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Do you need to purchase data for your research or teaching? A new program from the Library will subsidize it.

Service has been restored to campus phone lines at UC Berkeley, after an eight-hour outage on Sunday.

Calls handled by the PBX system were not working properly from about 10 a.m. to about 6 p.m. IST technicians worked with AT&T to resolve the issue.

During the outage, people were reminded to that In emergencies, they should use cell phones to call 911. AnyIST.one who experiences further problems with their campus landline should call IST.

Three UC Berkeley undergraduates have begun coding work on the CollectionSpace system as members of the UCB CollectionSpace Development team. CollectionSpace is the museum collection management system used by five museums here on campus, as well as a number of other museums around the world.

The new Academic Innovation Studio held a quiet grand opening on August 9, 2016 marking the end of an 6-month pilot which began February of this year. The celebratory Grand Opening Reception on September 21, 2016 will bring together Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Researchers, Graduate Student Researchers, and academic support staff for an afternoon of camaraderie and exploration.

Professor Jennifer Ahern of the School of Public Health, and two staff researchers, Masters of Public Health (MPH) Ellie Matthay and Scott Zimmerman, are developing a software tool called the Study Simulator, a web-based simulation generator that will allow investigators to identify optimal study designs and methods of analysis for research inquiries in Public Health and Epidemiology.

Two new documents on using R and MATLAB on Savio, the campus’s High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, are now available on the Research IT website. 

The CCS IT July 2016 Metrics Report is now available.

View the Report.

Smitha Milli, a fourth year Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, is collaborating with David Bamman, Assistant Professor at the Berkeley School of Information, to perform Natural Language Processing (NLP) on fanfiction texts.

Research IT is pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded funds for ongoing software development and sustainability planning for CollectionSpace, an open source collections management tool for museums.

ETS is pleased to announce the introduction of a new set of tools for bCourses and partner schools using Canvas. SuiteC currently offers three tools that provide new user-friendly ways to increase and track student engagement with course materials by enabling students to contribute, discuss, and remix a wide variety of course-relevant content in new ways.

New and prospective users of Savio and other Berkeley Research Computing high performance computing (HPC) clusters (Cortex and Vector) are invited to attend an introductory training session on Tuesday, August 2, 2016.

“Well, I’m not safe near real chemicals,” says UC Berkeley Professor Eric Neuscamman, a theoretical chemist working to develop increasingly accurate and computationally cost-effective methods of modeling electron behavior in molecules. To inform chemists’ experimentation, theoretical chemists use supercomputers to solve complex mathematical equations, including theSchrödinger equation, that yield predictive models of what molecules will do in chemical reactions.

The Computational Genomics Resource Laboratory, a California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences core facility, and Berkeley Research Computing have joined forces to reduce the time and cost required to analyze data from 

Ten teams across the University of California won the 2016 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 (July 12, 2016) at the UC Computing Services Conference in Santa Cruz.