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February 16, 2010 @ 6:30 PM - Google Wave

Location Change!! This meeting will be held at Matrix Resources

Description

TBD

Speakers

Rick Thomas, is an entrepreneur focused on the strategic design of cooperative work. His goal is "better language" from a fundamental perspective as well as in new media practice. In the 1980's Mr. Thomas was a software engineer and manager on projects including avionics testing and manufacturing automation. His special interest in tools for project management led him to attend the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in 1986. In 1987 he was program chairman for the IEEE Conference on Engineering Management, which emphasized the CSCW theme. In the 1990's Mr. Thomas applied these ideas by developing collaboration software for project and sales organizations, and later for interactive video language learning and other multimedia projects. In the 2000's his work has been to explore the design possibilities at the intersection of three fields: 1) the natural history of language, its biology and its future, 2) applied language for management and decision making, and 3) modern media for language including internet culture, standards and applications. He is a Management Advisor to Evenview, which develops and places creative teams, and has developed a course in Managerial Decision Making at the College of Business at Georgia State University. He is active in the Atlanta technical community where he presents on Google Wave as a platform for innovation. Education: MSEE 1976, BSEE 1975, Georgia Institute of Technology. MBA 1979, Georgia State University.

February 23, 2010 - Concurrency & High Performance Reloaded (Special Meeting)

Location Change!! This meeting will be held at the Marriott Hotel

Description

The move from single to multi-core is a silent revolution. It has happened without Java developers taking much notice. Part of this is because Java developers have been writing multi-threaded applications for a long time. Even so, multi-core is a game changing development and with a 1000 core CPUs on the event horizon, it's one that we must adapt to if we are to remain competitive. In this talk we will explore some of the develop- ments that are taking place in the JVM, and in the JDK, to help us. We will also look at techniques we can use to improve the performance of our applications running on machines with 10s or even 100s of CPUs.

Thanks to GCA Technology and Sun for providing the speaker.

Speakers

Kirk Pepperdine, a Sun Java Champion since September 2005, is a primary contributor and consultant to javaperformancetuning.com, which is widely regarded as the premier site for information about Java Performance Tuning. Kirk is also the co-author of Ant Developer's Handbook.

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