IST and Penn State recently earned high marks in two polls – one that measured faculty productivity, and another that ranked the top universities in the world. (read more)

Students and faculty from Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and Center for Human-Computer Interaction have developed location-sensitive mobile computer services for thi... (read more)

Laura Niculescu is currently an operations executive with SAP Global Delivery, based in Bucharest, Romania. In that position, she is responsible for overseeing the company’s reporting, logistics, pers... (read more)

An IST alumnus is getting ready to complete in the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. Adam Wiercioch (IST ’04) will represent Poland in this summer’s fencing competitions, which are scheduled to begin A... (read more)

James Z. Wang, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), and Jia Li, associate professor of statistics, were part of a group of researchers that published the paper, “Image Pro... (read more)

James Z. Wang, associate professor of information sciences and technology, is scheduled to appear on the PBS show NOVA: ScienceNOW, Wednesday (July 2) at 9 p.m. (read more)

Two IST researchers at the forefront of increasing cyber-security at both the personal and national levels are featured in a video highlighting the Penn State’s work in these areas. (read more)

Some 36 high school girls from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland attended two “Collaborating through the Web” sessions held by wConnect, a group of IST faculty and students who are collaborating t... (read more)

Throughout the week, 25 middle school girls from throughout central Pennsylvania will create their own video games with help from IST students and faculty. (read more)

Virtual communities such as Second Life and multi-player online games are not exempt from the law, financial regulations and public policy, according to a researcher in Penn State’s College of Informa... (read more)

IST Ph.D. student Julio Angel Ortiz recently received the Best Student Paper Award for the upcoming Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. (read more)

Several members of IST’s faculty and staff were recently recognized for their hard work and dedication to the college over the past year. (read more)

A former State Department official most recently stationed in Germany and a former intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency will soon add their expertise to the IST faculty. (read more)

IST Professor of Practice Irene Petrick will spend the next two months based in Bangalore, India, studying issues related to global teams. Her observations on this and other topics will be the focus ... (read more)

IST Assistant Professor Jim Jansen is leading a team working to classify Twitter and other micro-blog postings in a way that will allow businesses and other organizations to monitor their online reput... (read more)

A joint effort between IST and the department of Computer Science and Engineering puts Penn State among a select group of universities in the nation to be designated a National Center of Academic Exce... (read more)

The search engine study will examine how users choose a search engine, how they evaluate that engine’s performance in delivering the results they wanted, their reaction to the individual results and t... (read more)

Starting salaries for the Class of 2008 rose again this year, with the average for those with a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) and above at $58,080. As of May 14, 93 percent of those with a GPA of 3.0 ... (read more)

Lion Launch Pad, spearheaded by a College of Information Sciences and Technology grad to help student entrepreneurs, has rolled out a new Web site. (read more)

Two members of IST’s spring 2008 graduating class at University Park—Daniel Oechsner and Sooyeon Lee—have earned the special distinction of serving as student marshals during commencement exercises in... (read more)

Bradley J. Mitchell, president of The Mitchell Group, will give the commencement address at Saturday’s ceremony, which begins at 3 p.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium. (read more)

The "digital divide" and "brain drain" in information technology have affected the U.S. since the mid-1990s. Kenya and other African nations are now facing those same problems more than a decade later... (read more)

SRA 211, taught by former Marine colonel Jake Graham, weaves together real-life characters with plausible situations as students solve Operation "Show Me the Money." (read more)

Four teams of IST 110 students recently became the recipients of the college’s first-ever “Gerry” awards for their work on video projects completed for Dr. Gerry Santoro’s class. (read more)

In order to be successful, today’s IT professionals need a combination of business knowledge and technical skills. And, according to Honeywell’s Senior Vice President of Technology and Operations Larr... (read more)

IST Lecturer Rosalie Ocker was announced the winner of the 2007-2008 George McMurtry Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award at the college’s Scholarship and Awards Banquet held Thursday, April 17 i... (read more)

IST doctoral student Phillip Ayoub recently traveled to South America to present a paper in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He also climbed one of the world's tallest mountains and studied the group dynamics invol... (read more)

IST students, faculty, staff and alumni were recognized for their contributions to the college over the past year at the annual Night of Honors ceremony, held Monday night in the Cybertorium of the IS... (read more)

Over the past month, members of MIST, the Magazine of IST, have held two tutorials for fellow students known as the “Quick and Dirty Sessions.” (read more)

As the mortgage and retail industries have shown, inter-organizational collaboration can help improve the bottom line and make customer service more efficient. But managing those relationships can pro... (read more)

IST Assistant Professor Jim Jansen and IST Ph.D. student Mimi Zhang have teamed to earn Best Paper honors at the recent Southern Association for Information Systems Conference in Richmond, Va. (read more)

A research project led by an IST faculty member examining the need for workforce diversity was named Best Paper at the 2008 ACM SIGMIS Computer Research Personnel Research Conference, held April 3-5 i... (read more)

IST hopes to diversify its student body by more than threefold, according to emerging goals in the college’s new strategic plan, now under development. (read more)