October 17, 2018 All Articles 0
By Kevin Valdez and Julie Goldstein. How do I connect securely when I’m on campus? If you have the option, connect to a wired port on campus. If you have to use wireless, make sure you are connected to your…
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By Julia Chen. For the second year in a row, UCSB CIO Matthew Hall conducted a survey of the UC location CIOs, asking them to prioritize issues for IT leadership at the university. The survey presented a number of key…
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January 3, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julie Cohen. In 2012, scientists at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) launched the Ocean Health Index (OHI), a scientific framework to measure and track the health of the world’s oceans. Working in…
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September 27, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 3
By Lisa Klock. In February 2017, several women and I launched the UC Santa Barbara Women in Technology (WIT) initiative, to promote women’s leadership, success, and economic advancement – in short, to empower women working in technology. Influenced by the…
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May 16, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Sonia Fernandez, Engineering and Public Affairs Writer, UC Santa Barbara. Those of us with easy access to the internet often take for granted the plethora of information at our fingertips as well as the ability to communicate — seemingly…
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April 18, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Rich Wolski, Computer Science Professor, UC Santa Barbara. At the Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Barbara County, hundreds of thousands of animal photos are generated each month by remote, motion-detection camera traps. These images are used continuously to determine species…
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January 31, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. On a rainy LA afternoon, over 60 faculty, staff and students from UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, and CalTech came together to preserve some of the nation’s climate change data that…
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October 13, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Audrie Ramirez, information security intern, UCOP. Sam Horowitz’s passion for information technology developed in his early teens. His father taught data processing and he found himself picking up books to learn more. A Texas native, he earned an undergraduate…
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Posted by Karen Fisher, Student Affairs Technology Services, UCSD. IT staff from four UC campuses have been selected to present at the HighEdWeb West regional conference in Riverside on Friday, June 10. UC Irvine’s Brian Payne and Su Wang…
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May 12, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 2
Posted by Tom Andriola, UC CIO What attracted you to UC? I spent many years in the private Ivy space. When I saw that UC had an amazing campus with six Nobel laureates, I knew I had to be here….
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