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2017 7th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week Conference
This past weekend, four ACU students attended the 7th annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW) conference at the University of Texas at Dallas. TexSAW is a two day event created as a way to expose students interested in the field of computer security to various...
Wildcat Software
In 2014, Wildcat Software was started as part of the Griggs Center’s Wildcat Ventures, a program where students create and run their own small business. Wildcat Software provides software development to clients. Employees of Wildcat Software are generally technology...
Why you should to go to Texas Security Awareness Week
Can you describe what the field of cyber security entails and what job possibilities are out there for it? Cyber security touches every part of our existence because "cyber" touches every part of our existence. Cyber threats are everywhere, web sites, email, company...
Brent Reeves on the Making of the Quad’s Light Sculpture, Lightwalk
Over the summer ACU sought out a way to combine creativity and technology to construct an interactive sculpture for the newly innovated quad. We asked Dr. Brent Reeves, one of the collaborators on the project,a few questions about this creative partnership....
Q&A with Rachael Shudde on her Summer at Langley Research Center
For this week's blog we talked to Rachael Shudde a Senior Computer Science and Math math major from Ovalo, TX, and what she did this summer! What did you do this summer and where did you go? What was your job? What did your average day look like? I worked at...
Nevan Simone Interns at NASA
This summer Nevan Simone, senior Computer Science major from Denton, TX, had the opportunity to intern with NASA at Langley Research Center in Virginia. His job at NASA was standard software engineering and he was assigned to create various databases for the...
COBA Welcomes Rich Tanner
COBA would like to welcome Rich Tanner, new Clinical Professor of Digital Entertainment. Rich has taught for the School of Information Technology and Computing part-time for the past several years and will now be working with technology students on a full-time basis....
Freshmen shine in this year’s app showcase
The culmination of our freshmen intro course is the presentation of the mobile apps designed by groups. Each year, the students present an impressive showcase that wows the faculty and staff. This year was no exception. Students in the class worked tirelessly...
Amazon Head of Education visits SITC
We were fortunate to have a visit from Michael Edmonds, Head of Education for Amazon Game Services. Michael spoke to our students during a Tech Talk event and visited several of our DET classes. See the video that the Optimist did about his visit below.
Women in Technology Conference
SITC hosted our first Women in Technology Conference this past weekend. The event provided an opportunity for female technology majors to hear from industry professionals and young alumni about their experiences in technology. Speakers included computer science...
ACM @ ACU
Virginia Pettit, sophomore Computer Science major, describes what it is like being a part of ACU’s chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). What kind of projects are you working on? The main thing we are focusing on is creating a new website and...
Spotlight on John Homer
What is your educational background? Undergraduate: Harding University; Kansas State for Masters and PhD. What is your work background? I worked for Pennzoil-Quaker State in Houston for a couple of years and shorter-term projects at a couple other places. What do you...