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The New Era of Cloud Computing

Wednesday, April 30th @ 6:30pm
Google, Fremont Campus
501 N. 34th St.

As both Amazon and Google start opening up their infrastructure to outside parties, the phrase on everyone’s lips is cloud computing. Systems like EC2 (from Amazon) and Hadoop (open source implementation of Google’s tools) are making the construction of scalable, distributed architectures ever easier. Virtual hardware is becoming so much of a commodity that you can order up any chunk of processing power or storage, specifically catered to your needs. Now’s your chance to get up close and personal and learn all about this new wave of distributed computing.

Aaron Kimball is a PhD student at UW and a consultant on scalable Hadoop systems. He’ll be speaking at the Google campus in Fremont on cloud computing, and some of the search giant’s specific implementations. The event is unfortunately already at capacity… but you can email the WTIA directly to get on the mailing list.

Today! Wearable Computing Lecture!

Thursday, February 21st @ 3:30pm
Elecrical Engineering Building, Room 105
UW Campus

Wish I’d found out about this earlier, but it just came across my inbox an hour ago. If you’re anywhere near the UW campus around 3ish today, then head down to the Electrical Engineering Building, room 105, to see Leah Buechley speak. Buechley is a post-doc researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder, investigating ubiquitous computing and e-textiles. She’ll be focusing specifically on a super-cool toolkit called the Lilypad Arduino, which allows everyday folks to build wearable “soft computers” by sewing differnet modules (microcontrollers, sensors, etc.) together with conductive thread. Drop whatever you’re doing, leave work and head down there right away!