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THURSDAY May 17, 2012
Computer Society
Speakers: Don Yantzi, product line manager, and Cindy VanEpps, Strategic Solutions Lead, IBM Corp.
Time: 11:00 AM – Noon
Cost: none
Place: on the Web
RSVP: from website
Web: www.computer.org/portal/web/webinars

Complexity is the biggest challenge faced by companies looking to deliver innovative applications, products and solutions while managing costs. An integrated approach to application lifecycle management (ALM) that (more…)

THURSDAY June 21, 2012
OEB Industry Applications Chapter
Speaker: Jim Hoyt, Harold Wells Associates
Time: No-host social at 5:30 PM; Presentation at 6:15 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation continues at 8:00 PM
Cost: $25 for IEEE members, $30 for non-members, $15 for student and retired members
Place: Zio Fraedos, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill
RSVP: by June 18 by email to Michael Nakamura, mnakamur@ebmud.com or phone: (510) 287-2066
Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1206-oeb-ias.pdf

Recent changes to the NEC require the selective coordination of overcurrent protective devices at hospitals and other mission-critical facilities. Transfer switches with 30-cycle closing and withstand ratings dramatically simplify designing to (more…)

THURSDAY May 10, 2012
IEEE SPECTRUM Magazine
Speaker: Robert Acker, GM and Vice President, Aha by Harman
Time: 11:00 AM PDT
Cost: none
Place: On the Internet
RSVP: from website
Web: spectrum.ieee.org/webinar/2052182

Increasingly, cars can connect to cellular networks, but the next step is broadband Internet access.  What innovations in safety, efficiency, and infotainment will result, and how will it affect auto design?  This (more…)

SATURDAY June 16, 2012
SCV Computer, with NAEA and IEEE-Stanford Chapters
Speakers: review on website
Time: Registration at 8:30 AM, Presentations start at 9:15 AM
Cost: IEEE Members $40, non-members $50, students/unemployed $20 (through May 15)
Place: Braun Auditorium (Mudd Chemistry Building), 333 Campus Drive, Stanford
RSVP: from website
Web: www.nfic-us.org

The intersection of computers with medical data is creating a form of direct and individualized diagnosis and treatment that transform health care to truly being up close and personalized medicine.  The IEEE SCV-CS, (more…)

MONDAY May 21, 2012
SCV Section
Time: Come between 6:00 PM and 7:30 PM
Cost: none
Place: Cogswell Polytechnical College, Board Room, 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale
RSVP: not required; bring paperwork
Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1205-scv-srmem.pdf

THURSDAY May 17, 2012
OEB Industry Applications Chapter
Speaker: David Brighton, RuggedCom, Inc.
Time: No-host social at 5:30 PM; Presentation at 6:15 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation continues at 8:00 PM
Cost: $25 for IEEE members, $30 for non-members. $15 for student and retired members
Place: Zio Fraedos, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill
RSVP: by May 14 by email to Michael Nakamura, mnakamur@ebmud.com or phone: (510) 287-2066
Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1205-oeb-ias.pdf

Trends in substation automation have converged upon a common communications architecture with the goal of having interoperability between a variety of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) found in the substation.  The network (more…)

WEDNESDAY May 23, 2012
SCV Control Systems Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Susan Frost, NASA Ames
Time: Presentation at 6:30 PM
Cost: none
Place: Intersil Corp, Bldg 3, 1001 Murphy Ranch Road, Milpitas
RSVP: from website
Web: css-susan-frost.eventbrite.com

Reducing the environmental impact of aviation is a goal of the Subsonic Fixed Wing Project under the Fundamental Aeronautics Program of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.  Novel aircraft configurations and (more…)