This semester, I had planned to take a rest of senior experience after supervised four teams last semester. Though it was an interesting experience, it is a lot to take in for a semester. But this semester, due to some reason, I have to supervise another four teams again! Luckily, I got great students and interesting projects. And now it is the time to show off their accomplishments.
Team 1 (indexed based on the order of presentation): APT. Marketing analysis in telecomm and electricity industry on their training needs.(from left to right: Me, Caleb Groff, Eric Gerza, Steve Blume (sponsor), Sarah Miller, Matt Walsh, Michael Blume (sponsor)
Team 2: La Provence Bakery on the new Zino cookie marketing strategy. (From left to right: John Muse, me, Katrina Caspelich, Bobby Graves (sponsor), Darren Buonaguidi, Eltron Jaraicie)
Team 3: LifeCal.com – A feasibility research on the business idea of college calendar sharing. (From left to right: Derek Van Gompel, Mike Schwaab, Amanda Haddock, me, Tanya Miranda, and Arisa Isayama)
Team 4: Ready America for production manuals and cost analysis. (From left to right, Jessica Tran, Robert Sirrine, Stephanie Kozak, me, and Linh Phuong)
Interesting. Mouse (actually the computer mouse) is already 40 year old. It’s birthday is Dec 9, which is also a famous Chinese day for students movements. It is considered as one of the greatest IT inventions of all time.
Even more surprisingly, every since it was invented, Logitech has already sold 1 billion (!) mice one week before it’s 40th birthday. Can you imagine anything that has been produced a billion? Maybe only a few? anyway, I think it is pretty amazing.
Here is an interesting link shows the evolution of Apple mouses. Cute. http://vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/mouse.html
Just learnt about the case about Julie Amero, (wiki-link) which was pretty shocking to me. A Connecticut middle school teacher, Julie Amero, was substituting for another teacher. While she was browsing the Internet, her computer was suddenly hacked and displayed pornography content.
She went out of the room to find IT help, and therefore the content were left exposed to middle school students. She reported to the principal about the incident as well.
However, it ended up like this: she was sued and the IT demonstrated how she should have prevented this from happening. After a lengthy trial, she finally gave up the fight and decided to settle. Her teaching license was revoked as a consequence.
Obviously, it doesn’t sound fair to most of the people who first heard about it. Though the media might have been bias on amplifying how innocent she was, it should not be completely her fault. So what should we learn from this case? I think the case should be analyzed from the stand point of the following parties:
1) a school teacher who might have encounter the same situation
2) the IT support who should have taken care of the security
3) the administration who will respond to that kind of incidence
4) the parents whose kids are in that school
Well, I am thinking of keeping my thoughts secret because I will use this as a case study for my class next semester. But if you would like to comment, please feel free to do so.
