Cal Poly Pomona CIS

The High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) is hosting a student poster presentation at their annual conference August 29th to the 31st in Summerlin, Nevada. We invite full-time undergraduate and graduate students to submit poster presentations on research and work in the field of cyber security, information assurance, eDiscovery and computer forensics. For the first 10 students whose poster presentation is accepted, they will receive FREE conference registration for all 3 days (a $425 value). In addition, research posters are eligible for a $500 award. Students are responsible for the cost of travel and accommodations. HTCIA International Conference 2016 is a great opportunity for students to connect with cyber security and computer forensics professionals from around the world. For more information on the HTCIA International Conference, please visit http://www.htciaconference.org/

Home - HTCIA 2016 Conference Bringing together experts from all over the world to share their latest research and techniquesrelated to cybersecurity, Incident Response and Computer Forensics.

Huge congratulations to SWIFT student club winning the "Most Innovative" award, FAST student club winning the "Learn by Doing" award, and Dr. Zhang winning the "CIS Faculty of the Year" award at the College of Business Administration Recognition Night by UBSS!

A group of Cal Poly Pomona (including CIS) students qualified for the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) Western Regionals after finishing second the past Saturday. Congrats! http://www.cpp.edu/~cba/news-events/news/ccdc-qual.shtml

Hi everyone, three departmental scholarships are now open for application! The deadline is Apr. 4, 2016. Apply and/or spread the word!

Wagner scholarship
https://csupomona.academicworks.com/opportunities/6039

CIS Academic Scholarship
https://csupomona.academicworks.com/opportunities/6757

CIS Leadership Scholarship
https://csupomona.academicworks.com/opportunities/6760

Scholarships - CSU Pomona - CBA - CIS -Computer Information System Leadership Scholarship The Computer Information System (CIS) Leadership Scholarship awards CIS undergraduate students who demonstrate outstanding leadership in school-related activities while serving the CIS Department. A minimum cumulative Cal Poly Pomona GPA of 3.0 is required. Applicants need to submit two reference le…

Happy New Year!

Congrats to these CIS students and their mentors presenting at Southern California Conferences for Undergrad Research (SCCUR). They are Nancy Dam and Nandita Chauhan (CS): Free and Low Cost Textbooks for California Higher Education" with their mentor Dr. Ruth Guthrie; Ashish Hingle: "The evolution of News and Media Website" with his mentor Dr. Sonya Zhang; and Jae Jung: "The impact of Culture Behavior and Cognition Style on Web Usability" with his mentor Dr Jae Min Jung.

Farewell Fiesta lunch for College of Business Dean Richard Lapidus. Sad to see him go but thank you and congrats to his new appointment as president of Fitchburg State University.

CIS 299 Internet Startup welcomed two guest speakers in class yesterday, also Cal Poly's "Professor for a day" Day:

Andrew Macintosh, founder of Poly Founders, currently Acquisition Marketing at Electronic Arts in Bay area, presented "human startup" - the concept revolves around treating yourself as a startup, finding ways to solve your own problems, and creating value.

Ben Junya, Android/iOS and Front End Web Developer, currently Front End Web Developer at Beachbody in LA, presented multiple tech startup issues - MVP, What's it like working in tech, and Finding Technical Experts.

Hey hang on there, it's almost summer! And don't miss these upcoming CIS student club events!
IWDSA: Introduction to Backend Development 5-6pm May 19th Room 163-2004
IWDSA: Introduction to Cordova Apache Platform 5-6pm May 21 Room 163-2004
SWIFT: InstallFest - install and configure a variety of Linux distributions, including Arch, Debian, and Gentoo.
And finally, CIS interclub Alumni Banquet 7-10pm June 5th Kellogg West

Dr. Sonya Zhang, CIS professor, presented her research in Internet Entrepreneurship Education at the 2015 IEEE ITNG conference this week.

Hey! There are still spaces left for the ITC Business Systems Analysis and Telecom categories! The first place team wins $1,000, 2nd place wins $800, and 3rd place wins $500. The deadline for the IT Competition is March 27th. See http://www.calpolymissa.org/itc for more information.

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Ashish Hingle, CIS and Kellogg Honor student, presented his research in content delivering website analysis at the 3rd Annual Student Research Conference today. He and faculty advisor Dr. Sonya Zhang looked into how websites like CNN.com have changed in the past decade, specially in content, marketing and monetization. This research study gets initiated thanks to the CIS Wagner fund.