CS Department News

July 8, 2005

JEDI highlights Sun CEO Scott McNealy's JavaOne Keynote

By John Paul Petines

JavaOne is an annual conference put on by Sun Microsystems to discuss Java technologies, primarily among Java developers.

During his keynote, Sun CEO Scott McNealy discussed problems of education, integrating student information as well as classroom content information. He described Sun's response toward improving education systems -- JEDI.

JEDI stands for Java Education & Development Initiative. It is a collaborative project that aims to make high-quality, industry-endorsed IT and Computer Science course material available for free to universities and colleges in the Philippines. The course material is developed with inputs from industry and conforms to international education standards and the requirements of the Commission on Higher Education.

JEDI is a project of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the University of the Philippines Java Research & Development Center (UP JRDC).