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	IN THIS ISSUE » Sun's Radia Perlman: Mother of the Internet » Five Reasons to Get Sun Certified » Academic Developer World Tour TECHIE TALK » Five Reasons to Get Sun Certified It's all about a lucrative job and career advancement, dude. And the certifications come in many foreign languages as well   » Sun Does Windows: Interoperability Delivered Hear front-line reports on Sun/Microsoft interoperability with this Sun Net Talk. Find out what's in the collaboration pipeline — and what's in it for you today INTERNET GAMING » Build a Java Game in Five Days? Joshua Slack tells you how to use Java technology and jMonkeyEngine to build a complete game in just five days   » Want to Discuss Java Gaming? It's All Here The Java Games Forum has over 100,000 posts from more than 7500 members. Have you joined yet?	Sun's Radia Perlman: Mother of the Internet Growing up in New Jersey, math and science fascinated Radia. Now she's a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and her spanning tree algorithm, software that helps direct Internet traffic, has earned her the nickname "Mother of the Internet." She's a role model for all female engineers. Find out more... We'll share with you and we'd like you to not only share with us, but share Student Connection with your friends and fellow students. 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   » Open Communities Are Here to Stay Learn how to get involved in open communities with a video, great downloads, and cutting-edge resources from Sun Developer Network Channel     » Sun's x64 Servers Chosen by UCLA Lab of Neuroimaging UCLA researchers will study brain functions on a high performance computing grid of Sun Fire servers with AMD Opteron processors     CODER'S TOOLBOX   » Brew Your Fresh Java Application and Win! Submit a Java technology-based application for a Siemens BenQ mobile phone by May 21 — and compete in the Java Masters 2006 contest!     » Java Developer Tools Win More Reader's Choice Awards Sun products win 12 awards from readers of Java Developer's Journal and SOA Web Services Journal     » Catch the Sun Academic Developer World Tour James Gosling discusses the Sun Student Connection, the new NetBeans IDE/BlueJ Edition, and more at Columbia University     SOLARIS OS, UNDER THE HOOD   » There's Still Time to Try on CoolThreads You have until March 29 to create or improve an application that runs on a Sun CoolThreads server and Solaris 10 OS — you could up to $50,000 USD and a Sun Fire T2000 server!     » It's Open Season on Open Source The already thin line between commercial and open source software keeps getting blurrier. How does it impact you?     DON'T MISS THIS!   » May's JavaOne Conference Closer Than You Think Book now for special academic pricing for the 2006 JavaOne conference, May 16-19 in San Francisco. Contact 866-382-7151 (U.S. and Canada only) or +1-650-226-0820 (international) for more information.     » They're Still Happening! Find a Sun Tech Days Conference Near You Advance your development skills with cutting-edge technical education, in cities around the world

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