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Sunday April 2009 | Vol. 31 | 04.26.09
Next week: May 2009 Editions of bdpatoday from participating chapters will feature TeraGrid 2009 Previews and the Class of 2009. National BDPA monthly news now online from BDPALINK.
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NSF - Universities get $5 Million To Tap IBM-Google Cloud - more ...
BDPA - Grants.gov special announcement for chapter stimulus (ARRA) funding - more...
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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Upcoming Technology & BDPA Events:
BDPA (Columbus) | Sunday (today), April 26
Program: Afternoon at the Baseball Park - Read more. BDPA (Dallas) | Tuesday, April 28
Program: Becoming the Change You Seek - Redefining the Dallas BDPA Chapter; Volunteer Orientation. - Read more.
LISTA! (BDPA Atlanta) | Wednesday, April 29
BDPA (Detroit) | Wednesday, April 29
Fundraiser: HSCC Bowling Fundraiser - Read more.
BDPA (New Jersey) | Thursday, April 30
Chapter Elections - Learn more...
BDPA (Columbus) | Thursday, April 30Program: Impact of Offshoring Jobs - Read more.
BDPA (Memphis) | Friday & Saturday, May 1-2
NBDPA Board of Directors (NBOD) 2Q.09 Meeting
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, Monday, April 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm for consideration of S.386, Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act after a period of morning business.
U.S. House of Representatives
Convenes, Monday, April 21, 2009. at 12:30 pm.
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Acronym of the Day
EC2
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Amazon EC2's simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon's proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.
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Source:
Amazon.com: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
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 Spring 2009 Edition
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bdpatoday
Your Spring 2009 issue of bdpatoday now is available for local BDPA chapters, members, and industry stakeholders.
BDPA Members in certain media markets also receive monthly and daily online news directly from bdpatoday.
This special issue for Spring 2009 may vary from chapter to chapter as local content is provided or received from industry. Your Spring 2009 print edition features:
- National BDPA Technology Conference Preview | August 5-9, 2009
- IT milestones during the Obama Administration's First 100-Days
- An introduction to Green IT trends and careers
- BDPA and HBCU/MIs collaborate to provide greater STEM opportunities
- Government 2.0 - New sites and portals hosted by Uncle Sam
Join BDPA or subscribe to one of our newsletters today to remain connected to emerging industries and informed of important events happening near you. |
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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