iMSA welcomes Tom Conrad, the Chief Technology Officer of Pandora Internet Radio!
Love Music? Love Technology? Pandora combines both to provide users the best experience when you listen to music.  Come in and see how the classes you take for ISYS apply!  Learn more about how this company uses Java, Open Source, Project Management and Data Base Modeling when they are conducting their Music Genome Project, a complex system of algorithms that separate and categorizes the hundreds of attributes in music.  

Our meeting will be in the Business Building Room 216 at 5:00PM to 7:00PM on Wednesday, 10/21/09.

 
Contact Ben (iMSA President) at imsa.sfsu@gmail.com for any questions about this event.

Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: BUS 202
About: Please see http://cob.sfsu.edu/cob/calendar/event.cfm?query=1&eid=5719 for more information!

Kenny Spade of Microsoft is coming to SFSU to speak about Windows 7, Cloud Computing, writing games for the Xbox 360, Windows Mobile, Zune HD, digital photography, working for Microsoft, or anything else related to technology or Microsoft in general. He is an academic development evangelist for Microsoft.

*Free software, hardware, Xbox 360 games and other items will be raffled off!

Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get involved in. We will be on campus from 10:00AM to 3:00PM tabling with iLEARN.  The day of the event was September 19th, 2009, but has now changed to September 17th, 2009. So stop by and pick up some open source software!  More information about Software Freedom Day at SFSU can be found here. Other general information about the celebration can be found here. 

Interested in volunteering for this event?  Want to network your ISYS professors outside of the classroom?  E-mail us at imsa.sfsu@gmail.com and title the E-mail as "Software Freedom Day: Volunteer"

Hey fellow students! Come join iMSA for our Welcome Night on September 16, 2009 in BUS 120! It’s from 5:00p.m. – 6:30p.m. This is the signal of the beginning of a new semester for iMSA. This Welcome Night is best if you:
 
-Have questions about what Information Systems really embodies
-Want to get more involved with
-Are curious to find out what iMSA does (potential upcoming Halo Party!)
-Are a starving Business student
-Are a hungry non-Business student
-Just want to partake in new, deeper experiences with your University life instead of taking only taking classes
 
There will be food, refreshments, and chances to network with other students.

SEPTEMBER 2009 PROMOTION!
Join now and pay only $10 dollars for a one year membership.  This promotion is only good for the month of September so please hurry and sign up before the month ends! 

Got a lot to do this September!  Let's get iMSA going!  Woot!

Google Corporate Tour

The long awaited trip to Google is here.  We'll meet up at Building 41 in the Googleplex where we'll sign in and get our name badges.  We'll take a quick tour of the Googleplex and then enjoy a free lunch in their world famous cafeteria.

Prof. Lik Mui of SF State's Information Systems department will be guiding the tour.

This is an iMSA members (confirmed members) only trip and a RSVP is required.

There are 18 seats 0 seats available and its first come first serve so RSVP fast by selecting the YES option of the Google Calendar invite.

We'll be making a trip out to the Computer History Museum after the Googleplex so please make sure to make proper transportation arrangements if you can't attend both locations.
http://www.computerhistory.org/hours/

There is a separate Google Doc invitation going out for the Computer History Museum tour.

Hope to see everyone there!

A very casual business attire is requested.

Date:  Friday, May 1st.
Time:  10:15am
Where: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Bldg 41, Mountain View, CA 94043

I'm proud to announce that as of  April 14, 2009 at 12:30am, iMSA has offically started its website building campaign by implementing its first sponsored website for the International Business Society http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ibs_sfsu 
The campaign was started as a fundraising event to build up funds for a possible ISYS graduation ceremony.  It has since spawned into an education campaign aimed at training future iMSA members the skills need for building basic CSS websites with simple CRM (Customer Relationship Management systems) integration.

CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC BUSINESS

Research Presentation

Friday, April 3, 2009
1:00-2:00, Business 202
San Francisco State University
Main Campus
Risk Management in a Mobile Scenario

Tilo DickoppResearcher
University of Mannheim, Germany

Technology risk management is a mostly uncovered area for knowledge management applications in finance. In this presentation a method is presented that applies semantic web technologies such as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and automatic reasoning for supporting knowledge-intensive risk management processes. Since effective risk management requires decision makers to access a knowledge base often and from everywhere it is the next logical step to implement mobile applications for this purpose. However, semantic web technologies are heavy-weight and difficult to implement in the limited resources of a mobile environment. Solutions for this problem are investigated in this presentation.
Tilo Dickopp is a researcher in the Information Systems Department at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is investigating mobile technologies and computational economics.

Adobe is offering thier Adobe Flex Builder 3 for free to all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.

Download Flex Builder 3 for free.

Learn Flex in a Week using this Video Training course.

Microsoft is offering a free IT Academy Student Pass good for 12-22 hours of FREE e-learn courses pertaining to different topics on the first Microsoft Certification Exam.

The goal of the IT Academy Student Pass is to give you a head start by providing hours and hours of rich, award-winning e-learning content that sets the stage for the learning to come.

You can learn more about the Microsoft Technical Certificates here.
Get your IT Academy Student Pass today!

 Microsoft is also offering a free voucher for one Microsoft technical Specialist exam, these exams usually cost hundreds of dollars, so take advantage while it lasts.

Educause is sponsoring a contest for Computer Security Awareness- I just happened to hear about this and there looks like about a month to pursue if you know of a student or other group interested in.

A total of $8,800 will be awarded:

four "gold" prizes of $1,000, four "silver" prizes of $800 and four
"bronze" prizes of $400.  The contest is now open and has a deadline of
April 30, 2009.

At Kaiser Permanente, technology looks a bit different. Because here, we manage the information that, in an instant, could communicate an illness or save a life.

We design, develop, and support technologies that link health professionals from coast to coast and affect the lives of our members.

At KP-IT, the work we do will touch lives—8.7 million of them—every day.

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems

San Francisco, California, August 6 - 9, 2009

AMCIS 2009 will be in San Francisco, the center of the high-tech Bay Area. It will bring together the best of academia and industry to focus on the future of Information Systems. Come join us in the City by the Bay and be part of this exciting conference.

Why Volunteer?

• Explore career possibilities
• Network with tech industry professionals
• Learn about the latest in IS Tech
• Listen to Keynote Speakers
• Attend Tutorials
• Get off the COUCH!

Who can volunteer?

Any student of San Francisco State University. However, iMSA members have priority since volunteer space is limited.

How to Sign Up?

Email us at imsa@sfsu.edu if your interested in finding out more about volunteering.

We need People for:

30 spots are open for various positions.

Committee Members from SF State

The AMCIS Committee consists of of Professors from around United States. Here is a list of committee members from SF State.

AMCIS Sponsors

OpenDisc

Let’s face it even at its discounted prices most students can’t afford proprietary software such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative and Design Suites.  Enter - Free and Open Source Software.

The OpenEducationDisc is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software that cover the most common tasks you will need for school work. All programs have been carefully selected by Teachers and Computer Specialists who believe that you shouldn't have to pay lots of money to get a good education.
The entire disc can be downloaded from the following site:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/opendisc/OpenEducationDisc.09.01.iso
However, for your convenience, we’ve listed a few useful links to software most commonly used by the Information Systems student. Click on the logo to view its website.