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Sunday March 2009 | Vol. 31 | 04.05.09
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Quick Links | BDPA-DC |
In case you missed one...
Technology Conference
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The Week Ahead |
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Upcoming Technology & BDPA Events:
BDPA (Bowie State University) | Monday, April 6
APBi: Advance Planning Briefing to Interns
BDPA (Northern Delaware) |Wednesday, April 8
Program Meeting: What is Master Data Management?
BDPA (New Jersey) | Thursday, April 9
Program Meeting: Document Imaging Technologies
GSA (Los Angeles) | April 6-8
Conference: Opening Doors For Small Business
Industry: - IBM deal for Sun Microsystems could close as early as this week. - Honda connects "brain waves" to its ASIMO robots
(For additional coverage, see bdpatoday April 2009 annual "Robotics" print edition.) Congress
U.S. Senate
Reconvenes after State Work Period, Monday, April 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm for consideration of S.386, Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act.
U.S. House of Representatives
Reconvenes, Monday, April 20, 2009.
Note: The House of Representatives returns to home Districts from Washington, April 6-17, 2009 for their Spring District Work Period. Coordinate local STEM, HSCC, FIRST Robotics, BDPA Programs, and Federal grant briefings to Congress within your Congressional District with local BDPA Chapter Presidents in or near your District.
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College internships and high school student summer opportunities recently announced in bdpatoday.  |
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2009 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
NATIONAL BDPA TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
Raleigh Convention Center
Raleigh, North Carolina
Conference Theme: "Challenges for Today, Strategies for Tomorrow"
Presentation Dates: August 5 - 7, 2009
If not already done, it is not too late to pre-register and take full advantage BDPA corporate or member discounts. Direct any questions for exhibits, career fair, plenary sessions, and group registrations (such as other non-profits, churches, schools, and camps interested in technological advances in our community and society) to conference@bdpa.org or call 1.800.727.BDPA (2372).
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bdpatoday
Acronym of the Day
CMDB
A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is a repository that contains all relevant information about the components of the information system used in an organization's IT services and the relationships between those components. Within this context, components of an information system are referred to as configuration items (CI). A CI can be any conceivable IT component, including software, hardware, documentation, and personnel, as well as any combination of them.
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BitPipe: http://www.bitpipe.com
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