Research Day What is Research Day? The annual Student-Faculty Research Day conference provides students and faculty with the opportunity to present their research Held at the Pace Graduate Center in White Plains on the Friday of the last spring session of the Doctor of Professional Studies (DPS) program To make attendance convenient for DPS students Location convenient to NYC and Pleasantville M.S. students present final capstone project reports

Research Day Need for Research Day Until the initiation of the DPS program, the School of CSIS at Pace University did little research Pace University was (and still is) primarily a teaching institution No associated engineering school Hard science departments, such as mathematics and physics, do little research and basically service the other departments The DPS program started in 1999 Research oriented faculty were hired for the program DPS students were beginning to produce research First class graduated in 2002 So there was a need for an internal research oriented conference

Research Day Origin of Research Day In 2001, several DPS and other Pace CSIS students and faculty made presentations at the Mid-Atlantic Student Workshop on Programming Languages and Systems held at IBM Research (MASPLAS 2001)MASPLAS papers from Pace CSIS In 2002, we hosted MASPLAS 2002 at Pace Grad CenterMASPLAS papers from Pace CSIS In 2003, we held our first Research Day conference MASPLAS locations vary – we wanted conference here at Pace Being an internal conference, all papers from Pace CSIS

Research Day Project-Research Interplay CSIS masters-level capstone projects course Student teams build real-world computer information systems for actual customers Most project work uses known technology to develop systems according to specified requirements (this is not research) Some project customers are DPS doctoral students These projects build supporting infrastructure for research Research is original, rigorous work that advances knowledge, improves professional practice, and/or contributes to the understanding of a subject Some Research Day conference papers report on DPS dissertation research and some on M.S. projects work that supports the dissertation research

Research Day The Michael L. Gargano Annual Research Day In 2009, the Research Day conference became “The Michael L. Gargano Annual Research Day” Following Mike’s passing in 2008 Michael was continually engaged in research activities, and often with students He usually contributed several papers, often three or four, to the Research Day conference each year He advised many of the students in the Seidenberg DPS Program