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    Should Students Learn How to Hack? started by Daehee Park
    There’s an article on Newsweek about a controversial computer security curriculum at Sonoma State University. Professor George Ledin is teaching his students how to create malware such as spam bots and viruses.

    In a windowless underground computer lab in California, young men are busy cooking up viruses, spam and other plagues of the computer age. Grant [...]
    When Interns Rate Companies started by Daehee Park
    At job fairs around the country, recruiters promise a summer internship program promising bountiful opportunities and plenty of hands on experience. As some of us know, those promises can sometimes be shattered by menial “intern” work and little opportunity to explore. Ever want to cut through recruiter’s tactful spiel and find out first hand what [...]
    MIST website getting facelift started by Daehee Park
    IST Students visit Google, Weebly and Twitter started by Daehee Park
    Earlier this week, our team from Penn State University (AMERICAS Winner) finally flew out to San Francisco to visit Google’s headquarters as part of our prize. Present were teams from University of Western Australia (Global Winner), James Madison University (Finalist), and Boise State University (Finalist). For an overview of the Googleplex trip experience, check out [...]
    Heekya and IST Building mentioned in Collegian started by Daehee Park
    Penn State student masterminds Tiger Woods Jesus Shot started by Daehee Park
    IST Connections Day 2008 started by Daehee Park
    IST Connections Day is next Wednesday, September 3rd from 10:00am – 3:00pm in the IST Building on the second floor east side.

    New to the College? Check out the variety of IST/SRA clubs and organizations – more than 15 will be attending!

    This is an informal event and you are welcome to stop by anytime during [...]
    Get your ticket now for Startup Weekend started by Daehee Park
    Registration for Startup Weekend at State College is now open! As you’ll see below, there is a niche for everyone. Even to cook! These are the positions available to be filled:
    Sys admin

    Backend dev

    Architect

    Frontend dev

    PR

    User experience

    Designer

    Legal

    Business Development<br
    David Adewumi featured in Washington Post started by Daehee Park
    David Adewumi is making big headlines with his startup Heekya. David is featured in the Washington Post today in an article about the startup incubator called Launchbox. I’m sure this mainstream article about Heekya is just one of many to come in the near future.

    David is currently in San Francisco for meetings with investors. Let’s [...]
    Are you interested in international opportunities? started by Daehee Park
    There’s a new Facebook group called Go Global in IST that’s been gaining traction in the community. Created by Matt Prindible (President, IST Student Government), the group has started an initiative to globalize the scope of the IST curriculum. If you haven’t already, check it out and post to the wall.

    The following is Matt Prindible’s [...]
    Black Hats in the Ivory Tower? Unlikely. started by Daehee Park
    From Newsweek: College Teacher Shows Students How to Be Hackers.

    Ledin compares the companies’ hold over antivirus technology (under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the companies’ codes are kept secret) to cryptography decades ago, when the new science of scrambling data was largely controlled by the National Security
    Security in Beijing started by Daehee Park
    From the New York Times: China Orders Highest Alert Level.

    Chinese officials have thrown an almost smothering blanket of security across this capital of 17 million in preparation for the start of the Olympic Games on Friday. Above all else, Chinese leaders say, these Olympics will be “safe.”

    China, infamous for accusations of human-rights violations from Amnesty [...]
    A Call For Educational Transparency started by Daehee Park
    IST students were sent an email recently announcing a new job posting system and the dismantling of ISTechTRAK. Despite the awkward name, ISTechTRAK worked fairly well and played an indirect role in landing each of my internships. It also had room for improvement, which I won’t address here nor speculation on its replacement. My interest was piqued by the opaqueness of the message.
    IST Honor Society Tutors Needed started by Daehee Park
    Hello everyone!

    I hope you are all having great summers. The IST Honor Society’s officers have been hard at work all summer putting together a couple of cool initiatives. We hope to have our constitution revamped so keep an eye out for our first general meeting so that you can vote on this new [...]
    What’s planned for the 2008-2009 academic year started by Daehee Park
    With the onset of the new academic year, IST Building is shifting directions.

    Here are some items we have in store for you in the near future:
    Recruit more exceptional blogging/journalism talent from the College of IST. We will now handpick our writers and articles, so open registration is no longer available. Please email me at daehee@istbuilding.com [...]
    Vote for David Adewumi’s startup idea on ideablob started by Daehee Park
    Another Penn State entrepreneur is gunning for the $10k prize on ideablob. David Adewumi’s startup called Heekya aims to create a revolutionary new platform for sharing content on the web.

    David calls it a “Wikipedia for Stories” on his ideablob entry, but it’s much more than that.

    Think of it as a way to aggregate people’s life [...]
    Ted Leonsis: Successful Entrepreneurs and the Pursuit of Happiness started by Daehee Park
    Ted Leonsis came to speak to a group of us in Washington, DC. He is an amazing storyteller, and has been successful from an early age, selling his company for a multi-million dollar deal at the age of 23, although he was raised in near-abject poverty.

    Ted is now the majority owner of the Washington Wizards, [...]
    The Lucky 13 Steps to Starting a Company From New Media Pioneer Haroon Mokhtarzada started by Daehee Park
    While working full time at Harvard, Haroon and his brother were bootstrapping, and the hardest part was getting users. One of their applications on SGN now gets 500 million page views/month, within a year of launching, which is more than the entire freewebs.com span of properties.
    Better than IST Tech Trak started by Daehee Park
    Today we opened up a new job board at IST Building. The IST Building job board is intended to be an alternative rather than a replacement for “ISTechTrak” (I wonder who came up with this hard-to-remember name that is spelled in a completely retarded way). Our vision is to
    I’m (Not) Stealing Things: Free Stuff from IST started by Daehee Park
    This is part three in a four-part series about the College of IST. Part 1, Part 2.
    You know that IST students are more crafty when it comes to file sharing, but you don’t have to walk on the dark side to get your hands on some free intellectual property.
    That means you don&#
    Widespread Vandalism and Neglect in IST Classrooms started by Daehee Park
    It’s a difficult challenge to find a computer in “okay” condition in any of the IST classrooms. I am not necessarily suggesting a fleet upgrade — although it does seem necessary over this summer — but rather some better policies on protecti
    It has a name … Heekya started by Daehee Park
    So a lot of people have been wondering what I’ve been working on for the past few months.
    And while unfortunately, I’m not ready to launch anything publicly, I wanted to share a bit about the project. We call it, Heekya.
    It has a name … Heekya started by Daehee Park
    So a lot of people have been wondering what I’ve been working on for the past few months.
    And while unfortunately, I’m not ready to launch anything publicly, I wanted to share a bit about the project. We call it, Heekya.
    Chicken or the Egg? started by Daehee Park
    A few days ago, I wrote a post that generated a bit of very insightful, relevant discussion to this ongoing push towards innovation, community, and entrpreneurship within IST and the greater Penn State area.

    I’d like to talk about what has been accomplished.

    1. Several Penn State companies have launched within the past few years and are [...]
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