Penn State University had a remarkably successful performance in the first ever Google Online Marketing Challenge this year. In addition to Team Big Click winning 1st place in the Americas Region, Team Intangibles and Team D marked their territories as semi-finalists! Plans for the Challenge 2009 are already in the works, and this time due to an overwhelming demand the IST 402 course for participating in the Challenge will ...

IST Connections Day is next Wednesday, September 3rd from 10:00am – 3:00pm in the IST Building on the second floor east side. New to the College? Check out the variety of IST/SRA clubs and organizations – more than 15 will be attending! This is an informal event and you are welcome to stop by anytime during the above hours.

Registration for Startup Weekend at State College is now open! As you'll see below, there is a niche for everyone. Even to cook! These are the positions available to be filled: Sys admin Backend dev Architect Frontend dev PR User experience Designer Legal Business Development Project Manager Cook When: Friday, October 24, 2008 at 06:00 PM to Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 09:00 PM Where: 104 IST Building Price: $39.99 Startup Weekend is, as the name suggests, a weekend-long event for web application ...

Matt Maisel recently discovered that a FriendFeed room makes both forum and chat room obsolete. Check out our new IST Building room to make your own judgment on this cool tool. This is an ideal venue for holding discussions revolving around our IST community. What kind of information would I expect to find in the IST Building room? Dates and information about official IST events Opinions and debates Links to news/journal articles ...

From the Register: A new round of SQL injection attacks has infected millions of web pages belonging to businesses and government agencies, including those that belong to the National Institutes of Health and Education Department in the US and the UK Trade & Investment. The Register shows a simple Google search revealing "at least 14.5 million infected pages" on the .gov domain. It appears the government does not know the ...

From the Times Higher Education Online: the University of Nottingham has told his staff. In a statement issued to the university last week, Sir Colin Campbell says: "There is no 'right' to access and research terrorist materials. Those who do so run the risk of being investigated and prosecuted on terrorism charges. Equally, there is no 'prohibition' on accessing terrorist materials for the purpose of research. Those who do so ...

Many student have been wondering what the new IST job posting site will be since the College phased out ISTechTrak. According to an email sent out by Madhavi Kari, Interim Director of Career Solutions, ISTechTrak became obsolete because MonsterTRAK no longer supported the software, although the details are beyond my understanding. If you have more insight into this, please do share. More about the new Compass interface will be ...

There's an article on Newsweek about a controversial computer security curriculum at Sonoma State University. Professor George Ledin is teaching his students how to create malware such as spam bots and viruses. In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant Joy runs a program that surreptitiously records every keystroke on his machine, including ...

There's a new Facebook group called Go Global in IST that's been gaining traction in the community. Created by Matt Prindible (President, IST Student Government), the group has started an initiative to globalize the scope of the IST curriculum. If you haven't already, check it out and post to the wall. The following is Matt Prindible's introduction to the Facebook group: Hello everyone-- Last year, a cooperative effort between IST and ...

From Newsweek: College Teacher Shows Students How to Be Hackers. Ledin compares the companies' hold over antivirus technology (under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the companies' codes are kept secret) to cryptography decades ago, when the new science of scrambling data was largely controlled by the National Security Agency. [. . .] Why should we shy away from learning something that is important to everyone?," Ledin asks. "Yes, ...