Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
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FIRST Tech Challenge 2012 is coming up
If you would like to spend an exciting Sunday afternoon viewing friendly team collaboration and spirited competition, plan to attend the Third Annual Hudson Valley FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) to be held in the Goldstein Fitness Center on the Pleasantville campus, Sunday, January 29.
Once again, the Seidenberg School will host this all-day, heart-stopping robotics tournament for high school students from the Hudson Valley region. Thirty-six teams, from as close as Pleasantville and as far away as Buffalo, will compete for prizes in a variety of categories and for the privilege of competing in the World Championship in St. Louis in late April.
Participating teams are required to build and program their own robots to meet the challenges set out in a game that changes each year. This year’s challenge is Bowled Over!
Don’t miss out on the fun! The event is free and open to the public. Children, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews are all welcome.
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In The News
Seidenberg's online BS in Professional Technology Studies: Telecommunications offered through the NACTEL program was named to the first-ever honor roll of top online bachelor's degrees compiled by U.S. News and World Report.
Professor Jean Coppola's Inter-
generational Computing course was recently featured in a discussion on "ushering older adults into the digital age" on NPR's All Things Considered while coverage of a "class graduation" for more than a dozen seniors at the Hallmark Residence in Battery Park City appeared in The Tribeca Trib.
Professor Darren Hayes continues to be cited in a wide range of publications on computer security and forensics issues including Internet Evolution on suspected bugging of computers made in China and sent to the U.S., Forensics Magazine on the handling of mobile devices as forensic evidence, and TechNewsWorld on privacy and Google's new "Search Plus Your World."
During the 3rd quarter of 2011, the Manhattan IT Job Market dropped slightly while seeing a marginal increase in Westchester.
Faces of Seidenberg
In addition to his many accomplishments recently featured in Seidenberg Refresh and The Journal News, John "Vinnie" Monaco received Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition. The competition identifies undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding potential in an area of computing research.
Valerie Cayo (BS/CS ’15) and Julie Gil (BS/CS ’12), both Seidenberg Scholars, attended this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference titled “What If . . .?” along with Constance Knapp, interim dean. The celebration, which took place in Portland, Oregon in early November, highlighted the accomplishments of women in technology.
In appreciation of the mentoring that Pace students in Professor James Lawler’s CIS 102W service learning course do with developmentally and intellectually challenged clients of AHRC NYC, the organization established the Melissa Riggio Higher Education Program Scholarship.
This award of $1,000 was given to Nadezhda "Hope" Goldfard, a Dyson psychology major, for her ongoing efforts on behalf of individuals affiliated with AHRC.
