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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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Udaya Patnaik was named to lead the digital innovation office after a recruitment process that took almost a year. State CIO Amy Tong welcomed his appointment.
The long-awaited May Revision of Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed 2020-2021 Fiscal Year state budget reflects a significant contraction due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but also the administration's commitment to technology and innovation.
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The RFP seeks a consultant to provide in-person and virtual training for the city workforce. The solicitation was issued Thursday, and the response deadline is June 4.
The Legislative Analyst's Office advises the Legislature to let the federal government take the lead in developing vaccines and tests. With a pandemic-fueled state budget deficit looming, California should focus its R&D efforts — and dollars — inward first, the LAO says in a new report.
Former state and local IT officials assessed the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and how its impact on IT projects and initiatives may be different from other crises, and offered ideas on potential strategies, best practices and lessons learned.
Nicolle Wilson started her sales career at Pearson Publishing, selling and marketing new technology and other educational materials. She remained in the ed-tech industry for the next six years. Most recently, she was an enterprise account executive with Salesforce.org, focusing on higher education.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture and the state Department of General Services are seeking to fill six key IT positions between them, including five IT specialists of various classifications and an IT manager.
The county's Department of Public Works is seeking vendors to provide subscription-based digital asset management in the cloud, with the ability to maintain agency-wide, digital multimedia files and enable internal as well as some public-facing access.
The Folsom Police Department is the first agency in the state to adopt the technology. Yolo County has also signed on, but the pandemic has stalled talks with several other Northern California jurisdictions.
Assembly Bill 2261, from Assemblymember Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park, and chairman of the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, has cleared that committee, but not without opposition from legislators and others who say it doesn't do enough to regulate facial recognition technology.
As the city's new chief data officer, Holm brings decades of public- and private-sector experience to Los Angeles City Hall. Among her affiliations are the United Nations, NASA and the World Bank Group.
One of the positions is based in Atascadero, in San Luis Obispo County, and requires the ability to travel to other parts of the state. This position has an application deadline of Tuesday.
His responsibilities will include helping forge the overall Enterprise and Government sales strategy as well as directly overseeing and managing sales to state and local government.
The department already has been using the software as part of an 18-month trial with maker Veritone, a Costa Mesa-based company. The new contract is for $35,000 for a one-year subscription that runs through April 2021.
Steven Garcia, based in Roseville, is a veteran IT consultant and adviser with more than 25 years’ experience in the IT reseller sector. He’s served clients including California state government, as well as counties, cities and school districts, with all facets of IT infrastructure, security and applications.
Both new leaders are IT veterans with experience in the public and private sectors.
Carlos Cuellar, based in El Dorado Hills, has more than 22 years of sales experience, having started his tech sales career at Oracle in 2004.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said a meeting will be scheduled of a new ancillary group to the California Department of Education's Closing the Digital Divide Task Force, in hopes of doing more for the roughly one in five children statewide who are without connectivity or devices for remote instruction.
If Attorney General Xavier Becerra sticks to the law's timetable, companies will face potential fines of up to $7,500 per violation in two months. That prospect has created anxiety for small, struggling brick-and-mortar shops, said the president of the California Retailers Association.
“Strategically, how can GIS continue to be successful in the COVID response and working with partners in trying to ensure that? Tactically, working directly with those partners … to make sure they have the tools and the resources to do the work and be successful, whether it be geospatial research, or data for dashboards. I’m happy to support that.” — Isaac Cabrera, the state's new geographic information officer.
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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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