CELEBRATING 10 YEARS
BY PHILIP GILL
DUKE’S
CHOICE
AWARDS
This year’s awards include the first-ever Community Choice Award,
two user groups, and the United Nations’ refugee agency.
JAVA TECH
At first glance, the list of this year’s Duke’s Choice Award win- ners reads like a diverse group of
unrelated open source projects, businesses, user groups, and individuals
whose only common trait is Java. While
that is certainly true, a closer reading
of this year’s winners of the Duke’s
Choice Awards—the Java community’s
equivalent of the Oscars—tells us not
just about some of the latest technological innovations in Java but about
how the Java community has grown
and changed over the years as well.
DUKE’S CHOICE AWARD
WINNERS 2012
(in alphabetical order by
organization name)
AgroSense
Hadoop
Apache Software Foundation
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JDuchess
Jelastic, Inc.
Liquid Robotics
London Java Community
MICE
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Historically, Duke’s Choice Award
winners were chosen on the basis of
technical innovation, but this year the
judges decided to broaden their criteria. In honoring two Java user groups
(JUGs)—a first in the Duke’s Choice
Awards’ 10-year history—the awards
Parleys.com
Ram Kashyap
Student Nokia Developer Group
blog
Level One Registration Tool
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
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