The Journey My journey to my internship started when I was accepted into the Sophomore Leaders Overnight Retreat trip hosted by the iSchool. Only 12 selected sophomores are chosen to go on this fully sponsored road trip. The trip which provided an insight into Ernst and Young (EY) and Microsoft’s main offices at New York… Read the full article…
The first day of April 2019 marks the Census Day of Action. This means that in exactly one year, the 2020 Census will be underway. In the past week, communities across the United States held events promoting census awareness and participation. The United States Constitution mandates the Census. It collects data about people living in the… Read the full article…
Before starting a new week, I thought I would reflect on my spring internship so far. So, I sat down to share my experience as a Data Analyst intern at Covanta Energy. Finding My Grad School Internship Like a lot of other graduate students in the space of data science/analytics, I was having a hard… Read the full article…
My name is Dinesh Challa. I am in my second semester of graduate school to obtain my Master’s in Information Management here at the iSchool. How did I get here? How did I get to freezing Syracuse, New York after being born and raised Hyderabad, India? I chose Syracuse University for a few important reasons. I… Read the full article…
What’s it Like to Come From a Family That Made History? iSchool Professor Beth Patin knows what it’s like. She’s the granddaughter of Sonnie Hereford III, the man who sued the Board of Education that led to the desegregation of Alabama Public Schools in the 1960s. It was this lawsuit that led Patin’s father, Sonnie… Read the full article…
During my time at the iSchool, I tried to participate in as many activities as possible; especially if it meant traveling by plane! Along with participating on the AsiaTech and EuroTech programs, I had the opportunity to be one of the students on the first Spring Break in Silicon Valley (SBinSV) trip in 2011. I… Read the full article…
InfoSpace is wrapping up another year of blogging! To close out the year, we’re celebrating our most popular posts from the second half of the year. Want to know what was popular from the beginning of 2018? Check out our Top 5 Posts from Spring 2018. Without further ado: our top 5 posts from summer… Read the full article…
It’s been a month since I came to the land of opportunities: the United States. It has been a fabulous journey so far and I’m loving it. Back home in India, I had two choices: either take a job at Dassault Systems as an R&D Associate Development Engineer or get my Masters in Applied Data… Read the full article…
Globally in 2015, private organizations spent $84 billion on cybersecurity, an amount that has an estimate of $125 billion in 2020. Some researchers estimate that by 2030 that number could be as high as $90 trillion. This begs the question: how will governments react to the growing number and variety of cybersecurity threats? Threats may… Read the full article…
When my internship with Wayfair began, I was apprehensive about how well I would fit into a professional work environment and learn all the required technical skills to excel at work. This was primarily due to this being by first such venture in the United States. I was skeptical about how am I expected to… Read the full article…