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
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.
Colleagues,
We are writing to inform you of a brief Zoom outage this morning. The service was down for a short period between 7:35 - 8:35 a.m. this morning but the issue has now been resolved by the vendor.
Some reminders if you get inquiries:
To our campus community,
Our continuous monitoring of the network user experience this week shows the Wi-Fi issues that campus experienced during the start of the semester have been resolved.
We recognize that these issues have significantly impacted instruction and learning, and we apologize.
Message updated on Sept. 8 as support options and number of devices connecting to Wi-Fi have changed.
To our campus community,
Despite our best efforts to stabilize the network for a smooth start of the semester, our monitoring of campus Wi-Fi has shown challenges in connecting during the peak times between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
When classes returned to in-person instruction in the fall of 2021, there were a multitude of challenges faced by campus staff who support students, instructors, and the overall classroom experience. The number of students who needed captioning services to participate in class had grown exponentially while the resources to expand these services remained uncertain. These are the pivotal moments when collaboration between teams and innovative ideas can lead to positive solutions for everyone involved.
To our campus community,
As we begin the academic year, we want to provide you with an update on our network and Wi-Fi. We are thrilled that, as of July 1, we are now fully funded to continue this critical work. However, we are playing catch-up after years of underfunding. While the work to fully optimize our network will take time, we want to make the return to campus as smooth as possible. To help in this effort, we have increased our support for the fall.
If you have network or Wi-Fi issues at the start of the semester:
Hello One IT Community,
UC Tech 2022 starts one week from today. As you finalize your plans, take note of important information and top tips.
Check out various ways to arrive at Price Center, the home base of UC Tech 2022:
To staff and faculty who use Adobe Acrobat or other Adobe software,
In order to best support instruction and the daily work of our campus community, Berkeley IT is assessing Adobe software usage. Starting today, Aug. 1, 2022, anyone who uses Adobe software will need to request a new license, valid for one year. On Aug. 14, 2022, access will end for all previous licenses.
UC Tech 2022 is right around the corner! Registration for the in-person conference at UC San Diego is sold-out, but registration for the virtual conference is still open! Register now!
Not sure what to expect at UC Tech 2022? Check out the article, written by UC CIO Van Williams, Getting Ready for UC Tech Conference Hosted by UC San Diego.
Don’t forget to set your schedule ahead of the conference. Many of our One IT colleagues are presenting this year, check out who and what topics are on the list.
Hello One IT Community!
Do you like baseball? Do you want to experience the best chicken fingers on the planet?* Or do you just want to get outside and have some fun with your fellow One IT colleagues? Well, good news: Thursday, Sept. 8, is Cal Night at the Oakland A’s game, and we’d love to see you there.
One IT colleagues,
Starting July 25, 2022, several enhancements will be made to the UC Berkeley Zoom Service. We hope these new features will improve your overall Zoom experience:
One IT colleagues,
Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday’s One IT Celebration Picnic. Over 200 staff members and retirees came out to celebrate, and I can’t begin to describe how amazing it felt to see everyone in-person after spending so much time apart these past few years! This picnic was a big “thank you” for everyone’s hard work and dedication as we’ve stayed flexible and agile to support campus through the pandemic.