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Using AI to support law students and expand access to justice
At the Peter A. Allard School of Law, professors Jon Festinger, K.C., and Nikos Harris, K.C., are exploring how technology can better support students as they navigate the demands of clinical legal education. These programs offer invaluable hands‑on experience serving clients with limited means, but they also require students to manage complex facts, evolving legal…
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AI Adoption: British Columbia pharmacists experiment with new tools
A project of the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, GENRx is a virtual patient simulation platform led by Fong Chan, co-assistant director of the E2P PharmD Program, and Jamie Yuen, assistant director of the UBC Pharmacists Clinic. The idea was inspired by the emergence of AI large language models such as ChatGPT…
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UBC Cloud Innovation Centre’s role in advancing UBC’s Strategic Directions
With the launch of its refreshed strategic plan UBC’s Strategic Directions 2025-2030 earlier this fall, UBC has a renewed vision for research, teaching, innovation, and community impact. At the same time, the UBC Cloud Innovation Centre (UBC CIC or CIC) continues to grow and emerge as an influential driver of many of the new strategic priorities. Here’s how CIC is helping bring the UBC’s strategic plan to life:
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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.