ITS 553 - Technology and Innovation

This course will explore emerging trends in business and consumer technologies and will provide students with the vision and understanding of how to leverage these technologies to create efficiencies in existing businesses processes. Topics will include off shoring, virtualization, data mining, open source software, digital search engines, national health records, electronic voting, automotive computing, pervasive computing (RFID tracking), software as a service (SaaS), e-publishing, digital divide, emerging gadgetries, and cybercrime.

Credits: 3