GSA Technology Council

The Columbia division of the FBI is conducting their annual Cybercrime survey. If your organization has been affected by Cybercrime, then you certainly want to fill this out. If you haven’t you might want to read through the survey just to see if you should be filling it out, but didn’t know it. You may recall that the FBI delivered a very informative presentation to the GSA Technology Council lunch in April. The survey is a Microsoft Word document which I posted to BOX.NET so you could see a preview of it before you download it.

link: Download Cybercrime Survey

The June GSATC Lunch featured Jim Pepin, CTO of Clemson University as he talked about Cyberinfrastructure and how Clemson is approaching the challenge of becoming a top 20 university. It was heady stuff and they have made quite a bit of progress. We’ll be posting Jim’s presentation soon, but I thought you might want to hear what some of the attendees had to say about the meeting.

As always, the entertainment (you) was great - you keep the meeting moving and humorous. Jim Pepin also gave a good overview of Clemson’s efforts to be current with a research university’s role in CI.

-Bill

Mr. Pepin’s presentation was very informative. Even as a Clemson PhD student, I was not aware of the university’s contemporary use of information technology. It was also exciting to learn the active role Clemson is playing in the networking of South Carolina with other states in the region.
- Jennifer

The meeting today exceeded my expectations. I was please to be able to network with a fine group of Technology professionals and Mr. Pepin’s talk was very informative. Keep up the good work and I look forward to next month’s meeting
- Sue

the GSATC luncheon amazes me every time as you always find a way to improve over the last one. Your approach to combine technology, information and entertainment is unique and very enjoyable. The speaker was brilliant!
- Manfred

I really enjoyed the meeting yesterday! I am an IT Recruiter, and it is really important to me to hear about new advances in technology. I enjoyed Jim Pepin’s presentation and found it to be very informative.
- Tracy

It’s terrific that GSATC highlights top-flight speakers like Jim Pepin, Clemson CTO, who was in the original cadre that created Arpanet, the predecessor of the Internet, 40 years ago. We’re privileged to get a peek inside the minds of people like Jim.
- John

Great meeting as usual. I wish I could make more events, and will make a better effort to attend more often.
-Dave

The topic was most interesting and enjoyed the presentation.
-Becky

Enjoyed the presentation very much. Some of it was way over my knowledge level but the overall discussion was great. I was amazed at how much Clemson is doing to bring SC to the forefront of networking and infrastructure. We need all of this we can get in SC.
-Chris

I thought the meeting was very interesting. Phil - you’re a great MC! Although I may not be able to use the information directly about Clemson, it was really neat to see how they’re tying in to the ‘latest and greatest’ technology. Also, the other attendees were interesting and I look forward to participating in more meetings/gatherings. I want to keep up to date on the IT aspect of technology and try to figure out how I may be able to update aspects of my business. Even as an artist I still have a technical mind and want to use leading edge concepts whenever and wherever they’re feasible, profitable, and make sense.
-Sharon

This was my first GSATC meeting and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great people, great forum. The meeting topic was extremely interesting.
-Maryanne

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The term “cyberinfrastructure” was developed by a United States National Science Foundation (NSF) blue-ribbon committee in 2003 in response to the question: how can NSF, as the nation’s premier agency funding basic research, remove existing barriers to the rapid evolution of high performance computing, making it truly usable by all the nation’s scientists,engineers, scholars, and citizens?

Cyberinfrastructure describes the new research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services over the Internet. In scientific usage, cyberinfrastructure is a technological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories and knowledge.

“One of the key conclusions of the President’s commission that laid the intellectual framework for the President’s announcement today was that while we certainly have a history of some real attacks, some very serious, to our “cyber-infrastructure”, the real threat lay in the future. And we can’t say whether that’s tomorrow or years hence.”

- Dr. Jeffrey Hunker, Professor of Technology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

The GSA Technology Council will discuss Cyberinfrastructure, and Clemson University’s programs to develop a strong, resilent set of systems designed to propel the university into “Top 20″ status at it’s June 4, 2008 lunch meeting.

The GSATC Learning Lunch program, led by Clemson’s Chief Technology Officer and Director of High Performance Computing, Jim Pepin, is open to the public. The GSATC meets June 4, 2008, from 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Greenville, SC. RSVP online at www.GSATC.org. Lunch is $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

Tonight’s Tech After Five features two Upstate South Carolina Startup Companies in the GSATC StartupZone. We’ll have representatives and demonstrations from social networking website AthleteFocus.com and from consumer electronics company Zipit.

About this evening’s startup companies:

AthleteFocus.com
web 2.0, Social Networking for Athletes

Founded in 2006 by Graham Fizer, a competitive water-skier, AthleteFocus.com is the premiere social networking website for action and endurance sports athletes. The initial site made a splash by receiving an award from the New Ideas for a New Carolina contest in 2006 and registering over 600 athletes to the site in the first year.

With the launch of version 2.0 of the website on May 9th, AthleteFocus has had over 700 new members created profiles, doubling the community in less than two weeks.

ZipitWireless
Instant Messaging, Music, Photos without a PC

Zipit Wireless Inc. is a Greenville, S.C.-based developer of consumer electronics. The company focuses on wireless communication and entertainment devices that leverage the Internet and the explosion of Wi-Fi networks, while removing the dependency on the family computer. Zipit Wireless’ first product, the Zipit Wireless Messenger, received the iParenting award for ease of use and safety.

May’s Tech After Five is sponsored by KeyMark

These companies are looking for customers, partners, employees, and more. You are invited to come and see how you might be able to connect with this promising companies.

Want to present in the Startup Zone? (Apply here.)

If you’re running errands at lunch, why not listen in?

WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2007
A live call-in hour on the Internet and related technologies. Eric Rodgers hosts Phil Yanov, executive director of the GSA Technology Council and blogger at Thinkhammer. Listeners can call in via the tollfree number 888-539-8859 to ask questions about using the Internet, computers, new digital devices, and related topics.

The program is Your Day and it is carried across the ETV Radio Network. That’s 90.1 FM in the Upstate.

At tonight’s Tech After Five event with the GSATC, I caught John Warner and asked him what we should expect at the upcoming Innoventure conference. If you’re wondering what the value of the event will be to you, this should make it perfectly clear who benefits from Innoventure and why. There is no better event in the upstate to see what tomorrow might bring.

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Technology Professionals and Entrepreneurs alike are invited to our inaugural after hours event. We’re meeting at Barley’s Taproom in downtown Greenville, SC. (There should be plenty of free parking in the lot next door.) The fun starts at 5:30 PM. RSVP Online and bring a business card and the first beer will be on us. (RSVP / More info)

Update! One of tonight’s door prizes will be a ticket to Innoventure! (Thanks John!) RSVP Here!

George Fletcher delivered a great presentation at last week’s GSA Technology Council lunch. He talked about New Carolina and their initiatives to raise the per capita income of South Carolina through the development of clusters. We’ll have the audio from Geroge’s presentation up on the site soon, but for those of you who were in attendance and would like to review the slides, we have those online now. Watch or download the slides below:

At last week’s Tech After Five Event we asked people to tell us what they were looking for. We printed their (not so secret) desires on their name badge and they frequently used it as a conversation starter. The answers ranged from the practical to the sublime, but here is what Upstate South Carolina’s Tech Professionals told us they were looking for:

• Linux people


• A new Job


• Networking


• Consultant candidates and Hiring Managers


• Balance…


• Java developers, Linux sysadmins, IBM or Oracle DBAs


• Contract Developers


• Outstanding Career-Minded IT Performers


• Business Leads


• Innovators


• socializing, recruiting new Java Users Group, and Linux Users Group members.


• Businesses in need of legal advice & fellow gadget lovers


• Great People!


• members and sponsors


• Networking… People not LAN


• contacts


• angel funding


• What I can do for you


• Free Beer


• Tickets for BMW Pro-Am


• Botox Injections


• Anything outdoors


• SharePoint Nirvana


• a great domestic stout


• Business Partners


• Sales, Sales and More Sales


• Warren Buffet’s Single Daughter


• Geek talk, a good beer, and an opportunity talk about design


• customers, business partnerships


• LAMP Developers + a date


• Professional Networking


• a couple extra zeros for my bottom line


• Business contacts


• experienced executives for my team


• interesting people to meet!


• meeting other IT professionals


• Hyperion-type applicatioin


• Contacts, business

What are you looking for? Come tell us at the next Tech After Five.

The IT Leadership Council will meet February 27th to discuss the issues of attracting and retaining top talent in a competitive market. The IT Leadership Council is a peer forum of senior ranking IT professionals from Upstate companies. Founded in 2004, the group is a continuing collaboration of the GSA Technology Council and the Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce. To learn more or request an invitation, contact Phil Yanov at 800-688-2094 or visit http://www.gsatc.org/groups/it-leadership-council/.

via: IT Leadership Council (ITLC)