Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
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Verizon CIO to be Honored
Judith Spitz, senior vice president and CIO for strategy and planning at Verizon, has been named this year's recipient of the Leadership and Service in Technology Award. The award, presented annually by the Seidenberg School to an outstanding leader in the IT community, will be conferred at a reception to be held at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc. headquarters in midtown on Thursday, June 21.
A highlight of the evening will be the keynote prentation made by Soledad O'Brien, anchor of the CNN morning show and special correspondent for CNN/U.S.
The Leadership and Service in Technology Award Reception is the school's primary fund-raiser. Proceeds provide scholarship support for students and underwrite key academic initiatives. This year's event is being co-chaired by Steve Caporale (BS '86), Howard Medow, and Larry Perlstein (BBA '80, MBA '93), all advisory board members.
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Pace University recently received a letter of notification indicating that it has been re-designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education for academic years 2012-2017 by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. The Center is housed in the Seidenberg School. Formal recognition of this renewal will occur at the 16th Annual Conference of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education to be held in Florida on June 11.
An article featuring the popular intergenerational computing program spearheaded by Seidenberg Professor Jean Coppola appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 20. A second related article was published in the “Tech News” section the following day.
Reference to the Pace Keynote Biometric System developed by Professor Charles Tappert's graduate research teams was recently cited in “Bypassing the Password” in The New York Times.
In the 1st quarter of 2012, the Manhattan IT job market rebounds and picks up in Westchester.
Faces of Seidenberg
The duo that created CANDOO did it again! Peter Franceschini (BS/CS) and John Robb (BA/Comm/Art) pitched their CANDOO mobile app concept to a panel of successful entrepreneurs at the Eighth Annual Pace Pitch Contest and came in 1st. Placing 1st comes with a $1,000 prize to be used as seed money to further develop their idea.
Thirty-two outstanding Seidenberg students were inducted into the New York Delta Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Honor Society at a ceremony held at the Graduate Center in White Plains on February 29. Professor Bel Raggad of the IT department gave a brief talk on “Artificial Intelligence in Information Assurance.”
For nearly 20 hours over a three-day period, nine committed Seidenberg students worked diligently to defend the small business network of a fictitious company under cyber attack at the 2012 Northeast Cyber Defense Competition.
