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UC Riverside Students Check out Laptops from Kiosks

June 19, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles, , , 2

A student smiling as she works on her laptop.

By Jacob Poore.  A computer lab in a vending machine? That’s what UC Riverside’s Information Technology Solutions (ITS) organization made possible when it implemented self-service laptop checkout kiosks on campus for students.   The kiosks are a lot like a vending machine — or video rental kiosk — for campus-owned laptops, and offer three device options, including Dell Latitude, Dell…
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University of California and Los Alamos National Laboratory Researchers Receive $3.6M to Secure Smart Campuses

March 6, 2019 All Articles, , , , , , , , , , 0

Silas Richelson, Michalis Faloutsos, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

A consortium consisting of UC Riverside, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, together with Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded $3.6 million for a three-year project, “Securing smart campuses: a holistic multi-layer approach,” through the 2018 UC Laboratory…
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Improve Cybersecurity by Cultivating a Diverse Workforce

January 9, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles, , , , , , 1

By Jeané Blunt. Camille Crittenden was the keynote speaker at the biannual UC Cyber Security Summit, held at UC Riverside, October 24, and hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center. She spoke compellingly about the lack of diversity in…
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Women in Technology: What Do University of California Women Leaders Say?

October 22, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 2

Women in IT panel at UCCSC

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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Spotlight: Jill Hishmeh – Remembering When the UCR Network Was Young

June 1, 2017 All Articles, Spotlights, , , 3

By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP.  “It’s fun to have been part of all the changes that have taken place over the last twenty-seven years,” said Jill Hishmeh (pictured third from the left), Director of IT Communications at UCR….
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UC Riverside Awarded $3.2 Million to Develop Innovative Smart Buses

April 11, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles, , , 0

By Sarah Nightingale, Senior Public Information Officer, UC Riverside  — Matthew Barth, a professor of engineering in UC Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering and director of the university’s Center for Environmental Research…
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