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Volume 6 | Issue 5 | 03 May 2005
This newsletter is intended for members of the IBM Academic Initiative. If you are a faculty member of an accredited academic institution but are not registered, please apply today by going to: www.ibm.com/university.
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RexxLA announced its first open source release of Object REXX
IBM Object REXX is now available through the Open Source community. The product, known as "ooRexx" is available from RexxLA (http://www.rexxla.org) under the Common Public License (CPL) V1.0. Download the first release of ooRexx 3.0.0 from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701
Play to Learn: DB2 Detective & Cloudscape Detective Games
Become familiar with relational database concepts through an interactive game. Available through IBM developerWorks, the game assumes no prior database knowledge or SQL programming experience. Students, teachers/professors, or anyone wanting to gain an understanding of data management can learn the necessary concepts for working with DB2 Universal Database or IBM Cloudscape. Look for these and other teaching tools at:
http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/downloads/
Program starter kit in Portuguese for Brazilian members
IBM Academic initiatve has now added a detailed information kit in portuguesse for Brazilian and portuguesse members describing program benefits and giving instruction on how to become member and access these benefits.
http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/pt/
IBM launches a redesigned IBM ACE web site
IBM is pleased to announce a significantly improved IBM Advanced Career Education (ACE) web experience. With input from the clients, the IBM ACE web site was enhanced with new information specifically for the Academic Institutions. A new "Information for Schools" tab has been created which provides Academic Institutions with all the information they need to understand the IBM ACE program. The site also includes detailed information on the program, materials and pricing.
http://ibm.com/services/learning/us/catalog/ace
We're listening to you
Please help us improve our Academic Initiative web site! IBM is offering faculty members with paid opportunities to evaluate and provide feedback on our ibm.com/university site. Opportunities include research conducted at IBM facilities, by phone, or on the web. Time commitments vary from 15 minutes to several hours, and you will be compensated for your time. Send an email to ibmacad@us.ibm.com if you are interested in being notified of opportunities.
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Contests
Announcing Linux on POWER Open Source Developer Contest
IBM is excited to announce that the Linux on POWER Open Source
Developer Contest had such a great response last year that it
is going international. The Open Source Developer Competition
is designed to reward and showcase innovative new open source
applications that are designed specifically for Linux running
on the PPC architecture, or award the porting of existing
applications from predetermined lists. You can enter the Tier 1
challenge for the Segway Human Transporter along with Tier 2 or 3,
or select a single Tier to participate in and win.
| 1st Tier Prize: |
5 |
- Segway Human Transporter |
| 2nd Tier Prize: |
50 |
- Apple Mac G5's |
| 3rd Tier Prize: |
50 |
- $1,000 cash prizes |
Entries are due by July 15, 2005.
http://www.linuxonpower.com
Shanghai JiaoTong University Wins ACM ICPC
Students from host school Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai,
China, took first place in the Association for Computing Machinery's
(ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored
by IBM. The international "battle of the brains," in Shanghai, China,
challenged students to tackle a semester's worth of computer
programming curriculum under a grueling five-hour deadline, in a
battle of logic, strategy, and mental endurance. For more information,
photographs, and complete standings, please visit:
http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/
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Webcasts and events
Call for participation - 2nd IEEE conference on Autonomic computing
Sponsored by IEEE, the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic
Computing (ICAC-05) will bring together researchers from different
fields of research who are addressing aspects of self-management in
computing systems. To deal with the increasing complexity of large-
scale computer and software systems, they must manage themselves, in
accordance with high-level guidance from humans — a vision that has
been referred to as autonomic computing. Event is being held in
Seattle, WA, USA from June 13-16, 2005.
http://www.autonomic-conference.org/
Enrollment now open for iSeries Academic Initiative Roundtable
Join us in Rochester, MN for our annual Roundtable and/or Summer
School which is offered free to faculty. Roundtable is an opportunity
to collaborate with and learn from other faculty members, and our
theme this year is Building and Marketing Integrated Industry
Relevant e-Business programs. With the decline in IT and computer
science enrollment across the board in colleges and universities, we
are seeing many unique offerings in post-secondary education. Our
Roundtable will provide the opportunity to learn and network. Summer
School is our annual one week event which offers faculty members in
depth, hands-on iSeries education from the IBM experts in Rochester.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/education/scholars/
IBM Grid Computing: Creating Value for Higher Education
Join us for a presentation on IBM Grid Computing May 4 11:00 -
12:15 ET. This presentation covers three major topics. It includes
a brief discussion of what is grid computing, the value of grids,
problems addressed by grids, the deployment options for grids, and
uses of grids in higher education and research. The second topic is
a presentation of grid implementations in higher education with IBM
participation. The last topic covers IBM collaboration in developing
grid standards and open source implementations.
http://developer.raindance.com/iccdocs/seminarDesc.shtml?id=361975&mode=cal&tz=EST
Technical and business briefings
IBM offers complimentary technical and business briefings on IBM
products, technologies, and strategies. Briefings are available for
e-business on demand, Web services and WebSphere, and open standard
databases (DB2 and Cloudscape/Derby).
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings
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Training and books
New DB2 course material available
DB2 Universal Database Advanced Administration Workshop (CF45) teaches
how to perform advanced database administration tasks using DB2
Universal Database. These tasks include client administration,
automatic maintenance features, problem determination, advanced load
usage, parallelism & SMP exploitation, DB2 Governor, audit facility,
distributed data management, remote administration, multidimensional
data clustering, online reorganizations, use of the Health Center, and
federated database support.
http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/courseware/
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Special offers
Certification discounts available for faculty and students
As members of the IBM Academic Initiative program, faculty
members and their students receive a 50% discount on select IBM
certification tests at Thompson Prometric Centers. These include such
industry-leading certifications such as WebSphere, DB2, Lotus,
Tivoli and iSeries.
http://www.developer.ibm.com/university/scholars/certification/
Special offers on IBM products
Faculty and students can buy directly from IBM and receive great savings. The Shop IBM site for Education (U.S. only) has academic discount pricing and promotional bundles that change every few months.
http://www.ibm.com/shop/ibmdeals/edu
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Web-based technology and product news publications
developerWorks technology newsletter on the Web
http://ibm.com/developerworks/newsletter/nl-tech-archive4.html
developerWorks product newsletter on the Web
http://ibm.com/developerworks/newsletter/nl-prod-archive4.html
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
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