A site for various experiments with Google App Engine and the teaching of algorithms and programming, using cloud technologies. This site is by Burt Rosenberg at the Computer Science Department of the University of Miami, copyright 2010, all rights reserved.
Why Zinc? I needed a name for our cluster of cloud technologies, and we had already used up all the names of cloud formations during the 90's for our NIS domains. I had thought of the YP domains as clouds. So, I needed something new, and decided to think of "cloud computing" as metals. Zinc is a nice metal. It has a nice color and is fairly common. I think it's poisonous.