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I agree, tech support on campuses today can quickly become anachronistic; that is, if they are not have the requisite intellectual curiosity or do not have the cajones to spearhead new technologies like cloud computing (for distributed mathematical modeling), online E2E voting (for student elections), Educational MMORPGs and a list of other systems being developed now ready for deployment to the student population ASAP. You should have programmers on staff that can help contribute or partner with your CS department for folk that can contribute to these wonderful OS projects. It is important for you to realize that if you do not participate you are accepting other institutions philosophies of style, privacy and security that may be incompatible with yours or be forced to pay some contractor to customize it for you. You would be surprised how useful you will become when you start asking people not only what they want help with today but attempt to understand their needs well enough to plan ahead for what they will be clamoring for tommorow.

Stop playing WOW in the server room and start reading journals about UI Design, Human Computer interface and cybernetics for more advanced theory. Why should you study these journals instead of just reading the old faithful IT pulp mag, this website or some other "tech website"? Because you need to not only see what is coming down the consumer pipeline in a couple of months or be beta testing a new whiz bang software package; you need to understand where all this interaction is heading and how you can get ahead of the curve technologically by enmeshing your department in the active process of problem solving individual and institutional scale issues by being able to posit your own design philosophy coherently into the future and apply it cogently and adaptively as variables change.

Actually, if you read WMSCI's mission, it looks randomly generated too:

The purpose of WMSCI 2005 is to promote discussion and interaction between researchers and practitioners focused on disciplines as well as different areas.

So CS might have problems, but you cannot argue that based on WMSCI.

Click that WMSCI link - with such terrible writing of their own, I bet they'd accept anything.

Heh... it says that the NRC is a "technical co-sponsor" of the WMSCI 2005 on their web page, however, I can't seem to find ANY mention of WMSCI 2005 on NRC's website.

Why do you suppose that is I wonder?

You can be a reviewer for the conference targeted by MIT by signing up here. I filled out the form (which doesn't really ask you anything) and was sent four papers to review the next day (I didn't review them). This randomly generated paper was probably reviewed by someone who did the same.

Last year, I got a Suntrust Banking phishing email. It was the first one I'd seen that used a script to draw a box with a fake URL in it over the real one. The real URL was mail.iiisci.org/s (no longer works). I had never head of IIISCI at the time and assumed it to be legitimate. I wrote to the webmaster to tell them their site was being used for a phishing scam, and I've been getting invitations to their conferences evers since.

And the worst of these, they have got a bunch of these. http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005/main/view_process.as p?type=4/

We question the need for digital-to-analog converters. It should be noted that we allow DHCP to harness homogeneous epistemologies without the evaluation of evolutionary programming [2], [12], [14]. Contrarily,the lookaside buffer might not be the panacea that end-users expected. However, this method is never considered confusing. Our approach turns the knowledge-base communication sledgehammer into a scalpel.

Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate the analytic thinking required in focused conference sessions, to the synthetic thinking, required for analogies generation, which calls for multi-focus domain and divergent thinking. We are trying to promote a synergic relation between analytically and synthetically oriented minds, as it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of the corpus callosum. Then, WMSCI 2005 might be perceived as a research corpus callosum, trying to bridge analytically with synthetically oriented efforts, convergent with divergent thinkers and focused specialists with non-focused or multi-focused generalists.