Tag Archive: UC San Diego

The Future Is Now: UC Institute for Prediction Technology

A person's brain, lit up, with connection points

By Jeané Blunt. Using technology to predict the future sounds like something straight out of a movie, possibly starring Tom Cruise. In reality, the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology (UCIPT) is a multi-disciplinary, multi-campus organization that leverages…
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6-Minute Video: Sautter Silver Award for Customer Dashboard

Research Management and Planning Customer Dashboard for Construction Projects

UC San Diego’s Customer Dashboard for Construction Projects took home a Silver Award at the 2020 Sautter Awards. The Customer Dashboard for Construction Projects is a web interface which reports project information to 20,000+ faculty and staff members. The tool provides…
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Starlight: Digital Exhibit Software Connecting Two Campuses

A laptop open to the surfliner website, on an Amtrak train, the Pacific Ocean is outside the window.

By Jessica Hilt. If you’ve ever perused a display of photographs or manuscripts, or immersed yourself in a historical timeline on the walls of a library, you know that exhibits are an integral part of showcasing a library’s collection, inspiring…
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Student Medical Records at UC San Diego Make Epic Change and a California First

UC San Diego Student Health and Well-Being offers campus-based health services to enrolled students with an annual volume of approximately 85,000 visits. Photo credit: UC San Diego Publications

By J. Jeffery Reeves, Stacie San Miguel, Reina Juarez, Joseph Behymer, Kevin M. Ramotar, and Patricia Maysent. Across the nation, top universities offer comprehensive health services to more than 20 million students in the form of primary, urgent and mental…
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CloudLabs: How UC San Diego Deployed Remote Computer Labs in Record Time

Geisel Library at UC San Diego, Top photo credit: Geisel Library, Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego

By Valerie E. Polichar. When COVID-19 caused a pivot to remote instruction with little notice, students lost access to on-campus computer labs where they could use licensed software to complete coursework. UC San Diego’s educational technology teams sprang into action….
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COVID Notify System Goes Statewide

California COVID Notify App

By Melinda Battenberg. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on December 7, 2020, that CA Notify, the COVID exposure notification system championed by UC San Diego Health, will be available statewide on December 10. The system will make available to all California residents an important tool for slowing the spread of COVID-19.   Now,…
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4 Minute Video: Sautter Silver Award for Studio U

Studio U logo

UC San Diego’s Studio U took home the Silver Award at the 2020 Sautter Awards. Studio U is a self-service multimedia facility that enables the campus community to easily create studio-quality instructional videos efficiently and on their own schedule. To…
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Two Short Videos: Sautter Golden Award

Members of UCSD's Return to Learn Program

UC San Diego’s Return to Learn program took home the Golden Award at the 2020 Sautter Awards. The Return to Learn program combines health care, continuous improvement, IT and problem solving to chart a path to bringing people back to…
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Watch the UC IT Town Hall Online

UC IT Town Hall, October 2020

The UC IT Town Hall was held October 19, 2020. Over 400 attendees joined remotely from around the UC system. Mark Cianca, Interim UC CIO, opened the session to welcome attendees. Eugene Whitlock, UC Berkeley chief people and culture…
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Kubernetes in the Cloud: UCSD Explores Containers

Outline of a ship's wheel

By Stoyan Stoyanov. No doubt about it…containers are great! Whereas it could take days (or even weeks!) to provision a physical server, containers allow developers to spin up an application server in a matter of minutes. Containers let development teams…
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