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This past spring, the Office of Data and Information Technology (ODIT) partnered with the student group Design at UCI to offer a special VR track as part of their 2024 Design-a-thon competition, ‘True to You.’ Thanks to ODIT’s sponsorship and the leadership of Jessica Sotelo, Design-a-thon Director, and Keri Albers, Digital Innovation at UCI, nine students gained access to Meta Quest headsets and the opportunity to learn how to create immersive environments.
Conceptualized in Fall 2023 to enter the ANTrepreneur Center’s annual AI Innovation Challenge, Zotsites aims to assist students in navigating the vast expanse of UCI-related domains and webpages, including academic resources, student services, campus organizations, communities and even third-party UCI-centered discussion threads on Reddit – so students can always find the relevant information they need.
On April 30, UC Irvine announced the launch of ZotGPT Chat for students. Custom-made to support UC Irvine’s emerging generative AI needs, ZotGPT is UCI’s answer to the data privacy and governance concerns regarding third-party AI services, while still offering users the capabilities found in the latest GPT large-language models.
The Spring Forward campaign challenged the UCI campus to submit their time-saving ideas, and throughout the course of the campaign, 108 ideas were submitted. The Campaign Finale provided a platform for the top three finalists to present their solutions in an exciting, Shark Tank-inspired competition. The afternoon saw presentations filled with ingenuity, creativity, and a shared goal of making UCI more efficient.
ZotGPT Chat is a step toward safe, secure, and custom AI usage within academia. It stands out in the UC system as a pioneering solution that ensures personal and institutional data remain confidential, shielding them from external vendors that might otherwise use such sensitive information to train their models – a common concern with commercial AI offerings.
The Office of Data and Information Technology and the ANTrepreneur Center are pleased to announce the launch of The Hub Info Sessions – a series of events for UCI students offering a deep dive into the latest technology. The info sessions are held monthly at the ANTrepreneur Center on Tuesday evenings and always conclude with tacos and networking.
The UCI Office of Data and Information Technology (ODIT) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new space at the ANTrepreneur Center called The Hub. This expansion marks a significant milestone for the program’s goal of putting cutting-edge technology in the hands of students, faculty, and staff. The Hub provides various tools, sandboxes, and training environments for the UCI community. Thanks to this partnership with the ANTrepreneur Center,
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) Collaboratory for Data Analytics for Student Success (CODAS) initiative has been selected as an exemplar for the 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report, Data and Analytics! This recognition highlights UCI’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and its collaborative approach to supporting underrepresented student populations across higher education.
The University of California, Irvine announced the launch of the Institute for Precision Health, an endeavor that marries UCI’s powerhouse health sciences, engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, clinical genomics and data science capabilities to deliver the most effective health and wellness strategy for each individual person and, in doing so, confronts the linked challenges of health equity and the high cost of care.
