Jeanna Matthews, assistant professor of Computer Science at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, had only six students in her Advanced Operating Systems class last year. All of them entered the IBM Linux Scholar Challenge. Four of them won. And won big: IBM ThinkPads® for themselves and an IBM Linux zSeries® for the University! How did this small technology school in the frozen north country of New York State produce three of the 25 winning Linux Scholar Challenge projects worldwide? These articles tell you how.
Jeanna's story
Jeanna Matthews shares her classroom experiences and illustrates the teaching environment at Clarkson.
Bryan's story
Bryan Clark's entry into the Linux Scholar Challenge was a user resource tracking system for the Linux kernel. This article describes how he got into Linux programming, how he created his winning entry in the IBM Linux Scholar Challenge, and his project itself.
Phil and Matt's story
Phil Allen and Matthew Finlayson's winning entry to the IBM Linux Scholar Challenge was a development library that implements a thread pool. In this article, they explain how the pool works and provide the code.
Stephen's story
Stephen Evanchik designed a group resource tracking system for the Linux operating system kernel. Though his entry didn't win in the Challenge, the points he earned contributed to the school's overall win. In this article, he recounts his experience entering the Challenge and describes his project. He also explains just why you might want to go to school way up in the frozen North.