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Sunday April 2009 | Vol. 31 | 04.19.09
Next week's articles featured in bdpatoday:
Left photo: 21st Annual Scholarship Banquet. Acting Secretary of the Navy keynotes NNOA scholarship banquet in Washington, Saturday, April 18. NNOA and BDPA vow to strengthen community-based STEM programs and partnerships. NNOA-DC awarded over $50,000 in non-military scholarships to area youth. (L-R) Perry Carter [Tec-Masters], BDPA-DC President; Tom Abernathy [Accenture], NNOA-DC President; the Honorable B.J. Penn, Acting Secretary of the Navy; and Byron Jones, CEO, AcademicONE.
Center photo: 12th Annual Youth Summit on Technology. BDPA Member Thurman Jones receives new checks for this fiscal year from industry partners in direct support of the Patriots Technology Training Center (PTTC) and its STEM programs. PTTC facilities are among the region's training sites made available to FIRST Robotics teams and BDPA high school computer competition (HSCC) teams. (L-R) John Tomas [BAE Systems]; Thurman Jones [PTTC]; and Patrick Fee [BAE Systems].
Right photo: Healthy Kids� Day 2009. Saturday, April 18, participating BDPA Chapters supported the YMCA, regional grocers, and local municipalities with annual health and wellness campaigns. Discover how BDPA's programs and related STEM disciplines are blending into nutritional, wellness, and physical fitness programs. (L-R) Donnie Shaw [YMCA National Capital Area]; Diane McDade [Whole Foods Market]; and Perry Carter, BDPA-DC.
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Upcoming Technology & BDPA Events:
BDPA (Global)|Tuesday, April 21
Professional Development Webinar: What is Agile?
11:30 pm EDT - Register here.
BDPA (Atlanta) | Wednesday, April 22
Program: Extreme Career Makeover! - Read more. BDPA (Washington/NoVA) | Wednesday, April 22
National OSDBU Procurement Conference: The Dulles Expo Center. Federal Contracts & Grants opportunity fair for small businesses, consultants, and contractors. Visit BDPA in Booth #146 - Read more.
NMSDC (Washington | MSDC Host) | April 21-23
NMSDC Day On The Hill: National Minority Supplier Development Council quarterly meeting and Capitol Hill visits - Read more.
BDPA (Tampa) | Thursday, April 23
Program Meeting: "Freeconomics: Making Money on Free Products & Services" - Read more.
BDPA (Atlanta) | Saturday, April 25
HSCC Picnic: Click to see flyer.
Industry:
- 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, Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
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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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Acronym of the Day
EAI
EAI (enterprise application integration) is a business computing term for the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating the computer applications in an enterprise. Typically, an enterprise has existing legacy applications and databases and wants to continue to use them while adding or migrating to a new set of applications that exploit the Internet, e-commerce, extranet, and other new technologies. EAI may involve developing a new total view of an enterprise's business and its applications, seeing how existing applications fit into the new view, and then devising ways to efficiently reuse what already exists while adding new applications and data.
EAI encompasses methodologies such as object-oriented programming, distributed, cross-platform program communication using message brokers with Common Object Request Broker Architecture and COM+, the modification of enterprise resource planning (ERP) to fit new objectives, enterprise-wide content and data distribution using common databases and data standards implemented with the Extensible Markup Language (XML), middleware, message queueing, and other approaches.
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BitPipe: http://www.bitpipe.com
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