December 13, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Alison Spencer. At UC Santa Cruz, students used to wonder if it was worth waiting for the bus. Now, thanks to the Bus Tracking System (BTS) and its mobile application SlugRoute, anyone can see in real time where campus…
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November 8, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Alison Spencer. At UC San Diego, academic advisors now get help from a data model to guide students toward a timely graduation. Jonathan Whitman, the Director of Technology for Administrative Technology Services at UCSD, led a program to utilize…
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November 1, 2017 All Articles 1
By Alison Spencer. When UCLA Health clinicians open a patient chart, they use a system that helps them see the patient as a whole individual, much more than a list of medications, treatment plans, and problems. This is the “patient…
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August 30, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Alison Spencer. When you bite into a delicious fresh orange, you probably don’t think about all that had to happen for it to get to you. For one, the tree had to survive sickness so that healthy fruit could…
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July 6, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Could the next Shakespeare be a clever computer? Probably not, admits Andrea Gagliano, a second-year graduate student in UC Berkeley’s School of Information. Along with teammate Emily Paul and professor Marti Hearst, she…
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June 8, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 3
By Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Following Tasha Bales’ six years in the Air Force, she took a vocational aptitude test. She was surprised to see the results, which recommended library work as a good fit for her. “I’d…
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April 13, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 1
By Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. As a digital media specialist for UC Santa Cruz’s film department, Tristan Carkeet sees himself as working in the space where art meets technology. In addition to teaching students how to use video…
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January 26, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Alison Spencer, UCB student intern, UCOP. There’s a saying among IT staff at UCSF: “I cure cancer – very indirectly.” Erik Wieland, an application manager, said this attitude is his favorite thing about working at the campus. “I love the…
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December 1, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Drones have emerged in recent years as an exciting information-gathering tool. At UC Merced’s newly established UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Safety, director Brandon Stark and his team…
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September 29, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB student intern, UCOP. Twenty-five years ago, Calit2 research scientist Tom DeFanti (pictured right) dreamed of building 3-D telephone booths. He envisioned using them to talk to multiple people at once and to transport immersive scenes…
Read more about Spotlight: Calit2’s Tom DeFanti – Exploring Virtual Reality