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Storage news ticker May 12 Blocks and Files – Blocks and Files

Airbyte, which supplies an open source data integration platform, today announced its first premium support offering for Airbyte Open Source. Until now, Airbyte provided support to its users through its communitySlackandDiscourse platforms. The premium support plan offers one business day response time for Severity 0 and 1 issues, two business days response time for Severity 2 and 3, one week response time for pull request reviews, and an ability to request a Zoom call.

Data intelligence supplier Alation has hired former Peloton CFO Jill Woodworth as its CFO, and David Chao, formerly VP and Head of Product Marketing at DataDog, joins as Chief Marketing Officer. Alation has opened new offices in London, UK, and Chennai, India. The new Chennai office will host more than 160 employees from across engineering, product, finance, and HR teams.

Alluxio has published a Presto Optimization Handbook, downloadable here; Presto being a distributed query engine for data analytics. For customers using Trino (formerly PrestoSQL), check out The Trino Optimization Handbook here.

CTERA has expanded its relationship with Hitachi Vantara. This concerns Hitachis announcement of Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) reaching end-of-life. CTERA provides a migration path by introducing CTERA Migrate for HDI, a turnkey solution that replaces HDI and preserves the existing storage repository investment. Its part of the CTERA Enterprise Files Services platform.Theres more info in this blog.

Data lakehouse supplier Databricks is buying Okera, an AI-centric data governance platform. It says Okera says it addresses data privacy and governance challenges across the spectrum of data and AI. It says it simplifies data visibility and transparency, helping organizations understand their data, necessary in the age of LLMs, and to address concerns about their biases. Okera offers an AI-powered interface and self-service portal to automatically discover, classify, and tag sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII). Okera has been developing a new isolation technology that can support arbitrary workloads while enforcing governance control without sacrificing performance.

Nong Li, Okera co-founder and CEO, is known for creating Apache Parquet, the open source standard storage format that Databricks and the rest of the industry builds on.

DDN says its sold more AI storage appliances, like the A1400X2, in the first four months of 2023 than it had for all of 2022, partly due to the broad enthusiasm for generative AI. Dr James Coomer, SVP of Products, said: The trillions of data objects and parameters required by generative AI cannot be fulfilled without an extremely scalable and high-performance data storage system. DDN has been the solution of choice for thousands of deployments for organizations such as NASA, University of Florida, and Naver.

Helmholtz Munich, part of Germanys largest research organization, the Helmholtz Association, is a DDN customer. It has has four fully populated SFAES7990X systems that span a global namespace, and an SFA NVMe ES400NVX system with GPU integration for faster data throughput with direct datapaths between storage and GPU for its intensive AI applications. Case study here.

Professor Tom de Greef ofthe Eindhoven University of Technology expects the first DNA datacenter to be up and running within five to 10 years. New files will be encoded via DNA synthesis. Another part will contain large fields of capsules, each capsule packed with a file. A robotic arm will remove a capsule, read its contents and place it back. De Greefs research group developed a microcapsule of proteins and a polymer and then anchored one file per capsule. The capsules seal themselves above 50 degrees Celsius, allowing the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) read process to take place separately in each capsule. In the lab, it has so far managed to read 25 files simultaneously without significant error.

Each file is given a fluorescent label and each capsule its own color. A device can then recognize the colors and separate them from one another. A robotic arm can then select the desired file from the pool of capsules in thefuture.

A research paper appeared in the journal Nature Nanotechnology under the title DNA storage in thermoresponsive microcapsules for repeated random multiplexed data access. DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01377-4.

IBM Storage Fusion HCI System caching accelerates watsonx.data queries, watsonx being the upcoming enterprise-ready AI and data platform designed to apply AI across a business. IBM watsonx.data is delivered on-prem with an appliance-like experience. Watch a video about it here.

Web3 storage supplier Impossible Cloud has certified its first German datacenter, located in Frankfurt, with plans to handle client data beginning June 1.

Informatica has announced the launch of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) on Google Cloud in Europeto address data sovereignty and localization concerns. There are new capabilities for IDMCincluding security features to control access to security assets and master data management enhancements for financial services and ESG compliance. Informatica has more product integration on Amazon RedshiftwithInformaticas no code/no setup software as a service (SaaS) AI-powered cloud data integration-free directly from the Amazon Redshift consoleand industry certifications for financial services, healthcare and life sciences.

MSP-focused data protector N-able announced revenues of $99.8 million for Q1 this year, up 9 percent year over year, with a $3.5 million profit, lower than last years $5.1 million. Its subscription revenues were $97.4 million, another 9 percent rise. This is becoming a fairly predictable business revenue-wise.

Serene Investment Management-owned Nexsan has surpassed its aggressive Q1 earnings target for its SAN and file storage product line. This includes E-Series, Unity, and the Assureon Data Vault. We dont know what the target was. Serene bought Storcentric and thus Nexsan in February this year for $5 million in a DIP loan, retaining key employees and leaders as it restructured the business. Prior Nexsan owner StorCentric filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2022 and looked for a buyer.

Update. Storcentrics Drobo operation closed down at the end of January, as its website indicates;

Scale-out filesystem supplier Qumulo has announced integration with the Varonis Data Security Platform and introduced its new Snapshot-Locking capability to protect customers against ransomware. The Varonis Data Security Platform provides real-time visibility and control over cloud and on-premises data and automatically remediates risk. Its behavior-based threat models detect abnormal activity proactively and can stop threats to data before they become breaches. Qumulos Snapshot-Locking feature uses cryptographic protection, where only the customer has access to the cryptographic key-pair required to unlock the snapshot.

Rakuten Symphony is partnering with Google Cloud to provide its Symcloud SDS K8s data management and persistent storage for Google Anthos Distributed Cloud offerings. Symcloud SDS releases will be aligned with GDCs Anthos releases. Symcloud SDS is available through the Google Marketplace.

Pre-registration has opened for the SmartNICs Summit for its second annual event. It will occur on June 13-15 at the San Jose Doubletree Hotel. We are now seeing the full impact of SmartNICs. They offload overhead from CPUs and make solutions more scalable, said Chuck Sobey, Summit General Chair. Distributed compute power is essential to handle the demands of incredibly fast emerging applications such as ChatGPT. SmartNICs Summit will help designers select the right architectures.

Storage analyst firm DCIG has named StorMagic SvSAN a global top five HCI solution. The 2023-24 DCIG TOP 5 Rising Vendors HCI Software Solutions report evaluates offerings from 11 rising vendor HCI software solutions to provide IT decision makers with succinct analysis of the markets HCI solutions.

Synology tells us the BC500 is available for sale in the US as of May 10. The TC500 is still slated for June 14, and MSRP is $219.99 for both models. The BC500 should be available from retailers soon, and also just launched on its web store.

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Microsoft can open and scan password-protected Zip archives in the … – TechSpot

In context: Protecting a Zip archive with a password can be a quick, easy way to secure sensitive or potentially dangerous data uploaded to a cloud storage server. However, when the cloud belongs to Microsoft, you cannot count on your files being safe from external tampering.

Microsoft will decrypt, open, and scan protected Zip archives uploaded to the company's cloud servers in search of potential computer threats. Security researcher Andrew Brandt recently discovered the issue while trying to share malware samples with other researchers through SharePoint.

One of the zipped archives Brandt used to move malware files around the cloud got flagged by Microsoft's online service as a security threat. Brandt protected the archive with the password "infected." He said that he shared the malware through a private cloud storage bucket and that now it is useless. The available space for sending colleagues samples is shrinking, Brandt said. He fears the issue will impact the ability of malware researchers to do their job.

Brandt said that Microsoft's policy to scan protected archives for dangerous threats is understandable for average users. However, this "nosy, get-inside-your-business" way of handling things is troublesome for security professionals.

Experts say that Microsoft's ability to scan inside password-protected files isn't related to any brute-force cracking techniques. The company is likely employing a list of commonly used passwords, or it's simply checking users' email messages for information about a password needed to decrypt a shared Zip archive. Redmond also seems to employ its forced scanning techniques on SharePoint and Microsoft 365 cloud accounts.

While Microsoft checks protected files without asking users' permission first, Google manages the issue seemingly less intrusively. The company says it doesn't scan password-protected archives, though Gmail can flag an encrypted attachment, and the Google Workspace service prevents sending protected Zip archives altogether.

ZipCrypto, the symmetric encryption scheme included in standard Zip specifications, is known to be seriously flawed. As the recently rediscovered invasive policy with Zip files highlights, trying to hide sensitive data within an encrypted archive doesn't provide any meaningful protection anymore. In contrast, other archive formats or encryption algorithms like AES-256 should be more robust even against Microsoft's "nosy" scanning attempts in the cloud.

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CloudCasa bets on Velero Kubernetes backup Blocks and Files – Blocks and Files

Open source Velero has recorded more than 100 million Docker pulls making it among the most popular Kubernetes app backup software, says CloudCasa, which supports it.

CloudCasa is the Kubernetes backup business of Catalogic thats heading for a spin-out. Its cloud-native product integrates with Kubernetes engines on AWS, Azure, and GCP, and can see all the K8s clusters running through these engines. Velero provides snapshot-based backup for Kubernetes stateful containers and can run in a cloud provider or on-premises. CloudCasa supports Velero and provides a paid-for support package.

COO Sathya Sankaran told us the Velero stats imply at least a million clusters are downloading.

He says he had a conversation with a VMware product manager at KubeCon who told him that they estimate about one-third of all Kubernetes clusters have been touched by Velero and at some point have had Velero installed and running its a very substantial market presence.

Sankaran added: This is already a community ecosystem, driven very strongly by what the rest of the community thinks is good or bad.

We have asked business rivals Veeam, Pure, and Trilio what they think.

Sankaran says CloudCasa for Velero is the only Kubernetes Backup-as-a-Service offering with integration across multiple public clouds and portability between them. It offers a swathe of extra features over the base Velero provision (think Red Hat and Linux.)

Sankaran says: Velero wants to become the Kubernetes backup standard. The commercial backup products are pre-packaged Velero wants to be a plug-in engine, useable by new storage products as well as the historic incumbents.

The execs hope is that CloudCasa can overtake rivals Kasten, Portworx, and Trilio by riding what he sees as a wave of Velero adoption, particularly in the enterprise, by offering them a multi-cluster and anti-lock-in offering. K8s app protection is different from traditional backup, says Sankaran, who claims layering it on to legacy backup is the wrong approach.

Whether its wrong will be decided by the market, by whether enterprises agree they need special (Velero-based) protection for their K8s apps or such protection provided by their incumbent data protection supplier.

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Ransomware top of mind for IT at Rubrik Forward – TechTarget

The increasing severity of ransomware attacks and the dwindling sizes of IT teams will increase the role of third-party SaaS services for cyber recovery.

Speedy ransomware recovery, visibility into the performance of IT environments and the use of generative AI could be differentiators for SaaS products, according to speakers at the virtual Rubrik Forward 2023 event Wednesday.

Backups are becoming a more common target for cyber attacks, especially as the number of data silos increase on premises and in the cloud, said Kate Kuehn, chief trust officer at Aon Cyber Solutions, a management consulting firm based in London.

Knowing what data is important, how it's protected and what threats it can face are all important considerations for enterprise backups. Outages of business-critical applications without backups can sink an enterprise.

"[Enterprises] are protecting the wrong data, they're protecting the wrong things," she said.

A cyber attack in April 2021 knocked out most of the IT systems of Colchester Institute, a vocational college in the U.K., for about a month, including the internal email system and the school's application program.

In the days following the attack, school administrators declined to say if student information was compromised but did bring in third-party support to recover systems, according to local media reports.

In the trenches of the recovery operation was Chris Armitage, data storage and continuity officer at the Colchester Institute and a conference speaker.

Specific losses included the school's VMware vCenter Server and ESXi hypervisors. Recovery itself took 30 days, as Armitage compiled spreadsheet after spreadsheet of what applications ran on which servers.

"These spreadsheets contained the priority servers [with the] applications and services that we wanted to bring up first for our college and our business," he said.

Our biggest issue was not knowing if any of our snapshots were clean. That made our recovery process take a lot longer. Chris ArmitageData storage and continuity officer, Colchester Institute

The Colchester Institute IT team ultimately needed to rebuild the entire IT environment, testing snapshots and servers within an isolated recovery environment, a kind of digital clean room to test servers before redeploying them into production.

"We had built everything from scratch," Armitage said. "Our biggest issue was not knowing if any of our snapshots were clean. That made our recovery process take a lot longer."

Other enterprise IT professionals speaking at Rubrik Forward hadn't suffered from cyber attacks, but they were preparing for the possibility.

American Family Insurance (AFI), a Fortune 500 insurance company headquartered in Madison, Wis., is moving more of its IT operations to a hybrid cloud.

Overseeing that shift is Nate Brooks, technology services manager at AFI, who said the company is currently managing 500 AWS accounts. It uses Google Cloud Platform for AI capabilities and Microsoft Azure for its virtual desktop infrastructure.

Brooks has used Rubrik to secure his backups and set policies for data retention and usage across previously siloed data.

"Not everyone is trying to go to the public cloud, but there's a unified drive to use it in intelligent ways," he said. "We have to facilitate the same [policies] across environments where a group might spin up a thousand servers in a day. Having a unified way to secure those [instances], govern what's happening and look at what's going on [has] been extremely important for us."

He said the use of immutable storage and granular file recovery enables faster recovery in case of user error, while the Rubrik API helps connect the multi-cloud environment to the platform.

"The extensibility with the APIs in Rubrik allows us to lock down what changes can be made to the platform," he said. "We can, in broad strokes, lock things down and make sure they adhere to all our policies and obligations that we have."

Bipul Sinha, Rubrik co-founder and CEO, and Charlie Bell, executive vice president of security, compliance, identity and management at Microsoft, said generative AI is coming to Rubrik -- and soon.

During his keynote speech alongside Bell, Sinha demonstrated an integration of ChatGPT with Rubrik for Microsoft Sentinel, with ChatGPT preparing a general ransomware response plan and seeking a common pattern to the sample attacks. The demonstration follows a ChatGPT integration promoted by Rubik rival Cohesity last month.

The use of generative AI in security could also help with the skills shortage in cybersecurity, Bell said, as the enterprise could take more chances on junior employees who are assisted by AI rather than demanding -- and paying for -- veterans.

"We're going to get folks who weren't able to get into this industry and enable them," Bell said.

Tim McCarthy is a journalist from the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. He covers cloud and data storage news.

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Jason Kelce, Jordan Mailata, and Lane Johnson are back in the recording studio. Is another Eagles Christmas album in the works? – The Philadelphia…

Is there another Eagles Christmas album on the way? Can we get A Philly Special Christmas, Part 2?

Last year, Eagles linemen Jason Kelce, Jordan Mailata, and Lane Johnson teamed with local musicians and producer Charlie Hall for a 7-song holiday album that was wildly successful, to say the least.

The collection, which featured the trio of husky vocalists on holiday standards like Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, and Blue Christmas sold out of 25,000 green vinyl LPs in three pressings. They raised $1.25 million.

The project, which was executive produced by ex-Eagle Connor Barwin, currently the teams director of player development, donated funds to local charities. The principal beneficiaries were Childrens Crisis Treatment Center and Philadelphia public school teachers through DonorsChoose, a crowd funding program that fulfills teachers wish lists.

Such success which included topping the Billboard compilation albums chart creates demand for a sequel. And one might possibly be in the works.

On Wednesday, Kelce, Mailata, and Johnson spent the day at Elm Street Studios in Conshocken, the recording facility owned by Rob Hyman of the Hooters, along with Hall and crew of stellar Philly musicians.

Kevin Hanson, the guitarist known for his work with Huffamoose and The Fractals, posted a photo on Instagram and Facebook on Wednesday that pictures him with Hall, Kelce, Mailata, and Johnson, plus other (musical) players Luke OReilly, Justin Faulkner, and Anthony Tidd.

Both Kelce and Johnson are wearing Santa hats in the photo. In his caption, Hanson called their Tuesday session at Elm Street the funnest of fun recording sessions.

So what did they record? Has the snow-covered sleigh ride to A Philly Special Christmas 2.0 begun?

That is uncertain. Philly Special spokesperson Maggie Poulos and Barwin both said its too early to tell if a new LP is on the way to be for the holiday season. The teammates, who had a media day at the NovaCare Center in South Philadelphia on Wednesday, wanted to get together at the studio on an informal basis, without a definitive plan where their latest collaboration will take them.

They had such a good time last year, they decided to go back into the studio and experiment for a couple of days before everyone takes off for the off season, Poulos said. It is unclear where the project is going at the moment.

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‘Dont be obsessed with computer science’ – Indiatimes.com

Through her degree programme at Meerut University, and even during her MTech in applied geophysics in IIT Roorkee, Richa Rastogi never learnt a computer language. But her MTech subject drew her to seismic modelling, and that brought her to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Pune. She joined as a member of its technical staff, but soon realised that her work on modelling required knowledge of computer languages and programs.I had to learn from scratch, and it was daunting. I started with C programming, then Linux. Since I was working fulltime, I studied after work. Later, I learned parallel programming, as we work on supercomputers. I would read up the physics behind a topic and then convert it into a program, and use parallel programming to run it on a supercomputer, Richa says.In 2005, several senior C-DAC members left the organisation, and Richa suddenly, at the age of 27, found herself leading a team. I was still learning the computing part. Being a team member is different from leading a team. But I accepted the challenge. The first thing I did, apart from all my regular work and fine-tuning my programming skills, was to read scientific journals related to my field to keep myself updated about new technologies being discovered around the world. I started presenting my own papers at reputed conferences, she says.Richa now heads the high-performance computing seismic data processing group in C-DAC, and is busy fine-tuning indigenous software that will help Indian oil companies reduce offshore exploration costs drastically. Currently, the companies pay huge sums for foreign software.Her team works on a software suite called SeisRTM, which will be used to image Earths subsurface structures. Currently, seismic explorations collect data in search of oil and gas reservoirs, which is then processed by foreign software to create images of the subsurface based on which decisions about drilling locations are made.Once we wrote the software (SeisRTM), we needed to test it. We are getting the datasets to test our software from ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation). After processing it, we will send the images back to ONGC so that they can validate our results using the software they are currently operating with. The best part about this software is that it is easily customisable, unlike the ones we buy or take on a licence from abroad, Richa says.

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Kentucky selected to join computer science alliance focused on … – Kentucky Teacher

Skip to contentKentucky selected to join computer science alliance focused on expanding access to quality computing education

Kentucky is among a cohort of seven states selected to join the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance.

Funded by the National Science Foundation and Google, the ECEP Alliance is leading efforts to advance access to quality computing education across the United States.

Kentucky is committed to advancing statewide participation in computing initiatives and is working toward providing equitable access to computer science courses for all students in the states K-12 education system through data-based planning, including policy analysis and identifying groups with limited or no access to computer science education.

We must work together to provide students with the skills they need to thrive in our globally interconnected world. Americas changing workforce has taught us the importance of computer science and digital literacy education, said Jason E. Glass, Kentuckys Commissioner of Education. Joining the ECEP Alliance will allow Kentucky to learn from and work with other states and organizations committed to improving computer science education.

States working with the ECEP Alliance pursue systemic change at the state level, resulting in more diverse students pursuing educational paths in computer science.

By gathering advocates from across the computing education ecosystem, ECEP states build the teams needed to advance computer science education and educational policy reform, said Sarah Dunton, director of the ECEP Alliance. This diversity of voices and expertise helps states to focus conversations on equity in computer science education and build sustainable strategies.

By joining the ECEP alliance, Kentucky continues to work toward the goals ofUnited We Learn (UWL), the states vision for the future of education. The three big ideas of UWL are community collaboration, innovation and rich learning experiences for each Kentucky student.

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Outstanding Graduate of the College pursues community change … – University of Colorado Boulder

In her first year at CU Boulder, Elizabeth Eyeson (CompSci'23) said she realized that the Department of Computer Science did not have a high quality space for office hours or studying.

"I had my first office hours ever in the old aerospace wing [before the wing's renovation] and remember being shocked by the state of it. All I could think was, why are we having office hours in this dim, cramped and outdated space," Eyeson said.

She then saw the opportunity to work with an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students on solutions for the department through joining the Computer Science Departmental Action Team.

"I thought, maybe if I joined the team, we could get a better study space," she said.

But Eyeson did more than just slightly improve the space, said Department Chair Ken Anderson. "She was a leader in redesigning the lab as a more welcoming and inclusive environment."

Today, the completely remodeled Computer Science Education Lab has rooms for office hours and desks where, any day of the week, you can see students studying and collaborating.

The space also has a digital mural created in collaboration with local artist Graham Fee and faculty member Elisabeth Stade. Future plans for the space include dedicating the study rooms to diverse pioneers in the field and an art installation in honor of Professor Mike Eisenberg.

"The benefits of her hard work will be felt for years to come," Anderson said.

Throughout her time at CU Boulder, Eyeson has emerged again and again as a community leader, proactive scholar and connective force, leading her to be recognized as the spring 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and Colorado Engineering Council Silver Medal finalist.

In her first year, Eyeson was invited to her first meeting of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

"Dr. Tanya Ennis told me about NSBE, when I first visited CU," Eyeson said.

Ennis, the former director of the Broadening Opportunities through Leadership and Diversity(BOLD) Center and CU Boulder NSBE advisor, said she remembered meeting Eyeson.

"She was so shy and trying to understand how she would fit. I told her about NSBE and about BOLD, and I started seeing her in the center every day," Ennis said.

"Joining NSBE meant being part of something bigger than myself. It is a community of people who are passionate about engineering, science and ensuring that all voices are heard regardless of background," Eyeson said.

NSBE quickly became a large part of Eyeson's life, and it helped her learn about project management, leadership, networking and professionalism.

Throughout her time with NSBE, Eyeson has held a variety of roles including membership chair, vice president and interim president, among others. Beyond her current role as the vice president of CU NSBE, Eyeson is also active on the regional and national level of NSBE as the 22-23 Region VI vice chairperson and incoming 23-24 Region VI chairperson.

Region VI oversees 87 chapters with over 1,700 members across the western United States and abroad. She managed the board behind the 2022 Regional Leadership Conference in Beaverton, Oregon, and the 2022 Fall Regional Conference in Los Angeles, which attracted hundreds of members ranging from pre-collegiate to professional, across the western United States and abroad.

"NSBE has helped me grow as a leader and a role model for others. I never would have imagined so many underclassmen would come to me for advice. It has been so rewarding to help support people who are in a similar spot as I was years ago," she said.

Eyeson said she is grateful for the support she has had from the BOLD Center.

"I was seeking people who could relate to my experience as a Black woman in computer science. A lot of my friendships were made through BOLD and BOLD student societies like CU Women In Computing and NSBE. I have had the privilege to attend multiple conferences and volunteer among other great experiences. In the BOLD Center, we are all working together towards becoming tomorrow's engineers and scientists," Eyeson said.

She added that though students can feel like they are on their own, "There are other people, it's a matter of finding them. If Dr. Ennis hadn't invited me to that first NSBE meeting, I would never have been able to get involved as I have, and to extend that to students coming after me," she said.

Eyeson said that applying her skills beyond the classroom has been essential to her success.

In addition to being a Norlin and BOLD Scholar, Eyeson was nominated to become a National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Scholar through the BOLD Center.

This led her to being selected for the inaugural Google NACME Applied Machine Learning Intensive (AMLI), where over the course of eight weeks, Eyeson and her team developed a neural network to help align an AI agents actions with human norms and values.

"Elizabeths project was so impressive that it was open-sourced and highlighted as a featured project," said her advisor and mentor, University of Kentucky professor Corey Baker. "She constantly pushed herself to learn."

Eyeson said she applied to every research and internship opportunity she could find. One of these was the National Institute of Standards and Technology Professional Research Experience Program. When that opportunity was transitioned to online in summer 2020 due to the pandemic, Eyeson still persisted.

She became a published academic author with the national lab and continues to work for them today, developing software for their Public Safety Communications Research division as part of the Mission Critical Voice group.

Building on her success in AMLI, and her experiences from NIST and Autodesk, Eyeson recently completed her computer science capstone project.

She worked with her team and sponsor Enertiv to create a neural network to optimize the startup and shutdown of commercial HVAC systems and reduce stakeholders carbon footprints.

"When I think of Elizabeth, I think of consistent elevation," Ennis commented. "She would go to office hours with a list of questions and engage in learning discussions. Her attitude was very much towards consistently building upon her prior learning experiences. She refused to get stuck."

Eyeson said that throughout her work as a community leader and a scholar, she seeks places where she can apply her skills and grow at the same time. "If you see a problem, find the opportunity to tackle it. You never know, you may be the one to solve it," Eyeson said.

Eyeson plans to pursue a PhD in computer science at the University of California Los Angeles with a research focus at the intersection of healthcare and computation.

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Legislators say the move would help students get lucrative jobs in STEM fields.

Computer science is on the way to becoming a new graduation requirement in Hawaii by the end of this decade as state legislators seek new ways to encourage homegrown technical skills.

Only 16% of all statewide enrolled students, K-12, were registered in computer science courses last year, according to an annual report from the Department of Education.

Concerned lawmakers, in response, recently passed House Bill 503, which requires the Board of Education to analyze and figure out ways to incorporate computer science as a graduation requirement no later than the 2030-2031 school year.

This initiative is important because it is about aligning marketplace needs with formalized curricula, said Rep. Justin Woodson, who introduced the bill. And thats something that you see in some of the highest performing public school systems globally.

Computer-based STEM occupations are growing at an exponentialrate, Woodson said. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that science, technology, engineering and math fields will result in slightly more than half a million new computer jobs over the 10-year period.

Not only will there be more job opportunities, the report projects, the median annual wage will be twice the median wage of all occupations.

High-paying jobs and natural affinity for our student population to learn about computer science, Woodson said. So its about creating opportunities, so our kids can succeed.

HB 503, currently waiting for consideration by the governor, will request the Board of Education and the Department of Education to work together and report back to the Legislature on whether computer science ultimately should be one of the main core requirements of the general student-body curriculum, and, if so, how to implement that change.

Jake Ishikawa, a junior at Kapolei High School, opposed this bill in written testimony, stating concerns about the lack of teachers and the addition of another required class, which he said would reduce the number of classes students actually want to attend.

There is a teacher shortage, Woodson said. But in the more pronounced areas where we need teachers, we have been successful in deploying strategies like providing differential pay.

Differential pay is an additional stipend thats combined with the base pay of teachers.

As of now, those receiving these payments are state-licensed teachers in special education, hard-to-staff locations, and in the Hawaiian language immersion program.

Woodson said the pay differentials have led to a 30% increase of teachers in certain areas, and he hopes for the differentials to be applied to computer science teachers as well.

The larger strategy is to continue to increase teachers compensation, Woodson said.

Teachers who dont get compensation in accordance with their experience and years working are more likely to leave the field, he said. But legislators have created salary amendments that have increased some instructors salaries as much as $30,000 in recent years.

We know anecdotally that teachers have said theyre staying in the profession because of that realignment of payment, he said.

If students end up feeling overwhelmed by this new requirement, they can look at existing requirements and swap out the classes in some manner that maintains overall quality controls on the education process, he added. But choosing to avoid computer science as a requirement, because some students dont want to take it, isnt a great option, either.

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Satko's Campus Conscious system, recycling plastic bottles into 3D printing filament linked to an online rewards app, won this year's Elon Innovation Challenge.

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Aaron Satko 25 is always looking for problems to solve.

When he encounters one automatic doors that dont work just right, cardboard shipping boxes that waste too much space he jots it down in a notebook he carries. Then his mind gets to work, roiling and churning it over, waiting for the spark of invention to ignite.

Learning of this years Elon Innovation Challenge focused on waste reduction his thoughts leapt to the enormous amount of trash created by our consumption of single-use plastic bottles. Globally, we use an estimated 1.2 million plastic bottles per minute with less than 9% of those recycled.

Satko, a computer science major from Lewisville, North Carolina, had heard of plastic bottles being recycled as 3D-printing filament. The real problem he wanted to solve was encouraging Elon students to toss their bottles into recycling bins. Taking inspiration from open-source designs, Satko devised the Campus Conscious PET-cycler system: a prototype that cuts and melts polyethylene terephthalate plastic bottles into into filament, paired with an app that incentivizes recycling by turning those bottles into reward points students can redeem on campus. The process reuses about 90% of the bottle, leaving only the base and screwtop.

PET plastic is one of the best for 3D printing because its strong and has high heat-resistance, Satko said. I didnt invent this process, but I upgraded some of the designs in my prototype, and the app adds a dimension that connects it with students.

The Elon Innovation Challenge is an annual competition sponsored by the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship that allows students to identify and work through innovative solutions for a specific problem. This years challenge joined with the Campus Race to Zero Waste initiative, a nationwide competition to inspire college campuses to seek ways to eliminate trash.

Satkos Campus Conscious initiative bested about 25 other entries, which included strategies to reduce waste in dining halls, increase composting, repurpose items and raise awareness of environmental issues.

I hate seeing trash everywhere, and I try to do my share of cleaning up when I see it. Ive always felt that way, and its why I wanted to participate in the challenge this year, Satko said. The Innovation Challenge is one of the best things about my college experience so far. I participated last year and its just a great thing. Im grateful to (Doherty Center Director) Alyssa Martina and the Doherty Center for offering this challenge.

Satkos grand prize included $2,500. Hes already invested some of those winnings into his eBay business refurbishing computers. He buys computers auctioned off by schools and universities and spends his weekends at home repairing and reselling them. The prize money afforded him new computer repair tools, and hes looking forward to putting into use the knowledge he continues to gain in computer science courses.

In the future, Satko hopes to parlay his computer science degree into invention and entrepreneurship.

I want to have a big idea and great invention one day. I think that would be great.

So, hes keeping that notebook handy, ready for inspiration to strike.

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