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How might matter give rise to subjective experience? This question helps drive the Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley to find explanations to the mysteries of neuroscience. The Gallant Lab focuses much of its research on functional cartography of the brain, mapping areas of the brain that are involved in cognitive or motor functions.

The UC Berkeley campus community is invited to pilot test two early release Google products as part of the G Suite Early Adopter Program (EAP): Hangouts Chat and App Maker.

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Cyber attacks don’t just hit big corporations or governments or hospitals. Anything connected to networks is vulnerable, and that includes research and open science.

In general, scientists who use computers and other devices plugged into computer networks are aware of cyber threats. Often though they have little knowledge about the specific threats to systems like theirs, what to do about them, or the degree to which these threats target open science projects.

You’re invited to the upcoming UC IT Town Hall, featuring San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Christine Kirkpatrick, as well as UC Santa Barbara CIO Matt Hall and UC CIO Tom Andriola. Join via Zoom.

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Undergraduate Applicant Admitted and Intent to Register (SIRed) headcount data for the 2017-18 academic year is now available in the Cal Answers Student Applicants -> Undergraduate Applicants dashboard reports. While this installment provides an update to the 2017-18 Admit and SIRed data, the final data for the current academic year will be loaded with the third installment scheduled for October 2017. Each data load updates and overwrites the numbers displayed. 

In recent years, the concept of technical debt has gained attention as a key factor to consider when designing a system, developing code,
or managing a software implementation. This article proposes that a technical-debt manage­ment strategy can be a powerful driver of efficiencies and data quality improvements in the data warehouse.

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The latest CSS HR/APS ServiceNow release is live as of August 24! Starting today, Campus will make HR service requests for Staff Recruitment, Staff Extension, Staff Waiver of Recruitment, Staff Mass Hiring, and Classification and Reclassification utilizing new online forms in ServiceNow

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Qingkai Kong aims to solve some of these real world problems through his work on the MyShake app, which was released to the public on Android in February 2016.

Research IT’s innovative approach to supporting digital humanities was on display in multiple venues at the international Digital Humanities 2017 conference, held from August 8-11, 2017 at McGill University in Montreal.

Often by fluke. Six months could pass and someone would casually mention a great resource. For example, the UCCSC listserv, which for a long time was the only way to communicate across locations to a broad group of IT personnel.

Ten teams across the University of California won the 2017 Larry L. Sautter Award for using information technology to make university operations more effective and efficient and to better serve faculty, staff, students and patients.

Systemwide Chief Information Officer Tom Andriola announced the winners today (Aug. 8, 2017) at the UC Computing Services Conference in San Diego.

Ray Lee of UC Berkeley’s Research IT department is the lead for the CollectionSpace UI rewrite project, code-named “Drydock.” The following piece describes progress in improving record types, template selection, and custom validation functionality in CollectionSpace. This work is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to LYRASIS, CollectionSpace’s institutional home.

Google SItes is now available for bConnected users.

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