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An Overview of the Computer Science
Enterprise Information Systems Program
Development
Merwyn Jones, IBM Faculty Loan, BU-LTC
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu
Why Binghamton? One of only four university centers of the State University of
New York BU is one of America’s most distinguished public universities Strong reputation for its excellent educational programs
“6th most selective public university in the US” - US News and World Report, 2008
“A public Ivy” - Greenes' Guide To The Public Ivies, 2006
“BU is one of the nation’s best value undergraduate institutions” - The Princeton Review, 2008
“..second-best in the nation for out-of-state students” - Kiplinger, 2008
Outstanding faculty scholars
Fast Facts: The Department
One of the earliest ( since 1988), nationally accredited programs in the nation and in New York, earliest accredited program in the Watson School, always received 6-year accreditations in one shot
Offers PhD, MS and BS degrees in Computer Science and an International Information Systems Engineering BS program
Largest undergraduate and graduate (MS, PhD) program in the Watson School
25 full-time faculty (19 tenure-track faculty and 6 lecturers), a majority with active, externally-funded research programs
Research emphasizes computer systems design/engineering and integration, large software systems
CS Majors: 425+ undergraduates 190 MS students 58 PhD students
Program Goal : To provide an opportunity for the BU CS students to
experience and learn about the Enterprise Computing environment. Program is built around a core set of new mainframe courses.
Graduate offering in Info Systems Engineering
Specialization track in Info Systems at undergrad level.
Offer via Enginet, BU’s Distance Learning Program.
IBM Endicott’s long-standing relationship with the Watson School provides a great opportunity with the z/VM and HMC teams
Offered Intro to z/VM course twice. Fall 2008 - 22 Students (1 undergrad), feedback very positive from
students and CS Chair Spring 2009 - 18 students (8 undergrad) 4 Enginet students. Spring 2010 Target new HMC and new z/VM adv courses
Currently – “Introduction to the Mainframe: z/VM Basics”
Goal: Introduce students to the mainframe by providing students with the background knowledge and skills necessary to begin using the basic functions and features of z/VM. Provide as much hands-on as possible.
Based on IBM Redbook “Introduction to the Mainframe: z/VM Basics”; CS480z / CS580z
Course format is: Lecture, Lab, and Quiz each section; Comprehensive Final; and field trip to IBM RF and IBM Museum.
System z/Mainframe introduction – Merwyn Jones Introduction to System z/Mainframe architecture – Romney White z/VM overview Lab on Watson Mainframe – Tung-Sing Chong Introduction to z/VM: Basic z/VM concepts – Brian Wade z/VM: Conversational Monitor System – Patty Rando z/VM: Control Program – Jason Herne Advanced Structures and Commands: CMS – Melissa Howland Second Level Systems/Advanced CP – Matt Rosato The REXX Programming Language – Brian Hugenbruch CMS Pipelines – Scott Blazicek Linux on z/VM – Steve Shultz z/VM Performance – Bill Bitner z/VM Networking – Tracy Adams z/VM Security – Alan Altmark
Available on Enginet
Developing – “Introduction to the Mainframe: z/VM Advanced Topics”
Goal: Further immerse students in zVM environment to prepare them to be comfortable/productive in planned follow-on Systems Administration and Systems Programming courses. Provide as much hands-on as possible.
Course format is: Lecture, Lab, and Quiz each section; Comprehensive Final; and field trip to IBM RF and IBM Museum.
“Putting it all together” – understanding the system as a whole – understanding how CP, CMS and Linux fit together (including build/installation exercises)
Advanced tool creation – Rexx, Pipelines, communication between machines Advanced system customization Advanced DASD, I/O and interrupt handling Advanced networking Daily operations overview Servicing z/VM – installing fixes and upgrading to new releases Navigating the z/VM Library & other sources of information (user forums, etc)
Available on Enginet
Developing - “Introduction to the Mainframe: HMC Basics”
Developing IBM Redbook “Introduction to the Mainframe: HMC Basics”;
Course format is: Lecture, Lab, and Quiz each section; Comprehensive Final; and field trip to IBM RF and IBM Museum.
System z/Mainframe introduction Introduction to System z/Mainframe architecture System z Hardware Systems Management overview HMC overview Lab on Watson Mainframe HMC/ SE User Experience System Activity Display (SAD) LPAR Partition Management controls LIC Change Management (code update) HMC/SE I/O Controls Overview HMC/SE User Management HMC Automation HMC/SE Capacity On Demand overview HMC/SE Network set up overview
Available on Enginet
Goal is to develop an Enterprise specialized track centered around the System z
Built on existing CS courses: GUI and Windows Programming(CS360) Enterprise Systems Management (CS446) Information Systems Senior Project (CS485) Web Based Programming (CS422) Network Security (CS431)
Introduction to the Mainframe: z/VM Basics (CS580)
Introduction to the Mainframe: HMC Basics
Introduction to the Mainframe: z/VM advanced Topics
Plus………….
Available on Enginet
Thank-you
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Fast Facts: Graduate Program
Broad curriculum also reflects faculty’s interest in Computer Systems Design and Engineering
MS has 3 graduating options: 8 courses and a thesis 9 courses and a termination project 10 courses and a comprehensive exam
MS course requirements: 4 core courses (algorithms, architecture, programming
language and OS) At least one other required course that has SIGNIFICANT
programming projects Other courses chosen based on student’s interests
Several PhD level courses Many courses available on Enginet
Fast Facts: Undergraduate Program
Students take CS courses from the very first year, balanced treatment of hardware (required 3-course sequence in digital logic, processor architecture), software and everything in-between
First programming courses for CS majors are in C++ and Java
Significant hands on emphasis/labs in all courses Students can specialize in several areas
Computer systems (architecture, embedded systems, networking and distributed systems)
Programming, software engineering, web design/services Information systems (database systems, web-based
information access, data mining, security) Graphics, image processing and vision systems, computer
games
Some Current and Recent Sponsors of CS Research
Federal and State Agencies:
Industry and Industrial Organizations:
Semiconductor Research Corporation
In the Undergraduate CS Labs
The undergraduate programming lab: a TA assisted session in
progress
Students busy at work in the undergraduate embedded systems
lab
In the Undergraduate CS Labs - 2
A team working on lab assignments in the Embedded Systems and Robotics course
Part of the open computing labs operated by the Computing Services
Programming Competitions
CS students participating in the International Topcoder programming competition
CS students taking a much-needed break during the 2007
International Topcoder programming competition
The prize for the local Topcoder winner, courtesy Bloomberg
The ACM Coding Contest
CS students warming up before the ACM coding
competition
Prof. Madden overseeing the contest
You don’t just win iPods! Winners showing off their
cash spoils
The Champions
The winning team from CS at the International Computer
Programming Contest (ICPC) being presented with their
trophy
Local press on the CS winning team that beat out teams from the top Ivy league
schools and made it to the world finals
The Robotics Challenge Open competition among students in the
Embedded Systems and Robotics Class Nature of competition varies from year to
year
Prof. Eckert with theWinning team from Spring 2007
Some Recent CS Student Accomplishments
CS Major Savishinsky 5th in Mainframe ContestCS Major Zach Savishinsky placed 5th from among 1,750 students participating in the IBM Master the Mainframe Contest, winning himself a new Nintendo Wii system! In the competitive three Phase contest, graduate student Xiaoshuang Wang was a Part 2 winner.
Senior Loverro Places 2nd in Security CompetitionCaleb Loverro, CS Senior, excelled in 3 competitions at the Polytechnic University Cybersecurity Awareness Week security competition. In particular, he placed 2nd in the Digital Forensics Challenge, 3rd in the Pitney Bowes Challenge. He also competed alone in the Capture the Flag, team competition, and placed 5th out of 14 teams, winning the award for "best individual.” This is the second year a student from Binghamton has competed and won cash prizes.
Loscalzo Earns Honor Society Scholarship Award: Former CS Major (May 2007) Steve Loscalzo was one of three undergraduate students nationwide to have earned a $1,000 Scholarship from UPE. UPE (Upsilon Pi Epsilon), is the national honor society for computer science. Steve is now pursuing a MSCS degree in this department.
Contact Information For additional information specific to
the CS program, please contact: Prof. Kanad Ghose: [email protected]
Phone: (607)-777-4803 Substantial additional information about the
CS department, its faculty, research and programs can be found at the department’s web page at:http://www.cs.binghamton.edu
Graduate Admissions: Apply On-line at:http://gradschool.binghamton.edu/ps/gradapp.asp