Projects and business cards and other historical memorabilia
2008
2008t Director, IT Strategic Policy
2007
uclatestimonydatabreach Lessons Learned from Notification of a Large Breach. Statement of Jim Davis before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security on March 21, 2007.
uclatestimonyfilesharing2
hearingagenda 2007-03-08		 A Student-Life Approach to Copyright Infringement at UCLA. Statement of Jim Davis before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property on March 8, 2007. All I can say is: if you're ever called upon to pull one of these together, never, ever have to do so twice in the same month!
2006
2006t Director, Information Technology Policy
2004
Data Council Sue Abeles, Don Worth and I co-founded the Data Council in response to burgeoning regulatory requirements - GLBA, SB1386, etc. It comprises the major data stewards on campus – those who serve as “office of record” for various types of data – and representatives of campus data “consumers”. I chair the group.
uclatestimonyfilesharing1 I helped define and led deployment of UCLA's Quarantine Approach to illegal file sharing, an approach that complies fully with the law while preserving privacy and due process for students. I still point to this initiative as an exemplar of how the institution becomes more than the sum of its parts when challenged to do so: student affairs, legal and IT all came together to create something quite wonderful. UCLA Quarantine Approach and Studios Working Group, AVC Jim Davis's before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property on October 5, 2004, can be found at the left.
2003
2003t Director, Information Technology Policy and Security
2002
itpbhandout A handout about security incident response in 2002. How times have changed!
2001
c&p A low-quality video of the first BruinTech seminar in 2001. Fun!
wcroadmap2001-02t
wcroadmap2000-04t		 Michael Stone and I co-founded and co-chaired the Web Council: "The UCLA Web Council is a working group established in 2001 to explore Web-related issues from a broad campus perspective. The Web Council is not a policy-making body, but provides research and recommendations on policy, including draft policy, for the consideration of the Information Technology Planning Board and other oversight bodies. The group also convenes resource panels to provide advice and counsel on a range of non-Web related information technology issues that have institutional impact. Oversight for the group resides jointly with Jim Davis, associate vice chancellor, Information Technology, and Lawrence H. Lokman, assistant vice chancellor, University Communications."
2000
UCITPS Jacqueline Craig and I co-founded the UC IT Policy and Security Officers group, and I chaired the group and the vast majority of the meetings through 2006. Take a look at some of the diverse agenda we covered. The group continues going strong under the charge of the IT Leadership Council.
1999
1999at Dual role: AIS Manager of Planning and UCLA Information Technology Security and Policy Coordinator
1998
1998at Manager, Instructional Technology Services
elecctronic security proposal The proposal that created UCLA's first "IT security officer" position.
1998bt UCLA Information Technology Security Coordinator
electronicabusepage1 A joint effort over many months to help campus service providers handle tricky situations such as stalking by email, law enforcement presence and what to can be done if a student is looking at pornography on a computer in a lab. Surprising both what has changed and remained unchanged.
1997
pointcast wrapup In partnership with more than a dozen campus departments, and in collaboration with PointCast, Inc., Michael Stone and I explored the use of push technologies on campus.
1996
1996t Internet Technologies Coordinator
UCLALUG Served as founding university sponsor of LINUS, now the UCLA Linux Users Group.
1995
fiaf95 Big-time multicast over the MBONE of the Féderation Internationale des Archives du Film conference. 1995 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema. This is the agenda. (With Scott Burris, now at Disney.)
uclatoday In 1996, overall responsibility transitioned from InfoUCLA to what was then University Relations under AVC John Kobara. I acted as primary liaison from InfoUCLA to ensure a smooth transition of knowledge, practice and culture over the 11-month project, and to extend the existing infrastructure and partnerships with the campus to the new Webmasters. Working with Michael Stone to accomplish this fraught task was a pleasure. This is the original graphic, created by Pieter Lechner, that accompanied the article in UCLA Today announcing the new UCLA home page under University Relations in February 1997. The top graphic being peeled back was www.ucla.edu's second-generation home page graphic, put into production in May 1995 by InfoUCLA.
UCLA Today article Kelly Stack and I co-founded the original Campus Web Publishers group. It has since been re-formed and become more dynamic than ever.
Campus Time Services Scott Burris and I prototyped a campus time synchronization service (NTP).
1994
infouclacruise The InfoUCLA Cruise was an all-day gala event to raise awareness of the importance of electronic information and the coming tidal wave of the Internet. We had more than a dozen departments and information providers showing off their electronic wares to over 700 staff and faculty who joined us throughout the day.
filler Taught a full-day class for UCLA Extension called Accessing the Resources of the Internet, together with Pieter Lechner, Kelly Stack and Hannah Walker. The first time we taught this class was on Saturday, January 15, 1994 in Royce Hall. Some 36 hours later, the Northridge earthquake hit, and Royce was pretty badly shaken.
1993
1993t InfoUCLA System Architect
filler I put up a test WAIS server, and while it did not last very long, it was an interesting foray into the world of Z39.50.
infoucla I created the first www.ucla.edu server and page in 1993 and proved I am no graphic designer. This was the beginning of many happy years associated with every aspect of UCLA's home page: leading and collaborating on the design of the second version (1995); defining and formalizing the position of UCLA Webmaster; creating, with others, a model for interdepartmental cooperation for major areas (like the Student Information Web); designing and implementing the initial Web interfaces to major data sets such as the Campus Directory; and helping to build much of the "people infrastructure" across the campus to support all of this.
1992
filler I put up the first campuswide Gopher server as a prototype as part of the joint InfoUCLA project with the Library. Over the following year, quite a lot of effort was put into getting more information online and categorizing it in useful ways. Of course, shortly thereafter the web came along and swept Gopher away.
1991
MIC - Perspectives 1991 MIC staff from 1991
1990
1990t Coordinator, Advanced Workstation Program
msokent My introduction to UCLA when I arrived in 1990 and the beginning of a long and delightful history and mentorship with Don Worth.
usenet Glen Gordon and I put up the first campuswide news server. Many thanks go to the other news server administrators who formed the campus "news backbone" at the time. It is now news.ucla.edu.
1989
1988t Distributed Computing
cc My guest editing this edition of the University of British Columbia's Computing Center magazine in October 1989 brought me to UCLA...