Curriculum

This course is an introduction to financial management fundamentals. It examines the roles of financial management in creating value and to present the analytic framework used in the study of finance.

This is a project-based course exploring all aspects of the IoT product life-cycle. These aspects include, (i) interfacing with the devices (sensors/actuators) that collect data and affect the environment, (ii) exploring network protocols for communication with these constrained devices, (iii) programming the back-end services that host, manipulate and disseminate the collected data and (iv) developing apps that facilitate human interaction with these devices and analysis of the data they produce. Security, privacy and performance considerations specific to IoT will also be explored.  

This course builds skills in generating business and social insights from user generated content (e.g., text, images, video, etc.) by the use of text analytics, sentiment analysis, visualization techniques, etc.  

Data driven thinking is at the critical frontier in business operations and decision making. This course introduces basic concepts, methodology, algorithms, and technology used in business analytics and decision making. We introduce fundamental concepts from probabilistic modeling, analysis and experimental design. We also cover the basics of modern regression and classification, clustering, visualization, dimensionality reduction, A/B Testing and an introduction to deep learning. 

This course provides students with foundational knowledge of contemporary technical cybersecurity topics relevant to current and future business and IT leaders. Students will obtain an in-depth understanding about the full strata of security from physical hacking, hardware, firmware/BIOS, operating system, application, virtual environments, cloud and networks. An emphasis is placed on analysis of real-life security failures and successes. Various defensive security tools will be discussed, demonstrated, and provided to students for hands-on student exercises. PKI, including TLS, X.509, TCP/IP security, trust models will be explored. Special challenges such as securing IoT, embedded systems (including medical devices) will be covered including a discussion of promising solutions. Security weaknesses of blockchain, including a recent successful attack, will be covered. Applied cryptography will be explored including key management, securing email, system-to-system connectivity, device encryption, non-repudiation, digital signatures, common deployment errors, revocation, code signing, and more.

Prerequisite: Emerging Technologies II (Applications of Blockchain)

The purpose of this graduate course is to provide students a theoretical as well as hand-on practical understanding of smart contracts as used in Blockchain applications. While this course will briefly review core Blockchain concepts, the students are expected to have an understanding of Blockchain technology components. Smart contracts give Blockchain the potential to create enterprise applications by codifying the agreements between the multiple parties involved in a transaction. This course will provide students an in-depth understanding for implementing smart contracts within Enterprise Ethereum and HyperLedger. Students will be expected to implement prototype smart contract based business applications using both Ethereum and Hyperledger.

This is a practicum course in which students apply their learning in the MSITM program to develop real-life business and social solutions using emerging information technologies. Industry partners will provide business context and ideas for IT capstone projects. Students can also propose their own IT Capstone project ideas.

The last decade has brought remarkable advances in Machine Learning algorithms, platforms and computing architectures. The frontiers what data science and AI can accomplish is currently progressing much faster than what was previously considered possible. Even for those not on the front lines of research, a basic working knowledge of the latest algorithms, business applications and limitations 
can can provide a fundamental advantage. 
 
This course will explore precisely this, through hands on, project-based coverage of Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks. The course will use Python and Tensorflow, among other tools. Covered material includes convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks and generative adversarial networks.
Applications include computer vision, image and time series modeling as well as computational aspects of deep learning over big datasets. 
 
Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of machine learning and data science, as well as a basic knowledge of Python.

This course develops skills in strategic management of new IT-embedded product and service innovations and their incorporation into the digital business ecosystems of organizations.

This course introduces students to the role of emerging technologies in managing and innovating business processes.  Students will learn about the IT capabilities needed by firms to co-ordinate their activities, collaborate with business partners and make decisions.  The course will illustrate the role of technologies like IoT, Block Chain and AI and how these technologies interface with enterprise technologies such as ERP and CRM to improve business performance. Students will also learn about collaboration technologies such as XML, web services, and microservices.

This course builds skills for the prevention and mitigation of data security and privacy risks in newly designed digital artifacts by covering IT governance, risk, and control frameworks and relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. 

In this course we will study a variety of data mining and machine techniques for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Particular emphasis will be given to approaches that are (i) scalable to very large data sets, (ii) relatively robust when faced with a large number of predictors, (iii) can be applied to heterogeneous or streaming data. Approaches to analyze different types of information from the Web (web structure, content, usage) will also be described. Connections to relevant business problems shall be made via example studies. The central goal of this course is to convey an understanding of the pros and cons of different predictive modeling techniques, so that you can make an informed decision on what approaches to consider when faced with real-life problems, and can apply models properly on real datasets in order to make valid conclusions. This goal will be reinforced through both theory and hands-on experience involving python based libraries such as sci-kit learn and Spark MLlib.

Prerequisite: Emerging Technologies II (Applications of Blockchain)

The seminar focuses on contemporary research developments associated with Blockchain and emerging applications in Finance, Healthcare, Enterprise Systems, Supply Chain and Entertainment. The seminar includes invited presentations, discussion of research papers, and brainstorming regarding Blockchain application development and adoption.

This course is focused on three main FinTech areas in which technology is driving changes in the way financial services are provided: (i) Lending/Banking services, (ii) wealth management (iii) Trading. The course is going to provide specific coverage and examples of developments from (1) payments (2) peer-to-peer lending (3) robo-advising (4) algo/quantitative trading. In each of these areas, we start by analyzing the marketing place, the incumbents, and the business case and strategies of the incoming technology players. We then turn to understand the role data and analytics plays in driving the technology-based services. Guest speakers augment the discussion by offering their perspective on future trends in each of these areas. 

Organizations face a variety of cyberattacks: e.g., DDoS, spam, malware, ransomware, account takeover, and IoT attacks, malicious insider programs, etc. This course will introduce students to advanced analytical applications for preventing such cyberattacks, or detecting and blocking them in a timely manner. Students will become familiar with what information security operations centers (ISOC) do to protect information and technology assets of organizations: e.g., monitor trends, identify irregularities, anomalies, and intrusions, model behaviors, and predict or detect and block cyber threats. Students will learn how to select and apply appropriate data analytical methods for cybersecurity intelligence in the information industry, including common threats, patterns, and trends, and best practices in protecting security and privacy. The course will use a hand-on learning approach. Students will learn how to collect and use current and historical data sources, how to develop statistical understanding of the types and intensities of cybersecurity threats, how to use machine learning and AI techniques in monitoring trends, visualizing threats, modeling behaviors and predicting threats, detecting irregularities, anomalies and intrusions, and supporting dynamic, intelligent risk management.

A comprehensive understanding of e-Discovery and Digital Forensics is useful for anyone involved in the management and operations of information technology environments. Business environments are nearly entirely run upon digital processing and transactions amongst interconnected computing platforms, e.g. PCs, servers, mobile devices, IoT devices, etc.  The investigation of digital crimes such as financial fraud, identity theft and corporate espionage committed on business computing platforms requires structured legal discovery and technical forensics approaches.

The course will introduce the concepts needed to establish a functional understanding of e-Discovery and Digital Forensics that students can apply to real-world situations. The course will employ hands-on technical exercises and the use of case studies to create an experiential learning approach. Familiarity with Linux command line and virtual machines (VMware or VirtualBox) is helpful though not required.

Despite millions of dollars invested in cybersecurity every year, the number of information security breaches continues to climb. Many managers and executives derive a false sense of security from the perception that “cybersecurity is an IT issue.”  In reality, technological safeguards are necessary but insufficient to protect organizational and customer data. A comprehensive information security and cyber risk management program must also address the many threats posed by human actors – not just hackers – both inside and outside the organization.

This course explores both the risks and the opportunities posed by human interaction with organizational and customer data; introduces a framework for designing a comprehensive cyber risk management program beyond the technical safeguards; and provides guidance on using employee engagement methodologies to build a “human firewall.”

This course is an introduction to financial management fundamentals. It examines the roles of financial management in creating value and to present the analytic framework used in the study of finance.

This is a project-based course exploring all aspects of the IoT product life-cycle. These aspects include, (i) interfacing with the devices (sensors/actuators) that collect data and affect the environment, (ii) exploring network protocols for communication with these constrained devices, (iii) programming the back-end services that host, manipulate and disseminate the collected data and (iv) developing apps that facilitate human interaction with these devices and analysis of the data they produce. Security, privacy and performance considerations specific to IoT will also be explored.  

This course builds skills in generating business and social insights from user generated content (e.g., text, images, video, etc.) by the use of text analytics, sentiment analysis, visualization techniques, etc.  

Data driven thinking is at the critical frontier in business operations and decision making. This course introduces basic concepts, methodology, algorithms, and technology used in business analytics and decision making. We introduce fundamental concepts from probabilistic modeling, analysis and experimental design. We also cover the basics of modern regression and classification, clustering, visualization, dimensionality reduction, A/B Testing and an introduction to deep learning. 

This course provides students with foundational knowledge of contemporary technical cybersecurity topics relevant to current and future business and IT leaders. Students will obtain an in-depth understanding about the full strata of security from physical hacking, hardware, firmware/BIOS, operating system, application, virtual environments, cloud and networks. An emphasis is placed on analysis of real-life security failures and successes. Various defensive security tools will be discussed, demonstrated, and provided to students for hands-on student exercises. PKI, including TLS, X.509, TCP/IP security, trust models will be explored. Special challenges such as securing IoT, embedded systems (including medical devices) will be covered including a discussion of promising solutions. Security weaknesses of blockchain, including a recent successful attack, will be covered. Applied cryptography will be explored including key management, securing email, system-to-system connectivity, device encryption, non-repudiation, digital signatures, common deployment errors, revocation, code signing, and more.

Prerequisite: Emerging Technologies II (Applications of Blockchain)

The purpose of this graduate course is to provide students a theoretical as well as hand-on practical understanding of smart contracts as used in Blockchain applications. While this course will briefly review core Blockchain concepts, the students are expected to have an understanding of Blockchain technology components. Smart contracts give Blockchain the potential to create enterprise applications by codifying the agreements between the multiple parties involved in a transaction. This course will provide students an in-depth understanding for implementing smart contracts within Enterprise Ethereum and HyperLedger. Students will be expected to implement prototype smart contract based business applications using both Ethereum and Hyperledger.

This is a practicum course in which students apply their learning in the MSITM program to develop real-life business and social solutions using emerging information technologies. Industry partners will provide business context and ideas for IT capstone projects. Students can also propose their own IT Capstone project ideas.

The last decade has brought remarkable advances in Machine Learning algorithms, platforms and computing architectures. The frontiers what data science and AI can accomplish is currently progressing much faster than what was previously considered possible. Even for those not on the front lines of research, a basic working knowledge of the latest algorithms, business applications and limitations 
can can provide a fundamental advantage. 
 
This course will explore precisely this, through hands on, project-based coverage of Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks. The course will use Python and Tensorflow, among other tools. Covered material includes convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks and generative adversarial networks.
Applications include computer vision, image and time series modeling as well as computational aspects of deep learning over big datasets. 
 
Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of machine learning and data science, as well as a basic knowledge of Python.

This course develops skills in strategic management of new IT-embedded product and service innovations and their incorporation into the digital business ecosystems of organizations.

This course introduces students to the role of emerging technologies in managing and innovating business processes.  Students will learn about the IT capabilities needed by firms to co-ordinate their activities, collaborate with business partners and make decisions.  The course will illustrate the role of technologies like IoT, Block Chain and AI and how these technologies interface with enterprise technologies such as ERP and CRM to improve business performance. Students will also learn about collaboration technologies such as XML, web services, and microservices.

This course builds skills for the prevention and mitigation of data security and privacy risks in newly designed digital artifacts by covering IT governance, risk, and control frameworks and relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. 

In this course we will study a variety of data mining and machine techniques for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Particular emphasis will be given to approaches that are (i) scalable to very large data sets, (ii) relatively robust when faced with a large number of predictors, (iii) can be applied to heterogeneous or streaming data. Approaches to analyze different types of information from the Web (web structure, content, usage) will also be described. Connections to relevant business problems shall be made via example studies. The central goal of this course is to convey an understanding of the pros and cons of different predictive modeling techniques, so that you can make an informed decision on what approaches to consider when faced with real-life problems, and can apply models properly on real datasets in order to make valid conclusions. This goal will be reinforced through both theory and hands-on experience involving python based libraries such as sci-kit learn and Spark MLlib.

Prerequisite: Emerging Technologies II (Applications of Blockchain)

The seminar focuses on contemporary research developments associated with Blockchain and emerging applications in Finance, Healthcare, Enterprise Systems, Supply Chain and Entertainment. The seminar includes invited presentations, discussion of research papers, and brainstorming regarding Blockchain application development and adoption.

This course is focused on three main FinTech areas in which technology is driving changes in the way financial services are provided: (i) Lending/Banking services, (ii) wealth management (iii) Trading. The course is going to provide specific coverage and examples of developments from (1) payments (2) peer-to-peer lending (3) robo-advising (4) algo/quantitative trading. In each of these areas, we start by analyzing the marketing place, the incumbents, and the business case and strategies of the incoming technology players. We then turn to understand the role data and analytics plays in driving the technology-based services. Guest speakers augment the discussion by offering their perspective on future trends in each of these areas. 

Organizations face a variety of cyberattacks: e.g., DDoS, spam, malware, ransomware, account takeover, and IoT attacks, malicious insider programs, etc. This course will introduce students to advanced analytical applications for preventing such cyberattacks, or detecting and blocking them in a timely manner. Students will become familiar with what information security operations centers (ISOC) do to protect information and technology assets of organizations: e.g., monitor trends, identify irregularities, anomalies, and intrusions, model behaviors, and predict or detect and block cyber threats. Students will learn how to select and apply appropriate data analytical methods for cybersecurity intelligence in the information industry, including common threats, patterns, and trends, and best practices in protecting security and privacy. The course will use a hand-on learning approach. Students will learn how to collect and use current and historical data sources, how to develop statistical understanding of the types and intensities of cybersecurity threats, how to use machine learning and AI techniques in monitoring trends, visualizing threats, modeling behaviors and predicting threats, detecting irregularities, anomalies and intrusions, and supporting dynamic, intelligent risk management.

A comprehensive understanding of e-Discovery and Digital Forensics is useful for anyone involved in the management and operations of information technology environments. Business environments are nearly entirely run upon digital processing and transactions amongst interconnected computing platforms, e.g. PCs, servers, mobile devices, IoT devices, etc.  The investigation of digital crimes such as financial fraud, identity theft and corporate espionage committed on business computing platforms requires structured legal discovery and technical forensics approaches.

The course will introduce the concepts needed to establish a functional understanding of e-Discovery and Digital Forensics that students can apply to real-world situations. The course will employ hands-on technical exercises and the use of case studies to create an experiential learning approach. Familiarity with Linux command line and virtual machines (VMware or VirtualBox) is helpful though not required.

Despite millions of dollars invested in cybersecurity every year, the number of information security breaches continues to climb. Many managers and executives derive a false sense of security from the perception that “cybersecurity is an IT issue.”  In reality, technological safeguards are necessary but insufficient to protect organizational and customer data. A comprehensive information security and cyber risk management program must also address the many threats posed by human actors – not just hackers – both inside and outside the organization.

This course explores both the risks and the opportunities posed by human interaction with organizational and customer data; introduces a framework for designing a comprehensive cyber risk management program beyond the technical safeguards; and provides guidance on using employee engagement methodologies to build a “human firewall.”

This course is an introduction to financial management fundamentals. It examines the roles of financial management in creating value and to present the analytic framework used in the study of finance.

This is a project-based course exploring all aspects of the IoT product life-cycle. These aspects include, (i) interfacing with the devices (sensors/actuators) that collect data and affect the environment, (ii) exploring network protocols for communication with these constrained devices, (iii) programming the back-end services that host, manipulate and disseminate the collected data and (iv) developing apps that facilitate human interaction with these devices and analysis of the data they produce. Security, privacy and performance considerations specific to IoT will also be explored.  

This course builds skills in generating business and social insights from user generated content (e.g., text, images, video, etc.) by the use of text analytics, sentiment analysis, visualization techniques, etc.  

Data driven thinking is at the critical frontier in business operations and decision making. This course introduces basic concepts, methodology, algorithms, and technology used in business analytics and decision making. We introduce fundamental concepts from probabilistic modeling, analysis and experimental design. We also cover the basics of modern regression and classification, clustering, visualization, dimensionality reduction, A/B Testing and an introduction to deep learning. 

This course provides students with foundational knowledge of contemporary technical cybersecurity topics relevant to current and future business and IT leaders. Students will obtain an in-depth understanding about the full strata of security from physical hacking, hardware, firmware/BIOS, operating system, application, virtual environments, cloud and networks. An emphasis is placed on analysis of real-life security failures and successes. Various defensive security tools will be discussed, demonstrated, and provided to students for hands-on student exercises. PKI, including TLS, X.509, TCP/IP security, trust models will be explored. Special challenges such as securing IoT, embedded systems (including medical devices) will be covered including a discussion of promising solutions. Security weaknesses of blockchain, including a recent successful attack, will be covered. Applied cryptography will be explored including key management, securing email, system-to-system connectivity, device encryption, non-repudiation, digital signatures, common deployment errors, revocation, code signing, and more.

Prerequisite: Emerging Technologies II (Applications of Blockchain)

The purpose of this graduate course is to provide students a theoretical as well as hand-on practical understanding of smart contracts as used in Blockchain applications. While this course will briefly review core Blockchain concepts, the students are expected to have an understanding of Blockchain technology components. Smart contracts give Blockchain the potential to create enterprise applications by codifying the agreements between the multiple parties involved in a transaction. This course will provide students an in-depth understanding for implementing smart contracts within Enterprise Ethereum and HyperLedger. Students will be expected to implement prototype smart contract based business applications using both Ethereum and Hyperledger.

This is a practicum course in which students apply their learning in the MSITM program to develop real-life business and social solutions using emerging information technologies. Industry partners will provide business context and ideas for IT capstone projects. Students can also propose their own IT Capstone project ideas.

The last decade has brought remarkable advances in Machine Learning algorithms, platforms and computing architectures. The frontiers what data science and AI can accomplish is currently progressing much faster than what was previously considered possible. Even for those not on the front lines of research, a basic working knowledge of the latest algorithms, business applications and limitations 
can can provide a fundamental advantage. 
 
This course will explore precisely this, through hands on, project-based coverage of Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks. The course will use Python and Tensorflow, among other tools. Covered material includes convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks and generative adversarial networks.
Applications include computer vision, image and time series modeling as well as computational aspects of deep learning over big datasets. 
 
Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of machine learning and data science, as well as a basic knowledge of Python.

This course develops skills in strategic management of new IT-embedded product and service innovations and their incorporation into the digital business ecosystems of organizations.

This course introduces students to the role of emerging technologies in managing and innovating business processes.  Students will learn about the IT capabilities needed by firms to co-ordinate their activities, collaborate with business partners and make decisions.  The course will illustrate the role of technologies like IoT, Block Chain and AI and how these technologies interface with enterprise technologies such as ERP and CRM to improve business performance. Students will also learn about collaboration technologies such as XML, web services, and microservices.

This course builds skills for the prevention and mitigation of data security and privacy risks in newly designed digital artifacts by covering IT governance, risk, and control frameworks and relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. 

In this course we will study a variety of data mining and machine techniques for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Particular emphasis will be given to approaches that are (i) scalable to very large data sets, (ii) relatively robust when faced with a large number of predictors, (iii) can be applied to heterogeneous or streaming data. Approaches to analyze different types of information from the Web (web structure, content, usage) will also be described. Connections to relevant business problems shall be made via example studies. The central goal of this course is to convey an understanding of the pros and cons of different predictive modeling techniques, so that you can make an informed decision on what approaches to consider when faced with real-life problems, and can apply models properly on real datasets in order to make valid conclusions. This goal will be reinforced through both theory and hands-on experience involving python based libraries such as sci-kit learn and Spark MLlib.

Prerequisite: Emerging Technologies II (Applications of Blockchain)

The seminar focuses on contemporary research developments associated with Blockchain and emerging applications in Finance, Healthcare, Enterprise Systems, Supply Chain and Entertainment. The seminar includes invited presentations, discussion of research papers, and brainstorming regarding Blockchain application development and adoption.

This course is focused on three main FinTech areas in which technology is driving changes in the way financial services are provided: (i) Lending/Banking services, (ii) wealth management (iii) Trading. The course is going to provide specific coverage and examples of developments from (1) payments (2) peer-to-peer lending (3) robo-advising (4) algo/quantitative trading. In each of these areas, we start by analyzing the marketing place, the incumbents, and the business case and strategies of the incoming technology players. We then turn to understand the role data and analytics plays in driving the technology-based services. Guest speakers augment the discussion by offering their perspective on future trends in each of these areas. 

Organizations face a variety of cyberattacks: e.g., DDoS, spam, malware, ransomware, account takeover, and IoT attacks, malicious insider programs, etc. This course will introduce students to advanced analytical applications for preventing such cyberattacks, or detecting and blocking them in a timely manner. Students will become familiar with what information security operations centers (ISOC) do to protect information and technology assets of organizations: e.g., monitor trends, identify irregularities, anomalies, and intrusions, model behaviors, and predict or detect and block cyber threats. Students will learn how to select and apply appropriate data analytical methods for cybersecurity intelligence in the information industry, including common threats, patterns, and trends, and best practices in protecting security and privacy. The course will use a hand-on learning approach. Students will learn how to collect and use current and historical data sources, how to develop statistical understanding of the types and intensities of cybersecurity threats, how to use machine learning and AI techniques in monitoring trends, visualizing threats, modeling behaviors and predicting threats, detecting irregularities, anomalies and intrusions, and supporting dynamic, intelligent risk management.

A comprehensive understanding of e-Discovery and Digital Forensics is useful for anyone involved in the management and operations of information technology environments. Business environments are nearly entirely run upon digital processing and transactions amongst interconnected computing platforms, e.g. PCs, servers, mobile devices, IoT devices, etc.  The investigation of digital crimes such as financial fraud, identity theft and corporate espionage committed on business computing platforms requires structured legal discovery and technical forensics approaches.

The course will introduce the concepts needed to establish a functional understanding of e-Discovery and Digital Forensics that students can apply to real-world situations. The course will employ hands-on technical exercises and the use of case studies to create an experiential learning approach. Familiarity with Linux command line and virtual machines (VMware or VirtualBox) is helpful though not required.

Despite millions of dollars invested in cybersecurity every year, the number of information security breaches continues to climb. Many managers and executives derive a false sense of security from the perception that “cybersecurity is an IT issue.”  In reality, technological safeguards are necessary but insufficient to protect organizational and customer data. A comprehensive information security and cyber risk management program must also address the many threats posed by human actors – not just hackers – both inside and outside the organization.

This course explores both the risks and the opportunities posed by human interaction with organizational and customer data; introduces a framework for designing a comprehensive cyber risk management program beyond the technical safeguards; and provides guidance on using employee engagement methodologies to build a “human firewall.”

This course is an introduction to financial management fundamentals. It examines the roles of financial management in creating value and to present the analytic framework used in the study of finance.

This is a project-based course exploring all aspects of the IoT product life-cycle. These aspects include, (i) interfacing with the devices (sensors/actuators) that collect data and affect the environment, (ii) exploring network protocols for communication with these constrained devices, (iii) programming the back-end services that host, manipulate and disseminate the collected data and (iv) developing apps that facilitate human interaction with these devices and analysis of the data they produce. Security, privacy and performance considerations specific to IoT will also be explored.  

This course builds skills in generating business and social insights from user generated content (e.g., text, images, video, etc.) by the use of text analytics, sentiment analysis, visualization techniques, etc.  

Data driven thinking is at the critical frontier in business operations and decision making. This course introduces basic concepts, methodology, algorithms, and technology used in business analytics and decision making. We introduce fundamental concepts from probabilistic modeling, analysis and experimental design. We also cover the basics of modern regression and classification, clustering, visualization, dimensionality reduction, A/B Testing and an introduction to deep learning. 

This course provides students with foundational knowledge of contemporary technical cybersecurity topics relevant to current and future business and IT leaders. Students will obtain an in-depth understanding about the full strata of security from physical hacking, hardware, firmware/BIOS, operating system, application, virtual environments, cloud and networks. An emphasis is placed on analysis of real-life security failures and successes. Various defensive security tools will be discussed, demonstrated, and provided to students for hands-on student exercises. PKI, including TLS, X.509, TCP/IP security, trust models will be explored. Special challenges such as securing IoT, embedded systems (including medical devices) will be covered including a discussion of promising solutions. Security weaknesses of blockchain, including a recent successful attack, will be covered. Applied cryptography will be explored including key management, securing email, system-to-system connectivity, device encryption, non-repudiation, digital signatures, common deployment errors, revocation, code signing, and more.

Prerequisite: Emerging Technologies II (Applications of Blockchain)

The purpose of this graduate course is to provide students a theoretical as well as hand-on practical understanding of smart contracts as used in Blockchain applications. While this course will briefly review core Blockchain concepts, the students are expected to have an understanding of Blockchain technology components. Smart contracts give Blockchain the potential to create enterprise applications by codifying the agreements between the multiple parties involved in a transaction. This course will provide students an in-depth understanding for implementing smart contracts within Enterprise Ethereum and HyperLedger. Students will be expected to implement prototype smart contract based business applications using both Ethereum and Hyperledger.

This is a practicum course in which students apply their learning in the MSITM program to develop real-life business and social solutions using emerging information technologies. Industry partners will provide business context and ideas for IT capstone projects. Students can also propose their own IT Capstone project ideas.

The last decade has brought remarkable advances in Machine Learning algorithms, platforms and computing architectures. The frontiers what data science and AI can accomplish is currently progressing much faster than what was previously considered possible. Even for those not on the front lines of research, a basic working knowledge of the latest algorithms, business applications and limitations 
can can provide a fundamental advantage. 
 
This course will explore precisely this, through hands on, project-based coverage of Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks. The course will use Python and Tensorflow, among other tools. Covered material includes convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks and generative adversarial networks.
Applications include computer vision, image and time series modeling as well as computational aspects of deep learning over big datasets. 
 
Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of machine learning and data science, as well as a basic knowledge of Python.

This course develops skills in strategic management of new IT-embedded product and service innovations and their incorporation into the digital business ecosystems of organizations.

This course introduces students to the role of emerging technologies in managing and innovating business processes.  Students will learn about the IT capabilities needed by firms to co-ordinate their activities, collaborate with business partners and make decisions.  The course will illustrate the role of technologies like IoT, Block Chain and AI and how these technologies interface with enterprise technologies such as ERP and CRM to improve business performance. Students will also learn about collaboration technologies such as XML, web services, and microservices.

This course builds skills for the prevention and mitigation of data security and privacy risks in newly designed digital artifacts by covering IT governance, risk, and control frameworks and relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. 

In this course we will study a variety of data mining and machine techniques for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Particular emphasis will be given to approaches that are (i) scalable to very large data sets, (ii) relatively robust when faced with a large number of predictors, (iii) can be applied to heterogeneous or streaming data. Approaches to analyze different types of information from the Web (web structure, content, usage) will also be described. Connections to relevant business problems shall be made via example studies. The central goal of this course is to convey an understanding of the pros and cons of different predictive modeling techniques, so that you can make an informed decision on what approaches to consider when faced with real-life problems, and can apply models properly on real datasets in order to make valid conclusions. This goal will be reinforced through both theory and hands-on experience involving python based libraries such as sci-kit learn and Spark MLlib.

Prerequisite: Emerging Technologies II (Applications of Blockchain)

The seminar focuses on contemporary research developments associated with Blockchain and emerging applications in Finance, Healthcare, Enterprise Systems, Supply Chain and Entertainment. The seminar includes invited presentations, discussion of research papers, and brainstorming regarding Blockchain application development and adoption.

This course is focused on three main FinTech areas in which technology is driving changes in the way financial services are provided: (i) Lending/Banking services, (ii) wealth management (iii) Trading. The course is going to provide specific coverage and examples of developments from (1) payments (2) peer-to-peer lending (3) robo-advising (4) algo/quantitative trading. In each of these areas, we start by analyzing the marketing place, the incumbents, and the business case and strategies of the incoming technology players. We then turn to understand the role data and analytics plays in driving the technology-based services. Guest speakers augment the discussion by offering their perspective on future trends in each of these areas. 

Organizations face a variety of cyberattacks: e.g., DDoS, spam, malware, ransomware, account takeover, and IoT attacks, malicious insider programs, etc. This course will introduce students to advanced analytical applications for preventing such cyberattacks, or detecting and blocking them in a timely manner. Students will become familiar with what information security operations centers (ISOC) do to protect information and technology assets of organizations: e.g., monitor trends, identify irregularities, anomalies, and intrusions, model behaviors, and predict or detect and block cyber threats. Students will learn how to select and apply appropriate data analytical methods for cybersecurity intelligence in the information industry, including common threats, patterns, and trends, and best practices in protecting security and privacy. The course will use a hand-on learning approach. Students will learn how to collect and use current and historical data sources, how to develop statistical understanding of the types and intensities of cybersecurity threats, how to use machine learning and AI techniques in monitoring trends, visualizing threats, modeling behaviors and predicting threats, detecting irregularities, anomalies and intrusions, and supporting dynamic, intelligent risk management.

A comprehensive understanding of e-Discovery and Digital Forensics is useful for anyone involved in the management and operations of information technology environments. Business environments are nearly entirely run upon digital processing and transactions amongst interconnected computing platforms, e.g. PCs, servers, mobile devices, IoT devices, etc.  The investigation of digital crimes such as financial fraud, identity theft and corporate espionage committed on business computing platforms requires structured legal discovery and technical forensics approaches.

The course will introduce the concepts needed to establish a functional understanding of e-Discovery and Digital Forensics that students can apply to real-world situations. The course will employ hands-on technical exercises and the use of case studies to create an experiential learning approach. Familiarity with Linux command line and virtual machines (VMware or VirtualBox) is helpful though not required.

Despite millions of dollars invested in cybersecurity every year, the number of information security breaches continues to climb. Many managers and executives derive a false sense of security from the perception that “cybersecurity is an IT issue.”  In reality, technological safeguards are necessary but insufficient to protect organizational and customer data. A comprehensive information security and cyber risk management program must also address the many threats posed by human actors – not just hackers – both inside and outside the organization.

This course explores both the risks and the opportunities posed by human interaction with organizational and customer data; introduces a framework for designing a comprehensive cyber risk management program beyond the technical safeguards; and provides guidance on using employee engagement methodologies to build a “human firewall.”