Archive for November, 2008
BJU CpS 479 Assignment: What’s in the Cloud?
As computer science and information technology students, the world you will be working in keeps changing before your eyes. One of the latest changes is the movement of bits from desktops and local servers to “the cloud”. Cloud-based computing is the talk of almost every computer conference these days. What is the cloud? How will it affect you and those you will support with your computer skills?
This Monday evening you have a first hand look at one of the major elements of the cloud infrastructure – an enterprise level data center. I look forward to taking you on a tour of The Worthwhile Company’s primary data center provider, Immedion.
In preparation I’d like you to do 4 things
- visit Immedion’s website and familiarize yourself a little with this company
- make sure you are familiar with cloud-based computing
- contemplate what you think life is like working in a place that provides the infrastructure for cloud-based computing
- consider 3 major challenges you think would face a data center as it seeks to keep up with providing the best in cloud-based computing infrastructure
Once you have visited the data center, please come back here and post your thoughts.
BJU CpS 479 Assignment: Interviewing Workshop
- Attend Interviewing Workshop (see calendar of events for date/time and location)
- create a blog comment which includes
- links with summaries to at least 5 sites dealing with this topic
- tips you picked up from Workshop
BJU CpS 479 Assignment: Clemson Graduate School Trip
Please share you thoughts and reactions to the trip we made to Clemson computer science graduate school.
Include an overview of the research projects we saw. Also comment on your graduate school plans, fears, concerns, interests.
Also consider sending a thank-you to Dr Pargas his students who took the time to share with you their research projects.
BJU CpS 479 Assignment: Planning for a job in a downturned economy
There were 2 articles which captured my attention this week as I think about and pray for my graduating seniors – employment trends @ bls.gov and an article on fox news about a major medical breakthrough in cancer research. I would love to see a few of you seniors take a look at these 2 areas and focus your class presentation on this or a related topic.
October employment figures were released this week! If I were in your shoes and wanting to find a job in the next several months, I think I would be interested in knowing where I could combine my computer skills to maximize the probability I could find a job. 
Check out the current employment trends and see how medical and mining jobs are increasing while everything else appears to be decreasing!
Here is a fascinating article from fox news yesterday. Consider how computer technology is being used to help medical researchers search DNA to find patterns which can lead to cures for diseases like cancer and diabetes!
One of the exciting prospects for those trained in computer and information technology, is that with a little background learning, you can apply your skills to almost any area that is experiencing positive employment growth! For your class presentation I would like you each to consider an area which it might be worthwhile for you to combine computer science in order to increase your employ-ability.
Post a comment here on what your presentation topic will be. Include at least 3 web references to your topic which you plan to include in your study.
Shocking Truth?
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on November 1st, 2008
Tuesday is a big day in the life of America. At the end of the day we will likely be in about the same shape we are in today. However like the rudder on a ship, our country’s direction could be drastically impacted. Personally I’m not thrilled with either candidate, however the following was brought to my attention about one of the candidates. It has caused me to spend more time in prayer begging the God of Heaven to intervene in the election to keep this very evil man from being able to so forcefully change the direction of our country!
Pro-abortion and supporter of infanticide (killing babies after delivery). Led the fight against the Born Alive Act as a state senator in Illinois. In fact, he is ranked as the #1 most liberal senator in the US Senate. Supports partial birth abortion. The only US Senator to vote against the Born Alive Act (which grants medical treatment and human rights to abortion survivors. Without this, babies are left on a shelf to die). His abortion views are so extreme that he is alone in defending this type of procedure. Among the first bills he intends to sign is the Freedom of Choice Act which would eliminate any and all restrictions on abortion and eliminate parental notification and enable criminal charges against those who protest outside abortion clinics. The next bill he wants to sign is a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Voted to withdraw funding from our troops while they were in the field of battle. Stated he would sign a bill removing the secret ballot from union votes.
When first elected to the Illinois state senate, he ran on not only the Democrat Party, but also sought the endorsement of the “New Party” (which is a Marxist organization, home to former members of the Communist PartyUSA). His mentor was a Marxist, Bill Ayres who was an founder of the weather underground is a Marxist , and the prime minister of Kenya who is his cousin and Obama has advised and helped finance his campaign in Keyna is a Marxist. ACORN is a Marxist/Maoist organization—which he worked for on voter registration, and he has given them nearly one million dollars from his campaign fund. This is the same organization facing allegations of propagating massive voter fraud in multiple states.