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A look back at CIC’s Generative AI and Sustainability Hackathon
A look back at CIC’s Generative AI and Sustainability Hackathon On October 5th, 2024, the UBC Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) hosted its Generative AI and Sustainability Hackathon. As generative AI technologies continue to advance, new opportunities arise to apply them towards addressing issues in sustainability. In this event, over 75 UBC students from various backgrounds…
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CIC’s Determining Course Flexibility Project Placed as Finalist for National Award
Within the education sector, CIC’s Course Flexibility Project was a finalist for the CUCCIO 2024 awards in the Innovation category, recognized for its cutting-edge application of generative AI to address a complex problem in higher education.
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UBC and AWS collaborate to embrace the use of AI at the UBC Cloud Innovation Centre
Announcement: With innovations like generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) transforming how organizations operate, the CIC is embracing these new tools to support community outcomes and be a part of B.C.’s landscape in ensuring students are ready for the workforce of today and tomorrow, post-graduation.
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Looking back at the UBC CIC’s first Hackathon on Cloud Computing and Generative AI
Looking back at the UBC CIC’s first Hackathon on Cloud Computing and Generative AI On March 2nd, the UBC CIC hosted its inaugural Hackathon, with a spotlight on Cloud Computing and Generative AI. A total of 78 students from various disciplines and backgrounds came together to collaborate and engage in a full day of idea…
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UBC-led research team finds nine new coronavirus species
A former UBC post-doctoral research fellow led an international research team in re-analyzing all public RNA sequencing data to uncover almost ten times more RNA viruses than were previously known, including several new species of coronaviruses in some unexpected places. Working with the UBC Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre, the Serratus Project was able…
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Preventing the next pandemic: How researchers analyze millions of genomic datasets with AWS
Driven by the urgent necessity to prevent another global pandemic, the team at the UBC CIC collaborated with computational virologists to create Serratus, an open-science viral discovery platform to transform the field of genomics—built on the massive computational power of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
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Amazon Is Powering The Coronavirus Diagnostics Of The Future
The lung scans of coronavirus patients coming out of Wuhan, China had the tell-tale signs of infection. Three researchers, who had previously worked together on an artificial intelligence model trained on chest x-rays, had a plan to “use AI to empower physicians across the world in helping combat this disease (Covid-19)” and the project took…
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Reflecting on the UBC CIC Generative AI and Sustainability Hackathon
The UBC Cloud Innovation Centre (UBC CIC) Generative AI and Sustainability hackathon on October 5, 2024, brought together students with a shared passion for technology and sustainability. Hosted at the Sauder Learning Labs, the event was filled with energy from the outset, as participants collaborated to create innovative solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud…
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The CIC Experience: Victoria Li
Working as a Project Assistant at the UBC Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) has been a journey of transformation, marked by delightful surprises and a genuine sense of community. As I take a reflective pause on my co-op term, it becomes evident that the CIC is not merely a workplace; it is a vibrant tapestry woven…
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The student perspective: Sophie Mok
I am a co-op student and have been working as a Project Assistant at the UBC CIC since January 2023. With my time at the CIC set to end in a few days, a lot of thoughts come to my mind as I reflect on my journey and growth as an employee here.
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5 Reasons To Choose Flutter for App Development
Timothy Jin developed two apps using the Flutter framework. With features attracting a wide range of developers from industry professionals to students like Timothy with cross-platform development support and several compelling features, here are 5 reasons to choose Flutter to develop your next mobile app.
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How To Publish an iOS App to TestFlight
In the article, Timothy Jin explains TestFlight, an essential tool used to both internally and externally test the two iOS apps he has developed. Since we were connecting virtually with our clients, TestFlight was a crucial tool in delivering our apps over the air to our clients for testing and feedback.
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Predicting epileptic seizure onsets with Heart Rate Variability (HRV) features and Machine Learning (ML)
Seizure is defined as a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain and can cause changes in one’s behaviour, movements, feelings, and in levels of consciousness. In this blog post, Harshinee Sriram writes about an experiment done to determine the best predictors for a seizure onset using multiple heart rate variability (HRV) features and classical…
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Tapestry Project – Migrating a graph WordPress plugin from a Relational Database to a Graph Database
Tapestry is an open-source online learning platform that allows collaboration in the development of interactive, associative, and multi-modal content. In this blog post, Aayush Behl writes about the process of migrating the Tapestry Tool WordPress plugin that uses the MySQL database for content storage, to a native Graph Database using AWS Neptune.
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UBC CIC Fall 2022 Newsletter
Since our last communication, the UBC CIC has continued to collaborate with community partners on some innovative challenges. Highlighted in the paragraphs below you can read about recent successes. To view all of our projects, check out the CIC website. Of particular note, two of UBC CIC’s projects resulted in publications for the sponsors and…