Biofuels Science Certificate

The Biofuels Science Certificate is a hybrid program with lecture courses completed online, followed by intensive laboratory courses completed at the UCSD campus during summer. It is aimed at training professionals for field and laboratory roles in the growing biofuels industry. It provides students hands-on technical knowledge and experience in laboratory techniques used in biofuels production, analysis and processing. Students choose from one of the following specialization tracks: Molecular Biology, Aquatic Microbiology, or Analytical Chemistry.

Next up, Hadoop

Thus far, LinkedIn’s biggest push has been in improving its nearline and online systems (“Basically, we’ve hit the ball out of the park here,” Ghosh said), so its next big push is offline — Hadoop, in particular. The company already uses Hadoop for the usual gamut of workloads — ETL, model-building, exploratory analytics and pre-computing data for nearline applications — and Ghosh wants to take it even further.

He laid out a multipart vision, most of which centers around tight integration between the company’s Hadoop clusters and relational database systems. Among the goals: better ETL frameworks, ad-hoc queries, alternative storage formats and an integrated metadata framework — which Ghosh calls the holy grail — that will make it easier for various analytic systems to use each other’s data. He said LinkedIn has something half-built that should be finished this year.

Allowing existing reactors to simply run out their licensed lifetimes in the current scenario, nuclear power may simply disappear, he writes. "Absent an extremely large injection of government funding or further life extensions, the reactors currently operating are going to end their licensed lifetimes between now and the late 2050s," Bradford concludes. "They will become part of an economics-driven US nuclear phase-out a couple of decades behind the government-led nuclear exit in Germany."

"Our deep understanding of complex protective schemes and, utility-specific SCADA requirements enables effective automation and management of substations as a center of intelligence within the grid," said Dermot O’Leary, EVP and GM of Substation Solutions for BPLG. "The substation is key to managing the growing complexity of distributed energy resources in the distribution grid and the connectivity of our distribution grid solutions with our substation automation offers unique value to utilities as they execute their intelligent grid roadmaps."

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