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TUESDAY September 25
SCV Consumer Electronics Chapter
Speaker: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer: Professor Albrecht Rothermel, Deputy Director of Institute, University of ULM Institute of Microelectronics, Germany
Time: Refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $5 for IEEE members, and $10 for non-members
Place: Hewlett Packard Oak Room, 19447 Pruneridge Avenue (Building 48), Cupertino
RSVP: not required
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ce

A face recognition system has been designed, which requires no interaction at all. The system detects persons, defines whether the persons are known already or not, and either updates the existing database of known persons, or establishes a new database (more…)

MONDAY September 10
SCV Signal Processing Chapter
Speaker: Hassan Yaghoobi, Ph.D., Intel Corporation
Time: Fast Food & drinks: 6:30 PM; Presentation: 7:00 PM
Cost: $2 Donation requested towards refreshments
Place: National Semiconductor Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps

Mobile WiMAX technology, based on IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard, was first commercialized in Korea through initial offering of WiBro services in the middle of 2006 and subsequent expansion in early 2007.  They are also to be deployed by Sprint (more…)

TUESDAY September 4
SCV Lasers and Electro-Optics  Chapter
Speaker: Milton Chang, PhD, Managing Director, Incubic Venture Fund, and IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer
Time: Networking and Food: 7:00 PM, Presentation: 8:00 PM
Cost: donation for refreshments
Place: National Semiconductor Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara
RSVP: by email to ieeescvleos-rsvp2007@yahoo.com
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos

The speaker will discuss how to go about starting a company in the current environment. Milton Chang is Managing Director of Incubic Venture Fund which is actively investing in technology startup businesses.  He was CEO and President of (more…)

SCU, with the SCV Chapter, IEEE Communications Society
OFDM Workshop
- Monday October 8, 2007 - Santa Clara University

$90 for IEEE Members, $100 for non-Members (thru Sept. 5)
Fee includes lunch, reception
More information and to register: iccd.engr.scu.edu
Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) implementation and Cross-layer Optimization have become topics of intense research interest in companies and universities (more…)

Sponsored by Research Triangle Institute — TechVentures 2007
– Oct 22-24, 2007       — Hyatt Regency S.F. Airport, Burlingame
– “Going Mainstream: Defining the Technology and Market Opportunities”

      Earlybird Rates through October 1st
Full details: techventure.rti.org/fall2007
Various forms of 3D integration and packaging are now reaching commercialization as serious contenders for meeting performance, cost, and size demands. Learn the status (more…)

WEDNESDAY September 26

Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC)
Invited: Representatives of the SCV engineering societies
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Pipe Trades Training Center, 780 Commercial Street, San Jose
Web: www.svec.org

Message from incoming SVEC president Elise Engelhardt of ASME:

You may have heard that I was elected President of the Silicon Valley Engineering Council for this coming year! I’m very excited about this honor (more…)

- October 25-26, 2007 - San Jose Convention Center
- The International Technical Design and Development Event for the Personal, Service and Mobile Robotics Industry

Save $200 through September 14th.

More information: www.robodevelopment.com
The multifaceted educational forum and trade show dedicated to addressing the technical issues involved with the design and development of commercial robotic products; hands-on access to the latest design and development solutions (more…)

THURSDAY September 20
SCV Electron Devices Chapter

Invited Speakers from: Freescale, Hynix, IBM, IMEC, Intel, Ovonyx, Sandisk, Stanford, Toshiba and Applied Materials
Time: Registration 9:00 - 9:30 AM; Speaker Presentations 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM; reception following
Cost: none; includes lunch, reception
Place: Hotel Valencia, 355 Santana Row, San Jose
RSVP: By email to Philipe Jensen, jansenp@imec.be
Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/0709-scv-eds.pdf

A No Cost Full-Day IEEE SCV EDS Symposium will be held at the Hotel Valencia in San Jose. This symposium is dedicated to discussing the emerging trends in Semiconductor Memories. Ten distinguished speakers (more…)

From FSA (Fabless Semiconductor Association):
- Sept. 12, 2007   - Santa Clara Convention Center
- Complimentary Admission (through Sept. 7)
Featuring over 100 exhibiting companies and a full day of educational programming, this event provides you with the opportunity to meet with potential partners and hear from industry experts regarding the topics most relevant to today’s semiconductor industry. The goal — to provide you with knowledge you need (more…)

SPECTRUM Magazine Tech Insider Webinar series

September 6th, 2007, at 11:00 AM PDT (Duration: 1 hour)

Learn how to build, run, and post-process multiphysics models directly from the MATLAB prompt, Simulink®, and toolboxes. EM application examples will be demonstrated from DC to light as well as applications within Mechanical Engineering; for control system design, optimization, circuit simulation, (more…)