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DOJ NPRM fact sheet for proposed web and mobile app accessibility standards

Posted By Margaret Knox 10-02-2023 07:57:42 AM
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My colleague at our state regulatory body posted this help email. I personally found the fact sheet I have marked in green below, especially readable for a quick understanding... "On August 3, 2023, the Department of Justice published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to update the ...

RE: Educause Annual Conference 2023

Posted By Margaret Knox 09-29-2023 08:57:54 PM
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I received a question about other topics. Jeff's topic is short, and we will have open mic after that so attendees can ask questions, make comments, etc. See you soon! ----------------------- Marg(aret) Knox Mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director, Office of the CIO The University of Texas System 701 ...

RE: OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise

Posted By Margaret Knox 09-18-2023 02:58:51 PM
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Joshua, We made a pass at OpenAI just before they came out with enterprise in an attempt to get things like BAA covered. Our timing was bad, and we have not tried since then. I look ford to hearing if anyone has had success. ___________________________________________________________ Marg(aret) ...

RE: Health Metrics for Evaluating Academic Open Source

Posted By Margaret Knox 09-08-2023 11:23:08 AM
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Thanks Patrick! ----------------------- Marg(aret) Knox Mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director, Office of the CIO The University of Texas System 701 W 7th Austin, Tx 78701

RE: Educause ITPSM Virtual Community Meeting

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-28-2023 02:03:44 PM
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We just talked with EDUCAUSE because they were showing a Wednesday meeting for our face-to-face meeting on the agenda, but some email also showed it to be Tuesday. TUESDAY IS CORRECT. And they have updated the agenda to match it. Agenda | EDUCAUSE Events Sorry for the confusion. We wouldn't have ...

RE: Educause ITPSM Virtual Community Meeting

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-28-2023 08:12:09 AM
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Let me tag onto Brian's message to also say that our face to face meeting at the annual EDUCAUSE meeting (this year in Chicago) is: Tuesday, October 10th at 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM. The message did not include a room number yet, but as we roll down to the date, we will check. We hope to see you there! ...

RE: Question about reviewing technology acquisitions

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-22-2023 10:21:00 AM
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As a public institution in Texas, we are subject to a law called TX-RAMP which means we to use approved by the state (TX-RAMP certified) clouds (SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS). Regardless of cost. Education helps. But...We don't have a way of catching credit card items except in card audits. And free, well, even ...

RE: availability for Bing Chat Enterprise for Microsoft A3/A5 licensees

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-21-2023 02:32:15 PM
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Tina, we are unlikely to opt out but I am glad you mention that since I hope everyone notices that later in September, you HAVE to opt out to not have it. I don't think your data for this is necessarily in your tenant. It MIGHT be though. But I read that you can get to it via bing/chat (assuming you ...

availability for Bing Chat Enterprise for Microsoft A3/A5 licensees

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-21-2023 01:00:00 PM
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https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2023/08/announcing-bing-chat-enterprise-for-faculty-and-search-progress Note, does not include student benefit licensees currently. We have a query in to make sure the attestations apply during the preview period as they don't always apply in previews in ...

RE: Another update Friday to Zoom’s terms on Friday

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-14-2023 08:27:48 AM
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Matthew I am seeing a fair amount of spam saying xyz is a generative AI company . But a few of the ones that come to mind include Google, Salesforce, Epic (healthcare), Nuance's Daxe, Midjourney and its various competitors like Stable Diffusion, Adobe, Amazon, Facebook, x-ray etc. reading (various), ...

RE: Another update Friday to Zoom’s terms on Friday

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-12-2023 05:50:32 PM
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Johann, I and the group thank you for me so helpful! ----------------------- Marg(aret) Knox Mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director, Office of the CIO The University of Texas System 701 W 7th Austin, Tx 78701

Another update Friday to Zoom’s terms on Friday

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-12-2023 04:02:00 PM
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https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/ After reading the newest ones, it has a note about regulated industries like education and health that zoom directly contracts with, and for these the new terms don't apply. It seems to me that Zoom continues to try to be clearer. Good. But others seem ...

RE: Oracle Virtual Box Extension Pack

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-10-2023 09:09:59 PM
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Nick, I only have some generic thoughts, but every situation is different... If you have contacts into other arms of Oracle ( e.g., database or ERP), they may be able to assist intellectual property rights are important. And if a vendor has specific evidence under good legal cause ( versus fishing ...

RE: Oracle Virtual Box Extension Pack

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-09-2023 03:23:42 PM
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Love Mike's phrasing�� ___________________________________________________________ Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of Texas System Building The University of Texas System, 210 W 7th, Austin, Tx, 78701

RE: Zoom and AI

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-08-2023 02:55:23 PM
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Thank you, Johann, You continue to be so helpful as we dig thru this new era! Here in UT, we think our academic medical centers (which are universities under state law) ARE seeing the features. Although they likely have BAAs in place. I have not looked over their shoulders though to watch as they ...

AWS and Microsoft agree that A3/A5 licensed applications may be used on AWS' VDI...

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-08-2023 02:23:55 PM
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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/amazon-workspaces-microsoft-365-apps/ Here is the heart of the messaging, but see URL for additional info: Posted On: Aug 1, 2023 Today, AWS announced the availability of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Amazon WorkSpaces cloud-based virtual ...

RE: Google Bard

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-08-2023 01:08:04 PM
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Philip Very helpful post. In addition, Microsoft also has available Azure OpenAI, including for edu customers, but limited for now. See What is Azure OpenAI Service? - Azure AI services | Microsoft Learn It would fall under your CASA/EES plus their Responsible AI commitments you mentioned. But ...

RE: Zoom and AI

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-08-2023 12:48:50 PM
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Some colleagues at Yale (on a different list) have noted that Zoom has confirmed to them that if your institution has a BAA in place with Zoom, then Zoom's GenAI will not grab your data. Johann, can you confirm this? And we also, here, saw the following instructions come by for disabling BUT honestly, ...

RE: Zoom and AI

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-07-2023 01:01:01 PM
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Johann I can't make the tiny print larger, could you repost it larger? Also, you may want someone at Zoom who is on the CIO lost to respond there as well... ___________________________________________________________ Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office ...

RE: Zoom and AI

Posted By Margaret Knox 08-07-2023 12:39:56 PM
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Thanks Brian Johann (this time with BOTH "n"s) , can you address Brian's observation? ___________________________________________________________ Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of Texas System Building The University of Texas System, ...