This project’s goal was to learn and apply the skill of programming in a real life example. As far as results go, the application I created functions as a quote generator that calculates a price based on the number of windows on a building, the application features a working form that takes orders, and lastly the application provides employees of generating reports with a list of orders on it protected by a password. The link to the project is here http://misdemo.temple.edu/tug18271/SonnyShinesWindow. I learned how to tie everything that was taught in MIS 3501 together through a practical challenge.
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Bauman is building the next generation of learning software
Konstantin Bauman’s research – building novel machine learning models – sounds challenging. Then he provides more details.
For a recent experiment with the University of the People, a non-profit online higher education institution, Bauman developed systems that were able to assess a student’s overall course work, find weaknesses and then make specific study recommendations before the final exam. The experiment showed that students who received personalized tips received significantly higher grades than the students who received no guidelines or generalized ones.
It was a very simple algorithm but we really helped real people with their studies,” Bauman said. “I’m really proud of the results of these first experiments and now we’re looking at going to the next stage, not only telling students what to read but saying, ‘You should participate in this online discussion’ or ‘You should watch this video.’
Assistant Professor Bauman, who joined the Management Information Systems Department of Temple University’s Fox School of Business for the Fall 2017 semester, has undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Data Mining and earned his Ph.D. in Geometry and Topology in 2012 from Moscow State University.
Before coming to the United States to work as a postdoctoral research scientist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Bauman was in charge on machine learning research at Yandex LLC, “the Russian version of Google.” One of his projects there involved developing algorithms to determine which advertisements would be most appealing to users. Even a slight increase in the click-through-rate can mean millions of dollars for a business, he said.
Everything you do – any application you use or your clicks on a website — generates data,” said Bauman, who is teaching a course this semester on data mining. “A good business person should know how to get knowledge and insights from the data.
Many people don’t realize that machine learning and recommender systems are already making their lives easier, he said. It’s the technology behind email spam filters, Google’s top search results, Amazon product recommendations and Yelp restaurant suggestions. It is moving beyond algorithms identifying that someone who enjoyed the first book in the Harry Potter series should read the second one.
That’s something that’s most likely already on your radar. We should provide new recommendations or unexpected recommendations,” he said. “We have information coming at us from everywhere and trying to consume it all would be overwhelming so we need this advice.
Bauman’s current projects include creating algorithms to make better restaurant recommendations based on user input and further exploring how machine learning can help humans in their studies. He is collecting data from students in his current programming class with the hope of aiding future students.
Since it’s a first programming course for most of our students, the best approach would be to practice, practice a lot. We are developing a system where students can study online and take the provided learning activities in any order,” he said. “My idea is to find a way to recommend the ideal path so they don’t take all of the assignments, just the ones that will be beneficial to them. These recommendations should help students reach their learning goals in the most efficient and effective way.
New MIS faculty bring expertise in healthcare, social media, analytics and machine learning
Sezgin Ayabakan (Ph.D., University of Texas, Dallas), JaeHwuen Jung (Ph.D., University of Minnesota), and Konstantin Bauman (Ph.D., Moscow State University) join the MIS department as Assistant Professors in fall 2017.
Dr. Ayabakan, who was previously an Assistant Professor at University of Baltimore and faculty fellow at the Schaefer Center for Public Policy, is researching healthcare by applying analytics to analyze very large data sets from hospitals. He will apply his analytics background and practical experience working with big data to teach the MIS department’s award winning GenEd Data Science course.
Dr. Jung, who recently completed his dissertation, is examining the role of incentive structures in online and mobile forums using field experiments. Dr. Jung will apply his industry experience in the telecomm industry as well as research on social gaming and networks to teach Analytics to majors and minors across the Fox School.
Dr. Bauman, who was previously a research scientist at New York University, is a machine learning expert focusing on researching recommendation systems. Dr. Bauman will apply his extensive technical expertise including industry experience as a software engineer to teach programming.
Alum Ron Riddell ’68 endows 100K scholarship
When Ron Riddell graduated with a B.B.A. from Temple in 1968 computers were, he says, a “mystic temple in society.” But, armed with his degree, Riddell found himself in the computer field, and wound up, nearly 40 years later, with a successful career as a mainframe programmer. He’s currently a system support analyst and Assistant Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank.
Part of the achievement he attributes to luck, but “with out a degree at Temple I wouldn’t have gotten where I’m at…it opened doors to reasonable success.”
Now he’s helping other Temple students get their degrees, and have a chance at finding open doors, by funding the Ron and Ronda Riddell Endowed Scholarship with a $50,000 gift which is being matched by the Fox School for a total endowment of $100,000.
Munir Mandviwalla, Associate Professor and Chair, MIS, says the gift is “transformational because it will support hard working Temple students who choose business technology as a career. It is also the first such gift in the short history of the department.”
Riddell understands hard work and tight finance. He chose Temple because he could afford the tuition and live at home (commuting to class was common at the time). He got a further boost about two years into his studies. Temple became “state-related,” a designation that Pennsylvania gives universities that are independently run, but receive financial appropriations—in exchange for offering tuition discounts to students that are residents of Penn.
It was while he was at school that he met his future wife, Ronda Currens, although she didn’t attend Temple. The two met at church and she was only in Philly for a year before going home to Minneapolis. “ Four and a half years, and a lot of phone calls later,” the two married.
A job at Philco was Riddell’s first open door. After 18 months in production, he moved into programming. At the time, Philco was heavily involved in defense contracting, including work with NASA. His first computer was a Burroughs with 256 kilobytes. “I’ve got more memory sitting in my programmable alarm clock,” he points out.
The position at Philco lead to a stint at The Franklin Mint, then years of work at Combustion Engineering (a company who, at the time, was a leader in the development of both fossil and nuclear steam supply power systems.)
Then he took a job with Fidelity Bank and he’s now bee n in banking for 30 years.
“I didn’t build a better mousetrap. I got lucky getting a job in computers when demand was high.” Riddell says. He also invested, and lived a comfortable but modest life with Ronda (who succumbed to MS in 2009).
He wanted to do something that was large enough to make an impact, and the endowed fund does just that.
He also hopes that naming the scholarship after his wife, Ronda, will help people remember her. She was with him for 45 years.
Most importantly, though, “if it helps get a kid through college” then Riddell’s more than happy to have made sure doors continue to open.
Jack Hughes to speak on The Changing Nature of Work
The Changing Nature of Work
The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology in collaboration with the Management Information Systems department presents the Fox IT distinguished speaker series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.
Jack Hughes
Founder and Chairman
TopCoder, Inc.
February 10, 2011
The world of work is rapidly changing. The internet will have profound effects on how companies manage a highly diverse, mobile and global workforce. Management models will undergo shifts to meet these new challenges and opportunities. Managers will need to develop new skill sets, measurement and motivation systems to engage these new models of work. Mr. Hughes will discuss these changes and their effects in the context of TopCoder – the world’s largest competitive software development community.
Biography
In November 2000, Jack Hughes founded TopCoder on the premise that talent and skill are the determinant factors in the quality and utility of software — and software has become central to the global economy.
In both his own programming experience and as co-founder and chairman of Tallán Inc., a provider of web-enabled business solutions, Hughes recognized that while successful projects were driven by superior programming skills, the talent was unqualified and largely unrecognized. TopCoder’s mission is to create objective ratings that place high value on the programming industry’s best and brightest, and build opportunity and community for programmers through ongoing programming tournaments and employer connections.
Under Hughes’ tenure as chairman at Tallán, the company was recognized as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America four years in a row by consultancy firm Deloitte & Touche and by Inc. magazine for its outstanding performance. In 2000, CMGI, Inc. acquired a majority ownership of the company.
Hughes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Boston College. He is Chairman of the Board for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
Registration and attendance
Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.
Bachelors in MIS
The nationally recognized Bachelors of Business Administration in Management Information Systems (MIS) produces digital leaders who design, architect, and manage API-driven products. These products apply APIs, cloud, cyber-security, agile, user experience, and analytics to achieve business outcomes.
The BBA in MIS is a STEM program that provides access to STEM and MIS scholarships.
In today’s digital ecosystem of software-based services, MIS students imagine, create, and deploy API-driven digital products and services to create value for consumers and businesses.
MIS students are poised to take on product management roles applying their skills to take innovative digital ideas from inception to successful use and profitability.
Learn to design, build, deploy, secure, and evaluate API-driven, cloud-based software applications that achieve business goals, meet requirements, deliver a positive user experience, and execute reliably at scale. MIS will prepare you to:
Design software applications that meet requirements and are enjoyable to use employing state-of-the-art UX techniques- Build web-based, API-driven business applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Node.js as well as frameworks such as Express
- Deploy APIs on a robust cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services
- Secure applications and businesses against cyber-threats applying cryptography and vulnerability discovery techniques
- Analyze critical business data using data mining techniques and navigate relational and NoSQL data stores using MySQL and MongoDB
CURRICULUM
More information, including course numbers, full course descriptions, and prerequisites, is available through the Temple Bulletin.
Required courses
- Web Application Development
Develop web-based applications that integrate web services - Data and Analytics
Analyze and present insights from business data - Cloud Architecture
Design and build cloud-based infrastructures for scalable application deployment - User Experience Design
Describe, scope, and build a complete user experience - Web Service Programming
Create and deploy a complete, end-to-end, cloud-based application - Managing Enterprise Cybersecurity
Secure applications and the enterprise
Selected electives
- Lead Global Digital Projects
Lead technology-enabled transformation - Internet Enabled Supply Chains
Reimagine supply chains using digital technology - Applied Predictive Analytics
Derive patterns and insight from large data sets - Strategic Management of Information Technology
Manage IT resources to advance an organization’s strategy - Social Media Innovation
Create digital business models using next-generation interfaces and social media. - Special Topics
Explore new and emerging technology topics - Information Systems Innovation
Create new digital products and services - Co-operative Experience in MIS
Gain course credit for internships.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
MIS majors benefit from the innovative patent-pending PRO – professional achievement program:
- Earn required points for professional development activities and for applying learning to practice (e.g., internships, student leadership)
- Receive recognition for professional achievement on leaderboards, badges, professional achievement wire, and e-portfolios. ‘Cash-in’ reward points at the MIS Points Store.
- Showcase your educational and professional achievements at the MIS Career Fair.
CAREERS AND PLACEMENT
MIS BBA majors get placed in the top firms in the region and nationally. Learn about careers in IS and participate in the MIS Career Fair which provides exclusive one-stop placement and internship opportunities for MIS students. The Temple University led ISJobIndex.com project provides national level data on jobs in the IS field:
- Bachelor MIS students’ average salary is $75,517 nationally. Salaries for IS graduates are higher than typical business majors.
- 81% of IS graduates are satisfied with their job offer.
The top IS jobs are:
Source: IS Job Index, http://isjobindex.com
THE MIS EDGE
- What is MIS and why should you consider MIS?
- What is unique about the nationally recognized MIS program?
- Exclusive scholarships and awards. BBA in MIS students are eligible for STEM designated scholarships.
Win prizes and gain recognition in national, and local analytics and entrepreneurial competitions.- Temple’s Association for Information Systems (AIS) student organization provides extensive professional, social, and community activities.
- The BBA in MIS is designed in partnership with the Industry.
- Access top firms through the affiliated Institute of Business and Information Technology, which each year hosts the acclaimed IT awards.
- Learn the latest technologies.
- Fox is one of the largest business schools in the world with a vast array of programs, research centers, and superb resources.
- Accelerated 3 Year BBA – Motivated students can finish in 3 years.
MORE INFORMATION
- Download BBA MIS Course Structure
- Temple University Undergraduate Bulletin FSBM/MIS
- College Graduation Requirements for Freshmen and Transfer Students
NEXT STEPS
- Take a look at our internationally renowned faculty
- Read Why Temple MIS?
- Connect with Temple AIS on Facebook
If you are a high performing motivated student – we want to recruit you – please contact Joseph Allegra at jallegra@temple.edu
