Sal Aurigemma: How things work. [Education] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 25 October 2020

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Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at the University of Tulsa Sal Aurigemma shares how his interest in how things worked shaped his career path in nuclear power and computers, Being introduced to computers in high school and learning about the Chernobyl event led Sal to study nuclear engineering followed by time in the Navy as a submarine officer. On the submarine, Sal had to understand how systems worked from soup to nuts and that let him back to IT. As a computer engineer, Sal spent a lot of time on network troubleshooting and was eventually introduced to cybersecurity. Following 9/11, cybersecurity took on greater importance. Sal's research focuses on behavioral cybersecurity. To newcomers, he suggests heading into things with an open mind and doesn't recommend giving users 24-character passwords that have two upper, two lower, and two special characters that cannot be written down. We thank Sal for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:03.0	My name is Sal Ora Jemma. I'm an associate professor of computer
2:16.8	information systems at the University of Tulsa. I've always been interested in how things work even when I was in high school and computers came around and I think I was a sophomore or a junior in high school when my high school got the first computer lab and they were teaching us basic and I think the first thing I did was, you know, write one of those adventure type text-based programs where you
2:45.4	know you choose A or B if you want to run away if you want to fight the dragon and
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