Blogs
Full-time tenure-track position in Information Systems
Submitted by Verma Sameer on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 00:32This full-time tenure-track position involves graduate and undergraduate teaching and research in Information Systems, student advising, and university and community service.
CIO Scholarship for SFSU College of Business Information System Students
Submitted by 900005228 on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 17:05From:
Information Systems Department Scholarship Committee
Note: Submit application by November 5th, 2012.
Cloud business
Submitted by Verma Sameer on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 15:24I've been at the Ubuntu Developer Summit this whole week, and one of the most exciting things I walked away with is the cloud stuff.
Ubuntu's cloud orchestration is called Juju. This set of tools allows one to provsion various machines on a cloud provider such as Amazon's EC2 or a private cloud on something like OpenStack. One can provision services and expand very easily. A little too easily!
CIO Scholarship for SFSU College of Business Information System Students
Submitted by 900005228 on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 16:05The CIO Scholarship Fund Endowment in Information Systems has made $1000 available this spring for Information Systems undergraduates. Two scholarship awards will be made in Spring 2012 to students graduating in May 2012 to May 2013. The CIO Scholarship program will continue with each academic year. Applications should be submitted to the CoB Student Services Advising Center, BUS 112, by 5 p.m., March 30 th, 2012. The award is an honor that can be included in a resume.
The Commons Initiative at SF State
Submitted by Verma Sameer on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 14:08I've researched the development and use of Free and Open Source Software for several years now. I am also a frequent user of software and content available under Free and Open Source licenses and Creative Commons licenses.
Identity of information-related disciplines
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 14:04Mihaela Sabin is an Associate Professor at UNH Manchester, where she coordinates the Computer Information Systems Program. She has a neat blog post addressing the various flavors of information-related fields. From her post:
Memorandum of Understanding between SF State and One Laptop per Child
Submitted by Verma Sameer on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 17:00You've probably seen me toting a silly-looking green laptop around campus - the One Laptop per Child XO laptop. A fair bit of good work has come from our ongoing work with One Laptop per Child. To that end, I am pleased to write that San Francisco State University and One Laptop per Child Association have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on existing effort and future work.
SAP Integration in IS Courses
Submitted by Sayeed Lutfus on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 17:00Following three courses in Spring 2012 will extensively integrate SAP. The courses are ISYS 471 (E-Commerce), ISYS 569 (Business Process Management) and ISYS 663 (IS Project Management). SAP is widely used by Fortune 100 companies and excellent for your resume.
