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Event Recap: The UBC CIC Summer GenAI Hackathon 2025
On August 14th, the UBC Cloud Innovation Centre hosted a Summer Generative AI Hackathon, welcoming students to a day of innovation and creativity. Participants explored how generative AI and cloud technology can be applied to tackle real world challenges, with a focus on career navigation and professional development.
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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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FHIR: Burning a path to interoperability in healthcare
FHIR is an acronym for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, and is an international standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. Eric Liu explains the importance of FHIR and its technical details.
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NodeMCU and AWS IoT: A cost-effective, DIY solution for sending data to the Cloud using the Arduino IDE
Sensors can be used to monitor something of interest, such as humidity in soil, CO2 levels in the air, or ambient sound in a room. Student, Shrey Thapar, writes how to use NodeMCU and AWS IoT to create a cost-effective, DIY monitoring solution.
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An Overview of Amazon Timestream
Amazon Timestream is a powerful purpose-driven time series database that is designed for storing time-based data. This blog post will give a brief overview of how Timestream works, as well as how Timestream was utilized to store IoT sensor data for the Health Platform project.
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Connecting Different Biometric Sensors to AWS
AWS Internet of Things (IoT) provides us with an easy way to connect our devices to the cloud. Derrick Cheng details how to connect different biometric sensors to send data to AWS IoT.
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Blending old and new with RDS and AppSync
AWS AppSync plays an important part within the world of Amazon Web Services application development. In this blog post, Co-op student, Michael Woolsey, writes about how to create and deploy a GraphQL API.
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Using Amazon Chime and SIP Media Applications to improve emergency communications in rural areas
Using Amazon Chime and SIP Media Applications to improve emergency communications in rural areas By Trevor Flanigan Working on STARS was a great learning experience for me. It was the first project that I built using AWS, and I had so much support from the members of the FLASH and Chime teams, as well as
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The student perspective – Neelim Novo
The student perspective – Neelim Novo I have been working as a student developer at the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre since January 2021. While I may have started off with no experience in Cloud Computing, I was soon able to work on a project leveraging over 13 different Amazon Web Services
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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…