Join us on August 28, 2019 at Emerging Media Lab’s Summer Showcase, featuring projects that the Lab has been working on this past academic term. New projects added to this term’s showcase include Jupyter 3D, Volumetric Video in Medical Training, Fish Bash Game, as well as two…
Join us at an upcoming insightful Amazon Web Services presentation about Inferential Thinking and Machine Learning. Breakaway from the traditional divide-and conquer approach to problem solving. Carlos Escapa, Senior Principal of Business Development at Amazon Web Service, will open your…
RSVP UBC IT is excited to welcome you to the first-ever IT Summer Lectures, a free public event where members of the UBC IT community and external stakeholders can learn more about the projects and initiatives going on within IT! IT Summer Lectures will take place over 4–5 consecutive…
On July 10, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) at UBC at their annual IMAGINE education conference in Seattle. The CIC is the first of its kind in Canada, and provides UBC students, staff, and faculty access to cloud technology to advance projects, along with…
Canvas, UBC’s online learning platform, is making changes to their support services. Canvas Chat Support and Support Hotline will no longer be available after June 27, 2019. They were originally offered as additional support for faculty and students for their transition from…
More than a dozen UBC IT and ARC staff will present UBC case studies and their insights at this week’s CANHEIT-ARC Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Held annually, the conference is the largest gathering of Canadian higher education IT leaders from universities, technical institutes and…
Canada’s largest interdisciplinary conference, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, took place last week at UBC’s Vancouver campus, and more than 140 IT staff contributed to support the conference. “UBC and thousands of global delegates benefited from the work of…
Back by popular demand, the 3rd Annual Research Computing Summer School, co-hosted by UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) and WestGrid, is taking place June 24 to 27, 2019 on campus. The Summer School is open to anyone with an interest in high-powered computing, scientific visualization, and…
We are pleased to announce that UBC Studios, UBC’S on-campus digital media production unit offering end-to-end creative media production and support services, won Platinum for their “Study What Moves You” Banner for the School of Kinesiology and Gold for their Illustrations for…
The Office of the CIO has drafted final amendments to the UBC Information Security Standards that govern the use and protection of university data and computing resources. Based on feedback from the community gathered last year, amendments to Information Security Standards #1, 2, 3, 5, and 14 have…
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