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August 3, 2023

July 31, 2023

IT Colleagues and Campus Partners, 

As we prepare to ramp up technical support for instruction at the beginning of fall semester, we are implementing our customary IT change freeze on production changes for UC Berkeley systems. This freeze enables us to provide optimal IT service and systems performance for our campus and minimize potential disruptions during this peak period of activity when our services are in greater demand.

July 21, 2023

July 19, 2023

UC IT Blog

By Laurel Skurko. On July 18, 2023, six individuals and eight teams from across the University of California received 2023 UC Tech Awards at the UC Tech Conference hosted by UC Berkeley and UCSF.

Berkeley Haas

In this interview, Lifan Wang discusses how he met his FlowGPT co-founder, Jay Dang, at UC Berkeley, and why speed was critical for his startup in entering the AI market.

July 14, 2023

Are you feeling burnt out? Want to learn how to slow down and take time for yourself? Then the Search Inside Yourself Program is for you! The Program is two full days for you to intentionally focus on your personal and professional development and build healthy mental habits for sustained high performance and well-being. Seats fill up fast, so we encourage you to sign up for the upcoming Aug. 3 - 4 session* before July 21.

July 12, 2023

UC IT Blog

Members of the UC Tech community are meeting in and around UC Berkeley during the UC Tech conference. All members of the community are welcomed to join the events listed below. 

UC Tech 2023 Conference Birds of a Feather Sessions were scheduled based on an application process. They are for in-person conference attendees and will take place on Monday, July 17 between 9 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.

Each year, it is thanks to sponsor donations that the UC tech conference is able to support the UC IT community with a world-class gathering. Further, these vendors educate and provide the tools and perspectives based on national and international experience that support the technology advances that happen across the enterprise. 

July 7, 2023

July 6, 2023

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

UC Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its energy source, a study published in Nature Water today shows

June 28, 2023

June 22, 2023

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

IBM, Oracle and other technology companies realized in 2013 that data science was increasingly important to their organizations. The problem? Not enough people were trained in the field. They wanted young students to learn about it early so they’d study it in college.

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

Over 1,200 computer hackers from around the world packed UC Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union last weekend during a 36-hour artificial intelligence (AI) learning language model (LLM) hackathon that Berkeley leaders say was the largest event of its kind.

UC IT Blog

The UC Tech 2023 Conference is less than one month away. Guests attending live or virtually can expect informative sessions and inspiring keynotes, along with other engaging programming. 

Berkeley News

Knowledge may be power. But what if the information that leads to that knowledge is wrong?

To Celeste Kidd, assistant professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, the answer is simple: It’s dangerous and perhaps the most concerning aspect of generative AI’s rapid expansion. 

June 21, 2023

Announcing the FY24 One IT Strategic Plan

June 15, 2023

“Student-to-Staff” is a new series that will feature stories from Cal alumni who are now career employees in One IT. This series was created to show the importance of investing in our student staff, and how vital their work is to the university and its mission.

June 14, 2023

June 13, 2023

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

People participating in augmented and virtual realities are sharing significantly more information than previously understood through their motion data, two new UC Berkeley-led studies show.