The Expanding Impact of It in Job Creation

THE EXPANDING IMPACT OF IT IN JOB CREATION

Dr. Roger L. Norton, Dean

September 21, 2011

Goldmann Sachs

Managing Partner

Managing Director of Technology

Vice President of Network Architecture

IBM

General Manager

9 Vice Presidents

6 Directors

Morgan Stanley

Vice President, Global Head of Windows Virtualization

and Remote Computing Engineering

EMC

Executive Vice President

CTO

Director of West Coast Research

iSpace

President

CEO

CFO

School of Computer Science & Mathematics

Computer Science

Information Technology & Systems

Preparing students to develop and implement software

systems

Improving the Performance of People in Organizations through

the use of Information Technology

Preparing students to design, implement and manage the

technological resources needed to support Internet and

Intranet installations.

Goals of the Programs 1. Prepare students for employment in a technology field or for graduate study in a

technology field.

2. Provide students with both theoretical knowledge and skills-based proficiencies in the five core technology competencies: programming, hardware, data communications, data management, and systems/software analysis and design.

3. Provide students with fundamental knowledge of business administration and management so that graduates will be able to work effectively within businesses and other organizations.

4. Develop interpersonal skills for working effectively on teams.

5. Develop effective written and oral communication skills.

6. Educate students about the behavioral, social, and ethical aspects of technology.

Operations & Process Management-12 credits

Info Tech & Systems Concepts

Data Communication Internetworking



Systems and Software- 9 credits


Introduction to Programming

Arch. Of Hardware & Software

Facilities Management- 6 credits


Introduction to Facilities

Networking-9 credits

Managing IT Organizations

System Design & Analysis

Project Management

Security-9 credits

System Administration & Management

Internet Security

Product Development & Financial Planning-9 credits


Accounting for the Data Center

Project Management

Successful Completion of all six certificates leads to 7th Certificate as a Certified Data Center Professional

Advanced Facilities Management 12 weeks/non-credit

The Greening of the Data Center 10 weeks/non-credit

Enterprise UNIX Systems Education

AIX on Power Certificate

Introduction to AIX on Power

Fundamentals of AIX Administration

Emerging Technologies

High Availability Storage Networking

HAS Networking I HAS Storage Networking II

Dynamic Infrastructure

Dynamic Infrastructure- in theory and practice

Virtualization

Business Intelligence

Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

Business Intelligence

z/OS Certificate Program Overview

z/OS Intro Basic COBOL Adv. COBOL

z/OS Intro Basic Assem. Adv. Assem.

System Programming Track

Application Programming Track

z/OS Intro IMS Fund. IMS Appl. Prog

z/OS Intro DB2 Fund. DB2 Appl. Prog

COBOL Certificate

Assembler Certificate

IMS Certificate

DB2 Certificate

z/OS Intro z/OS Network.

z/OS Security z/OS Adv. Topics

z/OS RAS & PD

z/OS Emerg. Tech

Perf. Fund. z/OS Install DB2 Fund.

Associate Certificate Professional Certificate Expert Certificate

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Countries Represented

• Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Switzerland

• Germany

• Canada

• India

• Spain

• South Africa

• China

• Saudi Arabia

• Czech Republic

• Sri Lanka

• England

• Portugal

• Poland

• Holland

• Denmark

School of Computer Science & Mathematics

Internships:

IBM Morgan Stanley Goldman Sachs CitiBank Intel Boerhinger Ingelheim St. Paul’s Travelers GE Research News America Beckton Dickenson Progressive Insurance USAA Cooperstown BHOF HSBC Bank Marvel Comics NightWolf Sandia National Lab. UBS American Red Cross Microsoft Intel Apple Liberty Mutual Google ….

NSF STEM Scholarship Grant

Marist received a five-year NSF award of $550,000 to:

• Establish a CS and IT/IS Cohort Scholarship Program

• Increase the number and diversity of students in CS/ITS majors

• Fund full scholarships (including room and board) to a cohort of 12 academically-talented, ethnically diverse, financially-disadvantaged students who entered Marist in Fall 2010

• Each student in cohort received:

Special summer orientation

State-of-the-art PC laptop

Two-semester course in game development and design

Internship and applied research opportunities

• Students have received special tutoring, individual counseling, special advisement, and special group outings

• They will receive industry mentoring, career placement services in the future

Scholarship Opportunity increased applications to Computer Science and Information Technology by 80% for Fall 2010 over Fall 2009.

To maintain the growth in CS and IT/IS applications, Marist offered 4 full Technology Scholarships for Fall 2011 without NSF funding.

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http://www.nsf.gov/index.jsp

NSF ARI Grant

Marist received an NSF award of $690K to:

• Replace the CS and IT/IS lab in Lowell Thomas building with an expanded

CS, ITS, and Mathematics Research and Research Training laboratory in the Hancock Center

• Grant covers the cost of fixed assets

• Grand funding started in July 2010

• Increases the floor space in the new lab

• Improves access to the new lab for all students and for handicapped students

• Improves power and air conditioning

• Improves UPS capability

• Provides Network redundancy to Donnelly Data Center

• Reserved floor space for expansion in future

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NSF MRI Grant Proposal

Marist received an NSF for a $680K MRI (major research instrumentation) grant to:

• Add an enterprise computing system to the new research lab

z/10 or z/Enterprise processor

Storage devices

Network equipment

• To be used for research, applied research, and research training for

Marist Faculty

Faculty from other universities

Undergraduate and Graduate students

Applied research projects with industry partners

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NSF CE-21 Grant Proposal

Marist applied to NSF for a $1.6M CE-21 (Computing Education for the 21st Century) grant to: • Support NSF goal to create a new AP course in Computer Principles • Develop a new online course that introduces computing principles early in the

High School curriculum • Develop an online graduate course to train High School teachers to teach the

new AP course • Offer both courses for Marist credit to 300 teachers and 300 students at no cost • Partnering with:

− University of Arkansas − Illinois State University − North Carolina A & T State University − Widener University

Application was submitted to NSF on April 26


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IBM and Marist College Joint Studies

IBM

Gets •Collaborative

Research Projects

•Tools, S/W, Libraries

•Conference

presentations, demos,

Workshops, courseware

•Recruit top talent

•Direct Sales

•Sales Enablement –

Briefings/Reference Acct

•Identify

Intellectual

Property(IP) and/or

Joint Development

Agreement(JDA)

opportunities

Product

Ecosystem

Talent Pool

Sales

IP/JDA

A win-win alliance between Marist College, IBM, and Industry and/or

Government Partners

•SUR Grants

•Faculty Awards

Industry and/or Government

Partners

Cisco, rSmart, NYSTAR and Marist CCODC, Brocade,

NSF, SGHE, Sakai Community, Juniper

•IBM Internships

•Full-time hire – Many

Marist grads at IBM

•Access to IBM

hardware/software

and provides access

to many other

schools (z and p)

•Collaborative Research

Projects –Sakai

•Cutting edge technologies –

Cloud Computing

•Areas of mutual interest

Recruitment

Hardware

Research

Funding

(in-kind/cash) Marist

Gets

Key Focus Areas

Education for a Smarter Planet/Smarter

Classrooms

•Open source systems (Sakai enabled on IBM

HW/SW, Integration w/existing ERP systems)

•Cloud Computing PoC (K-12 SaaS hosting,

Virtualization, Project Greystone)

•Electronic Portfolios (Sakai OSP)

•Analytic Tools (Cognos, SPSS)

•Virtual Worlds (OpenSim)

Smarter/Dynamic Infrastructure

•Technology infrastructure (e.g. systems/data

centers, converged networks, SOA)

•Virtualization (e.g. hybrid multi-core systems,

cloud computing, server provisioning)

Course Development (29 total courses)

• z/OS, AIX/Power

•Converged Networking

• Dynamic Infrastructure

•Business Intelligence/Analytics

MID-HUDSON REGIONAL COUNCIL IT/DATA CENTER CLUSTER CO-CHAIRS:

ROGER NORTON, DEAN SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS MARIST COLLEGE MICHAEL GEBELE, VP STG SYSTEMS AGENDA DELIVERY SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY GROUP