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John Roussel, the driving force behind the California Department of Public Health’s IT operations, is retiring at the end of April. His departure punctuates a more than two-decade career in state IT.
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Better communication during and after an emergency, such as California's wildfires, was a central discussion point at the final 2018 Broadband Council meeting.
How far can technology go to help automatically detect and even predict wildfires? From coast to coast, computer scientists, researchers and others are hoping to make it go further.
The Little Hoover Commission will hold a meeting today at 2:30 in downtown Sacramento to consider adoption of a draft study on artificial intelligence.
With more than 8,000 miles of fiber and 20 million users in research and education, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, the nonprofit that connects the California Research and Education Network (CalREN) across schools and educational institutions, wants to fight fires with data.
Sonali Bose, SFMTA’s director of finance and information technology, will retire on Friday.
The conference had 135 sessions, including a focus on women in technology.
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has surveyed public- and private-sector representatives to create a list of recommendations for state and local IT procurement improvements.
Among the gaggle of California supplicants from San Diego to Irvine to San Francisco, Los Angeles made the cut of 20 finalists, the lone survivor west of the Rockies.
Carlsbad hired its first chief innovation officer in the hopes of applying technology solutions in new ways.
Snowflake has a new enterprise sales director.
The California State Teachers Retirement System on Thursday committed to a $300 million expansion of its West Sacramento headquarters, voting to build a second 275,000-square-foot office building along the Sacramento River.
The GIS-based map can be toggled to include views of individual fires, weather conditions and shelter locations. The map breaks down the amount of acres burned, personnel involved and engines on-site.
The Department of Education has a new director of IT, also known as the chief information officer.
Older satellites could monitor weather, but only for larger-scale weather patterns. The GOES-16 and GOES-17 can zero in on specific areas and storms. The GOES-16 has been used to monitor hurricanes on the East Coast.
This large county is preparing to change its IT contracting process.
Both sides in the debate over whether Bay Area businesses should pay more taxes to help solve the region’s housing, traffic and affordability problems predict that cities will increasingly turn to squeezing Big Tech after voters in three cities approved new levies aimed at tech companies.
The city of San Jose is launching its self-driving vehicle pilot with Mercedes-Benz and Bosch.
The CISO is responsible for citizen privacy, the city's cybersecurity and the disaster recovery plan.
With two ballot measures in this week's election amounting to a regional referendum on how much tech corporations should contribute to the common good, voters in San Francisco and in Google's hometown of Mountain View decided that some wealth redistribution was in order.
With more than 10 million residents, Los Angeles County is always looking for technology solutions to business problems. Vendors who want to work with the county improve their chances of being awarded a bid if they know the following things.
Orange County has begun a prime contract with Science Applications International Corp. for IT managed services and solutions.
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The public workforce system stands at a crossroads. Career services professionals are increasingly tasked with serving harder-to-reach jobseekers under programs like Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA). These front-line staff must juggle verifying unemployment benefits eligibility and providing personalized reemployment coaching, often with limited time and resources. It’s a daunting challenge that raises a critical question: How can we scale support for those who need it most? The answer may lie in Agentic AI and AI-powered agents designed to work autonomously alongside humans which could be a game-changer for workforce development.
AI is helping governments and enterprises modernize aging systems faster while strengthening cybersecurity — an approach reflected in initiatives like Kosmic Eye supporting California’s digital infrastructure.
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