The Symposium on Racing & Gaming showcased new technologies during the 2011 event and QR Codes were front and center.
In a unique University of Arizona course offered during the fall semester, students from the Race Track Industry Program (RTIP) and The School of Information: Science, Technology and Arts (SISTA) collaborated in designing and delivering new applications to the racing industry.
Working just as if they were professionals in the business world, RTIP students identified opportunities and needs that could be met utilizing QR Codes and shared these desires with the SISTA students who then demonstrated the “ins and outs” of how the technology could be put to use and created the required infrastructure to meet their goals. Student teams learned to work with tight deadlines to insure their completed projects were ready to showcase at the Symposium.
The Race Track Industry Program (RTIP) at the University of Arizona is the only program of its kind to offer specialized undergraduate and masters degrees focused on the racing industry. Within the RTIP, the business path prepares students for employment in the areas of race track management, regulation and pari-mutuel racing organizations and the equine management path prepares students for employment with racing and breeding animals.
The RTIP provides:
The mission of the School of Information: Science, Technology and Arts (SISTA) is to promote research in computational methods across disciplines and teach students to understand the computational aspects of any discipline. SISTA’s curriculum crosses departmental and disciplinary boundaries to ensure that future generations of scholars, irrespective of their subjects, master the methods of the Information Age.
Scholarship today is limited not by the availability of information, but by the scholars' mastery of methods that can help to transform information into knowledge, including methods for: