Tuesday, May 13, 2008
News & Announcements More News...
As the Spring 2008 semester reaches its end, a popular prank fad was rapidly spreading through the Department. The prank is called "Rickrolling," where an unsuspecting Internet user clicks on a link for something of interest only to be redirected to a music video of the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". More...
Fall 2008 Special Topics Course : CSC 9010-002
SAFEWARE: Computers and System Safety
Posted: 2008/5/2
Study of Computers and System Safety. Beginning with the study of a set of sobering, but highly instructive, technological disasters which illustrate the importance of taking a systems approach to safety. More...
Fall 2008 Special Topics Course : CSC 9010-001 & CSC 5930-101
Search Technologies and Personal Information Management
Posted: 2008/5/2
This is a somewhat split topic, but not an unreasonable combination. We do a lot of searching. An immense amount of information is available to us. We find it and then we have to do something with it. This special topic course will address both sides of the information challenge. More...
The department's web team of AJ Palkovic, Casey Burkhardt, and Tarun Kothuri rolled out a new version of the department web site. Although it looks similar to the previous site, which was Java based, it has been completely rewritten using Ruby on Rails (ROR). That means that besides the changes to the infrastructure of the site, all the behind the scenes applications were also recoded. More...
On April 18, 2008, the Upsilon Pi Epsilon chapter of Villanova University inducted ten Computer Science students (five undergraduates and five graduates) into the national honor society in computing sciences. The featured speaker of the evening was Kory Kirk, who shared with his peers his remarkable thoughts on open source software. The ceremony concluded with a small reception. More...
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Message From the Chair
What makes computing the hot major?
According to Money Magazine and a
salary.com survey, software engineering
is at the top of the list of "best jobs". Furthermore,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics lists five computing
jobs (systems software engineer, applications software engineer,
systems analyst, database administrator, network analyst) among
its ten top salary jobs and includes computing in its list
of the fastest growing areas of projected opportunity for the next
10 years. For more information see the notes available from our
menu under Prospective Students.
April 11, 2008
Recent Opportunities More Opportunities...
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We are seeking college interns for paid positions during Summer, 2008 and / or Fall, 2008 in Norristown, PA. What You Will Be More...
We are seeking enthusiastic math and computer science instructors and teaching assistants to instruct in our summer programs More...
Drexel Management Services Inc. has an immediate opening for someone with computer knowledge. We are a growing Consulting More...
Direct Group is looking for an Application Programmer and the student should have experience in programming VB.net and More...