The blurry lines between the client and server in Web Programming continues to move at a dizzying pace.  Just as soon as you get XML figured out, there’s JSON promising simplicity.  Moreover, once you get SOAP (or XML-RPC) figured out, there’s REST.  On that note, just as you get AJAX figured out, someone gives you [...]

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Interesting tutorial on Floating-point arithmetic.  It is imperative that we recall that a floating-point value, (double-precision, quadrupal precision, or otherwise) is not able to truly capture the irrational numbers (PI, square root of two, etc.) that sometimes pervade our lives and our need to compute.  No, floating-point is an approximation and a short-hand that is [...]

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Here are some photos from the Spring 2010 Student trip to Cisco and Walgreen’s.  The experience was phenomenal and we owe a debt of gratitude to all who facilitated this opportunity.
Dr. Babb

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Free and Opensource Software frameworks continue to impress, astound and change the game.  Whereas it is a challenge to keep up with programming for the “cloud” and Web x.0, the amazing and ongoing development of FOSS is somehow making it easier, more extensible and easier to “grok.”  This semester, I have been working with several [...]

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http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/15/samsung-issues-warnings-about-3-d-tv/?hpt=T2
Samsung warns that excessive use of 3D-TVs can cause disorientation so severe, that one could fall off the couch. Also:
“Pregnant women, drunk people and “those who are sleep deprived” should not watch 3-D television because of potential health issues, electronics manufacturer Samsung says on its Web site.”
“Viewing in 3-D may cause disorientation for some [...]

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The department of Information and Decision Management at West Texas A&M University would like to congratulate the participants in the 2010 Immersion Excursion.This year, 14 hand selected outstanding IDM students participated in a five hour tour of Cisco’s campus in Dallas. Participants were exposed to Cisco’s new product testing facility, got to experience upcoming communications [...]

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The WT Tech Club continues to strengthen their shared interests and pursuit of all things technologic. On Thursday, March 25th, the WT Tech Club were given a detailed tour of the WT Network Operations Center. A thank you is in order to Mike Howsmon and Chad Day, both of WT Network Services, for their informative [...]

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Greetings Folks. For those of you who are CIS majors and have an interest in Cyber Security, Dakota State University is running a good symposium, funded by the National Science Foundation.
It’s a competitive event, with only around 30 students accepted around the country. However, it’s relatively new and not well advertised, so I think a [...]

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The WT Tech Club has met twice so far this semester: once to elect new officers and once to work on their website (http://www.cis.wtamu.edu/techclub/), which is coming along nicely (thank you Geogria Romig!).  I’m just posting to share a few pictures of the faces of the WT Tech Club.  Check out the Tech Club website [...]

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Congratulations to the 2010 nominees for the third CIS Immersion Excursion.
This year, we are bringing 14 hand selected CIS students to Dallas to visit CISCO and Walgreen’s distribution center.  This year’s participants are:

Brad Kent
Yuri Chavira
Salvador Gomez
Nathan Tarrant
Edgar Cardenas
Ivan Cardenas
Rebecca Boyer
Skyler Schmidt
Brenton Thurber
Laura Castro
Dustin Hume
Brandon Boyd
Eyoel Mengesha
K.C. Wilder

Participants are nominated by a committee of professors based [...]

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