August 4, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Karishma Morabia, UCB student intern, UCOP. In high school, Mojgan Amini’s counselor asked her what major she wanted to pursue in college. Amini said maybe art and painting. The counselor responded with silence. Amini then said she liked…
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July 28, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 1
Posted by Thomas Trappler, sr. IT commodity manager, UCOP. Have you been searching for the perfect tool to communicate and collaborate with geographically dispersed colleagues? The new UC wide Zoom agreement has just what you need. What is Zoom? Zoom…
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July 26, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Tom Andriola, UC CIO. Apps for Ag hackathon contestants pitched judges (I got to be one of them) at the California State Fair in Sacramento on Sunday (July 17). The hackathon was open to anyone in the…
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July 21, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
Posted by Desiree Silva, IT Communications Officer, UCM. Kent Carpenter has been working in information technology for nearly 20 years, so it’s safe to say he’s seen a lot of changes since he began his career. When Carpenter started his…
Read more about Spotlight: Kent Carpenter, Musician and OIT Director at UCM
July 19, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern at UCOP. Which is more fragile, digital data or a photo? While many people assume digital is more durable than analog, it is actually the other way around. Say a photo has a…
Read more about Findings for the Future: UCSD’s Research Data Curation Program
July 14, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Leah Burns, former IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. Born and raised in San Diego, Alexa Rivetti never expected to go to UC Berkeley, but as of May 2016 she is a Cal alum. “Graduating has been bittersweet,” she said….
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July 12, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 1
Ten teams across the University of California won the 2016 Larry L. Sautter Award for using information technology to make university operations more effective and efficient and to better serve faculty, staff, students and patients. Systemwide Chief Information Officer…
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July 8, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Karishma Morabia, UCB student intern, UCOP. Chris Hoffman, Informatics Services Manager in Research IT at UC Berkeley, completed his B.A. at Rice University and his Ph. D. at UC Berkeley, both in anthropology. He did his research on…
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Posted by Barbara Woltag, Communications Project Manager, UCLA Office of Information Technology. Registration for the UCLA Office of Information Technology’s sixth annual Mobility & Modern Web Conference (MMWCon) is now open. MMWCON, a unique mobile technology event centered…
Read more about Mobility & Modern Web Conference Returns to UCLA, Sept. 14 – 16
I was invited to participate on one of several panels providing input to the Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity about securing the future of the digital economy. The event took place June 21 at the UCB Center for Long-Term…
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