Center for the Application of Information Technology

Director: Laurie Koetting

Home Page: http://www.cait.wustl.edu/index.jsp Location: West Campus Building

CAIT is a not-for-profit organization within Washington University in St. Louis that serves as the center for information technology (IT) leaders in the St. Louis region. It offers a series of member events, and a full schedule of curriculum-based courses and certifications, to help organizations make continuous advancements in productivity and enhance the region's competitiveness as a world-class IT community. This is accomplished by providing the forum for IT executive interaction and the highest quality IT training and professional development opportunities, leveraging the resources of Washington University, local IT leaders, and experts and vendors throughout the country.

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Planning for a pandemic Round tables address IT problems, infrastructure, workplace concerns over flu pandemic June 8, 2006 -- Temperature is rising as St. Louis tackles the ramifications of a flu epidemic. St. Louis is one of the few cities trying to stay ahead of the pandemic curve, thanks to workshops being conducted this spring and summer that bring together area institutions and businesses in round table formats. The Business Community and Pandemic Flu Roundtable is sponsored by the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science's Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) and the University's School of Medicine. CAIT is St. Louis' center for IT training, professional development, and executive interaction for more than 25 years. More than 100 business and institutional attendees are learning to address everything from potential vaccines and medications to sick leave policy and protective gear. More...

The beat of a different drum Honoring time, computer greats consider evading time March 3, 2004 -- To meet design and cost changes, industry and government are considering clockless computing. Computing royalty, including Ivan Sutherland, the father of computer graphics, and Wesley A. Clark, the designer of the world's first personal computer, will gather at a computing symposium Friday, March 26th, 2004, from 1:00-5:30 p.m. at Washington University in St. Louis's Whitaker Hall Auditorium. As part of the University's 150th anniversary of its founding, participants will honor time by contemplating how computing can evade time as the industry prepares to go clockless.

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Your PC is also playing FBI role! India Times, Portsmouth Herald News (NH) and 18 others Aug. 19, 2005 -- With uncanny accuracy, computers predict behavior by sifting through mountains of data about customers collected by businesses. Called predictive analytics, this automated crystal-ball gazing has become a $2.3 billion industry in the United States. WUSTL marketing professor Amar Cheema comments.

History of CAIT
Today's CAIT was founded in 1976, when a group of data processing managers from key St. Louis companies approached Washington University asking for help. They convinced the University to provide local training in COBOL, mainframe hardware, and other needed skill sets, so they could reduce the cost of sending staffs to Chicago, New York, and other remote locations for training.

From this beginning as the region's original and most respected IT training center, CAIT has extended its mission and activities over the years to become, in every other way, the true center for IT leaders in the region. In addition to offering more than 150 courses each quarter, leading to more than a dozen skill-set certifications, CAIT offers a year-round program of exceptional learning opportunities for the region's IT executives.