Author Archive: UC Tech News

UC IT Project Managers Create a Systemwide Community

Egghead statue at UC Davis

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…
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Pioneering Data Science Tool — Jupyter — Receives Top Software Prize

Fernando Pérez and Brian Granger discuss the architecture of Project Jupyter.

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…
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West Big Data Hub at SDSC to Partner for Data Storage Network under New NSF Grant

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…
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Sautter Awards 2018: Winners Showcase UC IT Innovations

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…
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Product Toolkit Helps Project Teams Keep Value Top of Mind

Project toolkit graph

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…
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