August 21, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Sonia Fernandez, Engineering and Public Affairs Writer, UC Santa Barbara. When you think of robots, it’s likely the image that pops into your head is one of a rigid, perhaps humanoid metallic machine with electro-mechanical actuators and calculated movements. Which…
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August 21, 2019 All Articles 0
Don’t miss the next UC IT Town Hall – Wednesday, September 11 at 10:00 a.m!
Dr. Harold Schmitz, former Mars, Inc. Chief Science Officer and now General Partner at the March Fund, will discuss the transformation of the food industry…
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August 14, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Sarkis Daglian. In April 2019, UC Irvine Interim Chief Information Officer Kian Colestock and I launched the inaugural Office of Information Technology (OIT) Leadership Academy. The program is a collaboration with UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business.
It is…
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August 14, 2019 All Articles 0
We are only two months away from the 8th biannual Cyber Security Summit at UC Santa Barbara. On October 23, five industry leaders will present at the summit: Richard Sparrow of Penn State, Kelly Thiele of DHS, Giovanni Vigna…
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August 7, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By John Virden. The University of California has a new systemwide electronic information security policy, often referred to as IS-3. It was signed into action by President Janet Napolitano, September 7, 2018, and is the culmination of many years…
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By Jeané Blunt. With 732 attendees, UCTech 2019 at UC Santa Barbara was the largest ever in the history of the conference!
The largest group of attendees – 130 – came from UC Santa Barbara itself. UC Davis came in second…
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July 31, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Chasiri Sherron. “Change happens by incorporating diverse perspectives,” said Ann Kovalchick, UC Merced chief information officer (CIO), when introducing the 2019 UCTech Conference Diversity/WIT Panel, “Reframing Technical Difficulties – Expertise, Inclusivity, and How Work Gets Done in IT.”
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What happens when Shakespeare meets the digital age? A selfie soliloquy, for one. A new online course taught by Julia Lupton, professor of English and co-director of the Shakespeare Center at the University of California, Irvine, is the first of its…
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July 24, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis.
About one year ago, UC struck amazing deals with IT infrastructure companies – deals that likely will save the university up to $16M a year for five years.
It’s true, UC Procurement rocks negotiation.
But UC also…
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Join researchers, computer scientists, and data scientists at Securing Research Data: A Workshop on Emerging Practices in Computation and Storage for Sensitive Data, August 22, 9am–3pm. This one-day workshop will convene researchers from a variety of disciplines, including biology and…
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