2008 IT innovation winners announced
Date: 2008-07-21
Contact: Yvonne Tevis
Phone: (510) 987-0638
Email: yvonne.tevis@ucop.edu
University of California acting Associate Vice President for Information Resources and Communications Paul Weiss announced the winners of the 2008 Larry L. Sautter Award Program today (July 21) at the UC Computing Services Conference in Santa Barbara.

Five awards and five honorable mentions were presented. The 2008 winners are as follows:

Golden Awards for Innovation in Information Technology
• Calendar Network (UC Berkeley)
• Effort Reporting System (UC Office of the President)
• Epilepsy Phenome Genome Project: Innovation in Clinical Study Informatics (UC San Francisco)

Silver Awards for Achievement in University Computing
• Academic Personnel eFile System (UC Riverside)
• California Digital Newspaper Collection (UC Riverside)

Honorable Mentions
• Conflict of Commitment Reporting System (UC Riverside)
• Emergency Notification System (UC Riverside)
• Graduate Application Review System (UC Davis)
• My Travel and Entertainment (UC Davis)
• Permitless Parking (UC Irvine)

Project descriptions are posted on the Sautter Award Program Web site at http://www.ucop.edu/irc/itlc/sautter.

The award program is sponsored by the UC Information Technology Leadership Council and recognizes innovations in IT that advance the university's mission of teaching, research, public service and patient care, or that improve the effectiveness of business or administrative processes. To be eligible for an award, projects must be operational at a UC campus. Because a goal of the program is to encourage the sharing of innovative solutions across the university, all project applications are posted on the program Web site after the awards announcement.