Java Spotlight Episode 103: 2012 Duke Choice Award Winners
- by Roger Brinkley
Our annual interview with the 2012 Duke Choice Award Winners recorded live at the JavaOne 2012.
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Show Notes
Events
Oct 13, Devoxx 4 Kids Nederlands
Oct 15-17, JAX London
Oct 20, Devoxx 4 Kids Français
Oct 22-23, Freescale Technology Forum - Japan, Tokyo
Oct 30-Nov 1, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara
Oct 31, JFall, Netherlands
Nov 2-3, JMagreb, Morocco
Nov 13-17, Devoxx, Belgium
Feature Interview
Duke Choice Award Winners 2012 - Show Presentation
London Java CommunityThe
second user group receiving a Duke’s Choice Award this year, the London
Java Community (LJC) and its users have been active in the OpenJDK, the
Java Community Process (JCP) and other efforts within the global Java
community.
Student Nokia Developer GroupThis
year’s student winner, Ram Kashyap, is the founder and president of the
Nokia Student Network, and was profiled in the “The New Java
Developers” feature in the March/April 2012 issue of Java Magazine. Since then, Ram has maintained a hectic pace, graduating from the People’s
Education Society Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India, while
working on a Java mobile startup and training students on Java ME.
Jelastic, Inc.Moving
existing Java applications to the cloud can be a daunting task, but
startup Jelastic, Inc. offers the first all-Java platform-as-a-service
(PaaS) that enables existing Java applications to be deployed in the
cloud without code changes or lock-in.
NATOThe
first-ever Community Choice Award goes to the MASE Integrated Console
Environment (MICE) in use at NATO. Built in Java on the NetBeans
platform, MICE provides a high-performance visualization environment for
conducting air defense and battle-space operations.
DuchessRather
than focus on a specific geographic area like most Java User Groups
(JUGs), Duchess fosters the participation of women in the Java community
worldwide. The group has more than 500 members in 60 countries, and
provides a platform through which women can connect with each other and
get involved in all aspects of the Java community.
AgroSense ProjectImproving
farming methods to feed a hungry world is the goal of AgroSense, an
open source farm information management system built in Java and the
NetBeans platform. AgroSense enables farmers, agribusinesses, suppliers
and others to develop modular applications that will easily exchange
information through a common underlying NetBeans framework.
Apache Software Foundation Hadoop ProjectThe
Apache Software Foundation’s Hadoop project, written in Java, provides a
framework for distributed processing of big data sets across clusters
of computers, ranging from a few servers to thousands of machines. This
harnessing of large data pools allows organizations to better understand
and improve their business.
Parleys.comE-learning
specialist Parleys.com, based in Brussels, Belgium, uses Java
technologies to bring online classes and full IT conferences to
desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile devices. Parleys.com has hosted
more than 1,700 conferences—including Devoxx and JavaOne—for more than
800,000 unique visitors.
Winners not presenting at JavaOne 2012 Duke Choice Awards BOF
Liquid RoboticsRobotics
– Liquid Robotics is an ocean data services provider whose Wave Glider
technology collects information from the world’s oceans for application
in government, science and commercial applications. The organization
features the “father of Java” James Gosling as its chief software
architect.United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesThe
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is on the front
lines of crises around the world, from civil wars to natural disasters.
To help facilitate its mission of humanitarian relief, the UNHCR has
developed a light-client Java application on the NetBeans platform. The
Level One registration tool enables the UNHCR to collect information on
the number of refugees and their water, food, housing, health, and other
needs in the field, and combines that with geocoding information from
various sources. This enables the UNHCR to deliver the appropriate kind
and amount of assistance where it is needed.
