February 5, 2015 All Articles 1
Post by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. The UC NeXt group, an ITLC subcommittee, wants to discover and connect the pockets of innovation and collaboration across UC. We have a survey so all UC IT staff can participate and share…
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January 30, 2015 All Articles 0
Check out the video of my recent interview with Vice President Pamela Brown – Institutional Research and Academic Planning – about the new UC Information Center. She and her team, in partnership with IT, are creating a fascinating, online…
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January 16, 2015 All Articles 0
You might be interested in this webinar next Wednesday: Ever wondered exactly what’s “big” about ‘big data’? Or what’s the difference between being “in the cloud” and using “cloud”? Or really what is the “Internet of Things?” This webinar will…
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January 15, 2015 All Articles 20
Post by Charles McIntyre, UCSC. It seems like everything I read and hear these days, from EDUCAUSE to Harvard Business Review to MBA programs, is discussing how to deliver more innovation in IT. Webster’s definition of innovation is “to begin…
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January 13, 2015 All Articles 0
Institutional Research and Academic Planning (IRAP) has launched the UC Information Center beta site. The site is intended for the public and will tell the UC story through data, enabling interactive visualizations and providing raw data for download. VP…
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January 13, 2015 All Articles 0
This sounds like an interesting webinar. Everyone at UC is grappling with how to control costs and meet the growing demands for technology. The webinar will showcase work at UCD to use the cloud to develop campus-wide applications while providing…
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December 18, 2014 All Articles 1
I’ve spoken a lot about shared services and greater cross-location collaboration since joining the University last year. UCPath, the common payroll/HR system, will represent our most aggressive step toward shared IT services the UC has ever undertaken. Significant progress has…
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December 18, 2014 All Articles 0
A number of UC folks from most campuses attended the Shared Services & Process Improvement for Higher Education & Government Summit, November 17-18, in San Diego. The sessions were all about understanding the potential for and optimizing the implementation…
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August 29, 2014 All Articles 0
August 29, 2014 Lawrence Livermore National Lab I accompanied Bill Tucker, interim vice president for research, to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to discuss how we can strengthen UC’s working relationship with the lab. Bill was focused on their…
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August 28, 2014 All Articles 0
August 28, 2014 San Francisco I attended the Nexenta OpenSDx Summit in San Francisco where President Napolitano was a featured speaker. She emphasized the importance of basic research and higher education’s significant contributions to basic research. She also talked…
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