systemwide Chief Information Officer…
Read more about Sautter Awards 2018: Winners Showcase UC IT Innovations
UC Tech News
August 8, 2018
All ArticlesHealthcare, Traci Farrell, UC San Francisco, UCCSC, UCSF
By Traci Farrell. In a university setting, custom application development teams can hit roadblocks when project sponsors, designers, and developers have different definitions of success. To try to circumvent this problem, the Design and Discovery team in UCSF School of…
Read more about Product Toolkit Helps Project Teams Keep Value Top of Mind