ZotGPT Chat offers a mobile phone experience and voice chat. It protects the confidentiality of personal and institutional data, including uploaded files. This ensures that outside vendors cannot use proprietary data to train their models. Commercial AI services typically do not have these safeguards. ZotGPT Chat is currently available in an open-beta version. Faculty and staff adoption is strong and accelerating as the university works to refine and add new features.
Media access: Radio programs/stations may, for a fee, use an on-campus ISDN line to interview UCI faculty and experts, subject to availability and university approval. For more UCI news, visit news.uci.edu. Additional resources for journalists may be found at -resources.
The key feature of this program is its ability to provide immediate assistance from the Be Well OC Mobile Crisis Response Team in cases not involving criminal activity or violence. The team will work in tandem with both campus and county resources to support the needs of individuals in crisis.
Consisting of two experienced crisis counselors, the Be Well OC Mobile Crisis Response Team is dedicated to responding to mental health-related calls through the UCI Police nonemergency and 911 phone lines. This proactive approach offers direct mental health assistance and significantly reduces the need for police and emergency medical services in such scenarios.
Media access: Radio programs/stations may, for a fee, use an on-campus ISDN line to interview UCI faculty and experts, subject to availability and university approval. For more UCI news, visit news.uci.edu. Additional resources for journalists may be found at communications.uci.edu/for-journalists.
The blockchain, which is this distributed database structure that crypto uses, is actually perfect for that kind of thing where you want to share information with your competitors but not too much. And you want a level of privacy and security and anonymity. But you still want to be able to track when something bad happens. Where did it start? So, you can just shut down that part of it and not the whole thing.
The team analyzed 1,003 life cycle reports from different manufacturers to determine the amount of carbon dioxide emissions created during the lifespan of the product, which includes the manufacturing, transportation, use and disposal of the device.
Researchers found that flat-screen TVs were associated with the highest emissions, with about 41 percent of total cumulative emissions, followed by laptops and tablets, flat-screen computer monitors, desktop computers, mobile phones, computer accessories, printers, and gaming consoles.
Another consequence of the global addiction to ICTs is the risk of toxic e-waste exposure to roughly 30 million people in 32 cities that are listed as e-waste recycling centers in 15 countries. Of the exposed population, about 5.8 million are younger than 18 and about 6.1 million are women of childbearing age (15 to 49).
Estimates of the concentration of hazardous metals in the air, water and soil at recognized sites of e-waste recycling show a significantly higher quantity than permissible standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the World Health Organization and the European Union.
The on-demand and self-powered characteristics of the invention are made possible by triboelectric nanogenerators that produce voltage through mechanical thumping or pressure. The TENGs are fabricated using titanium-based MXenes, a relatively new class of ultrathin 2D material with unique electrical and mechanical properties. Only a few atoms thick, MXene layers are bendable, are stretchable and can be printed onto the surface of flexible, bandage-like material or a wearable arm- or wristband.
Additional authors on the paper are Prativa Das and Sang Won Lee, UCI postdoctoral scholars in electrical engineering and computer science; and UCI Ph.D. students Qian Yi, Xiaochang Pei and Huiting Qin. Funding was provided by The Henry Samueli School of Engineering.
OIT had been planning for this. Large screens in the main suite of the Anteater Learning Pavilion had been tracking the spread of COVID-19 on a world map since late January, following it from China as the circles of infections began growing. By February, the circles were crossing into other countries, and OIT leadership began running simulations for client services about what a remote environment might look like should the virus reach Southern California.
The initial week of UCI being fully remote was right before spring finals week, and the immediate need was to tell thousands of faculty how they were going to administer their exams. The Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning had to quickly come up with a strategy for final exams, including having OIT rapidly roll out proctoring software to allow students to take tests online.
Zoomtopia
During the week of spring break, OIT worked closely with campus leadership to figure out what was needed, not only for teaching and learning but also for staff to be remote. In a stroke of good timing, OIT had just obtained a campus license for Zoom and had just finished getting units set up with Microsoft Teams.
Not all of OIT went remote. Five essential teams continued working on campus throughout the pandemic. Desktop support staff stayed to help distribute laptops to those who needed them and assist on-campus essential workers and the Student Health Center. Network, telecommunications and data center infrastructure teams had to ensure that the campus network and server environment remained operational and accessible remotely, and the business office continued to help staff with on-site logistics.
With so much in flux, OIT created several web resources to assist the campus community with the new virtual environment. The TechPrep website houses information for staff, faculty and students working, teaching and learning remotely. The UCI Zoom help center provides tips and tricks for maximizing the Zoom platform. In collaboration with the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation, OIT launched more specialized websites: Teach Anywhere contains tips and help for instructors on remote teaching pedagogy and technology, while Learn Anywhere and the What the Tech series share online resources for students. Taking UCI Virtual captures how OIT mobilized technology and support for the campus during the COVID-19 crisis.
To be certain that faculty had access to a rich and interactive learning management system environment, OIT worked collaboratively with campus partners including procurement and security to accelerate the integration of third-party, on-demand teaching and learning tools into the Canvas system.
With remote operations in full swing, OIT turned its focus to new priorities for living in the pandemic, including creating systems to aid in asymptomatic testing and the daily symptom checker apps for both employees and students, as well as contact tracing support.
The institute aims to integrate lifestyle, community, environment and socioeconomic factors in conjunction with biomedical and clinical knowledge to radically transform health systems away from hospitals and clinics and into the hands of each individual.
The Institute for Future Health is a provisional Organized Research Unit. More information about the researchers, projects and activities of the Institute for Future Health can be found at
Media access: Radio programs/stations may, for a fee, use an on-campus ISDN line to interview UCI faculty and experts, subject to availability and university approval. For more UCI news, visit wp.communications.uci.edu. Additional resources for journalists may be found at communications.uci.edu/for-journalists.
Last month, these mobile robots began delivering food from select restaurants and coffee shops across campus to the nearly 7,000 students partially sequestered in UCI housing units because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Delivery is currently available from Panda Express, Bento Sushi, Med Ed Caf and Starbucks, but more vendors are expected to soon join the roster. While eateries receive payment for the items ordered, there is a $1.99 delivery fee that goes directly to Starship.
Contrary to popular belief, COVID-19 does not mean the end of cash. Although there was some concern during the early stages of the current crisis that paper money might transmit the virus, its demise had, in fact, been heralded by many people even before the pandemic began. Despite the convenience of plastic, the sense of safety with contactless online payment systems or the allure of cryptocurrency, however, there are still situations where dollar bills are best.
The biggest disadvantage will be the economic exclusion of the poor and underserved. Another implication is that eliminating paper money will more easily allow central banks to lower interest rates below zero. When the interest rate is close to zero or below, people start taking their money out of the bank and put it under the mattress, which acts as a kind of brake on further lowering the interest rate.
7fc3f7cf58