Multi-threading in Android applications

Speaker: Chak Man Li, Solon Mobile applications often need to perform long time operations like downloading data or intensive computations without affecting the user experience. These tasks need to be run in other threads but thread managing is hard and tedious. In this talk, I will introduce some easy-to-use classes in Android with sample codes […]

An Introduction of Apache Spark

Come and join us on Friday. Speakers: LYU Zishen, YAO Fangjie Abstract: Big data is a buzzword nowadays, many companies use big data processing platforms to tackle big data problems. Apache Spark has quite some advantages compared to others, and is rapidly becoming the compute engine of choice for big data. This talk covers Apache […]