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Services:
The Computer Science department, faculty, and students contribute to a variety of projects and perform many types of service for the campus and community.
Here are a few of our activities:
Computer Science Department
The CS department provides server space and software to support websites, e-mail and listserv service, a document management system, an e-portfolio site, and an academic social networking site.
Websites are provided for students majoring/minoring or taking classes in multimedia applications, computer science, and computer information systems. Those students that graduate with a CS or CIS major/minor are invited to maintain their sites as alumni. Several academic departments and faculty members at McMurry also host all or portions of their websites on the department server.
E-mail service is delivered via the Horde e-mail platform. All individuals with accounts on the server also have the option of using IMAP or POP3 with their preferred e-mail client, or a web interface to check for messages. Lists are managed with Mailman and are frequently used to send information on job opportunities, AITP notices, and other items of interest to CS and CIS majors/minors.
BSCW, a shared document repository system originating at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, is used by students and faculty to organize and provide access to a variety of documents and class projects. Portions of the system are open for public access and other sections are reserved for class use.
An instance of Moodle, an open source course management system, is used to provide electronic portfolio space for business and education students. Students who need this type of software for special projects are also provided with workspace.
Elgg, a rapidly developing open source project available from SourceForge, is an academic social networking space. Currently, Dr. Alicia Wyatt is working with Elgg to document and reflect on the process of completing an honors thesis. Other faculty members are interested in the potential for blogging individually or in communities as an academic activity.
The server runs a number of MySQL and DB2 databases as well as supporting multiple programming languages and programming language environments. These applications are extremely important for faculty research projects, student projects, and class activities.
Computer Science Faculty
The computer science faculty conducts research in the discipline as well as participating in technology oriented activities on campus.
Mr. Rich Brozovic is often found working on his Sun Solaris N1 grid, with several Sun and non-Sun servers, to support his research for his PhD dissertation. He serves as the department representative to the Science and Math Advisory Board (SMAB), as the faculty representative to the Board of Trustees Committee on Information Technology, and as a member of the faculty Subcommittee on Admissions Standards. He has also conducted Microsoft Access training for faculty and staff and frequently assists other faculty and staff members with Microsoft Integration techniques to help automate routine processes. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and as the Student Chapter Liaison for the AITP Big Country Chapter and has served as a judge for student contests at Regional competitions. He is a member of the Abilene Founder Lions Club.
Dr. Robby Watson -- update coming soon!!
Dr. Alicia Wyatt served as the McMurry faculty technology consultant for almost 10 years, recently leaving this responsibility for the position of Assistant Dean for the School of Natural and Computational Sciences. She has secured a number of technology oriented grants which not only provided new equipment and services for campus use, but funded faculty technology training events. One of these events was Geek Week, which for several years running provided a fun venue for introducing McMurry faculty members to new and interesting ICT (information and communication technology) applications. Dr. Wyatt is currently interested in exploring Web 2.0 applications and delving into the social side of networks and computing.
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