May 18, 2017 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
By Jessica Hilt, Chair, Campus LISA and UCCSC, UC San Diego. Last year, Tom Andriola threw his support behind the growing tech community with his First-Timers Award at UCCSC. This year, we are offering a different award to reflect an…
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May 16, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Sonia Fernandez, Engineering and Public Affairs Writer, UC Santa Barbara. Those of us with easy access to the internet often take for granted the plethora of information at our fingertips as well as the ability to communicate — seemingly…
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May 11, 2017 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
The UC IT Blog has grown to over 1250 readers over the past two years, thanks to all of you, both readers and contributors across UC. Now we’d like your feedback to help us make the blog better and get…
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May 9, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Su Wang, Enterprise Software Engineer, UC Irvine. If you’re like me, you love new and shiny stuff. It’s all about JS this, MEAN stack that. (Those are real things, right?) But let’s be honest. Ninety percent of the new…
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May 4, 2017 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
This year’s University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) will be held at the beautiful UC San Diego. The conference will open Monday, August 7 with a welcome reception event at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps and close after…
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May 2, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julie Goldstein, Cyber-Risk IT Security Analyst, UCOP. Many of us are familiar with the concept of spring cleaning. Well it applies to the digital world too! Just like your home, your digital life can become cluttered; things pile up,…
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April 27, 2017 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
By David Rusting, Chief Information Security Officer, UC Office of the President. Now is the time to register for the Summer 2017 UC Cybersecurity Summit, which will be held as part of the 2017 Information Security Symposium on Tuesday, June…
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April 25, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Practicing good information security is easy! Learn how to keep your information safer in just thirty seconds, with the three simple security tips in the video below. Filmed on the 7th floor of…
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April 20, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
If you didn’t get a chance to make it to the latest webinar, EDUCAUSE Wants You, fear not! You can watch the webinar recording. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the…
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April 18, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Rich Wolski, Computer Science Professor, UC Santa Barbara. At the Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Barbara County, hundreds of thousands of animal photos are generated each month by remote, motion-detection camera traps. These images are used continuously to determine species…
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