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THURSDAY June 7, 2012
SCV Technology Management Chapter
Speaker: Bernie Maloney
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, through June 5
Place: Ramada Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale
RSVP: from website
Web: www.ieee-scv-tmc.org

Who do you know who might know someone who could SEE a benefit in CLEARLY sharing their ideas? Or, do you simply wish you could persuade stormtroopers “these are not the ‘droids they’re looking for”?  Would you like to influence how others perceive you when (more…)

 THURSDAY June 7, 2012
SCV Reliability Chapter
Time: Tour from 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Cost: none
Place: Willow Garage, 68 Willow Road, Menlo Park
RSVP: from website (required; no walk-in’s)
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/rl

Willow Garage develops hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. They are pioneering Open Source Robotics with their open Robot Operating System (ROS).  Willow Garage’s vision is to see personal robots as the next paradigm-shifting (more…)

WEDNESDAY June 6, 2012
SF Grads of the Last Decade (GOLD)
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Speaker: Kathie Chappell, Ameriprise
Time: Networking with pizza/soda at 6:30 PM; presentation following
Cost: none
Place: Ameriprise Office, 180 Montgomery, Suite 1400, San Francisco
RSVP: June 4, to get access to building
Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1206-sf-gold.pdf

TUESDAY June 5, 2012
SCV Photonics Chapter
Speaker: Mark Butterworth, Optical Scientist, Philips Lumileds
Time: Networking/Light Dinner at 6:00 PM; presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: Keypoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos

Color is a human response to the physical world and not usually taught in physics class.  My goal is to make this fun and informative.  I will start with the human visual system – how the eye and retina see the world and how the brain interprets this data.  Learn (more…)