User:Eberkowitz
Eric Berkowitz
Eric G. Berkowitz is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Dr. Berkowitz's research focuses on automated proactive organization of large-scale document collections as a component of open information access. He also teaches courses on Big Data, and Open Source integration and Technology and Information in Local and Global Society.
Prior to coming to Roosevelt, Dr. Berkowitz taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology and before that worked and consulted on document management systems and workplace automation systems.
My interest is in teaching students that everything in life is about balance and all the more so in the Information Age As governments and other power-players learn more about citizens, and much is made of this issue, far less is made of citizen's abilities to learn more about the power-players. Thus balance can be restored by active civic-engagement through possessing information about the power-players and the means to collect and process that information in the form of open-source tools. I am interested in getting students from all disciplines ranging from the humanities to the formal sciences to understand how the open source world provides crucial information tools and exploit them as appropriate for their discipline.
My search for "Big Data" on SourceForge yielded a very unhelpful list of 175 projects, though there are a few gemstones amongst the gravel.
Some of the most common languages for these types of projects are Java, C, Python
From: Linux Annoyances for Geeks: Getting the Most Flexible System in the World Just the Way You Want Michael Jang; "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", Apr 5, 2006; Page: 138
Many applications are "not ready for prime time." If you find that an application is in alpha development, it generally has not been tested with any rigor on most Linux distributions. However, many (but not all) beta projects, which are nominally still in testing, are as stable as any Microsoft application that you can purchase today. As described on SourceForge, there are seven levels of development: planning, pre-alpha, alpha, beta, production/stable, mature, and inactive. In most cases, you should not install planning, pre-alpha, and alpha applications on production computers. Beta software may or may not be ready for production computers and should be tested rigorously before installation. Production/stable software can generally be installed on production computers without as much testing. Mature and inactive applications may not have the latest features, or may be superseded by other applications.
Unfortunately, many projects on SourceForge do not post a status and therefore comparing two with different status is quite difficult.
