Category Archives: Student Blogs

March 9, 2011 – March 12, 2011 The SIGSCE Conference in Dallas, Texas marked the experience of a lifetime. It was of great honor to represent Wilberforce University’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) program. The theme for this year’s conference … Continue reading →

The time has come. It is the beginning of the new semester and I am excited for the return to NNSA as the a research intern. So much has changed since last semester and while these changes are seemingly overwhelming, … Continue reading →

12-3-2010 Today, we finished doing the orientation for the internship program.  After finishing the program, we were given our new assignment, which was to help build the new WILBER system for the campus.  We then also helped Mr. Watkins by … Continue reading →

December 2, 2010 December 2, 2020 was the first day for the NNSA Winter Break Internship. We had a brief orientation about our expectations for the remainder of the internship. I am excited about the new things that will be … Continue reading →

December  1, 2010 IEEE Cloud Computing Conference – 6082 During the Cloud Computing Conference, the challenge was to meet 5 individuals from another institution and answer questions pertaining to Cloud Computing.  I covered the questions and meeting 5 individuals both … Continue reading →

November 30, 2010 IEEE Cloud Computing Conference – 6082 During the Cloud Computing Conference, the challenge was to meet 5 individuals from another institution and answer questions pertaining to Cloud Computing.  I covered the questions and meeting 5 individuals both … Continue reading →

The NNSA Winter break Internship kicked off November 29, 2010 with a trip to IUPUI in Indianapolis, IN. Students attended the second annual CloudCom Meeting–an international professional conference devoted to cloud computing, technology, and science. The conference is a week … Continue reading →

11/1/2010 On day 2 of the IEEE Cloud Computing Conference, we went to a presentation on the computing of the number of pi.  They started by saying that the number for pi was 3.22.  I thought they had the wrong … Continue reading →

11/30/2010 The beginning day of the conference for the IEEE Cloud Computing Conference and with that they began to speak about the Hadoop program.  The Hadoop program is used with Yahoo! and is also used with other online programs such … Continue reading →

11-29-2010 We were on the campus of Indiana University Purdue University Institute (IUPUI) and we were given the challenge to find out about the some of the majors that they had at the university, how does their research apply to … Continue reading →