Wednesday, November 17 11am-2pm Commons 331 www.nextcentury.com Attn: CS, CE and other graduate and undergraduate IT students looking for full-time and internship opportunities! SCHEDULE: 11am – 12 noon: John McBeth CEO/President speaks about A High Performance Journey 12noon - 1pm: Next Century Overview/Lunch with Next Century UMBC Alumni 1pm - 2pm: Technology Presentation: Phil Syme speaks on "An overview of open-source cloud-computing tools." This talk will give an overview of some of the more popular open-source cloud-computing projects and technologies, and will focus on the Apache Hadoop and Apache Cassandra projects. The talk will explain the details of HDFS and MapReduce, as well as data modeling using the Google BigTable interface. The talk will also briefly describe related technologies such as HBase, Hypertable, Redis, Voldemort, and others. Don’t miss out on the employment and networking opportunities, targeted career skill information, free food, and give-aways at Next Century’s Corporate Visibility Day! Come and go as you need to and bring your resume. Please RSVP via the Events tab in UMBCworks.