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  • November 21, 2016

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    Tiger Talk: Anne R. Haake

    Anne R. Haake became dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences on April 1.

  • November 15, 2016

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    RIT officially launches MAGIC Spell Studios

    RIT today launched the building that will house MAGIC Spell Studios, a first-of-its-kind effort in higher education that will link RIT’s internationally ranked academic programs with high-tech facilities needed to commercialize computer gaming, film and animation, and digital media projects.

  • November 11, 2016

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    Students compete in cybersecurity competition

    College students from Maine to California traveled to RIT to test their hacking skills in the annual Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition. University of Central Florida took home the top trophy in the competition, while University at Buffalo placed second and RIT placed third.

  • November 10, 2016

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    Graduate student finds family in peers

    Meet Sanjay Varma Rudraraju, a computer science graduate student from Visakhapatnam, India. He works in The Wallace Center and recently participated in The Giant Read, in which RIT students visited School No. 5 in the city of Rochester and read to first-graders.

  • November 1, 2016

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    RPO performs music from Legend of Zelda

    The concert, featuring music and scenes from the Legend of Zelda video game and a panel discussion afterward, is co-sponsored by RIT, RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios and Upstate Region Interactive Technologies Hub.

  • October 31, 2016

    RIT hosts second pen testing competition

    Students from the nation’s top colleges will use their offensive hacking skills for good in RIT’s Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition Nov. 4-6. The competition allows students to experience a day in the life of a penetration tester, who tests and evaluates an organization’s computer systems.

  • October 26, 2016

    RIT launches Video Game Design XSeries program

    RIT and edX, the leading nonprofit online learning destination, are offering the XSeries program to teach participants about the skills they would need to become successful video game designers and explore what job opportunities they could pursue in the industry.

  • October 20, 2016

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    Esports becomes RIT’s newest intramural sport

    Starting this fall, teams of five began facing off in the battle arenas of the video game Heroes of the Storm. Nearly 50 students compete in weekly match-ups during the 10-week season, with the goal of making it to playoffs and the championship game.

  • October 3, 2016

    ACM president to open GCCIS Dean’s Lecture Series

    RIT Distinguished Professor Vicki Hanson, president of the Association for Computing Machinery—the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society—will discuss the latest in computing accessibility and human-computer interaction on Oct. 14.

  • September 16, 2016

    Professor to study K-12 computing education

    Adrienne Decker, assistant professor of interactive games and media, received a $1.19 million grant to study the long-term effects of pre-college computing activities.