CSUMB School of Computing and Design

Over 60 CS and CD students and graduates participated the 2016 Digital Game Hackathon on campus. The event was a great success! We are all excited about the games and learning achieved. http://www.ksbw.com//students-tackle-community-pro/8252692

Job and Internship Opportunities for CS and CD majors - NEST Flight is well underway and really picking up momentum. We know have companies committed to recruit interns and employees from our participants of the conference. Companies include, Amazon, Plantronics, Granite, California Giant Berries, Tanimura and Antle and others. We hope to get as many of your students into the conference as possible. Please encourage your students to register as soon as possible. Space is limited and the deadline is today (but will be extended). I know your students are not back yet so please connect with them when you can. We will continue to enroll students until we hit capacity. Here is the link: https://goo.gl/forms/aSuKLeVrkI1zhmp63

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Over 60 CS and CD students and graduates participated the 2016 Digital Game Hackathon on campus. The event was a great success! We are all excited about the games and learning achieved. http://www.ksbw.com//students-tackle-community-pro/8252692

ACM along with Design Studio have come together to put on a movie night for all to enjoy. This is a chance for you to get to know other people in your classes outside of class and hang out with other students. This event is open to all CSUMB students and we are letting you choose the movie. At the end of the paragraph you will find a link to a survey with movie suggestions, let us know which movie you want to watch and the movie with the most votes will be played on Friday No...vember 18th at 7pm in BIT room 104. We hope to see you there! RSVP link: http://bit.ly/2e6euJM When: Friday November 18th Time: 7pm to 10pm Where: BIT building Room 104 What: Movie Night

Need help with technology? Digital Otter Center offers pro bono assistance to community! Computer science students will provide free assistance to members of the community every Friday 4-7PM from September 30 and Dec 2.... At the Digital Otter Center, Cal State Monterey Bay’s newest community outreach program, students will provide a variety of technology services on a drop-in basis to individuals, startups and non-profits. High school computer clubs and senior centers are also invited to take advantage of the service. Free services include: Tech classes basic computer use, Internet, productivity software, basic media and coding Tech support removal of viruses, installation of software, troubleshooting Tech tutors one-on-one teaching/tutoring of basic computer skills HELP with technology The Digital Otter Center will be held in the Business and Information Technology Building on Divarty Street, next to the Tanimura & Antle library, from 4 to 7 p.m. every Friday from from September 30 and Dec 2. Students will be on hand in the first floor of the building to greet visitors and direct them to the appropriate location for the service they need. Please note that while the service is free, visitors must purchase a parking permit from a machine on the lot. For more information, contact Cassandra Humphrey at [email protected] or Dr. Eric Tao at [email protected]

We would like to invite you to a weekly webinar-based lecture series entitled the BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science. This is a series of high-level didactic overviews across the range of topics important for data science, intended to provide a general biomedical audience with an appreciation of the elemental issues related to data science research and applications. The series will be held each Friday at noon Eastern Time (9am Pacific) beginning September 9th, 2...Continue reading

Please come to our first Startup CSUMB Popup this year, a fun, get-together for CSUMB students and local alumni entrepreneurs, faculty and staff interested in entrepreneurship, starting their own company, and/or working in a startup business! Let us know what your startup company is doing or not doing now. Do your company need any help? Does your company need team members? ... Have an idea for a new startup company? Want to join a startup team? Like hanging out with people who like to create things or take a cool idea and build a business? If you know other students who might be interested in the entrepreneur thing, invite them too. Open to all majors. Fun refreshments will be served! Please RSVP and let us know if you will be able to join us so we will have enough refreshments.... Click here to RSVP - https://goo.gl/forms/WcfKaB4396s1kT0Z2 Hope to see you Friday!

Distinguished retired professors visit School of Computing and Design - Dr. Van Spyk, Professor Mike Yee and Professor Hal Milan. Dr. Tao was giving them a tour of the new BIT building.

SCD alum Jakob Heuser talked about his journey from monterey bay students to management of engineers at Pinterest in CST 300 class.

Pizza and Ethics Symposium this Friday at 4PM - all are welcome International Symposium on Ethics in Social Media Networking... Friday, 4-6PM, September 11, 2015 Auditorium in Business and Information Technology Building (BIT 104) California State University Monterey Bay Social media, riding on the waves of communication technologies started late 20th century, has transformed the social, political and informational practices of individuals and organizations across the globe, urging a philosophical response from both the applied ethicists and innovators of technology. CSUMB’s International Program, Computer Science Online Program, Institute for Innovation and Economic Development, in collaboration with Meiji University of Japan, organize the Ethics in Social Media Symposium for students, faculty, researcher and professionals Moderated by Professor Mitsu Oda of Meiji University and Professor Eric Tao of CSUMB Presented by students of communication from both universities

Internship Opportunity at MIIS. Contact Dr. Tao for more info. A programmer is needed to support the databases and website applications for The National Ocean Economics Program website (www.oceaneconomics.org) of the Center for the Blue Economy (CBE) at ... the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey. The CBE’s primary data website, serves ocean and coastal related economic data to its users from a relational database. In order to provide expansion into new data offerings and to update current data, a database programmer is required to assist the Data Manager in designing and building database tables and developing programs for querying the data from the website. This is a part time (19 hours/week) position for one year with possible extensions. Qualified applicants must have experience building database structures and writing programs to extract and format the data for website and other presentations. Work is to be performed at the CBE offices on the MIIS campus during normal office hours. Under the direction of the CBE Data Manager, the database programmer will: Locate relevant data sources for specific ocean and coastal related industries Query government agencies and non-government organizations in search of information Compile time series numeric data for website publication, analysis, and studies Work with research assistants to gather and assemble project data Write programs, scripts and procedure to load collected data into a database Manipulate and structure data into database tables Write programs to query databases and supply formatted output to web pages Comply with established protocols and documentation requirements Attend weekly meetings with staff The position requirements are: At least one year of relational database development experience, Microsoft SQL Server preferred An understanding of data normalization, indexes, and table joins A thorough working knowledge of SQL programming, Transact SQL preferred The ability to develop programs and scripts for manipulating data from source data feeds to database tables, and to extract data from database tables Experience writing programs with Microsoft C# and/or Visual Basic Experience processing data in spreadsheets, Excel preferred Good communication skills and be able to document data loads and procedures The ability to work independently Desired skills for this position: Web development Math skills Experience producing graphs and tables