SJSU Collaboration with IBM -some recent examples

Stephen K. KwanProfessor

College of Business, SJSU

12/1/2011

IBM on Campus• Center for Advanced Studies – MOU signed,

headed by Ronald Mak (IBM, CS SJSU)• IBM Great Mind Challenge (Larry Gee, MIS)

• History of Computing Speakers Series (Ron Mak)

• SJSU President Mo Qayoumi spoke at “Regional Upward Spirals: Future Technologies, Skills, Jobs and Quality-of-Life” IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA September 27th, 2011

• Multiple Sbona Honors Program Students from the College of Business work with IBMers at Alamden on various projects for the last few semesters (Spohrer, Philips, Mak, …)

• Professor Ashraf Shirani of the College of Business will be using Cognos in his MBA class in the spring semester

• Professor Chris Tseng of CS received IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Award

• Professor Stephen Kwan of the College of Business is teaching Service Science courses to MIS and MBA students

• Professor Lou Freund of the College of Engineering is teaching Service Engineering in the Master of Industrial Engineering program

• Professor Ron Mak of CS is teaching IBM related software engineering classes

• Professor Stephen Kwan is working with Cheryl Kieliszewski of IBM Almaden on a research project

• Watson Jeopardy watch party at SJSU

Students meeting IBMers

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