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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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 10, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Shohreh Bozorgmehri. This 2018-2019 fiscal year, I was honored to serve as chair of the systemwide Educational Technology Leadership Committee (ETLC). The ETLC is a committee of the Information Technology Leadership Council (ITLC), with direct involvement and support from…
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June 5, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Shani Murray. How do we build systems that proactively promote values of inclusion? This is one of the questions the Department of Informatics hopes to tackle over the next few years, thanks to a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National…
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March 27, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Lyle Wiedeman. The Office of Information Technology at UC Irvine has embarked on a series of strategic changes to position ourselves as campus partners in support of UCI’s growing needs and strategic plan. Technology portfolio OIT has focused on key areas of technology and IT capability we call “strategic enablers.” An…
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Now in its fifth year, HackUCI offers students 36 hours of coding in a fun and collaborative environment. More than 400 undergraduate and graduate students attended this year’s hackathon, held in the UCI Student Center the weekend of Feb. 15. The…
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March 13, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. There you are, plugging away at work. Then you have an idea. Maybe it creeps up on you. Maybe it hits out of the blue. But it’s good, you know it. Now what? Shohreh Bozorgmehri and Eric Taggart at UC…
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February 27, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
by Leslie Yuan and Anirvan Chatterjee UCSF launched its new Clinical Trials website in late 2016 (see blog article). Developed by the Research Technology team in the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the site makes it easy for UCSF patients, doctors, and researchers to find, learn about, and engage with…
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November 14, 2018 All Articles 1
By Todd McGill. Released via GitHub on July 27, 2018, the YouTube Caption Audit is a distributable web application that reports uncaptioned public videos for a given YouTube channel. Surprisingly, this is not something that can be done within the…
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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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