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October 2-5, 2016: 2016 IEEE Professional Communication Society (ProComm)IEEE Conference Search
AT&T Education and Conference Center
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX, USA
ProComm 2016 will attract technical communicators, engineers, educators, researchers, students, administrators, consultants, and other members of business and academic communities to meet and explore ideas at the intersection of technical communication and entrepreneurship. Technical and professional communicators have long been innovators in their fields. ProComm 2016 invites explorations into the new spaces and the new communication practices created by entrepreneurs.
Keynote Speaker:
We are pleased to announce that in addition to receiving an exciting number of diverse submissions, the keynote address will be delivered by co-inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, and now Professor of Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Robert Metcalfe.
More information:
Contact conference chair Hillary Hart at hart@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-4635. We look forward to seeing you there!
See https://sites.ieee.org/pcs/procomm2016/ for more information
October 21, 2016: IEEE Photovoltaic Standards Workshop
Friday, October 21, 2016 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Austin Energy, 2526 Kramer Lane, Austin, TX 78758
Kramer Lane Assembly Room
Workshop:
This one-day workshop will provide instruction on the recent changes to the applicable standards of photovoltaic module level electronics design and installation, such as UL 1741 SA, CPUC Rule 21, IEEE1547 and NEC. Presentations will also cover specs and operation, monitor communications, and functionality of AC module systems that use built in microinverters. In addition, there will be exhibits by industry experts regarding the design and installation of solar powered systems and equipment. Upon completion of the workshop, participants will receive a PDH certificate for eight hours.
Instructors:
Patrick Chapman - Senior Director of Development at SunPower Corporation
Overview and trend of module level electronics
Brian Kuhn - Director of Engineering at SunPower CorporationDesign challenges (environment, communication, standards)
Paul Parker -Director of Design for Reliability (DfR) at SunPower Corporation
Power electronics reliability design
Kelly Mekechuck - Systems Engineer at SunPower Corporation
California Rule 21 Phase 1, 2 and 3 Lunch Sponsor - Concurrent Design, Inc.
Thomas Ortman, President & CEO, to speak during lunch
Jon Ehlmann - Power Electronics Engineer at SunPower Corporation
UL1741SA test procedure summary and status
Greg Kern - Principal Power Electronics Engineer at SunPower Corporation
Status of Pending IEEE 1547 Changes
Steven Wurmlinger - Senior Regulatory Engineer at SunPower Corporation
Product safety and 2017 NEC requirements; Hawaii utility requirements
Professional Letter Registration and payment for this workshop must be completed by 10/12/2016 at
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/40853
Professional Letter If you have any questions or need any additional information about the workshop, please contact James Mercier at jmercier@ieee.org.
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October 23-27, 2016: 2016 IEEE International Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC)
The Marriott Renaissance Hotel
9721 Arboretum Blvd
Austin, TX, USA
Abstract submission deadline: 05 Apr 2016
Final submission deadline: 10 Jul 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 01 Jun 2016
See https://intelec2016.org for more information
October 23-26, 2016: 2016 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS)
Doubletree by Hilton Austin
6505 N IH 35
Austin, TX, USA
Abstract submission deadline: 01 May 2016
Final submission deadline: 15 Jul 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 30 May 2016
See https://csics.org for more information
October 30 - November 4, 2016: 38th Annual
Meeting and Symposium of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association
(AMTA)
The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society is a technical co-sponsor of this symposium. Many well-known APS members are either speaking at or involved in this symposium, including Prof. Andrea Alu from UT Austin, Prof. Gregory Huff from Texas A&M University, and Dr. Brian Kent from ARA (former APS Distinguished Lecturer).
Join us for two short courses (Antenna Boot Camp and RF Materials Measurements), four days of peer reviewed papers presented on a continuous basis (no parallel sessions), one technical tour and several social events!
The annual AMTA Student Day on Tuesday, November 1, provides an opportunity for local college students to get a taste of antenna engineering and related disciplines by interacting with practicing engineers in a variety of venues. Students will be able to tour vendor exhibits, sit in on papers, and enjoy a free lunch AND dinner while listening to a presentation targeting issues relevant to those about to enter the engineering profession. In addition, AMTA will host a hands-on Student Day Design Contest. This will give students an opportunity to show off their engineering skills to recruiters (they should bring their resumes) and have fun at the same time.
On Wednesday, November 2, IEEE members are welcome to attend the exhibition only at no charge. Exhibit hall passes are $45, but November 2 is IEEE FREE DAY (you must present your IEEE membership card upon arrival).
Join us at AMTA 2016! For more information, see https://www.amta2016.org or contact Janet O’Neil at j.n.oneil@ieee.org.
November 3, 2016: Rock Stars of Big Data
November 3, 2016 | Brazos Hall | Austin, TX
Lunch and Cocktails Included
Register Now for the One Must-Attend Big Data Event of 2016 – Early Special Pricing Saves 25%. Click HERE for Full Details.
What You’ll Learn –
From These Big Data Experts –
- Ways to leverage the big data, dark data and smart data to maximize return on innovation
- How the need for high-performance, in-memory layers on top of data silos will continue to accelerate, extending the life of these older, siloed systems
- What technological, organizational, and cultural considerations must be addressed to make big data actionable
- A universal dynamic data-driven applications model based on data science: inference and prediction from data
- How to use big data analytics to combat identity fraud
Register today for Rock Stars of Big Data to get the special early pricing and save 25% - click HERE.
- Kirk Borne, Principal Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton, The Self-Driving Organization: Big Value from Big Data in the Internet of Things
- James Kobielus, Big Data Evangelist; Team Lead, IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub, IBM. Fogs, Logs & Cogs: The Newer, Bigger Shape of Big Data in the Internet of Things
- Satyam Priyadarshy, Chief Data Scientist, Halliburton, Innovation in the Oil & Gas Industry Through Big Data, Dark Data and Smart Data
- Stephen Coggeshall, Chief Analytics and Science Officer, ID Analytics, Using Big Data Analytics to Find Identity Fraud
- Ben Coverston, DSE Architect, DataStax, Eventually Consistent Solutions for an Eventually Consistent World
- Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer, Teradata, Driving Action With Big Data Analytic
November 7-10, 2016: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Austin
6505 N. Interstate 35
Austin, TX, USA
See https://iccad.com for more information
December 6-9, 2016: 2016 88th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG)
Hilton Austin
500 East 4TH Street
Austin, TX, USA
Abstract submission deadline: 07 Oct 2016
Full Paper Submission deadline: 11 Nov 2016
Final submission deadline: 11 Nov 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 24 Oct 2016
See https://www.arftg.org for more details
February 4-8, 2017: 2017 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture provides a high-quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly-changing field of computer architecture.
Hilton
Austin, TX
For more information see https://www.hpcaconf.org
February 20-24, 2017: 2017 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
Austin, TX
The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) provides a premier venue to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the interface of hardware and software on a wide range of optimization and code generation techniques and related issues. The conferences spans the spectrum from purely static to fully dynamic approaches, including techniques ranging from pure software-based methods to architectural features and support.
Final submission deadline: 04 Jan 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 02 Nov 2016
For more information see https://cgo.org/cgo2017/
March 8-10, 2017: 2017 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Imapcts (ARSO)
The theme of ARSO 2017 will be "robotics and the economy": with growing concerns about the fragility of our economies, we all ponder about the future role of robotics and autonomous systems in our individual economic lives. Positive thinkers believe that robotic advancements will create new markets and grow the middle class.
Abstract submission deadline: 07 Oct 2016
Full Paper Submission deadline: 07 Oct 2016
Final submission deadline: 15 Jan 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 11 Dec 2016
Student Activity Center
204 East Dean Keeton St.
Austin, TX, USA
For more information see https://sites.utexas.edu/arso2017/
March 31 - April 2, 2017: 2017 Region 5 Meeting
Denver Marriott Tech Center
4900 South Syracuse St.
Denver, CO, USA
April 24-25, 2017: 2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
Austin, TX, USA
Abstract submission deadline: 07 Nov 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 27 Jan 2017
May 23-25, 2017: International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT)
Full Paper Submission deadline: 01 Feb 2017
Final submission deadline: 17 Apr 2017
Notification of acceptance date: 27 Feb 2017
UT Avaya Auditorium
Austin, TX
Contact: Thuy Dao thuy.dao@nxp.com
September 24-29, 2017: 2017 ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS)
Austin, TX, USA
Abstract submission deadline: 01 Mar 2017
Full Paper Submission deadline: 10 Mar 2017
Final submission deadline: 09 Jun 2017
Notification of acceptance date: 09 Jun 2017
September 26-28, 2017: 2017 IEEE Accelerated Stress Testing & Reliability Conference (ASTR)
Austin, TX
Full Paper Submission deadline: 10 Mar 2017
Final submission deadline: 09 Jun 2017
Notification of acceptance date: 09 Jun 2017
April 5-8, 2018: IEEE R5 GreenTech/Annual MeetingAustin, TX
Sponsor: IEEE USA, R5 and CTS
Conference Site Bid: 31 May 2016
Notification of Venue Selection: 2 Aug 2016
October 27-30, 2019: 2019 IEEE Sensors ConferenceAustin, TX
Sponsor: IEEE CTS and Sensors Society
Conference Bid deadline: 30 Aug 2016
Notification of Venue selection: October, 2016
Location: Norris Conference Center
2525 West Anderson Lane
Austin, TX
Plan now to join us for free technical sessions, free lunch and the chance to network with leading suppliers to our industry
Free Technical Program & Schedule:
Exhibit Hours:
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
10:00AM–4:00PM
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On October 18, 2016, Texas Wireless Summit (TWS) will explore how automated vehicles will re-shape wireless over the next 10 years with their demands for coordinated sensing and decision-making. Reshaping Wireless through Automated Vehicles will look at the benefits and requirements of connectivity, the key challenges of vehicle sensing and shared data analytics, including lightly-processed radar, lidar and camera data.
Register online NOW and save $50 off the normal ticket price! Visit: https://texaswirelesssummit.org/ for more details and to register.
The 14th annual Texas Wireless Summit provides a forum on emerging technology and business models for industry leaders and academics. Hosted by WNCG at the University of Texas at Austin, the Summit offers direct access to cutting-edge research and innovations from industry leaders, investors, academics and startups. Through keynote and panel-driven discussions, leading business and technology executives share entrepreneurially-oriented research.
10 a.m. or 2 p.m. - These quarterly webinars provide an up-to-date overview of agency activities, case studies, and a review of professional ethics topics. Ethics webinars are held approximately one month prior to each quarterly expiration date. Registration for these webinars will open one month prior to each event.
Data Day Texas is based entirely on feedback from the Austin data community. What do you want to see this year? Take a moment and share your thoughts with us at suggestions@datadaytexas.com.January 15, 2017: Data Day MD
Since 2013, Data Day Texas has been held at Austin's premier event facility -- and one of the most warm and welcoming conference venues in the country -- the AT&T Conference Center at the University of Texas.
As usual, we'll be taking all three floors of the facility -- every spare inch of the building -- room enough for 10 tracks, workshops, birds of a feather, meetups, office hours, demos, happy hours, lounge, and a job fair.
Read more
Sunday, January 15, 2017 from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM (CST)January 28-29, 2017: BodyHackingcon 2017
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center | 1900 University Avenue | Austin, TX 78705
Based on feedback from the community, the inaugural Data Day MD will be held on January 15, 2017. Data Day MD is an extension of the successful Data Day Texas conference which in its 5th year drew 750 attendees. Data Day MD is all about the intersection of Data, Medicine, and Healthcare -- learning to take advantage of new tools and technologies, like big data, natural language processing, machine learning, analytics, and the internet of things.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-day-md-tickets-22257139704
Austin Convention Center
https://www.bodyhackingcon.com/
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While the express goal of this website is to recruit and retain women students in sciences and mathematics at Eastern Illinois University, there is plenty of good information on the site for the rest of us. Readers may like to start with Further Reading, where they can link to media coverage of women in science from around the web. From there, they may select Biographies of Women in Science, where they can access dozens of biographies of women who have made contributions to fields as diverse as chemistry, primatology, biophysics, and astronomy. In addition, the site features links to half a dozen other websites on the topic, from the Smithsonian's photo portraits of women scientists to the San Diego Supercomputer Center's coverage of women scientists from around the world.
STEMconnector is both a resource and a service that is designed “to link those advocating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education across disciplines and distances.” It seeks to connect diverse educators, professionals, and government officials together based on a love of applied science. The STEMblog, a project of STEMconnector, is updated regularly and focuses its energies on the relationship between business and STEM subjects. Recent articles, for example, have alerted readers to corporate-sponsored prizes for high school science teachers, a recognition of National Engineers Week, and the math behind a new Android app. For readers who are looking to make connections between STEM subjects and industry partners, the STEMblog is an informative site to check back on regularly.
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The CEDA chapter normally meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month. This meeting is open to the public and interested parties. Additional details will be posted at the website. If you have any questions about this meeting or this group, please contact zhuoli@ieee.org.
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Kadaba R. (Kumar) Lakshmikumar Kadaba R. (Kumar) Lakshmikumar received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He did pioneering work in the area of modeling mismatch in MOS devices for his doctoral work. The standard deviation of mismatch was shown to be inversely proportional to the square-root of the channel area. His paper in the December 1986 issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits is among the top 20 cited publications of the journal between 1968 and 1992. (https://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/sscs/oct02/TopArticles.html.) Lakshmikumar has made lasting contributions to the field of IC design through his leadership in identifying and solving technically challenging problems. He presented a tutorial titled “PLL Design in Nanometer CMOS” at ISSCC 2010. The tutorial (https://sscs.ieee.org/tutorials-online/2010-issccshort-courses-and-tutorials/426-isscc-2010-tutorial-pll-design-in-nanometercmos.html) illustrates design techniques for overcoming large variability, low supply voltage and high leakage. In 2015, he presented a short course, “Clock and Data Recovery Techniques for Optical Communication Systems” at CSICS. Many reference-less CDR architectures are discussed here. He has held senior engineering positions at Bell Labs, Multilink and Conexant Systems. Currently he is heading the analog design group at Cisco Systems’ Silicon Photonics division in Allentown, PA. He has served on the Technical Program Committees of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference and IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symposium. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He has mentored a number of graduate students and serves as an external examiner for Ph.D. candidates. Lakshmikumar is a Fellow of IEEE. |
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Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) is a key function
in a communication system. We begin this part of
the course with a review of the fundamentals of
CDR in Non-Return-to-Zero (NRZ) serial links.
System level metrics like jitter-tolerance,
jitter-transfer and jitter-generation are
introduced to evaluate the performance of a CDR.
Several CDR architectures are discussed. Their
advantages and drawbacks specifically for
high-speed optical systems are compared. Many
optical systems require a reference-less CDR.
Various techniques to extract frequency from the
incoming data are explained in detail. Linear and
bang-bang phase detectors at full-rate are
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Prof. Jäntti Riku, Head of the department of
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School of Electrical Engineering, Finland Riku Jäntti (M’02 - SM’07) is an Associate Professor (tenured) in Communications Engineering and the head of the department of Communications and Networking at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland. He received his M.Sc (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and D.Sc (with distinction) in Automation and Systems Technology in 2001, both from Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). Prior to joining Aalto (formerly known as TKK) in August 2006, he was professor pro tem at the Department of Computer Science, University of Vaasa. Prof. Jäntti is a senior member of IEEE and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is also a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The research interests of Prof. Jäntti include radio resource control and optimization for machine type communications, Cloud based Radio Access Networks, spectrum and co-existence management and RF Inference. |
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of
physical objects ‘things’. The connectivity
requirements of the things depend heavily on the
application. In this talk, we focus on the use
cases that require low power consumption, long
battery life, and are characterized by low duty
cycle and massive number of low cost devices. This
talk is divided into two parts. In the first part,
we focus on Narrowband IoT system for low power
cellular connectivity, and in the second part, we
discuss ambient re-scatter communications that
allow extreme low power short range connectivity. Narrowband IoT (NB-IOT) is a recent 3GPPP standard that specifies narrow band low power long range connectivity for machine type communications (MTC). NB-IOT is non-backwards compliant version of LTE that has been optimized for MTC applications. It supports three modes of operation: standalone mode utilizing a GSM carrier, guard band mode utilizing resource blocks within a LTE carrier’s guradband and in-band mode utilizing resource blocks within a normal LTE carrier. Operators can start using NB-IOT on their own frequency bands simply by updating the base station software making NB-IOT deployment easy. Besides the standard cellular MTC use cases, NB-IOT could potentially be used for other types of IoT connectivity applications as well. In this talk we will present a software defined radio based implementation of NB-IOT and discuss the system performance. We will also discuss the possible use cases of such an extreme light weight low cost base station implementation. Even though NB-IOT is very low power radio, its power consumption still may exceed the capabilities of ultra-low power senor systems relaying on energy harvesting. The radio transceiver is one of the most energy hangry components of the IoT devices. In RFID systems, the reader transmits an unmodulated carrier signal that gets reflected and modulated from the RFID tag. The RFID tag itself does not need transceiver. It modulated the carrier by changing its reflection coefficient (impedance) which only requires a simple switching action. In ambient re/backscatter systems, the tag or sensor devices, modulated and re-scatters a modulated signal that is utilized by some other (primary) system for communications. The receiver of the primary communication link could try to demodulate both the original (primary) signal and the signal superimposed by the re-scatter devices. We show that such a bistatic re-scatter system can increase overall channel capacity and the excess capacity can be divided between the original communication link and the re-scatter system. That is, sensor information can be read from the devices with almost zero energy cost without interfering with the ongoing data transmission. |
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Riku Jäntti (M’02 - SM’07) is an Associate
Professor (tenured) in Communications Engineering
and the head of the department of Communications
and Networking at Aalto University School of
Electrical Engineering, Finland. He received his
M.Sc (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering
in 1997 and D.Sc (with distinction) in Automation
and Systems Technology in 2001, both from Helsinki
University of Technology (TKK). Prior to joining
Aalto (formerly known as TKK) in August 2006, he
was professor pro tem at the Department of
Computer Science, University of Vaasa. Prof.
Jäntti is a senior member of IEEE and associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology. He is also a distinguished lecturer of
the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The
research interests of Prof. Jäntti include radio
resource control and optimization for
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Access Networks, spectrum and co-existence
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| Topic/Title | TI’s Speak & Spell: A Success Story |
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| Speaker | Dr. Richard Wiggins Richard Wiggins received his PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University and spent several years at the MITRE Corporation in Massachusetts in what was then the rapidly developing field of Digital Signal Processing. The combination of new high speed digital hardware, digital computer architectures, and the mathematics of digital processing of signals permitted the development of several innovative speech processing systems. Dr Wiggins contributed to DSP software, algorithm design and high speed processing architectures at MITRE, the Air Force ESD Laboratories, and Lincoln Laboratory. His work contributed to the introduction of several new digital speech processing systems. In 1976, Dr Wiggins accepted a position with the speech research group in the Central Research Laboratories at Texas Instruments in Dallas Texas to work on semiconductor designs for speech processing. In this position, he played a key role in the design of the speech synthesis system for the Speak & Spell and for the innovative processing architecture that formed the basis for the IC design. |
| Abstract | In the mid seventies, when the growth of
semiconductors was rapidly expanding, the research
laboratory of Texas Instruments proposed an
innovative approach to achieve solid state speech
synthesis for battery powered hand held devices.
The first application for his approach was the TI
learning aid for spelling called Speak &
Spell. The unique success of this product was
recognized in a cover story of Business Week in
September of 1978, by the IEEE as a technical
milestone, and several other awards. Now some 40
years later, this talk presents a look back on
this product, the technical design, it’s
commercial success, and the impact on both
technology and culture. At the end of the
seventies, potential applications for digital
signal processing (DSP) included digital modems
and the digital processing of speech signals. The
technology of faster digital computation was
pushed to implement new complex algorithms for
innovative speech applications. A major
application driver at this time was narrowband
voice compression which contributed key ideas to
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Jody Everett Jody Everett holds a BSEE degree from Oklahoma State University. He has been a digital integrated circuit designer for 32 years and has been issued two patents in telecom chip design. Also in his three decades of experience he has co-authored the following publications: “Testing a DSP-Based Mixed Signal Telecommunications Chip” and “Autologic II Database, Simulation & DFT Model Generation System”. Jody is a member of IEEE, IEEE circuits and Systems, IEEE Central Texas Consultants Network, Asic and FPGA engineers, Austin Hi Tech, and FPGA/CPLD design groups. |
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Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) today are
used in many varied applications, including ASIC
emulation, robotics, cellphone base stations,
electronic test equipment, medical equipment, and
military equipment. They are used anywhere
re-programmability is desired. Their
flexibility is desirable for many
applications. This presentation is an
overview of present day FPGA technology and
application with a focus on the Xilinx FPGA
family, Xilinx is a leader in programmable
logic technology with over 51% of the market
today(Wikipedia). |
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PoK-e-Jo's Smokehouse 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
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The EMC and MTT/AP Society Chapters are Jointly
sponsoring an Antenna Workshop on September 27. See IEEE Events for details.
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| Topic/Title | Intellectual Property and Patents |
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| Speaker | Steve Pearson Researching diverse technologies, for clients ranging from individuals to IP attorneys to large Fortune 500 companies, has taught Steve a great deal about tailoring the approach for various situations. Not only will Steve share some patent research insights with you, he will touch on other components of prior art research during his presentation. Steve is the founder of The Pearson Strategy Group, LLC which provides services mimicking Innovation Boards in patent research, Competitive Intelligence, Innovation Support, and Strategic Development to the technology, power, consumer, and transportation industries. His second company, Visionex Holdings, LLC, is an intellectual property holding and licensing company. Steve is the sole individual inventor of three U.S. patents, all for improvements to the evaporator units of air conditioning systems. Steve served aboard a Navy submarine as a nuclear reactor operator and electronics technician, graduated from UT San Antonio as an electrical engineer, and has worked in various engineering roles in semiconductor manufacturing with Motorola Semiconductor, piping and fitting manufacturing with Applied Materials, and in research and consulting. Steve is a 26 year member of IEEE, past chairman and currently an officer for the Austin chapter of the IEEE’s Power and Energy Society, and mentors for both the TechShop and Profit Movers. |
| Abstract | Entrepreneurs, inventors, and many companies
have lots of big ideas but typically a lot fewer
resources, money and time. This presentation will
cover some practical considerations along the way
to having a viable company, idea, and patent.
Highlights will include how to minimize the risk
of a business failure, getting money back from
your patent, and tips for avoiding future legal
problems. |
| Date/Time | 18 October 2016 2:00 PM Networking and lunch 2:15 PM Presentation - Intellectual Property and Patents |
| Location | Pok-e-Jo's Smorekhouse 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
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| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/40436 |
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| Topic/Title | SOFIA, or Stratospheric Observatory For
Infra-red Astronomy |
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| Speaker | Scott Atkinson Scott is retired from the U. S. Air Force, as a Lt. Col. and locally from USAA. He has experience in engineering and managerial positions which included Telecommunications, Information Technology and Project Management. He held assignments during his military career as Base Communications Operations Officer, Top Secret Control Officer, Crypto Custodian, Advisor to the California Air National Guard, Unit Commander and Disaster Recovery Officer. He held two military technical specialties: Communications Officer and Research and Development Officer. Scott received his formal education with a Degree in Physics from Texas A & I University, Kingsville, Texas in 1961 and an MBA from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California in 1979. His business career included positions at Lockheed Electronics Company (at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Houston) and Tenneco Inc. in Houston and USAA in San Antonio, TX. These days he spends his time volunteering for his professional society the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the San Antonio Genealogy and History Society. Due to his Mother’s interest in genealogy, which was passed to him, he now spends time at his personal hobby in researching family history. He became a member of the Sons of the American Revolution in May 2010. Additionally he became a hereditary member of the Society of Cincinnati in the State Connecticut in April 2012. He is currently researching his Revolutionary War Soldier, Major Ezekiel Scott of Farmington CT, and is writing a book on his life and times. Of particular interest is his military experience that includes the French & Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Scott and his wife Margaret have lived in San Antonio, Texas since January 1987. They have two grown daughters and five grandchildren. |
| Abstract | Scott Atkinson will present information obtained
during his recent visit to the Neal Armstrong
Flight Research Center in Palmdale California,
which is located on Air Force Plant 42 (Home of
the Lockheed Skunk Works). Specifically he will
describe his personal tour given him by a member
of the NASA Project, known as SOFIA, or
Stratospheric Observatory For Infra-red
Astronomy. His presentation will include
many pictures of the specially modified 747SP
airplane that has a "Hubble" size telescope
mounted in the rear of the plane as well as
information on the research results from their
many observations of Star Formations. |
| Date/Time | 20 October 2016 11:30 am: Meet and order Lunch 12:00 pm: Presentation 1:00 pm: Meeting ends |
| Location | Lion & Rose English Pub 842 NW Loop 410 (Park North) San Antonio, Texas |
| Cost | |
| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/41258 |
| Notes |
Joint meeting with San Antonio Life Members and
Com/SP Chapters |
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| Topic/Title | Model based software for analysing integration
of new technologies into the distribution grid |
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| Speaker | Matthew McGrail of Digsilent Americas Matt McGrail is a Chartered Professional Engineer from Australia currently living and working in Austin, TX for Electrical Engineering group, DIgSILENT. Matt’s background in the Power Engineering field is in design, review and commissioning of distribution protection and model based analysis of control systems. |
| Abstract | Model based software for analyzing integration
of new technologies into the distribution grid”
Distribution utilities are facing challenges
arising from rapid technology developments coupled
with strong drivers to minimize operating and
capital expenditures. Embedded generation
including solar rooftop PVs and other demand
management means do not only change the demand
profile of the system but also other electrical
characteristics of the distribution network.
Advanced power system analysis tools are required
to address the needs for more accurate modelling.
The ability to integrate with other enterprise
software systems offers opportunities to achieve
efficiency gains in day-to-day operations as well
as investment planning. |
| Date/Time | 25 October 2016 Social 6:30 to 7:00 PM Dinner 7:00 to 7:30 PM Business Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 PM Program 9:00 PM room closes for the benefit of long distance drivers and early risers |
| Location | El Gallo Mexican Restaurant 2910 S Congress Austin, Texas |
| Cost | Dinner: Choose from a select menu of soups,
salads and dinner plates. Cost: • IEEE Members and accompanying spouses: $11 to $17 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants) • Visitors (non-IEEE members): $14 to $20 for dinners ($5 non-meal participants) • IEEE Student Members: $3 for dinner (no charge for non-meal participants) • Student Visitors (non-IEEE members): $6 to $10 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants) • All: $2 for non-alcoholic beverages • A bar is available for those who care to purchase a beer or other alcoholic beverage |
| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/41322 If you plan on attending, please RSVP by sending an e-mail to ieee.pi2.austin@zxtech.net |
| Notes |
| Topic/Title | Ideal Power Tour |
|---|---|
| Speaker | Bill Alexander of https://www.idealpower.com/ |
| Abstract | A presentation and tour of
Ideal Power's Austin facility which does design
and testing (not manufacturing). By harnessing the
power of software and semiconductor technology,
Ideal Power has developed a power conversion
system technology that uses transformerless
isolation, eliminating the bulky and inefficient
components that have been the mainstay of power
conversion for decades. This new approach results
in power conversion systems that are smaller,
lighter, more reliable and more efficient than
conventional technologies, dramatically reducing
installed costs. |
| Date/Time | 29 October 2016 Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM |
| Location | 4120 Freidrich Ln
#100 Austin, Texas |
| Cost | |
| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/40858 |
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Topic/Title |
Machine Type Communications for Internet of
Things – Recent advances and future possibilities |
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Speaker |
Prof. Jäntti Riku, Head of the department of
Communications and Networking at Aalto University
School of Electrical Engineering, Finland Riku Jäntti (M’02 - SM’07) is an Associate Professor (tenured) in Communications Engineering and the head of the department of Communications and Networking at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland. He received his M.Sc (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and D.Sc (with distinction) in Automation and Systems Technology in 2001, both from Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). Prior to joining Aalto (formerly known as TKK) in August 2006, he was professor pro tem at the Department of Computer Science, University of Vaasa. Prof. Jäntti is a senior member of IEEE and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is also a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The research interests of Prof. Jäntti include radio resource control and optimization for machine type communications, Cloud based Radio Access Networks, spectrum and co-existence management and RF Inference. |
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Abstract |
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of
physical objects ‘things’. The connectivity
requirements of the things depend heavily on the
application. In this talk, we focus on the use
cases that require low power consumption, long
battery life, and are characterized by low duty
cycle and massive number of low cost devices. This
talk is divided into two parts. In the first part,
we focus on Narrowband IoT system for low power
cellular connectivity, and in the second part, we
discuss ambient re-scatter communications that
allow extreme low power short range connectivity. Narrowband IoT (NB-IOT) is a recent 3GPPP standard that specifies narrow band low power long range connectivity for machine type communications (MTC). NB-IOT is non-backwards compliant version of LTE that has been optimized for MTC applications. It supports three modes of operation: standalone mode utilizing a GSM carrier, guard band mode utilizing resource blocks within a LTE carrier’s guradband and in-band mode utilizing resource blocks within a normal LTE carrier. Operators can start using NB-IOT on their own frequency bands simply by updating the base station software making NB-IOT deployment easy. Besides the standard cellular MTC use cases, NB-IOT could potentially be used for other types of IoT connectivity applications as well. In this talk we will present a software defined radio based implementation of NB-IOT and discuss the system performance. We will also discuss the possible use cases of such an extreme light weight low cost base station implementation. Even though NB-IOT is very low power radio, its power consumption still may exceed the capabilities of ultra-low power senor systems relaying on energy harvesting. The radio transceiver is one of the most energy hangry components of the IoT devices. In RFID systems, the reader transmits an unmodulated carrier signal that gets reflected and modulated from the RFID tag. The RFID tag itself does not need transceiver. It modulated the carrier by changing its reflection coefficient (impedance) which only requires a simple switching action. In ambient re/backscatter systems, the tag or sensor devices, modulated and re-scatters a modulated signal that is utilized by some other (primary) system for communications. The receiver of the primary communication link could try to demodulate both the original (primary) signal and the signal superimposed by the re-scatter devices. We show that such a bistatic re-scatter system can increase overall channel capacity and the excess capacity can be divided between the original communication link and the re-scatter system. That is, sensor information can be read from the devices with almost zero energy cost without interfering with the ongoing data transmission. |
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Date/Time |
4 October 2016 06:00PM to 08:00PM |
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Cost |
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Reservations |
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/40983 |
|
Location |
AT&T Labs, 9505 Arboretum, Austin, TX |
|
Notes |
Riku Jäntti (M’02 - SM’07) is an Associate
Professor (tenured) in Communications Engineering
and the head of the department of Communications
and Networking at Aalto University School of
Electrical Engineering, Finland. He received his
M.Sc (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering
in 1997 and D.Sc (with distinction) in Automation
and Systems Technology in 2001, both from Helsinki
University of Technology (TKK). Prior to joining
Aalto (formerly known as TKK) in August 2006, he
was professor pro tem at the Department of
Computer Science, University of Vaasa. Prof.
Jäntti is a senior member of IEEE and associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology. He is also a distinguished lecturer of
the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The
research interests of Prof. Jäntti include radio
resource control and optimization for
machine type communications, Cloud based Radio
Access Networks, spectrum and co-existence
management and RF Inference. |
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| Topic/Title | SOFIA, or Stratospheric Observatory For
Infra-red Astronomy |
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| Speaker | Scott Atkinson Scott is retired from the U. S. Air Force, as a Lt. Col. and locally from USAA. He has experience in engineering and managerial positions which included Telecommunications, Information Technology and Project Management. He held assignments during his military career as Base Communications Operations Officer, Top Secret Control Officer, Crypto Custodian, Advisor to the California Air National Guard, Unit Commander and Disaster Recovery Officer. He held two military technical specialties: Communications Officer and Research and Development Officer. Scott received his formal education with a Degree in Physics from Texas A & I University, Kingsville, Texas in 1961 and an MBA from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California in 1979. His business career included positions at Lockheed Electronics Company (at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Houston) and Tenneco Inc. in Houston and USAA in San Antonio, TX. These days he spends his time volunteering for his professional society the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the San Antonio Genealogy and History Society. Due to his Mother’s interest in genealogy, which was passed to him, he now spends time at his personal hobby in researching family history. He became a member of the Sons of the American Revolution in May 2010. Additionally he became a hereditary member of the Society of Cincinnati in the State Connecticut in April 2012. He is currently researching his Revolutionary War Soldier, Major Ezekiel Scott of Farmington CT, and is writing a book on his life and times. Of particular interest is his military experience that includes the French & Indian War and the Revolutionary War. Scott and his wife Margaret have lived in San Antonio, Texas since January 1987. They have two grown daughters and five grandchildren. |
| Abstract | Scott Atkinson will present information obtained
during his recent visit to the Neal Armstrong
Flight Research Center in Palmdale California,
which is located on Air Force Plant 42 (Home of
the Lockheed Skunk Works). Specifically he will
describe his personal tour given him by a member
of the NASA Project, known as SOFIA, or
Stratospheric Observatory For Infra-red
Astronomy. His presentation will include
many pictures of the specially modified 747SP
airplane that has a "Hubble" size telescope
mounted in the rear of the plane as well as
information on the research results from their
many observations of Star Formations. |
| Date/Time | 20 October 2016 11:30 am: Meet and order Lunch 12:00 pm: Presentation 1:00 pm: Meeting ends |
| Location | Lion & Rose English Pub 842 NW Loop 410 (Park North) San Antonio, Texas |
| Cost | |
| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/41258 |
| Notes |
Joint meeting with San Antonio Life Members and
Com/SP Chapters |
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BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED MICROPHONES |
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Speaker |
Neal A. Hall Neal A. Hall received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2006, he was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin, as an Assistant Professor in January 2009, where he performs research in the areas of silicon micromachined acoustic transducers, optics and photonics. Neal is a 2012 recipient of a DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) and a 2014 recipient of an ONR Young Investigator Award (YIA). He is also Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Audio, Inc. a start-up developing acoustic and seismic sensors. |
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Abstract |
The parasitoid fly Ormia Ochracea has the
remarkable ability to locate crickets using
audible sound. This ability is, in fact,
remarkable as the fly’s hearing mechanism spans
only 1.5 mm, which is 50 times smaller than the
wavelength of sound emitted by the cricket. The
hearing mechanism is, for all practical purposes,
a point in space with no significant interaural
time or level differences to draw from. It has
been discovered that evolution has empowered the
fly with a hearing mechanism that utilizes
multiple vibration modes to amplify interaural
time and level differences. Here, we present a
fully integrated, man-made mimic of the Ormia’s
hearing mechanism capable of replicating the
remarkable sound localization ability of the
special fly. A silicon-micromachined prototype is
presented which uses multiple piezoelectric
sensing ports to simultaneously transduce two
orthogonal vibration modes of the sensing
structure, thereby enabling simultaneous
measurement of sound pressure and pressure
gradient. |
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Date/Time |
06 October 2016 6:30 PM Doors open, pizza available 7:00 PM Talk and discussion 8:00 PM Adjourn |
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Location |
Novati Technologies Rio Grande conference room 2706 Montopolis Dr Austin, Texas |
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Cost |
Pizza and beverages will be available starting
at 6:30 pm for a $5 donation |
|
Reservations |
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/41283 |
|
Notes |
Novati is located at 2706 Montopolis Drive,
Austin, TX. Once on-campus, park in the
first lot and enter through the double-doors (if
you drive by construction, you’ve gone too
far). At the security desk, tell the
security guard you’re there for the IEEE
Meeting. An escort will come to take you to
the meeting room. |
AESS Chapter of the Year Award
2016 for US-based chapters
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Dr. Michael Frye Dr. Michael Frye is an Associate Professor of Engineering at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Frye teaches circuit theory, system and control theory, engineering mathematics, and computer programming. Dr. Frye earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1996, his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC) in 2000, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio in December of 2006. His area of research is in nonlinear control theory with applications to the robust and optimal flight control of rotorcraft Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Dr. Frye is a CO-PI for the UIW Autonomous Vehicle Systems Laboratory. Dr. Frye is an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Dr. Frye has over 30 publications. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Frye worked for Continental Airlines in Houston, TX as an intern with the Avionics Engineering where he was a system integrator for the RDR-4B Predictive Windshear System on the 747, DC-10, and A300 aircrafts. From 1997 to 1999, he was the lead project engineer for the U-2S Autopilot and AirData System (APADS) while working for the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, CA. Dr. Frye's responsibilities included the design, integration, and flight testing of all APADS upgrades and configurations on the U-2S surveillance aircraft. From 1999 to 2000, as a graduate student at USC, Dr. Frye worked with the NASA Ames Rotorcraft Directorate assisting in the development of a nonlinear model for an autonomous rotorcraft vehicle. Upon graduation from USC, Dr. Frye was hired by AT&T Communications in their corporate Leadership Development Program. He held various supervisory positions in the AT&T Network while as a Special Services Installation and Network Operation Center Manager. Also, Dr. Frye held a position as a manager in AT&T Corporate Finance where he worked on financial reporting. He finished his career with AT&T as an Associate Director of Business Marketing for SBC Telecomm. In August 2003, Dr. Frye began his Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. From August 2003 to October 2006, Dr. Frye worked for Southwest Research Institute developing digital signal processing, detection, and estimation algorithms while as a graduate researcher. Dr. Sree Nair Dr. Sree Nair is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX. Dr. Nair received her PhD in Physics (Nanomaterials and Laser Optics) and MS in Physics from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2011. She also earned Master’s degrees in Photonics and Applied Electronics from the University of Kerala, India. Her graduate research was primarily focused on the spectroscopic analyses of nanoparticles that have important military and biomedical applications, such as lasers, imaging, range finding, flash lidar, and remote sensing. Her current area of research is biologically inspired ground robots and particle swarm optimization. Dr. Nair has over 20 publications and given more than 40 presentations for national/international STEM conferences. Dr. Nair is a CO-PI for the UIW Autonomous Vehicle Systems Laboratory and a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. She teaches Physics for Engineers and Scientists, General Physics for STEM students, and Modern Physics for undergraduate Physics minor students. During her graduate study in India, Dr. Nair also worked as a research intern at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Center (VSSC) with an emphasis on the analysis of important vacuum technologies used in rocket propulsion. She also worked as a R&D Assistant at Raman Research Institute, India, with a focus on the synthesis and surface science analysis of liquid crystal materials that are found to have potential applications in building soft actuators in robotics. Before joining UIW, Dr. Nair worked at Twist Education, LLC. San Antonio as a Subject Matter Physics Expert and developed educational games for K-12 students which were available to be downloaded through apple and android devices. |
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Abstract |
Dr. Michael Frey, Associate Professor of
Engineering, and Dr. Sree Nair, Assistant
Professor of Physics, at the University of the
Incarnate Word, will present information on the
research and undergraduate education they are
conducting in the Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS)
Laboratory. Their long-term research goal is
to investigate techniques for autonomous control,
collaboration, and decision-making in
unstructured, dynamic, and uncertain nonlinear
environments for ground and air vehicles. The Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) Lab is located at the University of the Incarnate Word in the School of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. A multidisciplinary lab for research and education in the areas of autonomous vehicles, the AVS Lab is unique in the fact that it is entirely focused on undergraduate STEM research. Our undergraduate research students belong to various disciplines that include biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and engineering. The AVS Lab is currently emphasizing its research on three primary areas: collaborative control, biologically inspired robots, and machine learning. The Lab is managed by Drs. Sreerenjini Nair and Michael Frye, both Co-Directors and Co-PIs of the AVS Lab. Our core research is funded primarily through various DoD grants. The AVS Lab also has a mission based project team of PIs and undergraduate students who are actively engaged in various community outreach programs funded through the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and other local funding agencies. The purpose of the AVS Lab tour is to present the functionality of the lab through demos and hand-on exercises. Additionally, Drs. Frye and Nair and will discuss some of the ongoing research projects and community outreach programs managed by the AVS Lab. |
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Date/Time |
14 October 2016 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM |
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Location |
University of the Incarnate Word 4301 Broadway San Antonio, Texas |
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Cost |
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/41022 |
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Reservations |
For the October 14 SMC/AES meeting at UIW, we
will serve pizza. In order to get an
accurate head count we would like for attendees to
register for the meeting
on vTools (use link above). |
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Notes |
Technical presentation, laboratory tour, and
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| Topic/Title | The Internet of Things (IoT) and Robotics |
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| Speaker | P. G. Ramachandran, Program Director,
Accessibility Technology & Innovation, IBM
Research |
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| Date/Time | Tuesday October 25, 2016 6:00 Networking and snacks 6:30 Talk 7:30 Discussion 8:00 Adjourn |
| Location | Galaxy Café 8127 Mesa Drive, Ste A100 Austin, Texas 78759 |
| Cost | |
| Registration | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/41397 |
| Notes |
Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about WIE.