Comp Sci Colloquium: IBM Academic Initiatiative

  • January 17, 2018
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 CST
  • Coffey Hall, McCormick Lounge
  • Dr. Ronald Greenberg, rig@cs.luc.edu
  • Free
  • Open to the public.
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    Title: Industry Does the Lifting so Teachers Can Do the Teaching (IBM Academic Initiative)
    Speaker: Valinda Scarbro Kennedy

    Date/Time: Wednesday, January 17, 2018
          5:45 pm (Social Hour, light refreshments)
          6:30 pm Presentation

    Location: McCormick Lounge
                   Coffey Hall (1000 W. Sheridan Rd.)
                   Loyola University Lake Shore Campus (building #27 on campus map)

    Topic Abstract:
    This session will be a live hands-on workshop to go through two key industry education programs. The Enhanced IBM Academic Initiative that provides industry resources available for free for teaching, learning and non-commercial research use. The IBM Skills Academy is the next level of this program and it provides face-to-face faculty training, hands-on labs, cloud infrastructure for the labs, badges and proctored testing. Bring your laptop, iPad or phone (a laptop will be better) and get ready to access enterprise software (including security software), prebuilt courses, Watson, the Cloud and more. Want your school to be a flagship IBM school, join us to learn how.