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UC Tech News
March 2, 2022
All ArticlesDaniel Kane, electrical engineering, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Shadi Dayeh, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Daniel Kane. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $12.25 million grant to the University of California San Diego to develop and enhance brain-sensing and brain-stimulating platform technologies to enable treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy. The project is led…
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UC Tech News
February 23, 2022
All ArticlesEpic Health, Information Technology, Kristen Godfrey, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UCD
By Kristen Godfrey. UC Davis Health has won gold stars for improving patient flow! How? By creating a program to address everything from reducing the time doctors spend walking from patient to patient, to decreasing the time patients spend waiting…
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UC Tech News
February 23, 2022
All ArticlesArtificial Intelligence, improvisational jazz, Project REACH, Shlomo Dubnov, UCSD, University of California San Diego
By Josh Baxt. Go to any jazz club and watch the musicians. Their performances are dynamic and improvisational; they’re inventing as they go along, having entire conversations through their instruments. Can we give computers the same capabilities? To answer that…
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UC Tech News
February 16, 2022
All ArticlesAmazon Web Services, AWS, Cloudera, collaboration, data management, Project Management, RDMS, Risk Services Data Management System, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Susan Whitney, UC Office of the President, UC San Diego, UCOP, UCOP Risk Services, UCSD
By Susan Whitney. I want to tell the story how a systemwide group successfully delivered a complex, well-architected, cross-functional team solution, on time, and within budget. In 18 months, we re-architected and migrated the UCOP Risk Services Data Management System…
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UC Tech News
February 16, 2022
All ArticlesBerkeley Engineering, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, DEI, diversity equity & inclusion, Diversity in Tech Symposium, EDGE in Tech Initiative, EDGE in Tech Initiative Athena Awards, UC Berkeley, UCB
Register for the Diversity in Tech Symposium: Advancing Climate Resilience presented by EDGE in Tech Initiative at the University of California, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and Berkeley Engineering. This virtual event takes place March 10–11, 2022 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m….
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UC Tech News
February 9, 2022
All ArticlesEvents, holidays, National Clean Out Your Computer Day, organization, privacy, Records Management, security
By Jeané Blunt. A very important holiday falls on February 14. No, not that one! National Clean Out Your Computer Day is celebrated the second Monday in February. Nowadays we rely on computers to pay bills, communicate, play games,…
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UC Tech News
February 9, 2022
All ArticlesEDUCAUSE, EDUCAUSE Awards, Events, higher education, Information Technology, Leadership, nominations, peer recognition, recognition
EDUCAUSE is seeking nominations for its annual EDUCAUSE Awards Program, which brings peer endorsement and distinction to professional accomplishments in higher education IT. Awards are given in the following four categories: The Leadership Award is the highest recognition…
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UC Tech News
February 2, 2022
All ArticlesAl Covington, and inclusion, Associate CISO, Black History Month, Carmen Robinson, Charron Andrus, DEI, diversity, equity, Events, UC Berkeley, UC CIO, UC Santa Cruz, UCB, UCSC, Van Williams
Register for the UC Tech Assembly: Black Leaders Panel: Monday, February 28 11:00 a.m. – noon Register now This panel launches UC Tech Assembly series, which is expanding the former town hall series to better amplify the voices of…
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February 2, 2022
All ArticlesAI, Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, Information Technology, Joseph B. Walther, medicine, professor, robotics, telehealth, UC Santa Babara, UCSB
By Shelley Leachman. Much like a family physician who has treated you for years, computer systems could — hypothetically — know a patient’s complete medical history. A more common experience, of course, is seeing a new doctor or a specialist…
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UC Tech News
January 26, 2022
All ArticlesAI governance, Artificial Intelligence, Brandie Nonnecke, CITRIS, CITRIS Policy Lab, Dr. Michael V. Drake, Janet Napolitano, UC Berkeley, UC President, UC Presidential Working Group on AI
By Brandie Nonnecke, Ph.D. Faced with tightening budgets and staffing constraints, public universities are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. As such, AI-enabled tools are beginning to take on a central…
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