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	IN THIS ISSUE » The Virtual Campus » Cool Gaming Videos » Green Computing » Mobile Gaming INTERNET GAMING » Level Up! Check Out Cool Videos on Gaming Hear from Pogo.com's Andrew Pedersen on the future of online games and get the inside scoop on Electronic Arts » Real-Time Multiplayer Gaming for Mobile Devices Get tech tips and cash in on the huge opportunity to develop real-time multiplayer games for mobile devices. First of two parts. » Building Your Mobile Gaming Blockbuster Start building your prototype of a mobile multiplayer game and get it to market. Second of two parts. DON'T MISS THIS » Green Computing Is Unstoppable IT is turning green — not with envy, but with eco-responsible systems like Sun's Project Blackbox   » Duke's Choice Awards Enter your Java application for recognition at the JavaOne conference, May 8-11 in San Francisco	Virtual Students: The Future of Education The barriers between classroom education and the virtual world are dissolving. Students are becoming more like telecommuters who visit campus once a week, while more than 70 universities have built Second Life campuses. Sun's Worldwide Education and Research Conference provided a glimpse into the future. Find out more... This e-zine's for you, students. Give us your suggestions, cool sites we should share with others, or any other feedback at: Student_Connection@sun.com   OPEN MINDS   » 'Bicycle Science' of Real-Time Java Programming With the new Real-Time Specification for the Java platform, real-time Java programming is easier and more predictable. "It isn't rocket science. It's more like bicycle science," says Sun's Greg Bollella.     » Building Tomorrow's Students Today Education in the 21st century means leveraging technologies such as open source, global e-learning, gaming, social networking, and Web 2.0 sites.     CODER'S TOOLBOX   » Extending DTrace to Java and JavaScript Learn how to extend real-time DTrace diagnostics in the Solaris 10 OS to Java applications and JavaScript.     » Sun Gives New Life to Fortran Language Sun's new Fortress programming language is emerging as an alternative to the venerable Fortran, a mainstay of scientific computing since the 1950s.     » NetBeans Ups Ante for Mobile App Development The open source NetBeans IDE 5.5 gets an upgrade for mobile applications and collaborative development with code contributions from Ricoh and Intland.     SUN NEWS   » Student Creativity Drives Solaris University Challenge Meet the student winners of Sun's inaugural Solaris University Challenge — and innovative applications that wowed the judges.     » Solaris OS: The Right Choice for Developers Thinking of building on Linux? Think Solaris instead. Backed by the OpenSolaris community, the Solaris OS has serious enterprise cred and beats Linux on scalability and resilience.     THE SOLARIS OS, UNDER THE HOOD   » Boost Performance with Solaris and Java Threading Get how-to tech tips on optimizing Solaris and Java threading models to improve Java runtime environment performance.     » How-To Demo on Solaris 10 OS Containers Learn how Solaris Containers let you consolidate, isolate, and protect hundreds or thousands of applications on a single server.

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