Thursday, April 11, 2013

MUM MSCS Student Zheng Yang creates Windows App Featured by Microsoft

 

Zheng Yang: Gravilux for Windows

MUM ComPro student Zheng Yang (February 2010 entry) recently created a mobile application called Gravilux which was featured in the Windows Store under the Entertainment category by Microsoft out of 50,000 apps. 

Gravilux is an interactive musical starfield visualizer: it's a combination of music, animation, art, and science. As you touch the screen, gravity draws simulated stars to your fingertips. You can tease and twist the particles into galaxies, or explode them like a supernova. You can color the stars by their speed, and make them dance to the music from your play list. You can change parameters including gravity and number of stars, and enable antigravity and color. Multiple fingers and multiple people can touch the screen at once, collaborating or competing.

Learn more about Zheng Yang here.

 



Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Are you an Information Technology (IT) professional aspiring to become a Global Information Systems Executive?



Online Graduate Certification program in MIS from Maharishi University of Management helps you get there!


Information technology is changing the world incredibly fast. It is offering opportunities to create new products, new business models, new efficiencies, and to get closer to customers around the world. It is creating revolutions in business and in geopolitics. There is great demand for visionary and dynamic IT executives who know how to harness new information technologies and deploy them effectively in the cause of new models and new growth. You can almost write your own new business card!

Maharishi University of Management (MUM) is glad to announce a new, competitively priced, 18-credit Online Graduate Certificate program in Management Information Systems (MIS) that can help your further your career by helping you transition to, or make yourself more effective in, Business Analyst and IT leadership roles. 

The program will provide you with the theories, practical knowledge, skills and expertise on how to strategically deploy information systems to drive business value. Upon completion of this program, you will:
·         Understand the social and organizational context, and how to align IT with organizational strategy to drive collaboration, competitive advantage, and user satisfaction
·         Understand information requirements and business processes, and how to strategically design and deliver integrated enterprise systems and web applications, under budget and on schedule.
·         Understand IT Infrastructure, including hardware, software and networks, and how to make it cost-effective, resilient and secure.
·         Understand emerging technologies such as cloud and mobile and social computing and Big Data, and how to structure and manage them for superior information access, agility and decision-making 

This program can be completed entirely online in one to two years depending upon your needs. It will begin with 2 credits of MUM’s unique course on the Science and Technology of Consciousness (STC), and continue with 16 credits of MIS courses to be selected from a wide range of course offerings. 

For students who are new to MUM’s system of Consciousness-Based (SM) education, this program will provide a unique blend of MIS knowledge and the total knowledge of consciousness that together can help launch their career on a faster track. 

For alumni of the MUM Computer Science MS program who have graduated in the last 10 years and have already taken the 4-credit STC or SCI course, the STC course requirement under this program will be waived.  

This program will be offered beginning Fall 2013. The first MIS class will tentatively begin on September 2, 2013. 

Upon graduation from the MIS Certificate program, students will also have the option to complete the MBA degree at MUM with an additional 42 credits of study over two years of half-speed study in the Evening-Weekend MBA program that will officially go online in the Fall 2013 semester.

For more on the program and to apply online, visit mum.edu/MISCertificate. You can also email us at MISCertificate@mum.edu for any questions or clarifications.