[Acm-announce] Last ACM Meeting of the Year

[Deitz, Sean M.]

Make sure you guys RSVP for Stump the Profs, this Wednesday.  It would be
a shame to miss having it for a year.

The last ACM meeting of the year will be next Thursday, April 22nd, at
5:30 pm in SEO 1000.

Microsoft will be coming to talk about cloud computing.  Specifically...


· Every few years, a revolution changes the way we use
computers. Think of huge mainframes in the 1960s, minicomputers in the
1970s, personal computers in the 1980s and smartphones over the last ecade.
Cloud computing is poised to be the next big paradigm shift in the computing
landscape by bringing together advances in technologies like Virtualization,
massive scale computing, communication formats and flexible data protocols.
With advances by Microsoft, Amazon and other leaders in computing, this
field is slated as the fastest growing segment of the technology industry in
terms of investment, development and recruitment.

Join us in the Cloud Computing session to learn more about this exciting
development and about Windows Azure – our internet-scale cloud services
platform, which provides an operating system and a rich set of developer
services that allow you to build new applications to run from the cloud or
enhance existing applications with cloud-based capabilities.

Ø  Bio: Krishna Kumar is an Academic Relations Manager at Microsoft where
he partners with universities in the Midwest (WI, IA, IL, IN, MO) around
their teaching and research needs. He also leads the academic effort around
Azure nationwide by working with early adopters around cloud research and
curriculum incorporation. He is also in the process of putting the finishing
touches on a developer focused book on Azure for Addison-Wesley to be
published in Summer 2010. He tweets at @KrishnaOnAzure and administers the
http://AzurePilot.com portal.

Krishna has been with Microsoft for 9 years in various roles working with
multiple technologies, all of them developer focused. Forever the perennial
student, he is finishing up his third Masters degree from Northwestern
University in Medical Informatics. He lives with his wife and 1 year old son
near Chicago.


There will be giveaways and food, so do try to make it.

~ACM Ex-Chairman, Sean Deitz
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