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Monday, July 7, 2008

CS855 Week1 Introduction

1. Introduce yourself


Hi, my name is Ed Polak, I am currently a full-time instructor teaching courses in Project Management/Software Engineering, UNIX/Linux Operating Systems, Database Design (Oracle, MySQL), fundamentals of C/C++/Java programming, Electronic Technology Fundamentals and Capstone Projects.


2. Identify your area of expertise or interest (real or desired)


My experience covers a wide variety of areas including network, interface, database and web design, development and implementation. My desire is to focus on offense security, testing the security measures and countermeasures.


3. Describe your dreams for what will be needed in 10-15 years

The health care system will implement nanotechnology to diagnose, repair and heal the plethora of ailments, disorders and diseases extending life expectancy beyond 100 years. This change in health care will require new educational delivery and require new methodologies and technologies to increase the human learning capacity and brain usage.


4. List two cool new technologies that you would like to pioneer


The two cool technologies I would like to pioneer is the optical/photon computers/networks perform computation and information transfers at the speed of light and the transporter (Star Trek) to eliminate the internal combustion vehicles and allow for more time for walking, biking, hiking and other exercise type activities to improve ones quality of life.