Feature Articles
UC Tech News
December 11, 2019
All Articles, Feature Articlescloud infrastructure, Procurement, Systemwide, Thomas Trappler, UC Procurement Services, UCOP
By Thomas Trappler. Since 2013, the UC wide agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Agreement# UCOP-19) has made AWS products available for use under terms and conditions aligned with UC’s needs, policy, and the law. Effective October 1, 2019,…
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UC Tech News
December 4, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAnn Kovalchick, CIO, Events, UC Merced, UC Women in Technology Committee, UCM, webinar, WIT
UC Tech News
December 4, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAlyssa Tecklenburg, Events, informatics, Sharecase, UC San Francisco, UCSF, WIT@UCSF, Women in Tech, Women in Technology
By Alyssa Tecklenburg. The UCSF Women in Tech group (WIT@UCSF) held a panel discussion on gender equity in technology at the UCSF Sharecase conference, October 10, at the Mission Bay campus. Sharecase is a biennial conference at UCSF that…
Read more about UCSF Women in Tech Hosts Panel at Sharecase 2019
UC Tech News
November 13, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAndrea Lloyd, Barbara Sowden, Chara Bui, Deepthika Nallaparaju, Lisa Chang, PeopleSoft Innovators, Rahul Shrivastava, Rita Rosenthal, SIS, Student Information Systems, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Rita Rosenthal. Dedication to making the student experience on campus easier to navigate is at the core of the work done by the creative and innovative people who support our Student Information Systems (SIS). The SIS team is…
Read more about UCB Team Honored as PeopleSoft Innovators
UC Tech News
November 6, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesArtificial Intelligence, Sonia Fernandez, UC Santa Barbara, William Wang
By Sonia Fernandez. We live in an era of too much information — an endless stream of status updates, memes, reposts, infographics, quotes and hashtags roll daily through our social media feeds, meant to express viewpoints, drum up solidarity, provide…
Read more about Spotting Misinformation Online Via Artificial Intelligence
UC Tech News
October 30, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesChief Information Security Officer, CISO, Cyber-Risk Governance Committee, Cybersecurity, David Rusting, Electronic Information Security Policy, Systemwide, UCOP
By David Rusting. As I reflect on UC’s journey managing cyber-risk, particularly over the past four years, I’m proud of our collective accomplishments. Two weeks ago, I was able to share UC’s approach, experiences, and lessons’ learned with higher education…
Read more about Lessons from a Cyber Attack: How UC Found Strength in Adversity
UC Tech News
October 23, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesHumanities Technology, John A. Lynch, serverless computing, UC Los Angeles, UCLA
By John A. Lynch. In Fall 2017, UCLA Humanities Technology was faced with needing to undertake a major PHP version upgrade of a locally hosted, custom application that provides web-based 24/7 scheduling for thousands of appointments annually for the…
Read more about Going Serverless with the UCLA Writing Center’s Scheduling App
UC Tech News
October 16, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesCybersecurity, Douglas Bonilla, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, NCSAM, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Douglas Bonilla. What Does Cybersecurity Mean to You? That’s the question UC San Diego’s Office of Information Assurance is asking the campus community. This outreach campaign is known as Cybersecurity in Six Words, and was inspired by
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UC Tech News
October 9, 2019
All Articles, Feature Articlesbiotechnology, Healthcare, mobile learning, smartphones, UC Irvine, UC San Diego Health
By Jeané Blunt. The University of California is one of the leading academic research enterprises in the world. Almost all of the industries in which California is a world leader – biotechnology, telecommunications, digital media, computers and semiconductors, and environmental…
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UC Tech News
October 2, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesEvents, Marissa Ventura, UC Health Data Day, UC San Diego, UC San Diego Health, UCSD
By Marissa Ventura. Think of it: Every time a physician, nurse, or other clinician sees patients and intervenes, the data collected are turned into opportunities to improve care for all patients, now and in the future. That’s the “Learning Health (Record) System” – both a key theme and the title of the keynote address at the 2019 UC Health Data Day. The Institute…
Read more about UC Health Data Day 2019: Featuring the Learning Health (Record) System