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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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The student perspective – Edward Chen
The student perspective – Edward Chen I have been a developer intern at UBC CIC since January 2021. Before starting, I was feeling both excited and a little anxious about the challenges here because there were a lot of firsts. For instance, this was my first internship, my first time working remotely, my first time…
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The student perspective: Working in the Cloud Innovation Centre – Nicole Pereyaslavsky
The student perspective: Working in the Cloud Innovation Centre – Nicole Pereyaslavsky In January 2020, I was hired as one of the first co-op students at the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) in the role of Project Assistant. As you may expect, 2020 created unexpected challenges for us. We had officially…
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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…