January 13, 2015 – 2:29 pm
As a UNIX systems engineer at Virginia Tech, Josh Akers 鈥�07 is charged with 鈥減rovisioning鈥� a few dozen 鈥渆nterprise systems鈥� at university, while also 鈥渁dministrating VMware infrastructure鈥� and supporting operation of 鈥淎dvanced Research Computing clusters.鈥� 鈥淎nyone in the field would know what I鈥檓 talking about,鈥� said Akers, who majored in computer science at 黑料正能量. But
January 13, 2015 – 12:56 pm
This is a man who spent much of 1970-71 in Belgium鈥檚 national library absorbing British computer research. He was learning French too in Brussels, so that he could use French to teach math, physics and economics at a Congolese mission school. This is a man who lived with his wife in a mud hut for
January 13, 2015 – 12:46 pm
As a teenager in the mid-1970s, Daryl Myers 鈥�84 didn鈥檛 know anyone who owned a computer in his town of Lowville, New York. But he took his own money, trekked to a Radio Shack store and bought a TRS 80. 鈥淚t was really just a calculator on steroids,鈥� he laughs now. It had no games,
January 13, 2015 – 12:36 pm
Running a power plant effectively requires keeping tabs on an awful lot of data relating to fuel consumption, power output, weather conditions, grid demand, etc. & etc. And in turn, keeping tabs on all this data effectively requires clever software that allows users to visualize and understand what might otherwise be a confounding torrent of
January 13, 2015 – 12:12 pm
Starting in refugee camps Philip Borkholder鈥檚 鈥�89 journey to information technology began by majoring in fields that had little to do with computer science: biology and international agricultural development. This led to a five-year stint with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) shortly after graduation in 1989. Borkholder spent one year in Honduras and four in El