Tag Archive: UC Santa Barbara
UC IT Blogger
February 10, 2021
All ArticlesChrissy Rissmeyer, Jessica Hilt, Matt Chritchlow, Project Surfliner, Slack, Starlight, Tim Marconi, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB, UCSD, UCSD Library, UCTech
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…
Read more about Starlight: Digital Exhibit Software Connecting Two Campuses
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February 3, 2021
All ArticlesCollege of Letters and Science Information Technology Process Innovation team, Kaitlin Breitag, Lean Six Sigma, LSIT Process Innovation team, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Kaitlin Breitag. What began as a solution for digital transformation has morphed into a program that empowers campus departments to learn and collaborate to achieve process improvement.
Led by the College of Letters and Science Information Technology (LSIT) Process…
Read more about Collaboration, Empowerment and Learning
UC IT Blogger
October 28, 2020
All Articles2020, Assistant Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, CISO, Cybersecurity, election, Kip Bates, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, NCSAM, presidential election, Sam Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Kip Bates and Sam Horowitz. Another academic year is here, and classes are well underway. Among the other things you’ve probably noticed is that there’s an election happening. Hidden among the cacophony of news and disinformation is a persistent…
Read more about Election Season Cyber Threats
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June 17, 2020
All ArticlesCharles Neumann, COVID-19, Harrison Tasoff, Minecraft, remote learning, The Current, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Harrison Tasoff. For undergraduate Charles Neumann the announcement that spring quarter classes would be delivered via remote instruction was sad news. Like many graduating seniors, he had hoped to spend his final days at UC Santa Barbara enjoying classes and…
Read more about Mine-crafting that Campus Feeling
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June 11, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Harrison Tasoff, Information Technology, The Current, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB, UCSB IT
By Harrison Tasoff. As classes, research and administration transition to the internet, the campus’s information technology (IT) departments have had the monumental task of adapting systems, increasing capacity and keeping the university up and running.
The good news is that…
Read more about UCSB’s COVID-19 IT Response
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April 29, 2020
All Articlescomputer science, coronavirus, COVID-19, Eran Naveh, Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Harrison Tasoff. While sheltering at home this spring quarter, one enterprising undergraduate is using the skills he’s learning at UC Santa Barbara to make sense of the pandemic sweeping the globe. Second-year computer science major Eran Naveh has put…
Read more about COVID-19: Tracking the Spread
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April 29, 2020
All Articlescompetition, New Venture Competition NVC, software development, Sonia Fernandez, Technology Management Program, TMP, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Sonia Fernandez. Are you ready to ditch your password? The one you’re using for too many of your online accounts? The one you keep forgetting? The one for the email you can’t access even after the provider sent you…
Read more about A One-Stop Sign-In Shop
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February 26, 2020
All Articlescybersecurity; UC Cyber Security Summit, Events, Giovanni Vigna, keynote, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
Giovanni Vigna is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and director of the Center for Cybersecurity at UC Santa Barbara. Professor Vigna was the keynote speaker at the 9th biannual UC Cyber Security Summit held at UCSB. He…
Read more about Video: Professor Giovanni Vigna on Cybersecurity and the Promise of AI
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November 6, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesArtificial Intelligence, Sonia Fernandez, UC Santa Barbara, William Wang
By Sonia Fernandez. We live in an era of too much information — an endless stream of status updates, memes, reposts, infographics, quotes and hashtags roll daily through our social media feeds, meant to express viewpoints, drum up solidarity, provide…
Read more about Spotting Misinformation Online Via Artificial Intelligence
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October 30, 2019
All ArticlesHarrison Tasoff, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, NCSAM, UC Cyber Security Summit, UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Harrison Tasoff. Cyber security is constantly evolving as security experts and their adversaries develop and adapt new techniques to their trade. Researchers, companies and professionals from the security community discussed emerging trends in the field during the 8th semiannual…
Read more about UCSB Hosts 8th Semiannual UC Cyber Security Summit