Tag Archive: UCR
UC IT Blogger
May 20, 2020
All Articlescoronavirus, COVID-19, Imran Ghori, Information Technology Solutions, Inside UCR, ITS, pandemic, remote learning, remote work, UC Riverside, UCR
By Imran Ghori. Ensuring that UC Riverside students, faculty, and staff members can access proper equipment and technology has been a key part of the campus’ transition to remote learning and working.
Information Technology Solutions, or ITS,…
Read more about How ITS Has Helped UCR Transition to Remote Learning
UC IT Blogger
January 8, 2020
All ArticlesAhmed Eldawy, data, Data Science, Dataset, Holly Ober, maps, UC Riverside, UCR, UCR STAR
By Holly Ober. Let’s say you’re doing research that requires millions of geotagged tweets. Or perhaps you’re a journalist who wants to map murders in Chicago from 2001 to the present. You need to find large spatio-temporal datasets — but…
Read more about Free Dataset Archive Helps Researchers Quickly Find a Needle in a Haystack
UC IT Blogger
October 23, 2019
All ArticlesCybersecurity, Fatemah Alharbi, hacker, Holly Ober, UC Newsroom, UC Riverside, UCR
By Holly Ober. Fatemah Alharbi breaks things in order to learn how to fix them. Not just any old things. Computer operating systems, to be exact, and she conducted research that earned public gratitude from Apple.
If she doesn’t look…
Read more about This Computer Scientist Beats Hackers at Their Own Game
Tom Andriola
October 2, 2019
All Articlesaudio, Brian Bell, DNA synthesis, electrical engineering, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UCI, UCR
By Brian Bell. During the DNA synthesis process in a laboratory, recordings can be made of the subtle, telltale noises made by synthesis machines. And those captured sounds can be used to reverse-engineer valuable, custom-designed genetic materials used in pharmaceuticals,…
Read more about UC Irvine, UC Riverside Scientists Identify a New World for Hackers
UC IT Blogger
August 7, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesCybersecurity, Information Security, John Virden, UC Riverside, UCR
By John Virden. The University of California has a new systemwide electronic information security policy, often referred to as IS-3. It was signed into action by President Janet Napolitano, September 7, 2018, and is the culmination of many years…
Read more about UCR’s Electronic Information Security Policy Rollout Plan
UC IT Blogger
June 19, 2019
All Articles, Feature Articlesinnovation, Jacob Poore, UC Riverside, UCR
By Jacob Poore.
A computer lab in a vending machine? That’s what UC Riverside’s Information Technology Solutions (ITS) organization made possible when it implemented self-service laptop checkout kiosks on campus for students.
The kiosks are a lot like a vending machine — or video rental kiosk — for campus-owned laptops, and offer three device options, including Dell…
Read more about UC Riverside Students Check out Laptops from Kiosks
UC IT Blogger
March 6, 2019
All Articlescollaboration, Holly Ober, Los Alamos National Laboratory, UC Los Angeles, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, UCSD
A consortium consisting of UC Riverside, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, together with Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded $3.6 million for a three-year project, “Securing smart campuses: a holistic multi-layer approach,” through the 2018 UC Laboratory…
Read more about University of California and Los Alamos National Laboratory Researchers Receive $3.6M to Secure Smart Campuses
UC IT Blogger
January 9, 2019
All Articles, Feature ArticlesCamille Crittenden, Cybersecurity, diversity, Jeané Blunt, UC Cyber Security Summit, UC Riverside, UCR
By Jeané Blunt. Camille Crittenden was the keynote speaker at the biannual UC Cyber Security Summit, held at UC Riverside, October 24, and hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center. She spoke compellingly about the lack of diversity in…
Read more about Improve Cybersecurity by Cultivating a Diverse Workforce
UC IT Blogger
October 22, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesAnnelie Rugg, Cheryl Washington, Christine Kirkpatrick, collaboration, Danna Gianforte, LeShelle May, UC Davis, UC Los Angeles, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UCCSC, UCD, UCLA, UCR, UCSD, Viji Murali, WIT, Women in IT
By Julia Chen. Despite their growing numbers, women in technology still face significant barriers in the workplace. According to a 2016 report performed by the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT), only 25% of the computing workforce…
Read more about Women in Technology: What Do University of California Women Leaders Say?
UC IT Blogger
September 5, 2018
All ArticlesCybersecurity, UC Cyber Summit, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, UCR, UCSC
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…
Read more about UC Cyber Summit Draws Cyber Experts to UCR