Christian college welcomes performer for fourth annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series Feb. 25 NEWBERG, Ore. – Internationally acclaimed pianist Valentina Lisitsa will visit George Fox University for the fourth annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in Bauman Auditorium on the university’s Newberg, Ore., campus. The performance, which will feature...
Image by Photo Blog 0001 via Flickr Recently New York Times has published a tech article about big data . According the article some of the largest technology companies like I.B.M. and Google think that students from elite American universities students are not trained well to work on Internet scale problems of tomorrow. If you remember last month a similar story was published in Wall Street Journal...
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that researchers and workers in fields as diverse as biotechnology, astronomy, and computer science will soon find themselves overwhelmed with information — so the next generation of computer scientists will have to learn think in terms of Internet scale of petabytes of data. For the most part, university students have used rather modest computing...
IBM and Google want students to ditch their laptops and pick up some big iron: For the most part, university students have used rather modest computing systems to support their studies. They are learning to collect and manipulate information on personal computers or what are known as clusters, where computer servers are cabled together to form a larger computer. But even these machines fail to churn...