January 21, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. “I’ve always loved public education,” Jenn Stringer said. “Even though I worked at two private institutions, I studied at public universities.” Stringer is the Associate CIO for Academic Engagement at UC Berkeley…
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January 19, 2016 All Articles 0
I’m always excited to see how our IT staff colleagues at campuses are collaborating and coming up with new ideas. Last fall, I had the chance to catch up with the Content and Collaboration (C&C) Group at UC Berkeley (UCB),…
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January 14, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Brian Buckler, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure at UCI. I’m a Southern California native and have lived in Orange County my entire life. After attending a local community college program in computer support technology, my IT career began in…
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January 12, 2016 All Articles 0
Posted by Brian Tharp, program manager, UCOP. UCOP moved its mainframe work load over four weekends between September 5 and October 11, 2015, with 70% of the applications moving on October 11. The movements were practically flawless, due to the…
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January 7, 2016 All Articles 0
UC NeXt is a platform to encourage collaboration and ideation among the UC IT community. The Beta version was launched at UCCSC 2015. In this video, UCOP student intern, Lexi Rivetti, interviewed two of the technologists behind UC NeXt,…
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December 16, 2015 All Articles 0
Posted by Annelie Rugg, Humanities CIO, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities. Data is a hot topic, not just in digital humanities, but throughout academia, as well as in medicine, commerce, public policy, etc. ‘Big data’, ‘deep data’, ‘metadata’, ‘data visualization’…
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December 10, 2015 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Leah Burns, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Donna Yamasaki and her applications team at UCOP make sure their UCOP business partners can successfully use technology to manage systemwide online web services and benefit systems. “We support applications including At…
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December 8, 2015 All Articles 0
Posted by Ghanya Thomas, ITS executive assistant, UCOP. In the spirit of President Napolitano’s UC Oakland Partnership, Information Technology Services at UCOP provided support for the 2nd Annual David E. Glover Legacy Awards. The David E. Glover Center…
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December 3, 2015 All Articles 0
UC made a splash at Dreamforce, the biggest software conference of the year. From September 15 – 18, the UC IT Blog team sat in on keynotes featuring Dr. Laura Esserman MD (UCSF), Dr. Atul Butte MD (UCSF), Dr. David…
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November 24, 2015 All Articles 0
Healthcare in the United States continues to undergo a tremendous transformation, including changes in the way we treat patients, the way reimbursement works, and the consumerization of healthcare through the use of digital technology. At UC – where part of…
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