Hey Hadoop Fans, I wanted to call your attention to an event we're putting on next month that would be great for your academic contacts. Please take a moment and forward this to any faculty you think might be interested.
http://www.cloudera.com/sigcse-2009-disc-workshop One of the big challenges to Hadoop adoption is that it requires thinking about data and computation in new ways. One of the best things we can do as a community, long term, is help educators prepare their students to work with big data using Hadoop. This is a chance to help faculty impart skills that will continue to drive Hadoop adoption for years to come. Once a year, Computer Science educators from around the world gather at the ACM's Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education: SIGCSE This year, Cloudera, is hosting a day long workshop at SIGCSE to introduce faculty to the MapReduce programming model, demonstrate how to integrate material into various types of courses, and go over some great sample projects for Hadoop. We'll also go over technical logistics around spinning up clusters on EC2 and getting free credits from Amazon for classroom use. A lot of this material is based on past work we have done with the National Science Foundation. That link again: http://www.cloudera.com/sigcse-2009-disc-workshop There is no charge for this event, and we'd love to see all your favorite computer science teachers there. Cheers, Christophe
