By Catherine Kenny. Artificial Intelligence touches almost every aspect of our lives, from mobile banking and online shopping to social media and real-time traffic maps. But what happens when artificial intelligence is biased? What if it makes mistakes on important…
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By Tobi Paton. The UC Davis Service Hub has a new equine resident. A ServiceNow virtual agent, or chat bot, galloped onto the service portal in February. The bot has been dubbed Botrock, a play on the name of…
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By Rita Rosenthal. According to We Rate COVID Dashboards, the work of a multi-university assessment team that rates COVID dashboards developed by colleges and universities nationwide, UC Berkeley has achieved an A+ rating. This grade puts us in the…
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By Kymberly Ainsworth, Milesh Jain, Tom Manley, and Jonathan Prugh. What Is a Retrospective? Retrospectives are a key ingredient to continual improvement in any work you do as part of a collaborative team. But the reality is that no project…
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By Leigh Bernacchi. The technology world is punctuated by startups, and UC Merced is “starting up” its own program to invigorate computer science education in the San Joaquin Valley. The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000, two-year grant to support…
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By Lindsay Brooker. When the pandemic took the medical community by surprise in early 2020, the UCLA Health system quickly pivoted to moving as many patients as possible into virtual settings. Almost overnight, many primary care check-ins, surgical follow-ups, and…
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By Gretchen Kell. If underrepresented groups make up 30% of the increasingly diverse U.S. population, why do they represent less than 5% of the faculty nationwide, less than 6% of postdoctoral scholars and only about 10% of Ph.D. students in…
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Learn about privacy laws and how to best protect yourself at the Privacy 101 Online Webinar, presented by the UC San Diego Campus Privacy Office, on June 23, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Register now! This event…
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By John Ruzicka. Last July, UC’s largest-ever business transformation initiative concluded, with all UC locations now live in a single payroll system called UCPath. This was a multi-year project involving teams at the UC Office of the President (UCOP)…
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There was a big turnout for “Accessibility Is for Everyone,” the 2021 Global Accessibility Awareness Day webinar. The webinar recording is now available. Watch six fast-paced sessions about things you can do to make UC’s online environment more welcoming…
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