BDPA Washington (BDPA-DC)

05/17/2025

01/08/2025

Derrick Ward
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Ward, a DC native, reported on his hometown on NBC4 for two decades.

01/08/2025

Derrick Ward
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Ward, a DC native, reported on his hometown on NBC4 for two decades.

11/03/2024

⏰ ends—“Fall Back” ⏰

🇺🇸 🦅 Don’t forget to set clocks back one hour and enjoy an extended sleep or more “P.T.” with the troops. 🦅 🇺🇸

— Department of Defense (DoD) photo

11/01/2024

This November, support local community programs and outreach engagements.

Visit — https://www.toysfortots.org today

10/25/2024

Share this exciting opportunity from NASA with parents and students that are interested and available to apply.

Are you ready for this year’s NASA TechRise Student challenge? From researching Earth’s environment to designing experiments for space exploration, schools are invited to join NASA in its mission to inspire the world through discovery. If you are in sixth to 12th grade at a U.S....

10/19/2024

HAPPY EXASCALE DAY!

It's 10.18. Exascale Day is celebrated on October 18th honoring researchers and scientists who use supercomputers to advance discoveries in weather forecasts, medicine, energy, cybersecurity, Ai, and materials science. For tech industries and BDPA Members, this day also celebrates the impact of high-performance computing (HPC).

Exascale computing is supercomputing at one quintillion calculations, or 10 to the 18th power (10^18), per second. An exabyte is one quintillion bytes. Our exascale era of high-performance computing began in May 2022 with the launch of Frontier, the world's first exascale computer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).

Back in the day early home computers, such as an ATARI 400, had 8 kilobytes (8 KB) of memory.

• Kilobyte: 1,000 bytes
• Megabyte: 1,000,000 bytes
• Petabyte: 1,000 terabytes
• Exabyte: 1,000 petabytes
• Zettabyte: One trillion gigabytes

To discover new and related digital workforce opportunities no longer "over the horizon", view BDPA's National Exascale Day playlist powered by bdpatoday® and PTTV™ with support from our mission partners at HPE →

Your exascale era has arrived—join HPE in celebrating Exascale Day!Exascale computing means that the computer can do one quintillion calculations per second,...

10/18/2024

🚨 Scholarship Alert! 🚨
The Deloitte Foundation is offering an incredible opportunity—up to $17,500 in scholarships over the span of four semesters! Don’t miss your chance to apply and receive funding to support your education.

📅 Deadline to apply: January 10, 2025, 11:59 PM EDT
📝 Apply Today: https://hubs.la/Q02TGcR50

10/17/2024

TBT | Throwback Thursday

On this day, 16 October 1995, a professional and peaceful gathering of community leaders met in Washington, D.C. for the "Million Man March."

National BDPA's Washington, D.C. Chapter (BDPA-DC) served as the Association's Host Chapter.

• 1990's featured second-generation (2G) digital technology
• In 1995, Prodigy, Compuserve, and America Online (AOL) began to offer Internet access
• In 1995, the MQ-1 Predator drone was introduced and put into action by the U.S. Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency
• In 1995, Toy Story became the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery
• In 1995, our first version of PHP, a scripting language, was released; Linux 95, was released; and Windows 95 was released with the first version of their Internet Explorer (IE) browser.

BDPA maintained connectivity with local BDPA Chapters and other organizations using Bulletin Board System (BBS) networks. According to FidoNet, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web (WWW) and AOL became mainstream. BBSes rapidly declined in popularity thereafter, and were replaced by systems using the Internet for connectivity.

Less than a year after the Million Man March, BDPA registered its new Internet domain name "bdpa.org" on 17 February 1996.

Michael Harvey • Jimm Middleton • Perry Carter