April 17, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Rita Rosenthal. Imagine working with someone closely for over 10 years, talking on the phone weekly, yet never meeting each other in person. Or starting a technical project, only to learn several months in that another department on campus…
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April 10, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. Did you take the Cool Campus Challenge yet? It’s not just about saving the planet. It’s also about the evolution of an IT tool built by a UC grad student. Chris Jones, director of the
By Yvonne Tevis. Just a few blocks from Disneyland, the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference – the largest annual accessibility conference in the country – concluded its 34th year last week. Hosted by Cal State Northridge, the conference attracts a global…
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March 6, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Jeané Blunt. The University of California is the world’s leading public research university system. Our students, faculty, staff and alumni exchange ideas, make advancements and unlock the secrets and mysteries of the universe every day. It’s no wonder that…
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December 19, 2018 All Articles 0
By Susan Rambo. CENIC — the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California — wants to connect the state of California into one giant wireless mesh network. With 20 million users, non-profit network operator CENIC (pronounced “scenic”) may be in a good position…
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September 12, 2018 All Articles 0
By Savannah Gray. Fun sessions that bring people together at the annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) are the “birds of a feather” meetings. Separate from the formal agenda of events, these are organized by different communities of interest as…
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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…
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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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By Dede Bruno. IT project managers from across UC came together for the first time on May 17, 2018, at UC Berkeley to attend the IT Project Management Symposium: Building Bridges and Cultivating Change. Coordination of the symposium was led…
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February 21, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Guillermo Perez. Early in October, UC Berkeley faculty and staff came together to discuss an emerging concept in education, learning analytics, and what it means for Berkeley. The conversations that occurred inside and outside of Sutardja Dai Hall…
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