Computing Day 2007
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- Computing Day 2007 was held on Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007, from 8:30 to 10:30 am.
- Students from area schools in grades 6 through 12 were invited to attend.
- This program was designed to introduce students to various areas of computing and to encourage them
to consider a possible career in this growing field.
- Note that, according to one well-known source, 5 out of the 10 fastest growing jobs,
both in terms of number of positions and salary, are in the field of computing.
- The program was as follows:
- Internet Safety and Security Presentation by Br. David Carlson. (State Police Trooper Glenn Bard,
from the Area III Computer Crime Task Force, was not able to be here to give this presentation.
We will try to get him here in the future.)
- A presentation on engineering careers (especially in computer science and IT)
with Northrop Grumman Corporation was given by Heather Novotny and Doug Miller.
- Several Saint Vincent faculty gave a panel presentation on careers in computing
and bioinformatics. The panel included:
- Dr. Cynthia Martincic, Associate Professor, CIS Dept, Saint Vincent College
- Dr. Mandy Raab, Biotechnology Coordinator, Saint Vincent College
- Br. David Carlson, CIS Dept Chairperson, Saint Vincent College
- A brief contest in which students could put their potential computing skills to the test.
- A student from Greensburg Salem won the prize for this contest.
- A number of students did very well on the contest questions.
- The answer to the first question is that Sue's final amount is 200 and Bill's is 410.
- There are reasons that can be given to support any of the answers to the second question.
However, the middle answer, where the computers were in a 2-dimensional grid, is the
easiest to argue. This grid gives more ways to send data between computers than the
circular method in answer a. In most cases the network would continue to function even
if 2 or 3 of the network cables failed. Answer a would only continue to work if
1 network cable failed. Answer c provided even more network connections, but this
adds greatly to the cost. Thus b provides the best balance between low cost and the
advantage of having redundant connections.
- Computing Day 2007 was presented by the
Computing & Information Science Department
at Saint Vincent College.
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