Past Events

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

CNSV member Rosemary Coates will detail how counterfeiters have attained a huge foothold in the world market, as well as how Amazon and Chinese retailers such as Alibaba, Taobao, JD, and others are aggressively tracking and eliminating counterfeits on their platforms through new technologies such as invisible pigments, QR codes, photo mapping, and RFID.


Tuesday, Apr 9, 2024 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm          Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Sensors: The Next Frontier 2

This talk will show how emerging force sensing is transforming the user experience with machines, including Qorvo's HMI sensing technology which is fabricated mainly on a proprietary MEMS process, and which can attach under either a touch surface or a capacitive touch display.


Tuesday, Mar 12, 2024 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm          Generative AI: A Data Platform Architecture 4  Generative AI: A Data Platform Architecture 5

This talk will explore the power of Google AlloyDB Omni, a groundbreaking database technology poised to shape 2024's technological landscape using advanced features, and which enables data platforms for dynamic business analytics and cutting-edge Generative AI (Gen AI) applications.


Tuesday, Feb 13, 2024 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm          Navigating the Edge: How Cloud-Edge Devices Operate 7

This talk will provide an overview of the architecture of these cloud-edge devices, and the importance of virtualization to enable their operation in a myriad of industries and environments that are reliant on real-time data processing and decision making.


Tuesday, Jan 9, 2024 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm          AI Intellectual Property: Strategies for Protection in this Hot Arena 9  AI Intellectual Property: Strategies for Protection in this Hot Arena 10

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the hottest areas in the tech world, with its usefulness evident in a broad variety of commercial businesses. In this presentation, Steve Bachmann, Esq. will identify key strategies that can be used to identify which aspects of AI are actually patentable.


Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm          Raspberry Pi 5: The Everything Computer - Optimized 12  Raspberry Pi 5: The Everything Computer - Optimized 13

In this talk, Chris Boross will provide a technical discussion of the latest generation Raspberry Pi 5 hardware, including details about the new RP1 I/O controller and the RP2040, Raspberry Pi’s first microcontroller. Both were designed by the company's in-house ASIC team. Also discussed will be other industrial-focused products such as the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 product.


Tom Porter , Pixar Animation Studios
Friday, Dec 8, 2023 - 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: none 

This is an IEEE Milestone dedication event for RenderMan®.


Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm          Interactive Assistive Robots for People with Impairments 16  Interactive Assistive Robots for People with Impairments 17

This talk will discuss assistive robotic manipulators, and will present a robot learning framework that empowers a robot to automatically generate a sequence of actions from unstructured spoken language.


Wednesday, Oct 25, 2023 - 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm          IEEE – The Technical Society for the Future 19

This dinner meeting will feature 2023 IEEE President-Elect Tom Coughlin speaking about his plans as 2024 IEEE President, as well as how IEEE has enabled his career.


Tuesday, Oct 10, 2023 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm          Deepfakes: The Risks and The Opportunities 20  Deepfakes: The Risks and The Opportunities 21

A Deepfake is a photo, video, or audio file that has been digitally altered or created to misrepresent or enhance reality. If AI is trained to detect Deepfakes, of course the detection can only be as good as the suitability of the training data set for the challenge it is facing during inference. At the stage of inference, the AI uses the weights calculated during training to predict Deepfakes.


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