A recap of the IST Professional Expo for 2008!

Joe Lewis recounts his visit to Google’s campus as a part of the Penn State Google Online Marketing Challenge team that took first place in North America!

Chrome is developer jargon for the parts of your web browser that reside outside of the actual page that you are viewing. This includes the back and forward buttons, the status bar displayed below the page, and the address bar. When Google set out to build their new browser, they wanted to change the way that people interact with the internet, and especially web applications. This meant getting the browser out of the user’s way, so that he or she could focus on the task at hand, rather than the tool being used to perform the task. Choosing to name their browser Chrome, therefore, was ironic, as one of the major interface improvements that is presented in the software is that it features much less chrome than its competitors. …

By Jimmy Mesta
There is a new breed of drug hitting the streets.
This new drug does not come in a capsule and cannot be contained in a glass bottle.  This drug is something more complex; it consists of one part technology, one part hardware and three parts human interaction.  When combined in just the right proportions, the mixture forms what we humans like to call The Internet.
This technological wonder drug goes by a number of names such as the “Net” or the “World Wide Web.”  It can’t get you high or …

Penn State ITS upgrades the university’s wireless infrastructure

By Mitchell Rukat
Another year has begun at Penn State University, and this year the Security and Risk Analysis Club will be creating and presenting a Community Outreach Project.  Here, representatives from the SRA club will give presentations at high schools on the topic of Social Networking, Security, and Privacy.  Many high school students know about MySpace and Facebook, but are unaware of the issues that are associated with these websites.  While this is a serious topic, we are designing a fun and interactive presentation with videos and humor.  This presentation …