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TUESDAY September 28, 2010
SCV Solid State Circuits, with Electron Devices and Computer Chapters
Speakers: David C. Brock, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation; Christophe Lecuyer, Principal Economic Analyst, Office of the President, University of California
Time: Presentations at 6:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: National Semiconductor Building E Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara
RSVP: EventBrite, from website
Web: ewh.ieee.org/mu/scv-sscs
In the first three and a half years of its existence, Fairchild Semiconductor developed, produced, and marketed the device that would become the fundamental building block of the digital world: the microchip.  Founded in 1957 by (more…)

FRIDAY September 17, 2010
SCV Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley
Speaker: Peter Salmon, individual inventor
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Cost: IEEE members $35; non-members $45; also available as a webcast
Place: Cogswell Polytechnical College, Board Room, 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale
RSVP: through website
Web: www.eventbee.com/view/ieeecnsv091710/track/sfbac1b

This seminar, our second in the “Patents” series, will address inventing and patenting from the perspective of an individual inventor, Peter Salmon.  If you have invented a completely new product or, something that just (more…)

TUESDAY November 16, 2010
SCV Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley
Speaker: Dr. Kendall Waters, IP and Technology Development, Silicon Valley Medical Instruments, Inc.
Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org

Successfully taking a medical device product from concept to regulatory approval requires a broad range of expertise. Effective strategy execution requires having the right talents available at (more…)

IEEE Oregon Section Webinar, with the SF Bay Area Council
The Smart Grid: From Appliance to Generator and Back
- September 8, 2010   - 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- $99 for IEEE members; $150 for non-members, $25 for full-time students
A systems view of how the Smart Grid provides interactions between the end uses of electricity (”appliances” or industrial processes) and utilities, viewed from the perspective of the technologies, standards, and policies that will enable those interactions and foster innovation and interoperability. For engineers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs who want to understand the Smart Grid in order to make better professional, technical and business decisions.
Talks:   - The Challenge of Synchrophasors and Wide Area Control   - Smart Grid Communications   - Managing Supply and Demand   - Smart Grid Cyber Security   (and more)
For full information: www.e-grid.net/docs/1009-smartgrid.pdf

THURSDAY September 2, 2010
SCV Technology Management Chapter
Speaker: Kevin Surace, Chairman & CEO, Serious Materials
Time: Networking at 6:00 PM; Forum at 6:30 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation at 7:45 PM
Cost: $10 for IEEE members; $13 for others
Place: RAMADA Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale
RSVP: not required
Web: www.ieee-scv-tmc.org/

“Thinking Outside the Glass Box” - How an engineer built what Inc Magazine calls a “great company” by doing things differently, and recognizing the power of green.

WEDNESDAY September 1, 2010
SCV Circuits and Systems Chapter
Speaker: Massimo Alioto, Ph.D, Visiting Professor at BWRC — UC-Berkeley
Time: Networking/light dinner at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $2 donation accepted for food
Place: QualComm Santa Clara, Building B, 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/cas

In the last years, subthreshold CMOS logic circuits have become very popular in ultra low power applications, which typically constrain the power budget to a few tens of uWs and the supply voltage to (more…)

TUESDAY August 31, 2010
SCV Consumer Electronics
Subject:
Speaker: Chandlee Harrell, Silicon Image
Time: Networking/refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $10 for non-members, $5 foe IEEE members, free for IEEE CES members & Student IEEE members
Place: Hewlett Packard, Building 20, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto
RSVP: from the website
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ce

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is that now-familiar interface that you use to connect video and audio to your HDTV set.  It has gone through a number of improvements since it first (more…)

TUESDAY October 19, 2010
SCV Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley
Speaker: Judith Finell, Judith Finell Musicservices, Inc.
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org

Contemporary technology has transformed many processes related to music, including its composition, digitization, usage, distribution, and protection. Digital recording technology enables musicians to (more…)

TUESDAY September 21, 2010
SF Communications Chapter
Speaker: Susan E. Walters, California Emerging Technology Fund
Time: Lasagne and salad dinner at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: California Public Utilities Commission, 505 Van Ness Ave (use Golden Gate entrance), San Francisco
RSVP: my email to timryan@ieee.org
Web: www.ieee.org/sfcomsoc

California Emerging Technology Fund will present an overview of its background, strategic focus, current activities and accomplishments in closing the Digital Divide in a way that makes California (more…)

WEDNESDAY September 15, 2010
SCV Education Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Steven R. Hetzler, IBM Fellow, Manager Storage Architecture Research
Time: Networking & food at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $2 donation for food
Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara
RSVP: see website
Web: essv915.eventbrite.com

The pace of technology advancement in recent years is a wonder to behold. Examples abound in wireless communications, computing, biotech and data storage. It wasn’t that long ago that a GB was a massive amount of data storage. As astounding as these changes have been, we have come to expect faster gains in the future. Continuing self-education will likely be required for engineers and business leaders to remain competitive. This will make teaching students how to learn of the most valuable products of the education system. Even non science graduates will need to know how to identify problems, and separate facts from the assumptions.
Examples from my career will be used to examine this hypothesis. A particularly poignant example arises from my recent work on Chasm Analysis, which I created as a method for identifying the market potential for storage technologies, by examining the foundations from an economic perspective. The key insight comes from identifying an incorrect assumption made by technologists since the 1960s. It has proven quite useful in forecasting the future of solid state storage in the Information Technology (IT) space.  It also provides support for the need to employ the scientific method to the business of technology, and the need to continually reeducate one’s self.