July 13, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Elaine Howell, Communications Specialist, IT Services, Digital Content Services, UCLA. IT Services is making it easier for UCLA to communicate and stay safe during emergencies. Last June, after a fatal shooting on campus, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block asked…
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March 16, 2017 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Is anything real anymore, or is it all smoke and mirrors? The UCLA Library provides virtual applications and desktops to library staff, and virtual applications to campus through the Campus Library Instructional Computing Commons’ (CLICC) Software Shortcut. Leveraging a…
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March 14, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julie Tran, CESMII Membership Manager. UCLA has been on the forefront of data analytics and next-generation IT in manufacturing for over 10 years, and was among the co-founders of the initiative in 2006 that led to the formation of…
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February 21, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Stefanie Pietkiewicz, Project Manager, Community Partnership Programs, Office of Information Technology, UCLA Breaking down the silos With more than 1000 technologists sprinkled across hundreds of departments, UCLA desperately needed a campuswide program to unify its widely dispersed IT staff….
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February 14, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Adeney Zo, IT Communications Analyst, Office of Information Technology, UCLA. UCLA’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) has released OPT (Online Polling Tool), a web-based classroom polling tool that’s accessible through computers and mobile devices, and…
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January 31, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Alexa Rivetti, IT Communications Coordinator, UCOP. On a rainy LA afternoon, over 60 faculty, staff and students from UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, and CalTech came together to preserve some of the nation’s climate change data that…
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November 8, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Alexa Rivetti, UCB Student Intern, UCOP. Just before 10:00 a.m. on June 2, David Lakatta, Systems Administrator at UCLA Library, was heading to work when he received a text on his phone, alerting him to go to a secure…
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October 28, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Audrie Ramirez, Information Security Intern, UCOP. Ann Chang, chief compliance security officer for UCLA Health Sciences, began working with computers at UCLA while completing her undergraduate degree in mathematics. The School of Medicine owned a mini computer that no…
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September 22, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
Posted by Annelie Rugg, CIO, Humanities Division, UCLA. I work with a staff of thirty at our Center for Digital Humanities. Our size makes it relatively easy to get to know one another and yet, until recently, there was a…
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August 29, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 1
Date: Tuesday, August 30 Time: 2 – 3 p.m. How do you put out IT fires, manage staff computers, updates, and the world with 3 staff employees, and new untrained student helpers each year? I don’t know either, yet we…
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