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BDPA's Regional High School Computer Competition (HSCC) and IT Showcase kick off this weekend, June 20th at Bowie State University. TeraGrid 2009 heads to Washington, D.C. the following week.  
 
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BDPA Cincinnati | Thursday, June 18th
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BDPA Chicago | Thursday, June 18th
2009 Education Banquet:
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Annual Regional High School Computer Competition (HSCC) & IT Showcase (ITSC):
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XDMA
                         
What is XDMA?
 
XDMA (Xing Distributed Media Architecture) is a network architecture for multicast streaming media transmissions. Streaming media enables live viewing of a transmission as compared to processes that require that files be completely transferred to the user's computer before their data can be viewed. Unlike prior network architectures, XDMA enables low-cost multiple access. In general, multimedia network architectures have required point-to-point connections and complex server programming, which made the multicasting of streaming media impractical, if not impossible.
 
XDMA was developed by Xing Technology, producers of the first MPEG software encoders and decoders. Xing was purchased by RealNetworks in 1999; the Seattle-based company's RealPlayer Plus and Microsoft's Windows Media Player are the two leading players of streaming media. The XDMA architecture supports live, on-demand multimedia transmission to multiple users over local area networks (LANs) or wide area networks (WANs) - such as the Internet - without requiring the use of file system applications such as Novell's NetWare or Sun Microsystem's Network File System (NFS). Because it is built on international standards such as TCP/IP and MPEG, XDMA is easily integrated into existing infrastructures. 
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  • 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

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