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On June 9th, Research IT leadership presented on the group’s new and ongoing initiatives at a well-attended session of the One IT Summit. This year’s Summit spanned three days, and included a wide variety of...Read more about RIT presents on new, ongoing initiatives at One IT Summit

inspired by the May 11 Research Data Management Workshop, Rosalie Lack of the California Digital Library reflects on the changing role of the library in her...Read more about Reflections on Research Data Management and the role of the Library

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria constitutes the largest annual gathering of North American digital humanists. 21 members of the UC Berkeley community, including students, faculty, and staff, will be attending...Read more about Research IT Staff at Digital Humanities Summer Institute at University of Victoria

On May 15th, Camille Villa of Research IT met with the Force11 Catalog Working Group on behalf of the DiRT Directory. Force11 is a community of scholars,...Read more about Research IT contributes to Force11 Catalog Working Group

Members of UC Berkeley’s Research IT group joined CIO Larry Conrad, University Librarian Tom Leonard, and staff from the Office of the VCR at a system-wide summit held on the UCLA Campus this past March. The summit was titled “Next Generation Research & the University of California:...Read more about UC System-wide summit of CIO's and VCR's

Like The Blob in a 1950s B-movie, data grows ever larger with time. That’s what UC Berkeley’s researchers are finding as they work with data generated by new generations of instruments and high-resolution sensors, as well as increasingly monstrous datasets. Brain scans from high resolution CCD...Read more about BRC: Supporting Data Intensive Computing

On May 5th, several members of Research IT participated in the Spring 2015 Data Science Faire at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Aaron Culich presented updates on the...Read more about Research IT Staff Present Posters at BIDS Data Science Faire

Berkeley’s new High Performance Computing Condo Cluster has expanded rapidly in the first nine months of its operation, with hardware contributions to Savio from faculty in the physical...Read more about BRC HPC Condo Cluster Service gaining broad adoption

Seventy people crowded into a meeting room in Doe Library on Monday, May 11th for a Research Data Management (RDM) workshop on "Information, Input and Community." The first in a series of planned workshops was organized by the joint Library/Research IT/California Digital Library RDM service...Read more about Research Data Management kickoff workshop draws large crowd

Applications are open for the first Digital Humanities at Berkeley Summer Institute. From August 17 - 21, the Institute will offer five week-long, intensive workshops in the following tracks:...Read more about Digital Humanities at Berkeley to host Summer Institute, Aug. 17 -21