Past Events

This talk will cover recent trends in Cloud Services, and will presents tools, tips and best practices for managing communications, tasks, projects and client information in a small business. You may not be taking full advantage of the power of your hand-held device.

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the culmination of advances on several fronts, and is probably the most significant area of development in radio systems today. This talkwill introduce the concepts of (1) oversampling and undersampling as it applies to SDR, (2) correctly driving and implementing an A/D converter, and (3) the firmware and software portions of SDR. A comparison with state-of-the art conventional analog circuitry will be presented, along with a live demonstration of SDR.

This talk will describe the challenges engineers face in deploying Computer Vision on embedded platforms, and how every Computer Vision solution seems to require its own computationally demanding algorithm. It will also explore the opportunities ahead as low-cost embedded devices such as wearables promise a world full of vision-enabled devices.

Cell analysis is a bit like the air we breathe: nobody thinks about it much, but try taking it away and people take rapid notice. Without cell analysis, it would be impossible to perform blood counting - a routine diagnostic test performed about 300 million times a year worldwide. This talk will show how cell analysis is done today, and what exciting innovations are coming out that will revolutionize how it will be done tomorrow.

This special program will introduce CODE, a documentary film about debugging the gender gap and bridging the digital divide. It will also address the questions: Why does the gender gap and digital divide in tech continue to grow? and What will society gain from having a more diverse group programming the products upon which we so heavily depend?

ROLM revolutionized two industries: military computers and telecommunications. Its Great Place to Work philosophy imprinted a work/play culture that remains the hallmark of Silicon Valley today.

Tim MacMillan, of GoPro, will present the rich history of the design and use of camera arrays in the worlds of photography and cinema effects, starting with the genesis of motion pictures nearly 150 years ago.

This talk will describe the search for a second genesis of life in our Solar System, which is a search for a material system that enables Darwinian evolution but also represents a separate origin from life on Earth.
This is a dinner meeting, with attendance requiring pre-payment.

This talk will identify some of the current technology enablers for the Internet of Things (IoT), as well as some of the remaining software obstacles required to allow pervasive connection of IoT devices to the Internet - particularly regarding an Internet-centric operating system that is geared toward a low-power environment.

BigDataSIG Pre-meeting: Fraud Detection with Sequence Mining on a Big Data Platform

Pranab Ghosh will present a talk on machine learning using Hadoop and Storm, as well as an actual use case of credit card fraud detection with sequence mining on a Big Data platform.

This talk will describe a new class of computational optical sensors and imagers that do not rely on traditional refractive or reflective focusing, but instead on special diffractive optical elements integrated with CMOS photodiode arrays. Images are not captured as in traditional imaging systems, but rather computed from raw photodiode signals. Because such imagers forgo the use of lenses, they can be made unprecedentedly small - as small as the cross-section of a human hair.

IP SIG Pre-meeting: Valuing Intellectual Capital

A talk by Dr. Gio Wiederhold on topics as included in the 2013 Springer Verlag book Valuing Intellectual Capital: Multinationals and Taxhavens.