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College of IST announces Data Sciences Research Seminar Series

9/28/18

The College of Information Sciences and Technology will welcome leading data sciences faculty and scholars to share their research through a new research seminar series. Talks will be held on Tuesdays from 12-1 p.m. on the University Park campus, and all events are free and open to the public.

Frank Ritter earns Life Time Achievement Award at SBP-BRiMS conference

9/27/18

Frank Ritter, professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, was presented with the Life Time Achievement Award at the 2018 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, held July 10-13 in Washington, D.C.

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Microbiome Center to host networking event Oct. 2

9/26/18

Those interested in learning about or participating in microbiome research at Penn State are invited to attend a networking event sponsored by the University's Microbiome Research Center.

Mason Sosnoski

IST student SURGEs ahead in internship

9/25/18

College of Information Sciences and Technology junior Mason Sosnoski has always been a leader. But through his summer internship at SURGE Business Development, he reached new heights. In addition to his day-to-day internship responsibilities for the State College-based business incubator, he served as lead intern, overseeing 22 of his peers.

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Penn State SBDC to host cybersecurity workshop for small businesses

9/24/18

The Penn State Small Business Development Center will offer Cybersecurity for Small Businesses from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 18 at the Penn State SBDC, Suite 243, 200 Innovation Boulevard in State College. An array of speakers will present new and emerging threats to small businesses.

Alessandro Fanfarillo

NCAR software engineer to discuss exascale computing, message passing interface

9/21/18

Alessandro Fanfarillo, a senior software engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, will present “Getting ready for exascale computing: New features of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), challenges and opportunities" from 2 to 3 p.m. Oct. 15 in W375 Westgate Building. The event is sponsored by the Institute for CyberScience, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology.

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Putting answers to the test

9/17/18

Teachers, rejoice. A team of Penn State researchers has developed a way to make multiple-choice exam questions easier for instructors to create, yet more intellectually challenging for test-takers. Utilizing machine-learning ranking models, the researchers have proposed a method that automatically generates "distractors," which are the alternative options used to distract students from the correct answer in a multiple choice question.

Seed grants to support opioid research announced

9/13/18

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic.

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Parallel computing boot camp: hundreds learn together, miles apart

9/10/18

Once a year students, faculty and staff around the country log in on their computers for the four-day XSEDE Summer Boot Camp. Attendees gather together on their respective campuses to learn about parallel programming for conducting research more efficiently on supercomputers while also testing their computing skills.

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IST junior spends two summers at IBM Research, files patent for prediction tool

9/7/18

Yuya Ong, a junior in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, feels fortunate to be at the forefront of the rapidly-growing data sciences field. “Every day when I wake up, I realize that there are new opportunities out there and new problems to be solved,” he said. “Waking up to that is really exciting.”

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