Moving Java Technology Ahead on Many Fronts October 11, 2012,
Volume 176, Issue 2
This year's Duke Award winners, announced at JavaOne 2012, include the following:
Apache Software Foundation Hadoop Project
AgroSense Project – Improving farming methods to feed a hungry world
JDuchess – fosters the participation of women in the Java community worldwide
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
Liquid Robotics – Offers Wave Glider technology that collects information from the world’s oceans for application in government, science and commercial applications
London Java Community – The second user group receiving a Duke’s Choice Award this year
NATO – The first-ever Community Choice Award goes to the MASE Integrated Console Environment (MICE) in use at NATO
Parleys.com – E-learning uses Java technologies to bring online classes and full IT conferences to desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile devices
Student Nokia Developer Group – This year’s student winner, Ram Kashyap, is the founder and president of the Nokia Student Network
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – UNHCR has developed a light-client Java application on the NetBeans platform that 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
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