Author: carverc

This is a Campus Technology and University Business news release regarding Keeper joining Internet2. UAB served as the sponsor for Keeper. It is part of our efforts to build digital citizens who compute securely in an increasingly challenging world.

We recently upgraded the University of Alabama at Birmingham to dual 100 gigabits per second internet connectivity. You can read the local UAB story, or one of two NBC stories (story 2) to learn more.

The local Fox news WBRC ran a story on our attempts to deploy active phishing training to the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It is a good story with a random student endorsement.

The ridiculously good Redhat Enterpriser’s Project conducted an interview with several CIOs to examine the HR crisis in IT and solicit tips for attracting the best talent. It’s a good article (other than my part) and worthy of the read.

The Educational Advisory Board conducted an interview reviewing my first 100 days as a CIO at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It gave me an opportunity to talk about the importance of crowd-sourcing as a tool of the modern CIO. Read it and let me know what you think.

One of the projects I have been recently involved with is empowering greatness in others by giving them the tools they need to change the world. It comes from the realization that I am the dumbest guy in the room but there are things I can do to support others. At UAB, this led to securing the necessary resources and building the fastest high performance research computer in the state. The ribbon cutting was Sept 14th and it has received some news coverage including all four major TV stations covering it in the evening news and the articles listed below. Who would have thought high performance computing would be in the local news?

• AL.com
• Birmingham Business Alliance
• Birmingham Business Journal
• Future Wave Web Development
• Iron City Ink
• Knoxville Times
• Physics.org
• University of Alabama News Releases
  • State’s new fastest supercomputer accelerates UAB research
  • UAB researchers use expanded computing power to accelerate big-data science

I was humbled to be selected by the Georgia State MS MIT students for the second year in a row as the 2016 Top Professor. It was a great cohort of students and the award came as an unexpected but delightful surprise.

Welcome to my faculty website. While my full time job is as Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the amazing University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), I rose through the faculty ranks at the United States Military Academy to Professor of Computer Science and continue to teach in the classroom and online holding faculty positions at both Georgia State University and UAB. While it keeps me pretty busy, I believe that administrators should remain active in the classroom and technology leaders should consume their own technology.