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Tuesday November 07, 2006 Explaining Sun to 16 year old teenies
Today I visited y alma mater, the Clausthal Technical University. I was invited by Jochen, the university's school liaison, to speak to a group of 50 sixteen-year olds from a nearby school that was visiting the campus.
How do you explain what Sun is doing to 16-year old kids?
I started by asking how many of them had a mobile phone (nearly all of them), an email address (nearly all of them) and how many would play an online gamy (surprisingly, just a handful). Well, Sun makes the net work, to quote an old tagline of ours. Actually, Jonathan's and Greg's slides helped me a lot in explaining what Sun is all about: Communities, Technology that runs the internet and the invitation to join us by participating in the internet and our open source efforts.
It worked quite well. Questions included: What's a CPU? (Ok, I talked about UltraSPARC T1 and Niagara 2 but just for one slide...) What do we do about security? Can I run all my programs on Solaris?
Things that really captured the audience included of course Project Black Box and Project Sun Spot. I hope that we can ship the latter as soon as possible so schools and universities around the world can start experimenting with swarm intelligence.
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