The Eyes Have It

04/14/22 • 32 min

Informatics Cafe - A Taste of Informatics

Have you ever wondered if you could control the cursor on your screen with just the movement of your eye? Students in the Applied Software Engineering Program are doing just that. NKU Associate Professor Nicholas Caporusso and students Trung Cao and Brett Thaman join host Mike Nitardy to share about the Applied Software Engineering Program, and their new eye tracking technology.
Learn more about the Applied Software Engineering Program.

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Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Digital Transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Welcome to Season 2 of the Taste of Informatics podcast. Digital transformation (DX) is more important than ever now that we're in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds are becoming ever more blurred.
In this episode, author and digital transformation thought-leader Tony Saldanha chats with Mike Nitardy about the revolutionary forces that transform businesses, why digital transformation is fundamentally important, and how leaders should approach the undertaking to avoid the typical 70% failure rate across industries.
Tony Saldanha will be the keynote speaker at the College of Informatics DX22 symposium, held May 17, 2022. For more information, visit https://dx22.informatics.plus.
Tony Saldanha is a globally recognized expert and thought-leader in Global Business Services (GBS) and Digital Technology. He ran Procter & Gamble's famed multi-billion dollar GBS and IT operations in every region across the world during a 27 year career there. Tony has over three decades of international business expertise in the US, Europe, and Asia. He was named on Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Professionals list in 2013. Tony's experiences include GBS design and operations, CIO positions, acquisitions and divestitures, outsourcing, disruptive innovation, and creation of new business models. Tony is currently President of Transformant, a consulting organization that advises over 20 Fortune 100 companies around the world in digital transformation and global business services. He is also a founder of two blockchain and AI companies, and an adviser to venture capital companies. His book titled Why Digital Transformations Fail was released globally in July 2019 and ranked #1 on Amazon’s New Releases for Organizational Change, listed on publisher Berrett-Koehler’s best-sellers for July 2019, and recommended by various publishing forums like CEO-Reads, Book-Pal, CEO Library and others. Forbes contributor Michelle Greenwald called it the “best business book ever that you’re yet to read”.

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Since the 2000 election, the United States has made the move to electronic balloting for elections. However, with this switch came concerns about cybersecurity and the safety of our votes. Dr. James Walden from NKU's Center for Information Security joins us to talk about election security in Kentucky, Ohio, and the rest of the United States.
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Informatics Cafe - A Taste of Informatics - The Eyes Have It

Transcript

Mike Nitardy00:00:09.599

Welcome back to the Informatics Café. I'm Mike Nitardy, your host and with us today in the cafe, I'm pleased to have Dr. Nicholas Caprorusso. He is the Assistant Professor of Computer Science here at the College of Informatics at NKU. He's also the Co-Director of the new applied software engineering program here at NKU. Nicholas, welcome. It's great to have you.

Nicolas Caporusso00:00:30.269

Hi, Mike. It's a pl