September 26, 2018 All Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. Website accessibility just got a bit easier at UC. You probably already know that everything we put online – from websites, to PDFs, to images – needs to be accessible. That means it must be designed so people…
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September 19, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julia Chen. This past June, over 100 speakers from around the world convened in Cotes de Acardins, Haiti, at the second annual Haiti Tech Summit. Among them was UC Irvine Dean Michael Dennin, a renowned scientist, author, and professor….
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September 19, 2018 All Articles 1
By Robert Smith. The University of California has a brand new information security policy! UC President Janet Napolitano signed the policy, BFB-IS-3: Electronic Information Security Policy, on September 7, 2018. In an increasingly collaborative world that depends upon shared…
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September 19, 2018 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
UC campuses are gearing up for their annual October cybersecurity education campaigns. These include a few events, open to everyone, that you may want to attend. The events are listed below, but check the event information on the systemwide…
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September 12, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Claire Mizumoto. Research Cyberinfrastructure…Research IT… Research Facilitator…Research Champion…. concierge… white glove… Whatever you choose to call it, it’s direct “high-touch” support for campus researchers. The overall objective is to advance researchers’ work and increase sponsored research at the University…
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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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September 5, 2018 All Articles 0
Register now for the UC Cyber Summit at UC Riverside on October 24. Seats are filling up fast for this popular biannual event. The summits are hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center to provide continuing education and networking…
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August 29, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julia Chen. This year’s annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) saw over 600 attendees and 150 sessions, making it the largest conference yet. UC IT professionals gathered at UC Davis for three days of fantastic panels, activities, and networking…
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August 29, 2018 All Articles 0
By Jeané Blunt. I recently attended the University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) at UC Davis. This year’s conference was held August 13-15th and had over 600 attendees, making it the largest since UCCSC’s inception in 1983. Being a…
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