Past Events

This talk will tell the story of how a small company made HDMI a household name.

You will learn the importance of effective communication tools for executives and newly promoted managers, and why every leader needs to worry about toxic culture.

David Bondurant reviews 50 years of Semiconductor and Computer Technology History, using his personal life story to provide background to highlight the driving forces behind the $52B CHIPS Act, passed in 2022, and Matt Francis will review the details of the legislation.

In this talk, Mario Garcia will discuss current trends in cybersecurity threats, and how CISA works to reduce risk and improve the resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure. CNSV member David Snyder will present additional details on Industrial Control Systems cybersecurity.

Road transportation is undergoing a major transformation with the advent of ridesharing, autonomous driving, and vehicle electrification. Using examples from research on capacitive wireless charging (as opposed to the more common inductive techniques), which leverage very high frequency power electronics, this talk will highlight the opportunities and challenges in dynamic wireless charging of electric vehicles.

Two people who are both doctors and professors will discuss the difference between lifespan and healthspan. This can help all of us.

This event will be a conversation with Stan Mazor as led by Brian Berg, during which he will reflect on his years at Fairchild, Intel, and beyond, including his memories of working with Gordon Moore, and peppered with stories about the earliest Intel microprocessors.

Joe Apfelbaum will review practical applications to using tools like ChatGPT and other AI chatbots to support business development efforts.

While a few large-scale fusion energy projects have captured the majority of resources and attention over the last several decades, there's been a recent resurgence in exploring alternative methods of generating fusion power. One example is the sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch (SFS ZP) concept incubated at the Univ. of Washington which Zap Energy is developing for commercial power.

Orin Laney, PE, will describe the definition and history of engineering, the historical and legal basis for licensure, how a license is obtained, the role in protecting the public, and possible consequences of unlicensed work.