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July 19, 2023

Berkeley Haas
FlowGPT cofounder on his visionary AI project that’s speeding ahead in the AI market

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

Sign up for the Search Inside Yourself Program

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
UC Tech Community Meetups (July 17-19, 2023)

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 Session Updates

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.

Meet UC Tech 2023 Conference Sponsors

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

UC Tech 2023: Registration Now Closed

UC Tech, resilient, rising, reinspired, UC Tech 2023UC Colleagues,

July 6, 2023

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Hand-held water harvester powered by sunlight could combat water scarcity

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

UC Tech: Virtual registration still open!

UC Tech, resilient, rising, reinspired, UC Tech 2023

UC Colleagues,

June 22, 2023

Berkeley News
What can psychology teach us about AI’s bias and misinformation problem?

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. 

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Workshop highlights need and opportunity for real-world data science project-based learning

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
UC Berkeley cultivates festive culture of ‘free thinkers’ at AI hackathon

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
3 weeks until UC Tech 2023: Build your schedule now

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. 

June 21, 2023

Announcing the FY24 One IT Strategic Plan
Announcing the FY24 One IT Strategic Plan

June 15, 2023

From Student to Staff: The One IT Student Experience

“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

See you next month at UC Tech 2023

UC Tech, resilient, rising, reinspired, UC Tech 2023

UC Colleagues,

June 13, 2023

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
As Big Tech invests in virtual reality, studies highlight user privacy risks

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.

Berkeley Blog
Berkeley pushes AI innovation, research with ‘Woodstock of Hackathons’

When UC Berkeley announced we’d be hosting the inaugural, signature UC Berkeley AI LLM Hackathon, in a matter of days, over 1,500 hackers signed up to participate. But the explosive attention given to this event was not shocking. ChatGPT is immensely popular and the Application Programming Interface (API) is difficult for developers to access.

June 7, 2023

Announcement: Interim Chief Information Officer

University of California, Berkeley. Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Dear Campus Community,

June 2, 2023

Apply Today: Berkeley IT Culture Champions

Good afternoon bIT and Happy Pride Month!

Today our bIT Culture Champions Internship application opens! It will remain open until Friday, June 23. Once applications close I will reach out to everyone who submitted and set up a 15-minute follow-up (via Zoom) during the week of June 26. 

May 31, 2023

UC IT Blog
UC launches groundbreaking cybersecurity leadership program for managing digital risk

The University of California is bringing cybersecurity risk management into the digital age by creating the Cyber Leadership Program, the world’s first program designed to cultivate broad, diverse, and collaborative ways of thinking about the management of digital risk.