Information Technology and Web Science at RPI

Hello ITWS students/alumni! We just wanted to post the pictures that were taken at the GNH Career Fair event, prior to the Career Fair itself. Just looking at those shining young faces looking the other way!

Thank you to all of the students who came out to celebrate at the annual ITWS Picnic! Take a look below to see all of the shining and bright faces that came to the event!  

Welcome (back) to RPI our ITWS freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and advanced studies students! As you attend your classes this semester, participate in extracurricular activities, and look for opportunities on and off campus - remember to have fun and enjoy your first, intermediate, or final fall semester of your college life! In other important news: don't forget to join us at the annual ITWS picnic!!! There will be free food and people to converse with. We also typically have a tug-of-war somewhere in there for everyone to join in on, so come integrate yourself in the ITWS student body. The picnic will be located behind the Lally building, between it and the VCC, at 5pm on Tuesday, September 12, 2017. Be there (and be maybe not a square)!

If you want an opportunity to network, here's your chance! On April 27 @ 5pm-7:30pm, the Electronic City Innovation Center will be holding an open house to celebrate their acquisition by Jeff Goronkin and Susan Bardack 🎯. (for more infomation, visit their  Eventbrite Announcement )

Winning the David M. Darrin ’40 Counseling Award is our own Professor Plotka! And on the same night, our very own classmates were inducted into the Phalanx Honor Society! (from left to right): Linda Kramarchyk, Dan Bruce, Conrad Mossl, Rachel Blacker, Candice Poon, and Richard Plotka And while we're throwing pictures of honorary people at you, here's a look at some kids that might be your underclassmen next semester:

The ITWS program here at RPI was recently on CollegeChoice.net as the #1 choice for a Bachelor's Degree in Info Tech. Be proud of your new hats! But beware...

🎆 Congratulations to Justin and Kayla🎆 Everybody give a big round of applause for our own  Justin Etzine  and  Kayla Cinnamon , just elected the new Grand Marshal and Undergraduate President (respectively)!

ITWS Senior Hayley spent last semester studying abroad in Singapore.  Check out her video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gkwwBJNNB4

RPISEC takes 1st in the Department of Homeland Security Quiz — at CSAW - Cyber Security Awareness Week of NYU:POLY .

The ITWS program is hiring for two new Lecturer/Professor of Practice positions.  Please share this with anyone who might be interested in applying. https://careers.insidehighered.com/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute/lecturerprofessor-practice-information-technology-and-web-sciences/jobs/607064

Jun 18, 2014, 10:37am EDT Study says RPI offers best return on investment for upstate New York grads View Photos G. Scott Thomas Projects Editor- Business First Email  |  Twitter  |  Google+ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offers the strongest return on financial investment of any college in upstate New York. So says PayScale, a compensation-data firm headquartered in Seattle. PayScale released a report earlier this year on the earning potential of graduates from more than 1,000 U.S. coll...

Congratulations to Jason Kuruzovich for his Center for Economic Growth Technology Award! http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2014/06/25/center-for-economic-growth-honors-albany-tech.html

What has RPI alum Julian Connor been up to? Check out this video and article! http://www.therollinger.com/building-things-we-love-at-venmo

JOINT COLLOQUIUM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB SCIENCE (ITWS) AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (CSCI) Prof. Simson L. Garfinkel Naval Postgraduate School Arlington, Virginia Digital Forensics Innovation: Searching A Terabyte of Data in 10 minutes Most digital forensics tools follow a simple model of “visibility, filter and report” – the tool extracts all of the information on a subject’s disk drive, this information is filtered according to search terms, and finally a detailed report is created by a trained examiner. The problem with this model is that it cannot keep up with the growing amount of storage on desktops and in the cloud, the increasing diversity of data formats, or the growing perniciousness of malware. This talk presents a new approach that allows rapid triage of digital storage devices using random sampling, bulk data analysis, and the presence of distinct, recognizable sectors that are commonly found in user-generated documents, multimedia, and encrypted files. It...

Prof. Simson Garfinkel Naval Postgraduate School Arlington, Virginia   Digital Forensics Innovation: Searching A Terabyte of Data in 10 minutes Abstract:  Most digital forensics tools follow a simple model of “visibility, filter and report” – the tool extracts all of the information on a subject’s disk drive, this information is filtered according to search terms, and finally a detailed report is created by a trained examiner. The problem with this model is that it cannot keep up with the growing amount of storage on desktops and in the cloud, the increasing diversity of data formats, or the growing perniciousness of malware. This talk presents a new approach that allows rapid triage of digital storage devices using random sampling, bulk data analysis, and the presence of distinct, recognizable sectors that are commonly found in user-generated documents, multimedia, and encrypted files. It shows how a 30MB piece of video hidden on a 1TB hard drive can be found in l...

Campus Career Information Session Friday 10/4 at 2PM CII 3130 Would you like to have a high impact internship, coop or post grad opportunity? Square is a fast growing payments company looking for talented students for roles in software engineering, hardware engineering, analytics and design. Please join us  on Friday at 2PM  in CII 3130 to learn about Square and our career opportunities.

Join us next Wednesday October 9th from 6-8pm in the Russell Sage Dining Hall for the annual ITWS Alumni panel. Eight alumni will be joining us, including two video conferencing in from the west coast! Companies represented include Cisco, Boeing, Becton Dickinson, Deloitte, GE, WebMD, Tunigo and Gramercy Cardiac Diagnostics Services/RepReferrals.

Sean Austin, B.S. ITWS '11, has been working with music start-up Tunigo since August 2012 as US Marketing Director. In June, Spotify acquired the start-up with the goal of rolling the music discovery curators into their own operation. Spotify will be going up against Apple, Google, Pandora and soon-to-be-announced Beats Music for the go-to global music streaming service in the coming months. "As a Information Technology & Web Science student, I became fascinated with the acceleration of technology into all industries of society. As a passionate music lover and classically trained in piano, I wanted to merge the two loves since I was a sophomore. I worked on a start-up for several years while attending school which focused on mobile applications and had some success... outside the music domain though. A year ago, I had the opportunity to spin-off my own start-up that focused solely on music in the interactive mobile app space. The investment money had me quickly off down ...

Bill Wales, IT Alumnus class of 2004, and former president of GNH, recently published an article entitled “In Pursuit of Greatness: CEONarcissism, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Firm Performance Variance” in the Journal of Management Studies, as quoted on Today.com . Bill, now a professor of management at James Madison University , has been studying corporate entrepreneurship for several years and recently linked narcissistic CEOs to an increase in firm entrepreneurial behavior. With greater narcissism, individuals tend to have increasingly inflated, commonly unrealistic, views of their own self-importance. Yet, these self-perceptions are generally fragile, and maintaining them demands continuous external self-affirmation from others. In organizational leadership roles, narcissists are therefore concerned with actions that draw attention to themselves, inspire awe and adoration among followers, and have the possibility of leaving behind an admirable legacy of achievement. The r...

ITWS Alumni Lindsay Poirier (Class of 2013)  traveled to Africa to test software that used indigenous culture to teach mathematical concepts. She's pursuing her Ph.D. at Rensselaer and continuing her research on Africa, focusing on the critical issues involved with moving Africa into the Information Age.