Information Technology and Web Science at RPI

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.