‘Tis the season for political pundits, patriotic advertisements, presidential debates…and deepfakes?!
If you’ve been online in the past year, chances are you’ve witnessed the meteoric rise of generative AI. From ChatGPT to DALL-E, AI has infiltrated every aspect of our digital lives.
This past July, UC Berkeley hosted the annual UC Tech Conference. IT professionals from across the UC system came together to connect and share new ideas on collaborating and growing IT support services within the UC system. This year, 27 UC Berkeley students (myself included) had the valuable opportunity to participate in the conference.
Info (in a) Sec: Information Security Newsletter - Aug. 8, 2023
UC Berkeley experts taught ChatGPT how to quickly create datasets on difficult-to-aggregate research about certain materials that can be used to fight climate change, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
As an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley who has worked as an IT technician for over two years, I can say with confidence that this experience has been one of the most rewarding of my college career. Working for Berkeley IT has allowed me to gain valuable experience in information technology (IT) and allowed me to not only meet, but work alongside some of the most diverse, hardworking, and talented individuals.
Dear One IT Colleagues and Unit Information Security Leads,
UC Berkeley to receive a $2.2 million grant as part of Google’s support of a consortium of cybersecurity clinics.
In 2018, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) at the UC Berkeley School of Information launched Citizen Clinic, a first-of-its-kind program that trains students to provide pro bono digital security assistance to public interest organizations with limited resources.
By Laurel Skurko. On July 18, 2023, six individuals and eight teams from across the University of California received 2023 UC Tech Awards at the UC Tech Conference hosted by UC Berkeley and UCSF.
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.
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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 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.
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.
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
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.
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 Tech attendees,