September 19, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julia Chen. This past June, over 100 speakers from around the world convened in Cotes de Acardins, Haiti, at the second annual Haiti Tech Summit. Among them was UC Irvine Dean Michael Dennin, a renowned scientist, author, and professor….
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September 12, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Claire Mizumoto. Research Cyberinfrastructure…Research IT… Research Facilitator…Research Champion…. concierge… white glove… Whatever you choose to call it, it’s direct “high-touch” support for campus researchers. The overall objective is to advance researchers’ work and increase sponsored research at the University…
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September 5, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Robert Sanders. You may not have heard of Jupyter Notebooks, but they’re taking the data science world by storm and becoming the go-to tool for sharing and improving computer code, documents, data visualizations and more. Students in UC Berkeley’s fastest-growing…
Read more about Pioneering Data Science Tool — Jupyter — Receives Top Software Prize
August 29, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julia Chen. This year’s annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) saw over 600 attendees and 150 sessions, making it the largest conference yet. UC IT professionals gathered at UC Davis for three days of fantastic panels, activities, and networking…
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August 22, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Jeremy Rosenberg. UC Berkeley recently completed a whirlwind project to enroll all 25,000 staff and faculty into its 2-Step verification program (and even managed to pick up 6,000 students along the way). To meet the aggressive schedule set by…
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August 8, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Savannah Gray. Being a student is tough. On top of trying to succeed academically, one has to navigate the social aspect of making friends, interacting with others, and figuring out one’s identity. Now, imagine doing all that while being…
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August 1, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. Patient data – it’s a gold mine for health research. Without patient data, researchers can’t analyze conditions, explore treatment efficacy, consider new models of personalized care… And in today’s fast-paced and competitive world of health research, researchers…
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July 25, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Michael Wegmann. UC Procurement Services is excited to announce the availability of UC wide agreements reflecting deeply discounted prices for IT infrastructure. Products in five categories– routers and switches, wireless, firewalls, servers, and storage – are now available either…
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July 18, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Mark Hersberger. UC San Diego means business when it comes to integrating a mindset of continuous improvement and business excellence. It all comes together through the Business Excellence Community of Practice (BE-CoP), which facilitates training and idea sharing at…
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June 27, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Annelie Rugg. Behind every project are technical solutions and decisions about architecture we never hear about. In January the UC IT Blog showcased the Sautter award-winning Putting Youth on the Map (PYOM) project. Recently, I had a…
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