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Today, I was joined at the podium by Senator Steve Gooch, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, NTIA Program Manager Scott Woods, NGN CEO Bruce Abraham, and others to celebrate the lighting of the 100 Gigabit North Georgia Network fiber project in Lumpkin County. All but two sections of the 260-mile Terabit-capacity communications network through 12 north […]

Information Technology and Auxiliary Services are working constantly to improve students’ Internet experience on campus. On Thursday, March 1 at 11:30 pm, the Internet bandwidth to the residential and wireless network grew quietly and without interruption by 66% from 150 Megabits to 250 Megabits per second, or a quarter of a Gigabit per second in […]

It was an honor to speak at this morning’s Presidents’ Breakfast at North Georgia College & State University, with student leadership from almost 50 campus organizations, faculty sponsors, and Student Services staff. I shared a presentation I developed to honor President Emeritus Dr. David Potter upon his retirement last year. At the time, I was […]

We had a great turnout at our Great Decisions lecture series on Cybersecurity in 2012, vialis 40mg and as promised, below are some of the tips from our presentation. You can also view the entire presentation in PDF handout format. I welcome comments and tips, and thank you for taking an interest in improving cybersecurity […]

We’re finally 100% wireless in 40 buildings across the 120 acres of main campus! Resident students will return in January to find fast wireless Internet in every room in all seven current residence halls. The Division of Information Technology networking team worked with Auxiliary Services at the end of the semester to complete the campus […]

Or… Building the next Facebook, Twitter, YouTube This tutorial was a popular ‘capstone’ lesson from my CSCI 3000 Web Programming course in Fall 2011, and I thought I’d share it as a post. It’s heavily programmer-focused, but it has all the source files to enable just about anyone with a web site to engage users […]

A good friend of mine, and and fellow iPhone 4 owner, patient recently asked me if my iPhone “died by lunchtime” – his battery was dead, again, before the work day was over. When I told him I usually get three days between charges, he asked me to show him how to “hypermile” his iPhone. […]

We raised over $1,500 and gave fresh, clean water to 75 people for life in a developing nation! I’m so grateful to my family and friends for the generous support of my birthday wish to donate to charity:water (https://charitywater.org) in lieu of gifts this year, and together we’ve changed the lives of 75 people forever. […]

North Georgia College & State University (where I work as CIO and as an Associate Professor of Computer Science) has seen a lot of growth and change in the past few years. We’re coming up on completion of over $260 Million in construction and renovations, we’ve added six new buildings in the past three years, […]

Jobs in science, viagra technology, check engineering and math (STEM) fields pay an average of 26% more than other occupations and grew three times faster the past decade, according to a Commerce Department study released yesterday and reported by USA Today. From 2000 to 2010, STEM jobs grew at three times the rate of other […]