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		<title>Central Illinois High School Students Compete in Cyber Defense Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Illinois State University recently hosted the Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition. The competition is modeled on the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Teams from central Illinois high schools competed against each other on their ability to defend their computers and networks against hacking attacks from a &#8220;red team&#8221; consisting of School of Information Technology students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2012/05/15/central-illinois-high-school-students-compete-in-cyber-defense-competition/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Doug Twitchell Interviewed on Banking by Smartphone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Doug Twitchell, Associate Proffessor in the School of Information Technology, was interviewed and quoted by The Pantagraph in an article on the increasing popularity of banking by smartphone and the related information security issues. &#8220;With mobile applications, I don’t think there’s too much problem right now because the attackers who want  to steal information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/12/06/dr-doug-twitchell-interviewed-on-banking-by-smartphone/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Kyoungwon Suh appointed to Educating Illinois Task Force</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kyoungwon Suh, assistant professor in the School of Information Technology is among those President Al Bowman has appointed to a 25-member Task Force to review the University’s strategic plan, Educating Illinois 2008-2014: Priorities for Illinois’ First Public University. Sheri Noren Everts, vice president for Academic Affairs and Provost, and Dan Layzell, vice president for Finance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/12/01/dr-kyoungwon-suh-appointed-to-educating-illinois-task-force/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Amy Chou co-authored Course Management Systems and Blended Learning: An Innovative Learning Approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Amy Chou, Assistant Professor in the School of Information Technology, co-authored Course Management Systems and Blended Learning: An Innovative Learning Approach, which was published in Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Vol. 9. Read the article.]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/11/08/582/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Glen Sagers Provides Home Wifi Security Tutorial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Glen Sagers, assistant professor in the School of Information Technology, has conducted extensive research in the area of residential wireless network security. His research shows that only 56% of residential wireless networks employ some type of security to prevent unauthorized and/or malicious access. However, many of those residential wireless networks that do employ security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/11/04/dr-glen-sagers-provides-home-wifi-security-tutorial/</link>
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		<title>IT Faculty Awarded NSF Grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Billy Lim and Dr. Bryan Hosack of the School of Information Technology have been awarded a grant of $450.000.00 by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The objectives of the funded project are to increase student performance in introductory programming courses through the use of Serivce Oriented Architecture/Web Services (SOA/Web Services), as well as to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/10/11/it-faculty-awarded-nsf-grant/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Califf Named Delegate to University Leadership Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mary Elaine Califf, Associate Professor &#38; Associate Director of the School of Information Technology is among three College of Applied Science and Technology faculty selected  to participate in the University Leadership Initiative for 2011-2012. The  purpose of the Illinois State University Leadership Initiative is to provide  members of the ISU community with opportunities to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/10/11/dr-califf-named-delegate-to-university-leadership-initiative/</link>
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		<title>IT Faculty Awarded DoD Grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Doug Twitchell and Dr. Glen Sagers of the School of Information Technology have been awarded a grant of $56,000.00 by the Department of Defense (DoD). The purpose of the grant is to fund the development of an infrastructure to host a Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition and recruit potential students to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/07/12/it-faculty-awarded-dod-grant/</link>
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		<title>High Level Application Development for Non-Computer Science Majors&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Amit Shesh, School of Information Technology, authored the article High Level Application Development for Non-Computer Science Majors Using Image Processing, which was published in Eurographics 2011 Education Papers. Read the article here.]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/06/07/high-level-application-development-for-non-computer-science-majors/</link>
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		<title>IT Faculty Honors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Tibor Gyires, School of Information Technology, was awarded the Hungarian Neumann Award by the John von Neumann Computer Society in Hungary.  Past recipients include Bill Gates and Andrew Grove (the founder and CEO of Intel). The award is presented to those eminent international or Hungarian-born computer scientists whose professional activities have contributed to the development of Hungarian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.ilstu.edu/itk/2011/04/19/it-faculty-research-honors/</link>
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