Department of Mathematics
Texas A & M - Commerce
Student/Faculty Colloquium
Tuesday, April 25, 2000
3:30-4:30pm, Bin-329 (tentative)
Ed Wilson,
BEA Systems
(and formerly at the University of Dallas)
will speak on:
How I finally got out of school in my late thirties
(A mathematician's experience in the IT industry)
Abstract:
What aspects of a training in mathematics appeals to IT companies?
What is middleware? What is it like working in a "picks and shovels"
company in the internet/e-commerce age? I will answer these questions as
well as give an example of a problem that I worked on: a multi-user B+ tree
used to index in memory data tables.