Message From Leadership
Director Undergraduate Program: Dr. Radana Dvorak
Welcome to the summer term, week 3, and the new academic year! To our new STC students, I am extending a special greeting and invite you to join one (or more) of the exciting activities that we offer to help our students further their experiences at CityU.
In the Winter Term 2021 STC Thursday Byte, Dean Chung wrote about the importance of your capstone project and the need to start thinking about it as soon as you start taking your first courses at STC. I followed up on his theme writing about being strategic in planning your career, the importance of finding your passion, and using the capstone project to showcase your knowledge and interests in interviews. Often students ask me, “where do I find some ideas similar to my interest areas”? A great question! Here are several resources I have provided students over the years.
GitHub Computer Science Projects
Zooniverse – people-powered crowdsourcing research in almost every discipline you can think of – art, language, climate, biology, social science, etc.; there are hundreds of research initiatives currently underway. Perhaps you can develop a tool to help one of the projects you are interested in.
I leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain, “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Have an awesome summer quarter!
Events
Club Announcements
- STC Cybersecurity Club
- STC Tech Club
The STC Tech Club meet every Thursday from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PDT) via Teams: STC Tech Club Weekly Meeting – Summer Quarter. For students or faculty who would like to present, choose a date, and upload your presentation here.
Invited Talk: COL Scott Nelson
Cybersecurity and Information Warfare
The United States is engaged in the greatest global power competition in our history. Cyber is the global nervous system, which places many of our US institutions at risk. Successful competition requires a more dynamic, holistic view of information and cybersecurity and a close partnership between government, private industry, and academia. Learn what your role is to strengthen these partnerships.
When: Wednesday, August 11 4:00 PM PST
Career Tips
Questions YOU Ask in an Interview are Critical.
Hear the story how Joseph lost the job interview due to being poorly prepared with questions to ask during the interview. Don’t underestimate the importance of the questions you could easily have written down and brought in with your other important documents (resumes, cover letter).
This Week in Tech History July 19th – July 23rd
The Unholy Alliance is Born, July 22, 1980
Representatives from an IBM facility in Boca Raton, Florida, where a small group of engineers were secretly developing the IBM PC, meet with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft to discuss licensing software and an operating system for the still-developing PC. Not having an operating system to offer IBM, Microsoft will eventually buy the rights to QDOS/86-DOS from Seattle Computing Products, which they in-turn license to IBM as PC-DOS, and later license to PC clone makers as MS-DOS. This alliance between IBM and Microsoft forms one of the most dominant platforms in the history of computing, which goes on to crush nearly all other PC platforms in the 80’s and 90’s. Ironically this platform nearly crushes IBM itself as they lost control of the platform to PC clone makers and Microsoft.
Tech Humor
