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3rd Quarter 2009 NEWSLETTER For the DB2 on Campus Community

Welcome to our third Newsletter!

INSIDE DB2 in TRAINING Getting Started on DB2 with Apache and PHP IBM Software Development Camp How to Prepare slides and speeches for a presentation KEEPING UP with DB2 DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 available Story of two Ambassadors DB2 on Campus in ASEAN and South America Why DB2? IBM DB2 pureScale Database & AI Group (dbai) DB2 in JAPAN DB2 in INDIA QUOTES from University Profs From Germany From Thailand IDUG Europe 2009 Conference PROFILING our AMBASSADORS FROM OUR READERS

Agatha Colangelo

DB2 on Campus Community President & Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to our third edition of the DB2 on Campus Quarterly Newsletter, 3rd Quarter 2009! Subscribe for free, and provide feedback or send us your own articles by joining the DB2 on Campus Newsletter group on channelDB2. Students interested in becoming ambassadors can write to db2univ@gmail.com. Feel free to contact me directly on my channelDB2 page. I will be delighted to hear from you. Happy reading!

Get DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 now For details, see page 8.

From Our Readers:

Agatha, Thanks for the newsletter. It really is a great job! I am trying to be more active in the DB2 community over the web, and what caught my attention is the group which you are the leader. I have been working in IT for almost 27 years.... (continued on page 7)

Ronaldo Marzullo IBM Certified Database Administrator DB2 9 Advanced DBA for Linux, Unix and Windows

Agatha, The newsletters are really informative. Great efforts! Thank u SuryaPadmanaban Student, Sona College of Technology Salem, Tamilnadu – India

In PDF, click the graphics. Printed version, visit: http://www.ibm.com/db2/express

Updated to V9.7! Download the free

Getting Started with DB2 Express-C book translated in your own language

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Getting Started on DB2 with Apache and PHP By Upal Hossain IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 9 (article from: http://db2atuoft.blogspot.com/)

Many users, including myself, initially ran into difficulty in connecting with their DB2 database from their PHP applications running on an Apache web server. This calls for a quick and pain-free tutorial that will have you running and off the ground in a matter of minutes! Here are the steps: 1) We need to add the ibm_db2.dll

file to the extensions folder of the PHP installation on our machine. This ibm_db2.dll file can be downloaded from PECL, http://pecl.php.net/package/ibm_db2. For windows users, there is a PECL for windows, http://pecl4win.php.net/

2) Now we need to modify the php.ini file found inside your PHP installation to add the ibm_db2 extension. To do this, simply go through the file and where you see lines such as 'extension = blahblah.dll", add a new line, extension=php_ibm_db2.dll

3) If you Apache web server is not

yet connected with PHP, then you also need to add some lines to the httpd.conf file in the conf directory of your Apache installation.

First, ensure the php module is loaded. To do this, add the following line to your httpd.conf file, LoadModule php5_module "PHP_INSTALL_DIR/php5apache2_2.dll" Then add the following line to ensure php applications can run on apache, AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Finally, configure the path to where your php.ini file is located, PHPIniDir "PHP_INSTALL_DIR"

4) Now restart your apache web

server and you should be able to run php on it! To test that you can connect to a database through PHP using the apache server, you can run the following test script (with php tags), and modified for your database, username and password:

$dbname = "my_db"; $username = "upalh"; $password = "mypassword"; $dbconn = db2_connect($dbname, $username, $password); if (!$dbconn) { echo "Failed to connect: db2_conn_errormsg()"; } else { echo "successfully connected"; }

If you see the 'successfully connected' message when viewing this script from your web server, then you have successfully connected to your database! -Upal

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K.L.N. College of Information Technology

IBM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CAMP By Raghuveer Babu

Dear All, We are glad to inform you that we have planned to conduct an IBM Software Development training: 'Winter Camp -Season 2' in our college (K.L.N. College of Information Technology) from December 02, 2009 to December 11, 2009. A maximum of 50 students will attend this camp for 10 days It's being organized by me and our college DB2 Student Ambassadors (M.G.Avenash and V.Vaishnavi). We've planned to get the registration fee of Rs.150 from attendees for the following resources:

1. Two DVDs - DB2 Express C, IBM Rational Family software along with learning resources

2. File + Notebook + Pen 3. ID Card 4. Participation Certificate 5. Award Certificate for winners

See the detailed schedule of the camp (next page) and poster (below).

Also, we've planned to conduct two quizzes (1 for each of the 5 days) and we would like to give pen drives and software goodies as prizes to the winners.

We would be happy if we get the prizes for winners from IBM. Also, we are planning to conduct a DB2 Student Developers Conference with 400 students in the month of January, 2010, in our college.

Your valuable suggestions are needed to turn the camp and conference into a huge success.

Thank you, Raghuveer Babu, DB2 User Community

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IBM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CAMP SCHEDULE

Tea Break: 11.30 am – 11.45 am, 3.00 pm – 3.15 pm Lunch Break: 01.15 pm – 01.45 pm

Day Date Session – 1 (10.00 am - 11.30 am)

Session – 2 (11.45 am. - 1.15 pm)

Session – 3 (1.45 pm - 3.00 pm)

Session - 4 (3.15 pm - 4.45 pm)

Speakers

1 2.12.09

Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

Object Concepts and Beginning with UML

Key Principles

Lab: Sample case to study OOPS

P.Rajkumar

2

3.12.09 Designing Mechanisms

Use Case Design

Database Design

Lab: Use Case &Database design

T.V.Srinivasan T.N.Dhameshwaran

3 4.12.09 Introduction to Java

Java Basics – Part 1

Java Basics – Part 2

Lab: Simple Java Programs

V.Vaishnavi

4 5.12.09 Classes, Package, Interface

Collections Exception Handling

Lab: Java programs and Quiz -1

M.G.Avenash

5 6.12.09 Evolution of database

Relational Database

Database Query Languages – Part 1

Lab: Database Query M.G.Avenash

6 7.12.09 Database Query Languages – Part 2

Relational Database Design

Introduction to DB2

Lab: Installing DB2 V.Vaishnavi

7 8.12.09 DB2 Planning DB2 Security Accessing DB2 UDB Data

Quiz – 2 T.N.Dhameshwaran

8 9.12.09

Working with DB2 UDB Data – Part 1

Working with DB2 UDB Data – Part 2

DB2 Objects Lab: Working with DB2 UDB Data & Objects

V.Vaishnavi

9 10.12.09 Beginning XML XQuery

Data Concurrency

Lab:XQuery practice M.G.Avenash T.N.Dhameshwaran

10 11.12.09 Introduction to IBM Data Studio

Working with IBM Data Studio – Part 1

Working with IBM Data Studio – Part 2

Lab: Using Data studio for DB2 & Valedictory facilitation

M.G.Avenash V.Vaishnavi

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DB2 Student Ambassador Tutorial: How to prepare slides and speeches for a presentation

Tips & Tricks by Eng. Sergio Matone

When you are asked to become a Student Ambassador for IBM you begin thinking and wondering, “OK, that’s fine, but what is a Student Ambassador supposed to do?”. You can find many answers to this question, but I’m giving mine: an ambassador should do as much as possible to promote and distribute DB2, having clear in his/her mind why adopting DB2 is a better choice. You don’t need to be a guru of it, just a little bit experienced. So far, one of the best ways to promote DB2 is through lessons and presentations, but many of us have never prepared a set of slides for a presentation before or we never held a lesson in our life; therefore, many of us will feel confused and uncomfortable just because of this.

That’s why I have written this Tutorial, where I would like to give you an overview and some guidelines to help you prepare your lesson. Let’s start from the beginning: who knows how many presentation you had listened to as a student; sometimes they were interesting, some others they were even funny, but most of time they were very boring because they were hard to be understood, or it was difficult to follow a logical sequence. Here we have a key advantage: we can learn a lot from these errors, and I exploited immediately this advantage when I prepared my first lesson...of course it’s still not easy at all, I know.

Now, let’s see how we can organize our presentation with slides. I think the right duration for your lesson can be between an hour and an hour and a half so the number of slides can be 20 or 25, or even more, but this strongly depends on how much you have to say for each single slide.

Well, my first advice is the KISS principle: Keep It Simple, Stupid! It seems to be something obvious, but it is not and I really advise you to keep this principle in mind while preparing your lesson. Your audience probably won’t know anything about what you will be talking about, and they need to understand and assimilate the concepts you will be stating.

Fig. 1 – The comparison between two slides: a confusing slide containing lot of text (on the left) and a very schematic slide with bullets summarizing a few concepts (on the right). The one on the right is noticeably better.

Moreover, terminology and acronyms are fine, but it’s hard to remember all of them, if you, as a listener, don’t have these clear in your mind. Don’t abuse acronyms or remind the audience of their meaning each time you cite them. Remember we want to avoid common mistakes: if people have problems following you, they will pay less and less attention to you. And again, we want to keep all this simple. So don’t write too much on the slides, they are too hard to be read. Just put a few key concepts; it’s really up to you to find out which concepts are the most suitable. Then you can concentrate on explaining very well all these concepts during your speech.

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How to prepare slides and speeches for a presentation Tips & Tricks (continued...)

Let’s look at some other tips to maintain audience attention. As I already said before, you should avoid using too many technical words and expressions. Then try to insert some quizzes or jokes; these are really useful, first of all, they not only start people thinking, but they also let your audience relax for a while during the presentation. This will catch their attention for sure. For example, a test can be: “Which do you think is the DBMS allowing more memory usage for table storage even in the free version?” or “What kind of license is employed for DB2 V9?”.

Fig. 2 – An example of slide containing a quiz

Something similar can be statistics or comparisons, for example, using graphs and charts, “the percent usage of each brand of dbms last year” or “the number of downloads for free version of DB software”. When you explain the results, remember to also include references where you picked them up. If there is a WiFi connection, you will see for sure people with laptops in the audience that start checking out what you said.

Ok, we saw something about preparing slides: don’t insert to much written text, maintain a simple style, try to insert statistics and also quizzes somewhere to stimulate the audience. Now it’s time to focus on your speech. This is the hardest part and it’s even harder to give advice, since it depends on the temperament of each one of us.

A useful hint that I can give you is to start thinking about what you want to say while preparing your slides, or even before. A good set of slides doesn’t count if you are not able to expose them in a good manner. So you have to study well and be very prepared on what you are going to say. A first way to maintain a high level of attention is to demonstrate self-confidence. Moreover, if you have clear in mind your speech you will be able to interact easily with the audience as much as possible. This is very important; interaction makes people feeling really involved in your lesson. Ask for feedbacks, “Do you understand what I just said?” or “Which do you think is the easiest technology for accessing and querying an XML tree?” As I already mentioned, involving your audience makes them focus on what you’re saying.

Another trick that I used to employ when I took a lesson is to explain the concepts by examples by comparing them to real examples in everyday life. This allows you not only to easily understand a concept, but it also connects a concept to something that people know well.

For example “Employing DB2v9 with pureXML technology instead of regular plain SQL is like driving a car with automatic transmission instead of manual one” or “Understanding an error in an SQL hybrid query in DB2 9 is as easy as Googling for something on the Internet”.

One of the last steps: don't forget to show some practical examples with DB2 command line. This will show your audience that you are experienced with the software. Moreover you allow people to appreciate the real software in action. The approach that I use is showing something very easy like an easy SQL command; then I make a step forward toward something more difficult (for example, an XQuery).

Fig. 3 – Example of slides containing practical examples: an easy one (on the top) and a more advanced one (on the bottom)

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How to prepare slides and speeches for a presentation Tips & Tricks (continued...)

So it’s almost over! We are just missing a last step: final questions. I was really scared about this. What kind of questions will they ask me for? And above all, what can happen if I wouldn’t be able to answer a question? First of all, the more questions you get during and at the end of the presentation, the much your audience has got involved. Then don’t be scared, most of time you will be completely able to answer any kind of question, but take this into your mind: you are expected to be an expert, but not a guru of the topic.

Finally if you really don’t know the answer to a question, rather than

giving a no-sense answer, just say: “I don’t know” or “I don’t know but I suppose that...” or also “I don’t know but I can check the answer for you”.

There is nothing bad in admitting that you don’t know something, but the worst thing is inventing an answer or saying something completely wrong, or looking unsure on what you are answering. My experience was receiving a question that blocked me; a guy from the audience asked me whether I knew that Microsoft had already experimented with XML technology since two years; at the time, it was before DB2 pureXML.

I was really scared since I hadn’t heard anything like that and this would have taken out a lot of importance to what I had said during the presentation. I decided to answer by listing the features of pureXML technology in much detail and at the end the guy understood that Microsoft was making a different claim, since they were still using a hybrid technology for XML.

Now it’s your turn to come out and play. Let me conclude citing Bob Marley: “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘cause any little thing gonna be alright !”

-Sergio

From Ronaldo Marzullo (continued from page 1) I started as a night shift operator, then programmer (Assembler, Fortran, RPG II, Cobol, Natural etc), then I spent about 2 years as a System Analyst and because my interest in databases, I became a DBA. I worked many years with ADABAS (Software AG), TOTAL, DMS II (Unisys DBMS) and I started working with DB2 when DB2 was called SQL/DS for DOS/VSE or MVS. It was very poor in terms of performance, but was the first relational database. IBM used to offer a tape with this product for FREE :-). Since then I worked with DB2 (always) on both mainframe and LUW, but I worked and supported also Oracle, Sybase, MySQL and SQL Server. I spent all this time talking about me (sorry for that) just to express my joy to see this initiative to promote DB2. DB2 is in my point of view, the best database in the market and it is growing pretty fast (it improved a lot) on LUW.

My biggest complain, which I wrote many letters to IBM and DB2 user groups, is why IBM doesn't market DB2 as Oracle and other vendor do? If you go to any Barnes&Noble you can find books for Oracle DBAs, SQL server, MySQL (now an Oracle product) but there are VERY FEW books available (even online) about DB2. How can we expect the young generation learn about DB2? IBM has already the "monolithic outdate" label linked to mainframe and they don't anything to change.

So I am happy to see Forums like this one, that promote DB2 (as it deserves) and allow young people to be able to use, test, and choose which one they like. I will be here, when my schedule allows, to help you or any member in anything regarding DB2. Thank you.

Best regards, Ronaldo Marzullo IBM Certified Database Administrator DB2 9 Advanced DBA for Linux, Unix and Windows

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DB2 on CAMPUS PROGRAM DB2 on Campus program fosters joint collaboration between students, faculty and professional communities with one common denominator: IBM® DB2 software. Using DB2 Express-C (the free edition of DB2), IBM InfoSphere® Data Architect, and IBM Data Studio, technical experts deliver free presentations and workshops at educational institutions worldwide, and establish the seeds for future collaboration in joint projects. For details, visit the Community Web site.

The goals of the DB2 on Campus program are:

Increase the pool of DB2 skilled students graduating from educational institutions to keep pace with the demand in the job market

Foster collaboration between students, faculty and professionals using DB2

Increase the number of research projects, papers, articles, books, scripts, and other collateral about DB2

Get DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 now The 9.7.1 refresh of the DB2 Express-C free database server is now available: DB2 Express-C for Windows DB2 Express-C for Windows x64 DB2 Express-C for Linux DB2 Express-C for Linux x86-64 DB2 Express-C for Linux on POWER DB2 Express-C for Solaris x86-64

What's new There are many new fixes and features including: - OUT and INOUT parameters for user-defined functions - Global variable assignment in nested contexts - Enhanced diagnostics and logging - Progress indicators for RUNSTATS and reorg of tables and indexes - Transparent LDAP on Linux and Solaris - Improved .NET integration - Many other improvements Cheers, Leons Petrazickis, DB2 Express-C Community Team

Story of two DB2 Student Ambassadors

Raghuveer Babu Pradeep Kumar

K.L.N. College of Information Technology India

The story of two DB2 Student Ambassadors in India has been published online in the Data Management Magazine. I'm very happy these two student ambassadors have been recognized by the IBM Information Champions program. I still recall how these two students became ambassadors. Early in 2008, I received an email from them inquiring about the DB2 on Campus program. At the time I had not visited India, so they showed initiative just by getting in touch with me. As time went on, the two students showed a lot of passion for DB2, and with a lot of enthusiasm, they started organizing events about DB2; therefore they were named DB2 Student Ambassadors, and established a DB2 User Group in their university. I was going to attend the inauguration ceremony, but on short notice, the mayor of the city decided to declare a holiday the day of my visit, which meant it would've been hard for students to use public transportation. Nonetheless, I spoke with Raghuveer/Pradeep on the phone, and congratulated them for their efforts. We also nominated them to the IBM Information Champions program, and I'm glad they were selected. Congratulations again to Raghuveer and Pradeep! Raul.

K.L.N. COLLEGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (Approved by AICTE & Affiliated to ANNA UNIVERSITY)

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Raul Chong DB2 on Campus Manager

DB2 on Campus in ASEAN and South America

The past few months I've been travelling at a very heave pace, going last July from ASEAN, to North America, then South America, back to ASEAN (Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines & Vietnam), and now finally home in Canada. It has been a very busy time promoting DB2 not only to universities, but also delivering webinars, visiting a few business partners, IBMers, and several customers around the world. The jet lag has been quite a nightmare, and my body cannot yet distinguish between day time and night time... Nonetheless, the results in some countries have been outstanding. In the Philippines for example, I was able to reach almost 3000 students in 1 week. I probably had the three largest audiences I've ever had since the DB2 on Campus program started: 1200, 1000, 800 approximately. The local organizer in the Philippines (Jun Contreras), timed my visit with huge university events: JPCS (Junior Philippines Computer Society) and Y4IT (Youth for IT).

Larger crowds though, are tough to entertain for more than 1 hour, but I did carry a few souvenirs I threw to the audience for good answers to questions. The picture in this blog is for the JPCS event. In Singapore I delivered a seminar at NUS (National University of Singapore) which was recorded here: http://bit.ly/T82C6 (I'm not sure for how long they will host it, but I'm asking them to send me the video in mp4 so I can upload it to channeldb2.com if possible). In Mexico, Brazil and Peru, I visited several customers providing a 2.5 hour overview of DB2 9.7. In Brazil I also visited a partner (Data Access), and because of my visit, I was invited to deliver a webinar (in Spanish) to their developer audience. See the Webinar abstract. The replay can be found here.

In Indonesia, Binus university is in its second year teaching DB2 as part of their curriculum using DB2 on Campus material. Last year they reached about 300 students, and this year maybe 500. In addition, a colleague of mine is working on an internship program to bring students from Binus to the Toronto lab for a 16 month internship. If it happens, it would start in May of 2010. In Vietnam as usual, I had a busy schedule, but several universities are teaching now DB2 thanks to our support. For November, I have another webinar in plan, this time hosted by developerWorks, and also another seminar at the IBM Innovation Center in Toronto (Markham), and am planning a DB2 on Campus tour in Canada, probably for February. In addition, I'm working with IBMers, teachers, students and professionals around the world to deliver by the end of the year a bunch of free e-books on different technologies. More about this in December! I tweet a bit more often than blog now. Follow me at http://twitter.com/raulchong Cheers, Raul.

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Americas Tours

Argentina Brazil

Canada Chile

Mexico Peru

* Past ambassadors ** Completing term this quarter

Europe Tours Bulgaria France

Germany Italy

Poland Portugal Romania

Spain Turkey

Asia Pacific Tours China India

Indonesia Malaysia

Philippines Thailand Vietnam

Ambassadors in Americas Ambassadors in Europe Ambassadors in Asia Pacific

Argentina Fernando Isolini* Mario Piz* Brazil Caroline Beatriz Perlin* Thiago Rossetto Wellington Sampaio Martins Rafael Junqueira Anderson Maia Renato Lagares Canada Mikhail Temkine* Upal Hossain* Dan Han Ali Khan Priyanka Trevedi Alan Zhang Vince Lee Mohammad Omair Alam Anthony Kong Xiaoxing Liu Elisa Park Kim Fung Lai Qiang Wu

Chile Hector Mansilla Arias Mexico Sara Perez Arroyo* Antonio Guzman Lourdes Fragoso Peru Eduardo Zúñiga Dávila Juan Carlos Ferro Laura Raúl Alex Mariños Juárez

France Stéphane Journot Germany Wolfgang Krause Italy Sergio Matone* Felix Mahimai John Luca Gallucci** Paolo (Tycos) Picciafoco** Emidio Andrea Bianco Adelchi Orifici Francesco Ferrari** Poland Pawel Olaszek Łukasz Stachowiak

Portugal Joana Job* Nuno Job* Simão Soares * Tiago Pregueiro * Nuno Veloso (leader) Hélder Pereira João Moura Marcelo Sousa Nuno Lebreiro Pedro Carvalho Ulisses Costa Turkey Halil Ender Ünal Okan Çalikoĝlu

China Qi Jie Shen* Cao Xue Tammy Hanshu Shi Huijuan Zhang Wei Xingjie Candice Huang Jin Zheng Dipu Chang Edison Huang Troy Huang India Rama Raajun.S.* G.S. Pradeep Kumar** Raghuveer Babu** Aditya Wate Abhishek.Patel Rajesh S Venkatesh Giduthuri Mahavir Gautham Preethi Manoharan Manoharan Preethi N. Muthu Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Sathyavageeswaran Mahesh Kumar Joshi Sreenivaasan Makkini Ramya M. Prashanth Reddy Pavan Kumar Liaq Ahmed

Indonesia Toni Netti Malaysia Meisam Sarabadani* Musa Bin Hassan Philippines Joel C. Laurencio Thailand Tanawat Pitchayapryt

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Sreenivaasan

Rajalakshmi Engineering College India

Joel C. Laurencio University of La Salette

Santiago City, Philippines

Łukasz Stachowiak Poznan University of Technology

Poznan, Poland

Okan Çalikoĝlu

Bilkent University, Turkey

Hector Mansilla Arias Universidad de Los Lagos

Chile

Makkini Ramya MLR Institute of Technology

India

M. Prashanth Reddy

MLR Institute of Technology India

Pavan Kumar MLR Institute of Technology

India

Liaq Ahmed VIT University

India

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Becoming a DB2 Student Ambassador and promoting DB2 Express-C in your university is a rewarding experience in more ways than one, as attested by the testimonials in the next section. Below are the list of responsibilities and duties you should perform as a DB2 student ambassador. These are all OPTIONAL; however, the more you do the better for you! If you feel you can perform some of these duties, then continue with section B. Note that there will be more than one ambassador per university, so you can share the duties below.

A) DUTIES OF DB2 STUDENT AMBASSADORS

1. Establish a DB2 User Group in your university o This is an informal support group which can be run any

way you want. o Create a Web page for the group, or use something like

“Yahoo Groups” or “Facebook.com”. o Advertise in the university bulletin board or with

banners the fact that this DB2 User Group has been established, and encourage other students to join.

2. Translate presentations/courses from English to your language if required.

3. Organize events such as speeches or courses in your university, close-by universities, companies, high schools, ...

4. Post at least three entries in the DB2 Express-C forum. Questions, answers or (positive) comments are all fine.

5. Become an IBM Certified Database Associate by passing the DB2 Certification Exam 730 within your period as DB2 student ambassador (again this is optional).

6. At the end of your DB2 Student Ambassador period: o Help interview your replacement. o Help train your replacement.

7. Provide any feedback/ideas/templates you may have to improve the program.

8. Be innovative! Remember IBM is an innovative company! For example the students from the university UTN in Argentina, organized an SQL challenge using DB2 Express-C. You can for example, organize different courses using DB2 Express-C. A popular one would be a course to prepare for the DB2 Certification exam!

9. Ensure you document everything you are doing, and take pictures. The DB2 User group Web site can be used to store all of this information and make it available to your peers. All of these activities can be added to your resume/CV at the end of your period as ambassador. The more activities you perform, the more you can add in your resume/CV!

B) STEPS TO BECOME A DB2 STUDENT AMBASSADOR

1. Send your resume/curriculum vitae in English to db2univ@gmail.com

2. Write a small paragraph (No more than 100 words) indicating why you would be a good DB2 student ambassador (may be published in this newsletter).

3. Indicate the period of time you are committed to work actively as a DB2 student ambassador (minimum of 6 months). You should start the soonest possible (within 2 months of receiving IBM's response (which will include the information listed here)).

4. NEW (optional): Send an article on a topic that relates to databases (500-700 words) to be included in this newsletter.

5. NEW: Send your photo to db2univ@ca.ibm.com (to be included in this newsletter).

C) BENEFITS OF BECOMING A DB2 STUDENT AMBASSADOR

1. The DB2 Student Ambassador can add to their resume/CV all your activities performed as an ambassador. This should help the student find a job more easily after he/she graduates.

2. The DB2 student ambassador will be in contact with IBM employees, establishing a good network with them and acquiring valuable skills.

3. The DB2 student ambassador will develop DB2 technical skills as well as presentation and marketing skills. These are all very valuable in today’s job market.

4. The DB2 student ambassador will gain recognition amongst other students in the university.

5. The DB2 student ambassador *may* receive perks such as t-shirts, and books. They may be featured as well in the IBM DB2 Express-C Web site if they are very active as ambassadors.

After receiving the information requested in section B, candidates *may* be phone interviewed (in your own language); therefore ensure to include your telephone number as part of your resume.

Sending IBM your resume implies you agree to perform the tasks above. The time and effort you spend on this program is up to you. The more you do, the more you can add to your resume! If there are several DB2 student ambassadors in your university, you can all share the work. The minimum goal for each ambassador is to reach at least 100 students through DB2 speeches, courses or other activities during the ambassador period.

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Upal Hossain

University of Toronto Canada

Mikhail Temkine University of Toronto

Canada

By Raul Chong

IBM announced DB2 pureScale, new innovative technology to help large OLTP customers gain virtually unlimited database capacity without changing or tuning their applications. In addition, pureScale helps make their data continuously available and to operate their business without interruptions. The implementation is based in large part on DB2 for z/OS Data Sharing and Sysplex technology that has been in use by the world’s largest organizations for over a decade. This technology is considered by many to be the gold standard for delivering reliability and scalability and is now available for UNIX database servers.

Learn more about it here and register for a free "Chat with the Labs" webcast here. The IBM Press release can be found at this location. Cheers, Raul.

The Databases and Artificial Intelligence Group (DBAI) at Austria's most prestigious technical university, the TU-Wien, will be giving a masters-level seminar on databases under the direction of Professor Dr. Reinhard Pichler. For the first time, this seminar will include a dedicated set of lectures on DB2. As a Zuckerchen, to use the local expression for "icing on the cake", students will be encouraged to take the DB2 730 certification exam upon completion of the course free of charge. The costs will be covered by the IBM Academic Initiative. The lectures related to DB2-specifics will be given by two IBMers in Vienna: Gerald Aufmuth (Certified DB2 Specialist) and and Helmut Riegler (Certified IT Specialist, Datawarehouse Specialist). Thanks to Raul Chong from the DB2-on-campus team in Toronto for his support all along, Isabella Luschin from the Corporate Citizenship and Communications department, and Rosa Schoch from IDR Alps for behind-the-scenes support and enablement of this activity. Regards, Raul.

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By Raul Chong and Kazumichi Hirano ISV & Developer Relations, SWG, IBM Japan

Waseda university using DB2 Express-C book for DB class

This October 3rd 2009, Waseda University in Japan started a DB2 class that is held every Saturday until late November. The course is part of the "Advanced IT Specialist Fostering Program” promoted by the Department of Education and Science Ministry in Japan. The materials are based on the DB2 on Campus workshop, as well as the "Getting started with DB2 Express-C" book, both of which were translated to Japanese. Congratulations to IBM Japan to establish this great relationship and class at Waseda university!.

Challenge

• It’s very important for students to learn practical database skills.

• In collaboration with Waseda University, develop a course that can be advantageous to acquire job skills for students.

Solution

• For the development course materials, IBM provides Academic Initiative resources such as DB2 software and the related course materials. Waseda University translates those course materials and developed “LAB” (practical training) by using DB2 software. IBM supports the development with the technical assistance.

• For fostering human resources, IBM tech. person (DE) teaches as an instructor in charge and gives skill transfer to the university lecturers and Technical Assistants (TA).

Value

• The first DB2 course in Japanese for students and beginners (15 chapters for 15 lectures).

• Will be publicly opened as an IBM Academic Initiative course from 2010.

• Students who worked for the development have understood DB2 overall knowledge.

• University lecturers and TA who took the skill transfer are able to manage self-organized lectures.

• This course is appointed to “Advanced IT Specialist Fostering Program” specified by the Department of Education and Science Ministry.

• For the first term started on October 03, the class is held every Saturday and ends in late November.

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By Mahesh Kumar Joshi

I am a student of B.Tech in Information Technology from Govt. Engineering College Bikaner India. I became the first DB2 Student ambassador at Rajasthan Technical University India in JUN 2009, and I founded the ECB DB2 User Group in Campus and the group is organizing Presentations, Screenshots and Workshops on DB2 and other IBM Tools and Technologies like Rational, WASCE, and Tivoli.

The ECB DB2 user group is feeling very proud to announce that this year we registered more than 600 Engineering & Computer Application students in IBM TGMC (The Great Mind Challenge) 2009 & in last year TGMC (2008) Team Great ECBIANS from our College was selected in India’s top 20 Teams in TGMC. The ECB DB2 user group is giving Congratulations and Best of Luck for the future to all team members of team GreatECBIANS ( Piyush Kumar, Ashok Kumar Meena, Tarun Goyal, Aditya Chandrawat).

We are the students of Govt. Engineering College Bikaner who are organizing a National Level Techfest at campus every year. So this year we organized Techfest (SAKSHAMA) from 28 October to 31 October in our campus in which more than 250 colleges are invited and more than 3000 students from all over the country participated in four days Techno Festival.

The ECB DB2 user group invited IBM India to sponsor the event and a Training Program for DB2 V9 (Exam 730) was conducted to 100 students for 3 days in our college. The Course was conducted in Association with the IBM Academic Initiative program. The Training Program started with an Inauguration Function, where management people and Technical Trainers from IBM (partners) participated.

Three Technical Trainers from WebTechLab carried out the sessions. Trainers delivered the contents in an awesome manner that all students were excited to learn DB2 technologies. Along with the training we talked about the ambassadorship program and current job opportunities in the field of Database. Students had a practical session along with the presentation in parallel, which helped them a lot in preparing for the Certification Exam.

On the last day of the training an IBM DB2 Quiz was organized and IBM Goodies were delivered by IBM India and a Certificate of Excellence was distributed to the workshop participants. These 100 students, from different colleges and from different parts of the country, were very excited to win the DB2 Quiz and answering almost every question asked in the Quiz.

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By M. Prashanth Reddy

How we got DB2 On Campus: We are glad to inform you all that IBM has signed a MoU with MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad to enable the university to train and build a skilled resource base on leading software technologies. It also opened a Center of Excellence (CoE) at MLRIT, with the aim of providing world class skills to students on Information Management Software. On IBM CoE inauguration day, through one of the IBM resource persons, Mr. Saravanan Sekar, we came to know about the DB2 On Campus program and with the help of Raul Chong, and DB2 On Campus team, three students of our college Prashanth, Ramya and Pavan were selected as DB2 Student Ambassadors on August 24, 2009.

DB2 On Campus Activities: As the part of DB2 On Campus, we formed a “MLRIT DB2 USER GROUP” with 200 DB2 Certified Students as members. We also created MLRIT DB2 USER GROUPs in LINKEDIN, FACEBOOK , and CHANNELDB2 where students can retrieve information about what’s going on regarding DB2 activities in our college.

Thanks to DB2 On Campus Team: M. Prashanth Reddy (President – MLRIT DB2 UG) M. Ramya (Vice-President) M. Pavan Kumar (Secretary)

IBM DB2 Exam 730 Program: It is a great achievement for our college. Till now a total of 250 students have attended the DB2 Training Program for DB2 V9 (Exam 730) conducted by IBM Academic Initiative Team at our college as the part of IBM CoE and 210 students have been certified as IBM Certified Database Associates. IBM TGMC: IBM – The Great Mind Challenge a project contest conducted by IBM every year. A total of 120 students of our college are participating in this contest by forming into 30 groups. Our Upcoming Activities: DB2 DevCon: With the Support of DB2 On Campus Team, the DB2 Community Launch event from DB2 User Community will take place at MLRIT, in January 2nd Week. Expected audience is 700 students. DB2 Event@MLRIT: A National level DB2 Event includes Quiz Competitions and Problem Solving using DB2.

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Prof. Dr. Torsten Grust Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany)

For nearly ten years now, my group relies on IBM DB2 as one of its primary database technology platforms. In 2000, I have been a visiting scientist at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory (known as the Santa Teresa Laboratory back then) in San Jose under the lead of Josephine Cheng. Since then, together with my students at Universität Konstanz, Technische Universität München, and Universität Tübingen, we have used IBM DB2 on Linux, Unix, and Windows to perform database systems research as well as teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. (We run IBM DB2 instances on Intel-based Linux and Mac OS X hosts -- and do hope that DB2 development for the latter platform continues to see attention.) A main thread of my group’s research work is new compilation and optimization techniques for kinds of query languages which, at first glance, may appear to be non-relational. From 2001 until today, this work led to the development of Pathfinder[1], an XQuery compiler and optimizer that targets relational database back-ends. Another current item that lies on our workbench today, is the Ferry[2] project in which database technology is used to support the runtime system of modern programming languages when

it comes to the execution of data-intensive programs. In both lines of research, IBM DB2 has proved to be a reliable and versatile relational database platform. During the development of Pathfinder and Ferry, the following features and characteristics of IBM DB2 have been of particular importance: • Pathfinder and Ferry include query

compilers that emit substantial amounts of non-trivial SQL:1999 code. We have found IBM DB2's SQL processor to be particularly complete, stable, and dependable, thus providing an ideal execution platform and back-end for research into query compilation.

• It is vital for us to understand whether the Pathfinder and Ferry compilers indeed produce code that can be efficiently digested and executed by the underlying database back-end. IBM DB2's extensive query plan inspection capabilities (db2expln) provide us with the required insight into plan operators, estimated selectivity’s, expected I/O traffic, and much more. db2expln has also proven to be the students' favourite tool in our courses on Database System Internals and Implementation.

• We regard the output of our compilers as ``truly relational'' if the executing database back-end can cope with the emitted code without elaborate user-controlled tweaking. IBM DB2's autonomous design advisor (db2advis) has repeatedly proved to be very capable to analyze Pathfinder or Ferry generated workload, resulting in efficient index constellations without the need for manual intervention. Here, we were especially pleased to see db2advis propose so-called Partitioned B-trees (featuring

keys with low-selectivity prefix), a B-tree variant that most effectively accelerated Pathfinder-generated queries.

• Still, operating with queries that often do not adhere to traditional SQL query shapes, we benefit from IBM DB2's ability to react to externally provided clues to improve query execution. In this context, we have made good use of IBM DB2's statistical views. In the same vein, we plan to employ Optimization Guidelines, introduced with IBM DB2 V9, to exercise far-reaching control over query plan generation.

• With the advent of pureXML, we gained the possibility to run an IBM-provided processor and our Pathfinder XQuery processor on the very same database engine. This enabled unique insights (into pureXML as well as our own work) and provided an ideal reference platform for the evaluation of our research efforts.

For the near future it is foreseeable that database partitioning (DPF) will move into the focus of our research work, anticipating that DPF will help to uncover the parallelism inherent in the -- mostly functional --languages that we study. [1] www.pathfinder-xquery.org [2] www.ferry-lang.org Prof. Dr. Torsten Grust http://www.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ Database Systems - Universität Tübingen (Germany)

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From Prof. Narongrit Waraporn School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thungkru, Bangkok, Thailand

I use DB2 express-C, mainly, for training. However I also use it in my course. 1.1) “Introduction to DB2” covers • DB2 Express-C utilities • SQL • DB2 data access such as

procedures, and triggers • DB2 administration and security

The 3-day training is aiming to SIT family both graduate and undergraduate students and SIT staffs. For undergraduate, they are in Computer Science and IT programs while graduate students are in Computer Business, IT, and Software Engineering programs. Once we opened the training for students from other universities, whose students became DB2 student ambassadors after translating the DB2 express-C book. There were 30 students. The trainers of this training include myself, Sunisa Sathapornvajana, and Kriengkrai Porkaew. 1.2) “DB2 Express-C Verion 9.5” covers more material than “Introduction to DB2”. There are two tracks.

Track 1: SQL and DB2 Administration • Introduction to DB2 • SQL • Administrator and security Track 2: DB2 programming • DB2 data access such as procedures,

cursors, user-defined functions and triggers

• Application Development in PHP • Application Development in Java It is a 6-day training program. The targets are also SIT family. Trainers include myself, Sunisa Sathapornvajana, Sanit Sirisawatvatana, Unhawa Ninrutsirikul, Ekapong Jungcharoensukying, and Kittipong Warasup. We open the DB2 training during the school off, both October-break and summer since 2007. We either open 1.1) or 1.2) Because 1.2) is a long training, we did it only on Summer/07 and Summer/08. Now we mostly train 1.1) during the school off. There are usually about 60+ students in each training session. In total of 1.1) and 1.2), there are 60+ students x 6 times + 30 which is approximately 400 students trained. 1.3) “Introduction to XML programming” covers: • Introduction to XML • DTD, XML Schema • XPath, Xquery • SQL/XML • XSLT The training lasts 3 days. K. Porkaew and I are the trainers. We open it every summer since 2007. We use DB2 express-C during the sessions of XPath, XQuery, and SQL/XML. I’m planning to add a DB2 XML Schema session for the next training (after I was trained by IBMer from Canada on

June/09). Usually there are about 60+ students in each training session. In total, we have trained for 60+ x 3 which is approximately 200 students. 2) “Advanced Databases” is a course in Computer Science for undergraduate. It covers • Data Warehouse • XML • Advanced SQL • Object – Relational Databases I use DB2-ExpressC and Data Studio during after-hour laboratories, which is about 2-3 extra hours beside the 3-hour lecture. Students love hand-on experience during the lab. It is an elective course opening once a year. I opened it for the first time this semester. There are ten students registered. I expect more students for next year. However, we missed the lab for Data Warehouse. If IBM would provide us tools, students would have a great opportunity to experience the Data Warehouse from world class software. The reason to use DB2-ExpressC: • Easy to install • Has complete features of

standard databases, such as administration, security, SQL editor, storage management, DB health monitoring, etc.

• Easy to use with GUI • Help can be found from the

web including IBM web sites, IBM AI, and non-IBM web sites

• It is free for the community.

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Support from IBM global and IBM Thailand: • For training we mostly use the

material from IBM AI, IBM training, and help from Sunicha. I also use material from IBM for my courses for some lectures.

• I have learned DB2 from IBM trainers who frequently open training courses in Bangkok, and at SIT of KMUTT.

• Visiting lecturers or guest speakers from IBM regularly present world- class technologies to SIT students.

• Without tools, especially from IBM, theoretical lecture would not open the world of Information Technology enough to students.

• IBM competition events, such as XML, zOS programming competition provide experience to SIT students on the technologies.

• Certificates of training from IBM • Vouchers of DB2 certificate exam.

All of these events and support cannot happen without the help from Sunicha, Raul Chong, Kanokpan, IBM Thailand, and other IBM staff around the world. We appreciated your help. Best regards, Narongrit Waraporn

From Prof. Kriengkrai Porkaew School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thungkru, Bangkok, Thailand

I use DB2 Express-C on my database courses that I teach. I teach two database courses each semester (twice a year). Each course has two sections per semester (four times per year). For the first course - INT642 Database Management Systems, there are around 70-80 students/section/semester. That is, there are around 300 students per year on this course. It is a fundamental database course for master-degree-program students. It is a required course that all M.Sc. IT students must take. I teach the theoretical aspects of database management system. Along with the theories, I use DB2 Express-C to demonstrate in class:

• How DBMSs store data in the file systems

• How to write standard SQL commands and how they are processed

• How isolation of transactions works • How log-based recovery system works

For the second course - INT641 Database Technology, there are around 30 students/ section/ semester.

That is, there are around 120 students per year on this course. It is an elective course for master-degree-program students. 90% of these students take INT642 course with me.

This course focuses on Database Warehouse/OLAP and XML in databases. I use DB2 Express-C to demonstrate related features, for example:

• How to write standard SQL/OLAP commands

• How to work with xml in DB2, for example, import/ insert/ validate/ index

• How to write standard SQL/XML commands

• How to write xQuery in DB2

I have been using DB2 Express-C as the main DBMS for both courses for around three years or so. There are many reasons why I use DB2 Express-C for my classes: • It is easy to install and use • It does not require a lot of

system resources • It conforms to SQL standards

(or at least, comparable to) • It is useful and related to my

non-teaching job a well • It has good documentation/

examples, in books and goggle-able web

• (best of all) Wonderful support from IBMers

Besides these two courses, I occasionally train students on how to use DB2 with Dr. Narongrit.

Best Regards, Kriengkrai Porkaew

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By Surekha Parekh WW DB2 for z/OS Market Manager IDUG Europe IBM Liaison

One-Day Educational Seminars. Several of the industry's leading DB2 authorities presented including Bonnie Baker, John Campbell, Phil Grainger, Scott Hayes and Susan Lawson.

IBM closed the conference in style by inviting all their customers and partners to special launch party to announce the launch of IBM DB2 pureScale.

Don’t miss IDUG 2010 conferences!

More information: www.idug.org www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/zos/www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/9/

IBM Corporation was Diamond Sponsorship at IDUG Europe 2009 again this year and what an amazing conference it was! More than 400 members of the worldwide DB2 user community gathered together at the Rome Marriott Park Hotel. IDUG delegates, presenters, and industry vendors all enjoyed an exceptional week of education, learning, solution sharing, and peer networking.

Presentations (VSPs) allowed attendees direct access to gather in-depth knowledge about vendor products and services in a focused environment.

A packed schedule of technical content continued on Tuesday and throughout the week as delegates participated in more than 100 technical sessions dedicated to a variety of topics on DB2. In addition to the vast array of technical education provided throughout the week, several additional peer-to-peer networking opportunities, including the always-popular IBM Developers Panel Discussions, tackled a variety of tough DB2 questions posed by conference attendees to some of the industry’s foremost authorities.

IDUG delegates were also given a great opportunity, sponsored by IBM, to take FREE Certification Exams. On Friday, 9 October, a number of registered attendees took advantage of IDUG's

The conference kicked off on Monday, 5th October with an insightful keynote presentation given by IBM’s own Salvatore Vella and John Campbell. DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for LUW – Converging Technologies provided the latest advances to both platforms, which have minimised differences and helped reduce the effort required to manage and deploy these systems. Vella and Campbell also gave a glimpse into what the future holds for each platform and how attendees might be using DB2 five years from now.

Delegates concluded the first full-day of their IDUG Experience with the Grand Opening and Welcome Reception in the IDUG Solutions Centre. In addition to the Solutions Centre, Monday and Tuesday’s Vendor Solution

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Makkini Ramya

MLR Institute of Technology, India Hi, I am Ramya, a fourth year computer science engineering student at MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad city, India. I was selected as DB2 Student Ambassador on August 24, 2009. Let me explain how I got selected as Ambassador. In August, IBM opened Center of Excellence at our college to train students on IBM tools and to provide free certifications on its Technologies. Through IBM COE, I have attended a five day workshop on DB2 tool conducted by IBM in our college. With this I obtained my DB2 9 Fundamentals Certification (exam 730). I have been selected as Student Mentor at IBM COE to teach DB2 to other students and later I also became DB2 on Campus Student Ambassador. On IBM COE inauguration, I came to know about DB2 on Campus through one of the IBM resource person Mr. Saravanan Sekar. And I applied for it and that’s how I got this opportunity to become DB2 student Ambassador. Now I am collaborating with the other two ambassadors of my university to lead in knowledge and promote DB2 in my university, and to find new volunteers who contribute in the DB2 on Campus Program.

I created a MLRIT DB2 User Group in Facebook, and in LinkedIn where students can get information about what’s going on regarding DB2 activities in our college and also organized few workshops which includes introductory speech about DB2 Express-C, How to prepare for DB2 Fundamental exam, etc.

Being a DB2 student ambassador is for me a very good opportunity to become visible, and to help the students of my college discover what DB2 is. The role “DB2 Student Ambassador” is helping me to know and to work with students and IBMers from different parts of the world and, in particular, to improve my technical skills on DB2 that certainly will be very useful for my career.

I am very thankful to Raul Chong and Agatha for offering me this exciting position and I ensure that in future, I will organize many more events, workshops and seminars to promote DB2 in Universities. Check for my updates on my Blog

Contact me on my channelDB2 page.

Liaq Ahmed VIT University, India hi "I've been using DB2 Express-C to develop a "Cloud and Virtual Hospital Management" as part of my course project at "VIT" university, India. My experience with DB2 Express-C has been pretty good. The benefits of using DB2 Express-C were amazing. I'm delighted to use it, and can see myself developing applications using DB2 Express-C in the future, even for a company I have in mind starting with friends in the future." Laiq IBM DB2 Student Ambassador VIT University , India

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Korea Campus Wizard member profile and contribution:

Kevin Kim Lai York University Hi, my name is Kevin and I became a DB2 student ambassador in April, 2009. I have been working on translation for “Getting started with DB2 Express-C” from English to Mandarin. I have pretty much enjoyed this work as I can learn plenty of technical skills about database processing throughout the translation. I also enjoyed working with my teammate, Tom Wu, in the translating work as I found him very professional in the field of Database Processing. In addition to translation, I have been expressing my interests in database, web application and also how beneficial is this program for the development of my study and how it may change my future direction after graduation. Contact me on my channelDB2 page.

Mina Song Ewha Woman’s University South Korea Mina Song is a senior student at Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea. She participated in IBM Korea Campus Wizard from March 2008 to January 2009. She introduced DB2 to her professor to use in their database class. After she attended a DB2 education at Myungji University, she organized a study group with other Campus Wizard members and conducted a DB2 study group every 2 weeks. She achieved DB2 9 Fundamentals certification. Besides, she had analyzed RTC with a view of ordinary students and suggested developerWorks to design a RSS reader with the easier access. By using RTC, she realized that this program can help students to learn teamwork in software development. Mina Song is proficient in network, mobile application and programming especially C/C++, JAVA.

Kug-jin Lee University of Incheon Korea Kug-jin's major is Computer Science at University of Incheon in Korea. He was a member of IBM Campus Wizard in 2007. He is working in HIST(link: http://www.hist.co.kr) as a System Manager now. He promoted DB2 Express-C in his university class as a Campus Wizard activity by using it in his software projects. He is studying DB2 and participating DB2 user groups at KDUG (link: Korean DB2 User Group). He also is interested in IBM Rational Team Concert and Jazz Technology that helps collaborative development environment. He made a ScreenCast to promote RTC as a Campus Wizard activity. He is participating jazzlab.net (link: Korea jazz lab site).

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Editors

Sara Perez Arroyo

Editor for North America

Caroline Beatriz Perlin

Editor for South America

Adelchi Orifici Editor for Europe

Pradeep Kumar

Editor for Asia Pacific

CONTRIBUTORS ARTICLES COURTESY OF Agatha Colangelo Raul Chong Upal Hossain Raghuveer Babu Sergio Matone Leons Petrazickis Kazumichi Hirano Mahesh Kumar Joshi Prashanth Reddy Prof. Torsten Grust Prof. Narongrit Waraporn Prof. Kriengkrai Porkaew Surekha Parekh Makkini Ramya Liaq Ahmed Kevin Kim Lai Mina Song Kug-jin Lee GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Natasha Tolub

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