To our campus community,
Apple released updates to their software yesterday that resolve the issues that have been impacting Wi-Fi connectivity on their devices. Our network team has worked to confirm the updates rectified the problems that have been reported.
Updated Dec. 13, 2022: Apple has informed Berkeley IT that the software updates that were needed to rectify the issues their devices were having with Wi-Fi have been released and that this should resolve the previous connectivity problems. Our network team is working to confirm this information. If you use Apple devices (e.g.
Service owners: Please communicate directly with your customers about reduced IT support during the fall and winter holiday/curtailment periods.
To our One IT community,
By Andrea McColl and Esther Silver. To the uninformed, it might seem that the goals of digital accessibility and cybersecurity would be rivals. After all, isn’t accessibility about making it easier for people to come in, and cybersecurity about keeping people (or at least bad actors) out?
Dear One IT Colleagues,
Tomorrow, Nov. 29th, is “Giving Tuesday.” Giving Tuesday is a global movement focused on community and doing something good for others, such as volunteering, donating to charity, or lifting each other’s spirits during a time of year that is more difficult for some.
Tesla founder Elon Musk took over Twitter last month and installed himself as its chief executive officer. Then he laid off half the social media platform’s workforce.
Advances in brain-computer interfaces may soon make communication easier for those who have lost the ability to speak.
The EDUCAUSE 2022 Top 10 IT Issues take an optimistic view of how technology can help make the higher education we deserve—through a shared transformational vision and strategy for the institution, a recognition of the need to place students' success at the center, and a sustainable business model that has redefined "the campus."
Dear Colleagues,
Mark your calendars for UC Tech 2023 which will be held July 17-19. UC Berkeley is honored to be co-hosting next year’s conference with UC San Francisco. This will be a hybrid event, with sessions available both in-person on the Berkeley campus and online.
Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley unveiled a robot that they said can fold clothes faster than any previous automation.
We have all heard — and some of us have experienced — how having a mentor to offer guidance can make a huge difference in any given career path. But identifying as a woman, and having a great woman as that mentor can be a total game changer.
For the first time, the world’s largest Agricultural Robotics (Ag Robotics) conference, The World Agricultural Robotics Conference (aka “FIRA,” as it is called in Europe) will take place in Fresno, CA, Oct 18-20 under the name The California Agricultural & Robotics Technology Forum. Those in technology will have the opportunity to learn more about how robotics is revolutionizing the Agricultural Sector.
Events for the UC Tech community help introduce new skills, resources, perspectives and people. Mark your calendar with these upcoming events, and send events to share with others: Contact us
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Data Governance Committee, the most recent group chartered by the IT Strategy Committee to bring stakeholder governance to IT domains across the campus, held its inaugural meeting Thursday morning, September 22.
Imagine a technology that could remove planet-warming emissions from smokestacks, turn moisture in the air into drinking water and transform carbon dioxide into clean energy.
A new UC Berkeley institute will bring together top machine learning and chemistry researchers to make this vision a reality, and a Bay Area foundation is providing a substantial gift to launch and enable this work at UC Berkeley over the next five years.
With the U.S. midterm elections approaching and political disinformation posing a continued threat to democracy, UC Berkeley’s ambitious new Our Better Web initiative is advancing efforts to study and combat online harms.
