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THURSDAY February 5, 2009
SCV Technology Management Council
Speaker: ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D., Professional and Organizational Development
Time: Guided Networking at 6:30 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation at 7:45 PM
Cost: Cost: $25 (IEEE member), $30 (non member); Cash or check at the door; +$5 without reservation
Place: Ramada Inn, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale
RSVP: through Website
Web: www.ieee-scv-ems.org

Decisions and demands come from above, and the manager is the one responsible for seeing to it that staff deliver the products in a quality and timely manner.  On the other hand, we are living in an age when “knowledge workers” do not like (more…)

THURSDAY January 15, 2009
SCV Solid State Circuits Chapter
Speaker: Ken Kundert,Designer’s Guide Consulting
Time: Refreshments at 6:00 PM, Presentation at 6:30 PM
Cost: small donation for food
Place: National Semiconductor Building E, Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ssc

Verification is becoming widely recognized as one of the most important issues when designing large complex analog and RF mixed-signal circuits. As a result, design methodologies are starting (more…)

WEDNESDAY February 11, 2009
SCV Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Technology Chapter, with the Nanotechnology Council
Speaker: Stanley Williams, Director, Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory, HP Laboratories
Time: Optional dinner at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM
Cost: $25 if reserved by Feb 2; $30 before Feb. 6, $40 at door (no cost for presentation)
Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara
RSVP: on the website, or by email to Janis Karklins, karklins@ieee.org
Web: www.cpmt.org/scv

The existence of a fourth passive circuit element was proposed by Prof. Leon Chua of UC Berkeley in 1971 from fundamental symmetry arguments unifying resistance, inductance and capacitance equations. Although (more…)

MONDAY January 26, 2009
OEB Magnetics Chapter
Speaker: Michael Mallary, Seagate Technology Research (IEEE MagSoc Distinguished Lecturer)
Time: 3:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, bldg 6-2202, Berkeley
RSVP: please reserve with Peter Fischer, peter.fischer@ieee.org by January 22 (at least two days prior to the meeting)
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/oeb/mag

Since 1956 the areal density of hard disk drives (HDDs) has increased by eight orders of magnitude through a process of evolution punctuated by a number of important revolutions.  The disk evolved (more…)

MONDAY December 22, 2008
SCV Vehicular Technology
Subject:
Speaker: Clay Maynard, Technology Consultant and SCV-VTS 2008 Chair
Time: Pizza and presentation at 6:30 PM
Cost: $5 for pizza/drinks
Place: Century 21 Conference/Training Room, second floor, 761 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale
RSVP: not required
Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/0812-scv-vt.pdf

The presenter will discuss a more practical high-speed personal transportation and energy alternative to the T-Boone Pickens plan. Unlike the Pickens plan that would use relatively unreliable subsidized (more…)

WEDNESDAY January 14, 2009
SCV Communications Chapter
Speaker: Jay Iyer, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
Time: 6:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: National Semiconductor, Building E, Conference Room, 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc

As we look forward to a mobile broadband future which includes technologies such as femtocells, picocells, and macro overlays, it becomes increasingly important that these networks can scale (more…)

WEDNESDAY February 18, 2009
SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter
Speaker: Phillip Miller, World Heart, Inc
Time: Optional Dinner, NEW LOCATION: Nexus Cafeteria in the Clark Center, 6:15 pm (no host, no reservations); Presentation at 7:30 PM
Cost: none
Place: Clark Center auditorium, Stanford University
RSVP: not required
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs

World Heart is a pioneer in the development of Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) – implantable pumps that take over the workload of the diseased heart of patients in end-stage heart (more…)

WEDNESDAY January 21, 2009
SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter
Speaker: Marcus Rosenthal, Artificial Muscle, Inc.
Time: Optional Dinner, NEW LOCATION: Nexus Cafeteria in the Clark Center, 6:15 pm (no host, no reservations); Presentation at 7:30 PM
Cost: none
Place: Clark Center auditorium, Stanford University
RSVP: not required
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs

Artificial Muscle, Inc. is pursuing the commercialization of its artificial muscle technology and SmartMOVE™ actuators through innovative designs and fabrication processes and by focusing (more…)

WEDNESDAY February 18, 2009
OEB Power & Energy Chapter
Speaker: Bill Conlon, Ph.D., Director of Power Engineering, Ausra, Inc
Time: Social/Snacks/Drinks/Desert at 5:30 PM; Presentation at 6:20 PM
Cost: none
Place: Siemens Energy and Automation Inc, 25821 Industrial Blvd., Ste. 300, Hayward
RSVP: by email to Diep Nguyen, Diep@ieee.org
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/oeb/pes

Ausra, Inc., a Palo Alto-based startup, recently completed construction of the first Solar Thermal Power Plant in California in nearly 20 years.  The Kimberlina Solar Thermal Power Plant near Bakersfield demonstrates (more…)

THURSDAY February 26, 2009
SCV Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Technology Chapter
Speaker: Chandrakant D. Patel, HP Fellow and Director, Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory, HP Laboratories
Time: Registration at 11:30 AM; Buffet lunch at 11:45 AM; Presentation at 12:15 PM
Cost: $15 if reserved by Feb. 24; $20 at door
Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara
RSVP: on the website, or by email to Ed Aoki, aoki.ed@gmail.com
Web: www.cpmt.org/scv

The drivers of the next generation of information technology (IT) services are the teeming millions who will avail IT services to address their fundamental needs and improve their quality of life. We have the opportunity (more…)