CIS News
CIS students help local health authority manage data quality
Ever try to find a needle in a haystack? Even when you’re not sure what
it looks like or if it’s even there at all? That’s the closest analogy
to what four University of the Fraser Valley computer information
systems (CIS) students and one mathematics student were doing onsite
with the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) for the past few months.
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Hot Skills - just off the press: | Skill | What CIS is doing about it: |
| Database management | We are working on an Informatics concentration in the degree |
| Security | We already have a Security concentration |
| IT sourcing and vendor relation management | We have pieces in multiple courses |
| Networking and wireless | We have a Networking concentration |
| Web development | We have all the courses you need for this |
| Quality management | We have quality management throughout the program |
Hot employers: Government, Education, Healthcare and Oil & Gas
UFV and Scorpion Software partner to give students industry experience Most of us lament the number of passwords we have to remember in our busy lives; everything from bank cards to voice mail, email, and even the library requires an access code. The temptation is strong to make them all ‘12345’ or ‘password’, even though we all know better. Even complex passwords are far too easy to share, steal, or guess, if you’re an unsavoury character looking to access someone else's accounts. Imagine what it’s like if you’re a business owner trying to protect hundreds or thousands of accounts on its corporate network.
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Left to right: Michael Harder (Abbotsford); Cody Marbach (Chilliwack); Helmut Wollenburg
(Chilliwack); Maxwell Mooney (Abbotsford); Jon VanderMey (Langley); Brent Hunter (Chilliwack);
Dana Epp, CEO & Owner, Scorpion Software. |
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Jeff and Brent wow'ing students at Chilliwack Secondary
Not only are these guys taking courses, they are very community oriented.
On Friday April 17th, they spent the day showing off robots and blackberry software to students at Chilliwack Secondary. Here they are in action:
Network skills in demand, pay well in down economy Desktop support ranked as the most wanted skill sets for 76 per cent of CIOs, with network and Windows administration taking the second and third slots with 65 per cent and 64 per cent, respectively. Database management is considered hot for 55 per cent of respondents, and telecommunications support and wireless network management was selected by 47 per cent and 46 per cent of CIOs polled, respectively. Rounding out those skills seen as in demand are Web development/Web site design (39 per cent ), virtualization (35 per cent ) and business intelligence (31 per cent ).
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UFV’s pushpin Mario gets virtual, and some very real, attention
It started as hijinks. Tired of studying and filling time between classes, a handful of computer students at the University of the Fraser Valley pulled a few push pins off a bulletin board in the campus hallway. The students pulled out a few more, and then almost absently-mindedly made a colourful image with the brightly coloured tacks.
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The Push Pin Team
