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Vinton G. Cerf

'Internet Pioneer' to deliver IST commencement address

4/19/18

Vinton G. Cerf, widely known as one of the "fathers of the internet" and current vice president and chief internet evangelist at Google, will serve as the keynote speaker at the spring commencement ceremony for the College of Information Sciences and Technology on Saturday, May 5.

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Erickson Discovery Grant showcases partnership between Education, IST

4/19/18

Seth Wilcox, a secondary education major with a passion for computer programming, was recently awarded a 2018 Erickson Discovery Grant. The grant will allow him to partner with a researcher in the College of Information Sciences and Technology to explore how artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing can be used to extract keyphrases from scientific publications.

Penn State gives voice to youth through social science research

4/9/18

Penn State undergraduate students, State College Area High School students, and youth from the Philadelphia Chapter of HOPE Worldwide/Saturday Academy will come together for the first Penn State Youth as Researchers Exposition on Friday, April 13, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Ruth Pike Auditorium, Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park campus.

HemoGo team members at Startup Week

Interdisciplinary teams pitch digital solutions in IdeaMakers Challenge

4/9/18

Six student teams recently pitched their ideas that provided a digital solution to a problem during the IdeaMakers Challenge. The semester-long challenge was won by HemoGo, a team that offered a more convenient way to test chronically ill patients' blood through a smartphone app.

Students at Penn State Startup Week reception

Student innovators celebrated at Penn State Startup Week reception

4/9/18

Student entrepreneurs showcased their ideas and were recognized by Penn State leaders at a recent reception during Penn State Startup Week. The students were members of winning teams who participated in entrepreneurship challenges across the University in the past year.

Gang Tan

Institute for CyberScience co-hire hunts security flaws in software

4/5/18

Gang Tan, an associate professor for the department of computer science and engineering and an Institute for CyberScience (ICS) co-hire, spends his time researching software issues within systems such as web browsers, web servers, and operating systems that can compromise user security.

Causal discovery is topic of seminar on April 10

4/5/18

Vasant Honavar, professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, will present "Causal Discovery from Observational and Experimental Data" at the next Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Recent Topics in Research Methods Seminar Series on April 10.

Morehshin Allahyari

Iranian artist Morehshin Allahyari to discuss technology and art

4/2/18

Contemporary artist and activist Morehshin Allahyari will explore political, social and cultural contradictions in a lecture titled “On Digital Colonialism and Monstrosity” at 10 a.m. on April 6 in the Paterno Library's Foster Auditorium on the University Park campus.

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Students ready for third consecutive National Cyber Analyst Challenge finals

4/2/18

A team of students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology will compete in the National Cyber Analyst Challenge in Philadelphia on April 12-13. The challenge tasks undergraduate teams with analyzing a cyberattack on a fictitious company and presenting findings over three unique phases.

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