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SMU School of Information Systems News and Updates
Greetings to all of you who are interested in SMU's School of Information Systems.
In this newsletter, we are sharing important news and updates that you should know about. These items demonstrate the remarkably strong support and endorsements that SIS continues to receive from the world community.
Regards,
Practice Professor Steven Miller
Dean School of Information Systems, SMU
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1. Update on SIS Internship Results for 2006
During this "summer period" between May and August 2006, over 66 companies are employing 130 SIS students as interns, exposing our students to really interesting opportunities and projects. 25 of these firms took on two or more SIS students. This demonstrates that if you are indeed passionate about studying both IT and Business (or Accounting, Economics or Social Science), and you are willing to do the hard (and fun!) work needed to develop both types of capabilities, you will have more opportunities than you ever imagined. The 66 firms who are employing our students this summer are listed here, in alphabetical order.
Click here for more information on SIS Undergraduate Internship Programme.
2. Standard Chartered Bank-SMU Innovation Centre is officially announced.
The Centre's Innovation Lab is sited at the School of Information Systems.
On 29 May, Standard Chartered Bank and SMU jointly announced to the public the new SCB-SMU Innovation Centre. As part of this Innovation Centre, an SCB-SMU Innovation Lab (iLab) has been created on the 3rd floor of the SIS building.
Here is the joint Standard Chartered - SMU press release announcing this effort.
SIS undergratuate students, graduate students and faculty have started working with Standard Chartered banking experts on Innovation Lab projects over the past five months. Also, faculty and student teams from the other SMU schools (for example, teams from marketing and from economics) are starting to get involved in Innovation Lab projects as well.
The Innovation Lab provides truly exceptional opportunities for those SIS students who want to work at the intersection of information technology, the banking industry, and business issues.
View photos of the SCBiLab here.
3. SIS Associate Professor PANG Hwee Hwa wins an IBM Innovation Award to work on IBM's
Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA).
PANG Hwee Hwa
Associate Professor, SIS |
This award will support our joint research program with the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on unstructured information management - specifically, the use of text annotation and indexing to provide high-quality relation spotting, dossier creation, question answering, etc. for corporate information systems. In this program, students at SMU and CMU will be developing UIMA-based question-answering applications for an industry partner. The program will also support the development of a new SIS undergraduate elective on "Information Retrieval for Competitive Intelligence". This course aims to expose students to information retrieval, text mining and other aspects of unstructured information management, and show how these technology capabilities can enhance competitive intelligence. |
Background Information
IBM's web site for the UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) Programme
An article from the IBM Systems Journal on Unstructured Information Management |
4. SAP Collaboration with SIS
Over the past year, SAP has been collaborating with SIS on educational initiatives. SAP experts actively participated in the SIS elective course on Enterprise Information Systems which was taught for the first time during Term 1 of the 2005 Academic Year (August - December 2005). Under the guidance of Mr. Simon Dale, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer for SAP Asia Pacific, SAP and SIS are exploring a number of other ways to collaborate on educational and research projects.
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“The world needs more people who can take IT into business settings and use IT to drive business innovation. Our customers and we need people who can take all of the elements of IT and put them together in a way that makes it easy for the business to respond to the market.
I have been collaborating with the SMU School of Information Systems, and it is clear that they understand what is needed to adapt to today's constantly changing markets.”
Mr. Simon Dale, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SAP Asia-Pacific. |
5. Oracle Collaboration with SIS
At the recent GridAsia 2006 event held in Singapore (and hosted at the SMU City Campus), Oracle Corporation announced that it is collaborating with SMU SIS to launch "Asia's first Enterprise Grid Architect Certification Programme." The new programme will certify IT professionals to design, build and manage sophisticated enterprise grid infrastructure.
Here is the joint Oracle - SMU SIS Press Release on the Enterprise Grid Architect Certification Programme.
Recently, Mr. Kevin Walsh, Oracle's Senior Vice President for Research & Development, visited SMU SIS to meet SIS faculty members and to explore mutual research and project interests. After his time at SIS, Kevin reflected on his impressions:
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"SMU SIS is a unique institution working on cutting edge subjects at the crossroads of Asia and of tomorrow's latest technology.
Today's business leaders must learn to balance the dynamics of business and technology to produce breakthroughs that will keep companies ahead in the race for global advantage. SMU SIS's unique program combines the best of both worlds in a program which will produce the next generation of world class leaders in the global information driven economy." Mr. Kevin Walsh, Senior Vice President, Research & Development, Oracle Corporation |
6. DFS Scholarship
The DFS Scholarship is established by DFS Group Limited to encourage students who are full-time undergraduates in the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) programme to strive for and achieve both academic and professional excellence, and to pursue careers at the intersection of information technology and business.
The DFS Scholars 2006:
One additional DFS scholarship will be awarded to an incoming first year student starting the SIS programme in August 2006.
7. Philips Scholarship
Philips Corporation has awarded two scholarships per year for the next five years to SIS. The objective of the Scholarship is to encourage undergraduates of the School of Information Systems (SIS) at the University to strive for and achieve both academic and professional excellence. The Scholarship will also help to motivate SIS students to take on the additional challenges of studying both Information Technology (IT) and Business, and give recipients of the Scholarship appropriate recognition for such accomplishments.
The company has also provided the Philips Outstanding Student award to SIS. The recipient of the Award will be a full-time third year undergraduate student pursuing the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree at SIS. The recipient shall also have outstanding academic achievements and have made outstanding contributions to SIS and the University community at large.
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