December 19, 2018 All Articles 0
By Susan Rambo. CENIC — the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California — wants to connect the state of California into one giant wireless mesh network. With 20 million users, non-profit network operator CENIC (pronounced “scenic”) may be in a good position…
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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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August 22, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Jeremy Rosenberg. UC Berkeley recently completed a whirlwind project to enroll all 25,000 staff and faculty into its 2-Step verification program (and even managed to pick up 6,000 students along the way).
To meet the aggressive schedule set by…
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By Dede Bruno. IT project managers from across UC came together for the first time on May 17, 2018, at UC Berkeley to attend the IT Project Management Symposium: Building Bridges and Cultivating Change. Coordination of the symposium was led…
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February 21, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Guillermo Perez. Early in October, UC Berkeley faculty and staff came together to discuss an emerging concept in education, learning analytics, and what it means for Berkeley. The conversations that occurred inside and outside of Sutardja Dai Hall…
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September 20, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Sean Peisert, Karen Stocks, and Von Welch. Cyber attacks don’t just hit big corporations or governments or hospitals. Anything connected to networks is vulnerable, and that includes research and open science.
In general, scientists who use computers and other…
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August 16, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Rita Rosenthal. Members of the One IT community at UC Berkeley gathered Tuesday, July 18, for the annual IT Summit. This year’s theme was Lead From Where You Are, with tracks focused on strategies and tactics related to the…
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July 27, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Maurice M. Manning, Systems Architect, UC Berkeley. A visualization wall at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Kroeber Hall immerses viewers in guided tours of archeology sites and other displays in 3D.
UC Berkeley’s Research…
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July 6, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Alison Spencer, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Could the next Shakespeare be a clever computer? Probably not, admits Andrea Gagliano, a second-year graduate student in UC Berkeley’s School of Information. Along with teammate Emily Paul and professor Marti Hearst, she…
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