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Dean Gialamas, a familiar face in Southern California IT circles, has been tapped as the next IT bureau chief and CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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The position calls for experience in the areas of network, hardware, storage, software, and communications systems, such as Cisco Network, NetApp Storage, VMware Server, and Windows/Linux Operating Systems.
State Chief Information Officer Amy Tong and other state IT leaders congratulated the class, whose members include potential future CIOs and CTOs. The course was interrupted by the COVID-19 restrictions and was completed virtually.
Santa Cruz's move this week was backed by a coalition of dozens of civil liberty and racial justice groups, including the ACLU of Northern California, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Santa Cruz chapter of the NAACP.
Jennifer Benson, deputy director and chief information officer at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, discusses the department's ongoing modernization and how the COVID-19 pandemic offers IT an opportunity to change the conversation.
The California COVID Assessment Tool, or CalCAT, is described as an open source “model of models” that offers a dashboard of data, forecasts and scenarios from modeling groups nationwide.
In a Request for Proposal released last week, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services seeks respondents to provide Cybersecurity Assessment Services for the state's new Next Generation 911 system.
Techwire is pleased to welcome HashiCorp to the Techwire family. HashiCorp provides a “control plane” for each layer of the cloud, enabling enterprises to make the shift to a cloud operating model. HashiCorp is a remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco that solves development, operations, and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks. Keying on automation – of infrastructure, security, networking and applications – each product addresses specific technical and organizational challenges of cloud infrastructure automation. For more information, contact Laura Berman.
California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer Scott Gregory gave Techwire an overview of how his Office of Enterprise Technology is working faster than ever through automation — and thriving on the new expectations.
Before her promotion, Massoodnia had been an account executive with Infor since January 2016. Her territory encompasses the city of Los Angeles as well as Los Angeles and Orange counties, Nevada and Hawaii.
The course will be different this time: Rather than working and learning in person, participants will attend online — “able to complete the academy without physically sitting in a classroom,” according to the Office of Professional Development, which runs the academies.
The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development is seeking a branch chief who'll also serve as chief strategy officer, and the Department of Social Services is seeking a chief for the Enterprise Production Services branch.
Members of the state Blockchain Working Group, created in 2018 by statute, have approved a report on the technology that they were charged with creating. Due to the state Legislature by July 1, it addresses blockchain's possible uses, and its risks and benefits to state government and business.
Trip data, which includes real-time locations and routes, could — without a significant amount of effort — be fleshed out to reveal the individual identities of riders, the lawsuit states.
The nation's largest and oldest public defender's office will go live in a matter of weeks with a $25 million case management system that can be described as perhaps the most transformative project in the department’s 107-year history.
State lawmakers placed scores of bills into "suspense" this spring in recognition that the proposed laws would have a significant financial impact if passed, or result in a loss of revenue. Here's how several pieces of technology-related legislation fared following a recent vote by the California state Senate Appropriations Committee.
The State Controller's Office is seeking a section chief to assume management responsibility for planning and overseeing the work of the Technology Advocacy Section. The California Highway Patrol is recruiting for a senior security engineer.
The state budget is not all good news for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection — but the department is moving forward starting this summer with a solution to better predict wildfires, the result of a flexible procurement approach activated during the early days of Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration.
The Sacramento resident has extensive experience in sales, business development and management, and he says he enjoys serving both the public and private sectors.
Officials in the San Rafael’s tech shop were able to build a mesh Wi-Fi network to connect students with the help of volunteer expertise and funding from across sectors.
Police officials say the technology is important to its goal of reducing gun violence. Opponents say the devices also increase the frequency of police interactions, which they say increases the risk for Black residents of becoming the victim of police brutality or harassment.
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Technological innovation in artificial intelligence has shifted. For the better part of a decade, AI operated within tightly bounded constraints: classifying images, generating text, and using these capabilities to surface recommendations. While these systems were powerful, they were fundamentally passive. They needed to receive a prompt in order to return a result. Once the result was achieved, the system stopped.
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