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Andy talks with Avinash Agrawal and Jon Richards, program manager and senior engineer on the setiQuest project, about the program and the open source software behind it. setiQuest taps the global brain trust, harnesses the power of citizen scientists, and seeks to improve current searches for extraterrestrial intelligence and our understanding of our place in the cosmos.

What’s new on developerWorks, plus dW Editor in Chief Michael O'Connell talks about the results of a new developerWorks user survey.

Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc., IBM's largest service partner. He joins Andy Glover to talk about the broad and often vague role of software architect. With his extensive background in engineering and architecture, Ken shares his thoughts on the experience needed and the ideal path to achieving the level of architect, and what lies beyond it.

David Boloker is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies in IBM Software Group. He joined me to talk about Project Blue Spruce, which he describes as “a telepresence light solution.” This browser-based cooperative platform is built with open source technologies OpenAjax Hub, eJabber, and the Dojo Toolkit, and incorporates freely available IBM video and audio standards. David shares use cases and talks about the small workgroup target audience for Blue Spruce.

Steven Adler, Program Director for IBM Data Governance Solutions, talks about what companies face in the data governance space and some key elements in a successful program. Steve will be keynoting at the Information on Demand Global Conference coming up Oct 24-28 in Las Vegas, NV. Also, you can follow his related website, infogovcommunity.com.

We look at what's hot this week on dW then turn to the three winners of this summer's Do You DB2? essay contest, sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group. Michael Krafick and Sigen Chen are both senior database administrators at their respective companies. And Nadir Doctor is a DB2 consultant and IBM information champion. All three wrote short essays on their use of DB2 products and share those success stories with us.

Bill Chamberlin is a member of IBM's Corporate Market Intelligence team which supports the IBM Corporate Strategy and Marketing organization with market insights research. He founded the blog, HorizonWatching, that looks at emerging business issues, trends, and technologies. Bill joins Todd Watson and I for a chat about the three smarter planet pillars of new intelligence, interconnectedness, and an instrumented world.

Andy Piper from the IBM Hursley Lab joins to talk about making the most of remote reporting devices with WebSphere MQ Telemetry. And, we run down this week's dW highlights.

Andy Glover continues his interview with concurrency expert Alex Miller on his favorite topic, concurrency, as well as his recent article on GPars, the multicore future, and more.

Andy Glover interviews concurrency expert Alex Miller on his favorite topic, concurrency, as well as his recent article on GPars, the multicore future, and more.

What's new this week on dW, plus Sandy Carter, IBM's Lead for Business Partners, and IBM technology evangelist Todd Watson join for a chat about a new social media survey and an IBM social media skills initiative announced this week.

How about an insight engine application that runs in a browser for domain experts to explore data at web scale? That's called Big Sheets. In this episode, Stephen Watt, a software architect and Emerging Technologies Hadoop Lead at IBM, and Dan Gisolfi, an IBM Software Group Strategy Architect talk about the data deluge, Apache Hadoop, and Big Sheets. Also see Stephen's dW article, Deriving New Business Insights With Big Data.

Brian Snitzer, Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Global Technology Services, is back with an update on enhancements to IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud, including VPN/VLAN, dual site support, and premium support 24x7.

This week, the technically curious Andrew Glover interviews Stuart Halloway, co-founder of Relevance, Inc. and the author of Programming Clojure. They discuss the Clojure language and Halloway explains the two main reasons the language has been quickly adopted and is rising rapidly in popularity: It unleashes the power of the JVM and it gives Java programmers the Lisp ability to focus tightly on software development.

Andrew Glover -- developer, author, speaker, entrepreneur -- and the developerWorks Java zone introduce a new technical podcast series. Follow the technically curious Glover each week as he provides a new way to input knowledge from the sources you trust most. This week, Andrew interviews Matthew McCullough on Git, the open source distributed versioning system.

The Turbodacious one is back in fine form with a humorous take on forgetting your Windows password.

This Week on developerWorks, John Swanson talks a Ruby on Rails focus, we run down the week's highlights, and developerWorks' Leah Ketring joins to talk about both her job as a web manager focused on supporting dW's international web sites and her blog -- i18n, L10n, and me.

New content for the week, a request for your dW user stories, and a chat with IBM Cloud Computing evangelist Doug Tidwell who is at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon this week. Doug shares thoughts from the week. And check out his tweets from the convention.

Watts Humphrey continues on the team software process and team-building, recognizing problems, when social networking tools help and when they don't, challenges that have come with progress, and more. His latest book is "Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself."

This week dW highlights plus an interview with Elizabeth Moore, president of the International DB2 Users Group, on resources from IDUG and a new contest that wraps up this month.