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APOLLO TECHNOLOGIES INC invites you to a Technology Briefing

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Ateneo de Davao tech briefing invitation

APOLLO TECHNOLOGIES INC.

 Invites you to a Technology Briefing on

 Enterprise Applications and the Cloud Infrastructure:

Technologies & Trends

 

This briefing covers topics on the relevant technologies and trends using Cloud Infrastructure to meet the demands and requirements of Enterprise Applications. The briefing shall touch on:

–       What is the Cloud?

–       Open Source Cloud Infrastructure

–       Requirements of Enterprise Applications

  • Reliability
  • Scalability

–       Proven Approach

  • Automated Failover: Heartbeat
  • Load balancer: Apache2 or Nginx
  • Application Severs: Apache Tomcat or Jetty
  • Distributed Session Store: memcache
  • Database Cluster: Mysql cluster

Apollo Technologies shall also share information on Cloud-based applications in real world enterprises and communities. It shall share its experience in successfully building:-

  1. A real-time supply chain solution for 7-Eleven, the world’s largest convenience store chain
  2. A mission-critical trade system that handles processing for the Bureau of Customs and the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA)
  3. An innovative electronic payment system that handles myriad of payment options

Mr. Gary Lauriano, President, and Mr. Jessie Evangelista, Chief Technology Officer, shall conduct the Briefing.

Apollo Technologies is also looking to establish a presence in Davao by April 2012. The Briefing would provide an opportunity to ask the President and the CTO about available opportunities for projects and long-term employment.

The Briefing shall be held on January 27, 2012  at F607 from 3:40-5:00pm.

 

AdDU alumnus Alvin A. Te (CS 1995) now a Franciscan Priest

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On January 8 , 2012, ADDU alumnus and Franciscan priest, Fr. Jose Alvin Amigleo Te, OFM presided at the 7 a.m. Sunday Mass in our University Chapel. It was a happy event attended by Fr. Alvin’s parents and family, relatives and friends. It was a happy Balik-Davao and a Balik-Campus event for Fr. Alvin. Congratulations to Fr. Alvin Te!

Fr. Te graduated at the AdDU in 1995 with a BS in Computer Science degree. He is the son of Henry U. Te (GS’62, HS’66) and Maria Zenaida Amigleo-Te (BSC’68). Fr. Te migrated to Canada and then joined the Franciscans in 2001. He is a member of the Franciscan Province of the Immaculate Conception, based in New York. After finishing his philosophy and theology studies at the Antonianum Pontifical University in Rome, Fr. Alvin was ordained a priest on April 24, 2010 at St. Anthony Parish in New York City. He is now assigned as an associate at a parish in Woodbridge, a town just outside Toronto, Canada. He will return to his Parish in Woodbridge after his vacation in Davao. Happy trip back to cold, cold Canada!

My thanks to Fr. Alvin for sharing the pictures of his Ordination to the Priesthood in New York and of his 1st Mass at our AdDU Chapel.

With warm regards and best wishes for a Happy, Blessing-filled Year of the Dragon on January 23rd,

Fr. Renato C. Ocampo, S.J.
Alumni Director / University Chaplain
Ateneo de Davao University

Internships Available for the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences

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The Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences is calling for applicants for summer internships for the following projects:

1. Development of an Educational Data Mining Workbench
Machine-learning software and techniques have made it easier for educational software and intelligent tutoring researchers to create real-time detectors of cognition as well as of metacognitive and motivational behavior that can be used to improve student science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning. However, there are still critical problems to overcome. First and foremost of these is: How do we get the data into the machine learning software for learning in the first place? The Educational Data Mining (EDM) Workbench is designed to address this “data labeling bottleneck” and the difficulty in distilling relevant features for machine learning. Now on version 2, interns can expect to contribute to the development and testing of the EDM Workbench using Java and NetBeans.

2. Development of Affect-Sensitive Interfaces
The researchers undertaking this project aim to develop several emotionally intelligent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) that can recognize and respond effectively to user affect. ECAs can be built for a variety of contexts including affect-sensitive educational software, games, productivity tools, business tools and others.

3. Computer Science Education Projects
The computer science education projects of ALLS take on two dimensions: Computer science education at the high school level and the analysis of novice programmer compilation behaviors. The former refers to the Ateneo Summer Programming Camp and the special Ateneo High School Computer Science training program, both of which prepare selected students for competition programming. The latter refers to the development of tools to study novice programmer errors, behaviors, and affect and to design appropriate pedagogical interventions.

Interns will be expected to work at the ALLS during the months of April and May 2012 and may use their internship projects. They will be provided with an allowance during this time. Interested parties can inquire at the CSDiv Office.