College of IS&T News

IS&T Minds and Muscles Flexed at Annual Brains and Brawn Competition

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Many IS&T students competed last Friday in PKI's annual Brains and Brawn competition, which required both mind and muscle in contests such as a game-show ...

Doctored Up

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Information Technology Ph.D. program attracts students from top universities in the world

UP interns put on fast track

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Part of PKI Career Resource Center's intern program As a sophomore studying computer science and computer engineering at the Peter Kiewit Institute, Luke Christiansen was considering ...

WISE Women Draws College-bound Girls to PKI

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Women can be wise at any age.

UNO Student Selected for NASA Internship

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Omaha - NASA has selected UNO student Ross Bell for a prestigious undergraduate research internship focused on air traffic control. Bell is the first UNO ...

Gallup internship program bearing fruit

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One month after the Gallup Organization opened its impressive riverfront university campus in Omaha, Chief Information Officer Philip Ruhlman got a visit from Dr. Gerald ...

Summer Smiles

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Computer programming, Web design, learning Macromedia Flash MX and building LEGO robots all translated into fun this summer for the 80 middle school and high school ...

New degree offered in Information Assurance

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A new undergraduate degree in information assurance continues to expand the opportunities available at the College of Information Science & Technology. Information assurance (IA) is an ...

Tech Help Wanted: Students Need Apply

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Some of Omaha's largest employers say they have information technology jobs and internships available but not enough qualified people to fill them.

Going global

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Trip to India an 'Unforgettable experience' for faculty, students

Future is now for UNO Institute for Collaboration Science

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In his keynote address to the Interop business technology conference in May, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers told the audience, "Group innovation and collaboration . ...

M�rten Mickos, CEO of MySQL Presents: "The Future of Open Source"

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You are cordially invited to a conversation with Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB on Monday April 2nd, 2007 from 1:00pm-2:45pm in University ...

UNO/UNL Students and Faculty to Visit India over Spring Break

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"India - Where culture echoes, traditions speak, beauty enthralls and diversity delights"

Building Bridges

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Matt Virus was 16 years old when his parents bought him a graphing calculator. After he hooked the calculator up ...

Serving time

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When computer science major Andy Behne enrolled in a service-learning course to teach inmates at the Douglas County Corrections Center ...

Big dreams, microenterprises

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Eight north Omaha microenterprises benefited during the fall semester from a service-learning course taught by Professors Peter Wolcott and ...

IS&T Grad Encourages Other Latinos to Pursue IT Degrees

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Elisa Varela says the degree she earned from the College of Information Science and Technology (IS&T) at the University of Nebraska's Peter Kiewit Institute has ...

Living his dream

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The dream of a young boy in India to become an engineer and scholar has led Deepak Khazanchi to UNO's College of Information Science&Technology, where ...

Packing a Punch

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When Ann Fruhling, Ph.D., assistant professor of information systems at the College of IS&T, initially envisioned the project, she ...

Sailing with Admiral Fruhling

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Ann Fruhling, Ph.D., has considerable experience as an instructor and in the corporate world, and she has applied ...

Dean's Door Still Open

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Dr. Hesham Ali, new dean of UNO's College of Information Science & Technology (IS&T), says he will continue to welcome ...

Student profile: Tony Valenti Imagining the possibilities

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Tony Valenti is the founder and chief architect of four technology companies, one of which ...

Journey to Freedom

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Farida Majid, academic advisor at UNO's College of Information Science&Technology (IS&T), knows that higher education can lead to more ...

Professor Peter Wolcott: Demanding Excellence

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Associate Professor Peter Wolcott teaches classes that are a very real reflection of his own personality.

Indian Institute Students Take in Global Focus at UNO Workshop

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Describing it as an opportunity of a lifetime, 50 MBA students and 10 faculty members and administrators from the Indian ...

Fostering diversity with a handshake

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Reaching out each year to shake the hands of hundreds of young students, including many women and ...

Bots are Hot

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In his workshop at the Peter Kiewit Institute, computer science graduate Christopher Williams taps away at the keyboard of ...

Professor Victor Winter: In for the Long Haul

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Back when Victor Winter was a college student playing piano in a rock band ...

Outthinking The Bad Guys Part of the Job at NUCIA

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Company A suspects Company B of hacking its computers and spying on its internal activities. Accordingly, Company A ...

Making connections for a 'Wireless Omaha'

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Imagine a free, secure, city-wide wireless infrastructure that would allow you to use your PDA to ...

IT doctoral program garners national attention

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Halbana Tarmizi says he didn't want either/or. He wanted both.

Hand in Hand

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Tu Nguyen faced a unique problem that required an innovative solution. His parents own the Saigon restaurant in west ...

'Scary Smart' Students Pass the Grade During Paper's Security Audit

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When the Omaha World-Herald newspaper needed to audit the security of its wireless computer connection between two offices in western ...

IS&T interns excel at Omaha software firm

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Seven years ago, when it was suggested that the principals at Baldwin Hackett & Meeks ...

Students of 'Attic' preserve historic event on Web

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The Attic, a group of UNO College of Information Science & Technology students who ...

Journal collaboration opens international doors to students

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Innovations in technology are changing lives around the globe. In Ecuador, Brazil and Peru, the ...

IS&T Students Learn While Serving Omaha Community

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James Peters knows the value of the work he, Piyush Shah and other students at the College of Information ...

Fulkerson finds his dreams in the classroom

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About 10 years ago, Robert Fulkerson was working at a telecommunications company when some friends ...

IS&T interns, Gallup partner on high-tech visualization lab

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A high-tech visualization lab on the Gallup University riverfront campus teams UNO student interns ...

Article Ranks at Top of Journal's Most-Downloaded List

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An article by Dr. Peter Wolcott of the Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis (ISQA) of the College of Information Science & Technology ranks ...

AIM Institute Names UNO Student Intern of the Year

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Mark Nyugen, a junior in computer science studying at University of Nebraska's Peter Kiewit Institute, was named College Intern of the Year by the AIM ...

AMCIS conference held at Qwest

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More than 1,050 participants from 400 universities and 40 countries met at Qwest Center Omaha in August for the 11th annual Americas Conference on Information ...

IS&T: Great Ideas, Great Students, Great College

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Great ideas and great students need the proper environment in order to take root and grow. Since 1996, the ...

College of IS&T Timeline

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1996 - College of Information Science and Technology established, combining three existing units: Computer Science, Information Systems and ...

Software Design, Development Focus of One Innovation Place

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Students eager to design and develop remarkable software have a home at the College ...

Student teams bring real solutions to real-world problems

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Four real companies, four different problems:

An auto service station records transactions with an outdated, ...