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Volume 8 | Issue 3 | 6 March 2007
Our March newsletter brings you news from around the world and
student contests on two continents. It's full of opportunities for
you to increase your knowledge about the latest technology and
trends: attend an event, tune into a webcast, or take advantage of
the no-charge courseware, training, and tutorials.
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This newsletter is intended for members of the IBM Academic
Initiative. If you are on the faculty of an accredited academic
institution but haven't joined the Academic Initiative, you can apply
right now by going to:
http://www.ibm.com/university/members/.
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News
Worldwide: Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest in Tokyo, Japan
The most talented students of computing, from all corners of the
world, will be competing in Tokyo, Japan, for the 31st annual World
Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International
Collegiate Programming Contest, March 12-16, 2007. The event will be
co-hosted by ACM Japan and the IBM Tokyo Research Lab, which is
celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
https://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/ACM/index.shtml
France: Server, storage, and software infrastructure courses
launched at leading engineering schools
IBM is launching server, storage, and software infrastructure
training at ESIEE near Paris and ENSEEIHT in Toulouse with plans to
expand to five additional schools. The courses will include training
on SOA, ERP, virtualization, and other leading technologies.
http://www.ibm.com/news/fr/fr/2007/02/cp2014.html
Turkey: Yildiz Teknik University hosts IBM Software Series
Two IBM Software Technical Specialists discussed IBM general
software strategy at the first of a series of weekly seminars at
Yildiz Teknik University Computer Engineering Department. The
second seminar was grid computing on February 20 and different IBM
software topics will be presented to students in the coming weeks.
http://www.ce.yildiz.edu.tr/
Turkey: IBM Turkey and Near East University, North Cyprus to
establish Technology Center
Near East University, North Cyprus (Yakin Dogu University) has chosen
IBM as its strategic partner to establish a Technology Center on
campus and promote innovation among students. Eray Yuksek, IBM Turkey
General Manager, met with the university Rector and professors and a
visit to IBM Supercomputing Center in Barcelona is planned to view
Mare Nostrum, the most powerful computer in Europe.
http://www.neu.edu.tr/tr/tur_main.asp?sayfa=tr/IBM
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Special offers
Network with other WebSphere and SOA professionals
Are you a WebSpherian? Want to better understand how end users and
vendors are implementing SOA? Well, you are not alone! The Global
WebSphere Community is a network of devoted WebSphere and SOA
followers just like you... eager to share experiences with like-minded
individuals and passionate about learning. Join them today, at
the Global WebSphere Community.
http://www.websphere.org
Student contest: Still time to enter the System i Innovation
Challenge
The Innovation Challenge is open to all college and university
students registered at 2, 3 and 4 year institutions, and no knowledge
of System i is required to successfully compete. Students can
participate in teams, and there are great prizes for all of the team
members from t-shirts and iPods to a trip to our customer, Nintendo
North America--and of course they get a Wii! Encourage your students
to enter this exciting Innovation Challenge!
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/students/contests/systemi
/innovationchallenge.html
Student contest: Academic Initiative India launches Tivoli
Quiz Contest
Following The Great Mind Challenge and Project INVITE, Academic
Initiative India launched the Tivoli Quiz Contest, which introduces
students to the use of Tivoli storage and security management
software. Over 500 students have already participated and the top ten
scorers will win MP-3 Digital Players.
http://www-8.ibm.com/in/university/trp/
Demo: WebSphere Integration Developer for SOA End-to-End
Business Integration
See a demonstration of how WebSphere Integration Developer discovers
and exposes assets as services, helping to transform, route, and
mediate in-flight information between these services and rapidly
create new business processes. Be sure to check out the associated
WebSphere Integration Developer webcast also featured in this
newsletter.
http://www.soaflexibility.com/WID1
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Webcasts, podcasts, and events
Webcast: One Tool, One Set of Skills for SOA End-to-End
Business Integration
Register today for the March 15, 2007 webcast and learn how IBM
WebSphere Integration Developer helps you rapidly build SOA solutions
and simplify integration using service discovery, mediation and
orchestration. No coding required! Be sure to check out the
associated WebSphere Integration Developer demo also featured in this
newsletter.
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?lang=en_US&source=dw-c-wcsdp&S_PKG=031507
Event: IBM special session at CSUN
Join IBM and the U.S. Department of Education at the Technology &
Persons with Disabilities Conference for their presentation "Taking
Steps Toward an Accessible Future" and learn about incorporating
design for disabled and aging users in university curricula. The
conference will be held March 19-24 at California State University at
Northridge in Los Angeles.
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/index.html
Event: System z Mainframe Technology Roadshow
Learn about the latest mainframe technology trends and meet System z
clients! Beginning February 27, there will be multiple two-day
complimentary seminars across the US and Canada. Choose from eight
different tracks: The Modern Mainframe, Application Development, DB2
Technology Update, Application Integration, IT Operations, CICS
Application and System Development, IMS Technology Update, or
Business Integration.
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/scholars/products/zseries
/learn.html
Event: Impact 2007 Conference
Business is fluid; companies need to innovate to stay on top of their
game. Attend this exciting new SOA and WebSphere conference and get
the hottest information on new technologies from IBM business and
technical experts, analysts, and companies who have implemented SOA
solutions. Register now to receive a discount.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact2007/overview.
html
Event: Discounted rates available for IBM Rational Software
Development Conference
Register for the IBM Rational Software Development Conference in
Orlando, June 10-14, 2007! Professors and students can use these
discount codes when registering online to receive reduced
registration rates. Professors: PROF1 ($595) Students: SEED2 ($449).
http://www.ibm.com/rational/rsdc
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Training and books
Courseware: Introduction to the Mainframe: Large Scale
Commercial Computing
The mainframe plays a central role in the daily operations of many of
the world largest corporations. This course helps students gain an
understanding of why companies choose mainframe systems to run their
large-scale computing environments. Topics include capacity,
scalability, integrity and security, availability, systems
management, and autonomic capabilities.
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/scholars/courseware/syste
mz.html#zLSCC
Training: Rational Education 2007 schedule
Rational Education offers you a consistent set of courses in nine
major US cities. These are the top 10 most requested Rational
instructor-led courses that have a guaranteed delivery with a minimum
of two students.
http://www.ibm.com/training/us/catalog/rational/mostrequested
Training: Play to learn with DB2 Gaming
Try a new approach to traditional learning with DB2 Gaming. Take
advantage of these new interactive self-study learning games to build
your DB2 skills using real world problems and solutions. Play now at
no charge to you!
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/education/games.html
New Redbook: DB2 9 pureXML Guide
This IBM Redbook discusses the pureXML data store, hybrid database
design, and administration. It includes easy-to-understand examples
for the following topics: XML schemas, industry standards, how to
manage schemas, SQL/XML, XQuery, and XPath.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247315.html
Tutorial: Hello World continues with DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and
Windows
The second half of the seventh tutorial in the "Hello, World!" series
provides high-level overviews of various IBM software products.
You'll learn how to configure DB2 databases, how locking and
isolation levels work within DB2, and how to recover a corrupted
database.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/dm-dw-db2-
hellodb2b.html?S_TACT=105AGX54&ca=dnw-805
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Web-based technology and product news publications
developerWorks newsletters
https://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/newsletter/
Rational Edge e-zine
http://www.therationaledge.com
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal
IBM Systems Journal
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal
Global WebSphere Community Forum
http://ecommunity.groupintelligence.com/websphere/forums/
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