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Start and End Your Day with Innovation!

The CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD) is pleased
to announce our fall NSF Partnerships for Innovation-sponsored
faculty-industry events series. These events are free of charge, and are
open to members of the NYC-area software industry and to CUNY faculty.
Space is limited. Please RSVP as soon as possible to
Colleen.Gibney@...

Breakfast Events:
Friday, 10/28, 8:30 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Computer Security Group
Information Assurance Research Panel

Information Assurance is defined by the U.S. Intelligence Community as
encompassing information operations that protect and defend information
and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity,
authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This includes
providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating
protection, detection, and reaction capabilities. This panel will
introduce participants to information assurance research areas of
expertise at CUNY and also at Polytechnic University. Location: CISDD, 101
W. 31st Street, 7th Floor

Moderator: Kent D. Boklan, Queens College
Panelists: Nancy Griffeth, Lehman College
Bilal Khan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University

Friday, 11/4, 8:30 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Gaming Technology Group
Gaming Technology and Education Panel

Video gaming technology is emerging as a powerful tool for students to
gain expertise in academic subjects as well as to spark interest in the
science and art behind the creation of games. Our panel will seek to
explore new developments in the changing role of this technology for
educational settings. Location: CISDD, 101 W. 31st Street, 7th Floor

Moderator: Lori Scarlatos, Brooklyn College
Panelists: Steve Ausbury, BC Community Partnership
Mary Flanagan, Hunter College
Robert Clegg, Tabula Digita


Friday, 11/18, 8:30 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Software Engineering Group
University-Industry Technology Collaboration

University-industry collaboration can lead to terrific opportunities for
the funding of innovative research and product development projects. David
Hochman, a consultant in technology-based economic development in the
Technology Partnership Practice at Battelle Memorial Institute will be
with us to discuss how these collaborations can be architected
successfully. Location: CISDD, 101 W. 31st Street, 7th Floor

Speaker: David Hochman, Battelle Memorial Institute


Friday, 12/2, 8:30 A.M.-10:00 A.M.
Software Engineering Group
The Software Lifecycle: An IBM RUP Perspective
Our speaker, Murray Cantor is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the
Principal Engineer of Worldwide Services Rational Software, IBM Software
Group. Dr. Cantor is the lead architect of RUP SE, the extension of the
Rational Unified Process for system and enterprise engineering. He is also
the author of two books: Object-Oriented Project Management with UML,
published by John Wiley in 1998, and Software Leadership, published by
Addison-Wesley in October, 2001. Murray is currently collaborating on a
program to extend Black-Scholes financial calculus methods to development
effort estimation and governance.
Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue

Speaker: Murray Cantor, IBM


Evening Events:
Wednesday, 11/30, 6:30-8:00 P.M.
Computer Security Group
E-Commerce Security Hot Topics

Rapidly-shifting best practices for e-commerce security can prove daunting
for even the most high-technology businesses selling over the web.
E-Commerce Security encompasses authenticating the people accessing your
system, controlling access to resources such as web pages for registered
users, encrypting communications, and, in general, ensuring the privacy
and effectiveness of transactions. Our panel will discuss hot topics in
this crucial arena.
Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue

Moderator: Karl Lang, Baruch College
Panelists: Gary Morse, RazorPoint
Samuel Graff, John Jay
TBD


Wednesday, 12/7, 6:30-8:00 P.M.
Imaging and Visualization Group
Imaging and Visualization Research at CUNY

This past spring, CUNY imaging and visualization researchers came together
for a mini-conference on bridging the gap between university research and
business applications. At this follow-up event, we will learn how the
research introduced last spring is progressing in several cutting-edge
projects.
Location: Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue

Moderator: Moderator 1
Panelists: Zhigang Zhu
(Panel not yet finalized)

Wednesday, 12/14, 6:30-8:00 P.M.
Gaming Technology Group
Locative Media Technology Panel

This event is centered in technology solutions that support locative
media. Locative media relates to location and time, mobility,
collaborative mapping, and emergent forms of social networking, including
game applications. As hardware and networks are upgraded to enable more
robust forms of wireless communication, locative media technologies might
well provide the next big frontier for social networking applications.
Location: Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue

Moderator: TBD
Panelists: Dan Melinger (or Michael Sharon) Kamida Socialight
Steve Bull, Cutlass
TBD

Richard Kuper

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