January 23, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. In April 2018, the University of California and Cisco signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement, formally recognizing an informal relationship of twenty-years’ standing, and committing to innovative programs for mutual benefit. The partnership is an offshoot of…
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January 23, 2019 All Articles 0
Did you miss the December 12 webinar on the Cisco Products Portfolio and UC’s contract with Cisco? The recording is available and captioned. You don’t have to commit to the full 90 minutes! Check the agenda for the products…
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January 16, 2019 All Articles 0
By Drs. Aaron Neinstein and Christopher Longhurst. In a major advance for patients, the nearly 5 million people who receive care annually at any of the University of California medical centers – including Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and…
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December 12, 2018 All Articles 0
By Marissa Ventura. They came from across the country to dream up ideas, using technology, to improve patient engagement and their experience in today’s health-care system. Whether it involved crowd-sourcing, blockchain technology, or Alexa skills, more than 200 undergraduate and…
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December 5, 2018 All Articles 0
By Thomas Trappler. At the California Higher Education Collaborative (CHEC) conference on October 1, 2018, David Willson, manager, Strategic Technology Acquisition at UC Berkeley, and I accepted a Focus on Efficiency award on behalf of the whole UC IT strategic sourcing community. The award recognizes UC for creating a partnership between the UC procurement and IT communities that has successfully improved the effectiveness, efficiency, and outcomes of IT strategic…
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November 7, 2018 All Articles 0
By Tom Andriola. The results are in – this year’s UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) was a big success. I use the word “big” intentionally. With 636 attendees, this was the largest in the 36 year history of the event….
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October 22, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Julia Chen. Despite their growing numbers, women in technology still face significant barriers in the workplace. According to a 2016 report performed by the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT), only 25% of the computing workforce…
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June 13, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Tom Andriola. I have noticed IT people don’t particularly like high-level, fluffy discussions. They would rather hear specific use cases. So I am going to do both in this article, start with the use cases and then work up…
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February 7, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis, Chief of Staff, UCOP Information Technology Services. When the UCI Office of Information Technology (OIT) decided to conduct a customer satisfaction survey, it turned to the experts – UC San Diego’s Organizational Performance Assessments unit. UCSD…
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January 19, 2016 All Articles 0
I’m always excited to see how our IT staff colleagues at campuses are collaborating and coming up with new ideas. Last fall, I had the chance to catch up with the Content and Collaboration (C&C) Group at UC Berkeley (UCB),…
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