This is the group of Accumulo users and developers local to DC / VA / MD. Accumulo is a scalable, open source BigTable implementation written in Java with cell-level security and server-side processing. Join us!

(PLEASE NOTE: MY VIDEO TALK NO LONGER RESIDES AT THIS MEETUP.  THIS MEETUP IS STRICTLY RELATED TO CLOUDZOW AND OTHER LOW-COST TECHNOLOGY RELATED INFORMATION AND RESOURCES) Join us to connect with other professionals and entrepreneurs and learn to maximize Cloud and other technology to enhance your workplace or business.   There are so many questions around The Cloud, its security, whether we need it and how to choose a Cloud-based solution. Like the President of CloudZow (a Microsof …

We are the DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.  We help advance computing as a science and a profession.  We do this offline through lectures, workshops, discussion panels, and professional development seminars.  We partner with ACM HQ, ACM Public Policy, ACM special interest groups (SIGs), DC area technical user groups, and area university Comp Sci and Info Tech departments. Join us if you like any of the following categories: http://acm.org/sigs Suggest a topic or speaker, w …

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