Companies
This company's supercomputer became famous for being the first machine to beat a human on Jeopardy.
What is IBM?
This was the most widely-attended event last semester for BITS.
What is Careers in IS Night?
This person is the founder of Oculus.
Who is Brendan Iribe?
This member of BITS is a twin, part of the Design Culture and Creativity Program and a huge fan of concerts.
Who is Paulos?
This coding language is enclosed in tags using angled brackets.
What is HTML?
This banking company prides itself on being a tech company first and will be speaking at the Diverse Careers in IS Q&A Panel.
What is Capital One?
This one-credit class prepares students for an in-demand cloud computing certification.
What is BMGT299B: Applied Cloud Computing in Information Systems?
This person is the founder of Dell.
Who is Michael Dell?
This member of BITS is an avid BIRD scooter rider and is part of the INNOVO Scholars Program.
Who is Matt?
This term refers to informal high-level instructions intended for human reading that describes the implementation of an algorithm.
What is pseudo code?
This company acquired LinkedIn for $26B in 2016.
What is Microsoft?
This event at Smith brings together industry leaders in technology, DOIT faculty, and case competitors.
What is TechFest?
This person is the founder of Google.
Who is Larry Page or Sergey Brin?
This member of BITS recently returned from a tour of Southeast Asia and is our resident Python expert.
Who is Amit?
This data type in a popular coding language stores items as a series of key-value pairs.
What is a dictionary?
This company is the leader in Cloud Computing solutions.
What is AWS?
This service is provided free of charge to all Smith students through a Microsoft subsidiary and is used for free online education courses in mostly technical skills.
What is LinkedIn Learning?
This person is the founder of Oracle.
Who is Larry Ellison?
This member of BITS is the Business Representative for SGA and loves to play soccer.
Who is Cole?
This type of Windows or Mac application will allow you to connect to services remotely and execute lines of code without opening a web browser.
What is terminal or command line?
The company acquired Tableau for nearly $16B in 2019.
What is Salesforce?
These six IS professors are the most widely-encountered among IS majors at Smith.
Who is Prof. Karake, Prof. Raschid, Prof. Lee, Prof. Ibrahim, Prof. Bono, and Prof. Huang?
Who is Reid Hoffman?
This executive board member of BITS has a passion for design and has some proficiency in Mandarin.
Who is Carrie?
This type of machine learning uses clusters of nodes with associated weights, an activation function, and an output function to perform tasks such as facial recognition.
What are neural networks?