Amazon Web Services, Arizona State to offer for-credit cloud education to 10K high schoolers

The Ed Equity Lab partnered with ASU to deliver credit-bearing courses at no cost to high school students. The cloud computing classes, which will start this fall, will be asynchronous and taught by faculty members trained by AWS.

Online crowdsourcing contests: Good timing brings better contestants

Pei-yu Chen, professor of information systems, has found that contest duration, the amount of time you give contestants to submit their offering, affects the number and quality of the contestants you attract on crowdsourcing contest platforms.

Bluetooth is useful, ubiquitous, and an invitation to hackers

Cybersecurity experts — including Assistant Professor of Information Systems Victor Benjamin — are asking if new types of federal oversight are needed to prevent the growing number of HIPAA violations due to hacking.

Are ransomware attacks on the rise?

After the Colonial Pipeline was attacked by cyberhackers and left millions hanging at the gas pump, it gained control of operations after paying the attackers $5 million in untraceable cryptocurrency. This week, the world’s largest meat producer and Fujifilm are the latest victims.

Gas, other infrastructure susceptible to computer hacks

Supply chain expert explains how ransomware attacks will continue to increase, therefore straining supply chains.

Experts: Semiconductor company will spark north Phoenix growth

A Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing company could bring in more investment, and in turn, a bigger economic impact.

ASU, Drive48, and Pima County prepare to fill thousands of jobs in statewide 'manufacturing boom'

A recent grant awarded to ASU by the U.S. Department of Labor seeks to create a new program called Arizona Workforce Training Accelerator Partnership for Next Generation Jobs, or simply AZNext, with three focus areas: IT, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing.

Divisive, demoralizing bots are winning, so big tech needs to think bigger

Facebook and Twitter need to crack down on fake accounts, argues Professor of Information Systems Victor Benjamin. It’s getting harder to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s fake, he says, and online conversations are being drowned out by misinformation.

America’s workforce will get upskill, reskill through $8M DOL grant to ASU

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded Arizona State University an $8 million grant to lead an innovative workforce development partnership to help train workers for high-paying, high-demand jobs in advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, and information technology.

What’s it worth? Researchers examine how patients value star ratings in health care

Professor and Chair of Information Systems Raghu Santanam and research colleagues overwhelmingly found that patients are willing to pay more for higher-quality health care based on star ratings.