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- full text access to IEEE Publications The Spectrum Online - The Magazine for Technology Insiders IEEE: The Bridge - IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN)'s signature publication, an interactive digital magazine published three times a year. IEEE Member Newsletter https://theinstitute.ieee.org |
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Macintosh User GroupMonthly meeting at Sherlock's Pub (9012 Research Blvd, Austin, TX) |
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Austin STEM Metworking ForumJanuary 12, 4:30 - 6:30pm - Austin, TX Network with STEM-engaged organizations from across the area and learn about the resources available to assist you in your efforts. Hear updates from the Greater Austin STEM Ecosystem, launched at the White House in November 2015 as one of 27 Ecosystems in the country, and the only one in Texas. Learn about statewide STEM out of school time system building led by TXPOST. And explore resources of the Texas Girls Collaborative Project including role model workshops, a new Texas skills-based STEM volunteer matching system, hands-on STEM curriculum and more. Connect with programs across the area and hear about upcoming STEM events. And share what you and/or your organization are doing to excited kids about STEM. |
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Data Day TexasData 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. |
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Central Texas
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TechShop
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BodyHackingcon
2017Austin Convention Center |
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| Alamo Junior
Academy of Science (AJAS) - see Volunteer
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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. |
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2017 IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Code Generation and
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Science and Engineering Fair (ARSEF) - see
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Professional Engineers Ethics Webinar Registration links will be posted 30 days prior to the event at: https://engineers.texas.gov/webinars.html. |
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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. |
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International
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Design
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2017 ACM/IEEE
20th International Conference on Model Driven
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2017 IEEE
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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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A REVIEW OF IEDM 2016 (INTERNATIONAL ELECTRON DEVICES MEETING) |
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Dr. Betty Prince of Memory Strategies
International Dr. Betty Prince is CEO of Memory Strategies International. She has also worked with Texas Instruments, NV Philips, Motorola, RCA and Fairchild. She is author of several books on memory technology including: Semiconductor Memories (1992), High Performance Memories (1999), 3D Vertical Memory Technologies (2014) (all John Wiley & Sons), and Emerging Memories - Technologies and Trends, (2002) (Springer). She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and has served as an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer. She founded the JEDEC JC-16 Interface Committee and was Co-Chair of the JC42.2 SRAM Standards Committee. She has served on the Technical Advisory Board of several memory companies and on the Board of Directors of Mosaid Technologies. She holds patents in the memory, processor and interface areas. She has a B.S. and M.S. in physics and math from UNM and U. of Calif., Berkeley, and an M.B.A and Ph.D. from UT with doctoral dissertation on fractal modeling. |
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The annual IEDM is the Premier Electron Devices
Conference. Papers shown at this conference
describe technologies that may go into production
several years hence or may not. Topics
covered at the 2016 IEDM included technology
scaling, chips for artificial intelligence and
IoT, 3D integration, and various memory
devices. Technologies to be reviewed in this
talk include: advanced platform technologies, 3D
memory and emerging memory advances including
MRAMs and RRAMs; 2D devices such as Carbon
Nanotube Logic and 1D materials (graphene and
MoS); 3D process technology; charge based memories
such as MONOS, 3D-NAND Flash, Ferroelectric FETS;
and tunnel FETs. Other topics also at the
IEDM which will be mentioned but not reviewed
include: optoelectronics, displays, sensors, MEMs,
power devices, advanced numerical models,
simulations, and various reliability issues. |
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11501 Alterra Parkway Austin, Texas United States 78758 Building: Amazon Room Number: 2nd Floor Conference Rm |
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Food and beverage provided. Registration is required for
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ULTRA LOW-POWER ANALOG FRONT-END DESIGN |
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Pieter Harpe of Eindhoven University of
Technology Pieter Harpe received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 2008, he joined Holst Centre / imec where he worked on low-power ADCs. In April 2011, he joined Eindhoven University of Technology as assistant professor on low-power mixed-signal circuits. His main interests include power-efficient and reconfigurable data converters and low-power analog design. |
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This talk, based on a recent publication, discusses the design of a nano-power analog front-end including pre-amplification and analog-to-digital conversion. It starts with fundamentals on power-efficiency in analog and mixed-signal circuits. It also describes considerations in terms of low-voltage operation and PVT reliability. After that, the presentation discusses one complete system implementation in more detail, including the amplifier, ADC, biasing stages and clock generation. |
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Date: 02 February 2017 Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM |
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POWER-EFFICIENT, HIGH-RESOLUTION AND
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Pieter Harpe of Eindhoven University of
Technology Pieter Harpe received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 2008, he joined Holst Centre / imec where he worked on low-power ADCs. In April 2011, he joined Eindhoven University of Technology as assistant professor on low-power mixed-signal circuits. His main interests include power-efficient and reconfigurable data converters and low-power analog design. |
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This presentation describes recent developments
in the field of SAR ADCs. The focus is on
techniques to improve power-efficiency, techniques
to achieve higher resolution, and ideas to make
SAR ADCs reconfigurable in terms of speed and
resolution. The presentation discusses
architectural, circuit-level and algorithmic
solutions. Recent examples from literature are
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Date: 02 February 2017 Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM |
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| Topic/Title | We must now graduate from “the century of the
molecule to the century of the system. |
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| Speaker | Dr. CHRISTOPHER MORIATES, MD Assistant Dean
for Healthcare Value Associate Professor of
Internal Medicine Dell Medical School | The
University of Texas at Austin Dr. Chris Moriates is the Assistant Dean for Healthcare Value and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Dell Medical School at UT Austin. He is responsible for creating an innovative curriculum for value-based healthcare for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education, as well as building a robust value improvement program that engages healthcare providers across the healthcare community in Austin. Dr. Moriates co-authored the book Understanding Value-Based Healthcare (McGraw-Hill, 2015), which Dr. Atul Gawande called“a masterful primer for all clinicians.” He led the creation of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Cost Awareness curriculum for internal medicine residents, which was described in JAMA Internal Medicine, and featured in a perspective article in the New England Journal of Medicine. He is a founding editor for the “Teachable Moments” series in JAMA Internal Medicine. He is also the Director of Implementation Initiatives at Costs of Care, a global non-profit organization curating clinician insights that drive better care at lower cost. He previously worked with the American College of Physicians on their national High-Value Care curriculum, and he co-chairs the annual Costs of Care/ABIM Foundation Teaching Value & Choosing Wisely Competition. He speaks internationally on topics related to educating clinicians about healthcare value and how to implement high-value care programs. Prior to joining Dell Medical School, Dr Moriates was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF, where he led the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value’s Caring Wisely™ program, the Division of Hospital Medicine High-Value Care Committee, and the internal medicine residency’s Cost Awareness curriculum. He recently won the “Young Physician Achievement Award” from the ACP California Chapter, and the “Thomas Evans Teaching Award” from the UCSF Department of Medicine. Dr. Moriates received his Medical Degree from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at UCSF. |
| Abstract | The model for medical school curricula has
largely not changed over the past 100 years.
However, as others have pointed out, we must now
graduate from “the century of the molecule to the
century of the system.” Medical trainees need to
learn about how to improve complex systems and how
to help ensure we are creating model healthy
cities. Dell Medical School at The University of
Texas at Austin is the first medical school opened
at a Tier I research university in nearly 50
years. This presentation will discuss some of the
innovative curricular models being introduced at
Dell Medical School, as well as efforts to engage
resident physician trainees in programs to improve
safety, quality and value. |
| Date/Time | Date: Jan 18, 2016 6:00 p.m. Networking and Gathering 6:20 p.m. Call to Order, Announcement 6:30 p.m. Presentation 7:30 p.m. Q&A 8:00 p.m. Meeting Survey Feedback, Networking |
| Location | AT&T Labs 9505 Arboretum Austin, Texas United States 78729 Building: AT&T Labs Room Number: #220 |
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Seating is limited. Please RSVP Joint meeting with Austin Computer/EMB and Comsoc/SP Chapters |
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| Topic/Title | History, Technology, and Applications of Bar Codes |
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| Speaker | Tom O'Brien Tom O'Brien earned a BSEE from Texas A&M University and a MS from Southern Methodist University. His career has included avionics, scientific computing, airline reservations, online financial systems, spacecraft robotics, electronic commerce, and software productivity applications. He joined IRE (a predecessor of IEEE) as a student, and has been Chapter Chair of Computer Society, Communications Society, and Life Member groups. Besides volunteering with IEEE, he works with youth Robotics programs. amateur radio, and community education. |
| Abstract | The presentation will cover the beginnings of
bar codes and the technology associated with them,
along with several example applications. A
typical handheld 2-D scanner wil be used to
demonstrate the versatility and robustness of
modern bar codes. |
| Date/Time | Date: 17 January 2017 Time: 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM |
| Location | 1 Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, Texas United States 78228 Building: University Center Room Number: Conference Room B |
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A REVIEW OF IEDM 2016 (INTERNATIONAL ELECTRON DEVICES MEETING) |
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Dr. Betty Prince of Memory Strategies
International Dr. Betty Prince is CEO of Memory Strategies International. She has also worked with Texas Instruments, NV Philips, Motorola, RCA and Fairchild. She is author of several books on memory technology including: Semiconductor Memories (1992), High Performance Memories (1999), 3D Vertical Memory Technologies (2014) (all John Wiley & Sons), and Emerging Memories - Technologies and Trends, (2002) (Springer). She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and has served as an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer. She founded the JEDEC JC-16 Interface Committee and was Co-Chair of the JC42.2 SRAM Standards Committee. She has served on the Technical Advisory Board of several memory companies and on the Board of Directors of Mosaid Technologies. She holds patents in the memory, processor and interface areas. She has a B.S. and M.S. in physics and math from UNM and U. of Calif., Berkeley, and an M.B.A and Ph.D. from UT with doctoral dissertation on fractal modeling. |
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The annual IEDM is the Premier Electron Devices
Conference. Papers shown at this conference
describe technologies that may go into production
several years hence or may not. Topics
covered at the 2016 IEDM included technology
scaling, chips for artificial intelligence and
IoT, 3D integration, and various memory
devices. Technologies to be reviewed in this
talk include: advanced platform technologies, 3D
memory and emerging memory advances including
MRAMs and RRAMs; 2D devices such as Carbon
Nanotube Logic and 1D materials (graphene and
MoS); 3D process technology; charge based memories
such as MONOS, 3D-NAND Flash, Ferroelectric FETS;
and tunnel FETs. Other topics also at the
IEDM which will be mentioned but not reviewed
include: optoelectronics, displays, sensors, MEMs,
power devices, advanced numerical models,
simulations, and various reliability issues. |
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Date: 25 January 2017 6:00 to 6:30pm -- Networking 6:30 to 8:30pm -- Business and Program |
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11501 Alterra Parkway Austin, Texas United States 78758 Building: Amazon Room Number: 2nd Floor Conference Rm |
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Food and beverage provided. Registration is required for
admittance to the building. Registration
closes at 6pm CST, Monday, January 23. Joint meeting with CAS/SSCS, CTCN and ED Chapters |
Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
More information on Consultants Networks
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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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A REVIEW OF IEDM 2016 (INTERNATIONAL ELECTRON DEVICES MEETING) |
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Dr. Betty Prince of Memory Strategies
International Dr. Betty Prince is CEO of Memory Strategies International. She has also worked with Texas Instruments, NV Philips, Motorola, RCA and Fairchild. She is author of several books on memory technology including: Semiconductor Memories (1992), High Performance Memories (1999), 3D Vertical Memory Technologies (2014) (all John Wiley & Sons), and Emerging Memories - Technologies and Trends, (2002) (Springer). She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and has served as an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer. She founded the JEDEC JC-16 Interface Committee and was Co-Chair of the JC42.2 SRAM Standards Committee. She has served on the Technical Advisory Board of several memory companies and on the Board of Directors of Mosaid Technologies. She holds patents in the memory, processor and interface areas. She has a B.S. and M.S. in physics and math from UNM and U. of Calif., Berkeley, and an M.B.A and Ph.D. from UT with doctoral dissertation on fractal modeling. |
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Abstract |
The annual IEDM is the Premier Electron Devices
Conference. Papers shown at this conference
describe technologies that may go into production
several years hence or may not. Topics
covered at the 2016 IEDM included technology
scaling, chips for artificial intelligence and
IoT, 3D integration, and various memory
devices. Technologies to be reviewed in this
talk include: advanced platform technologies, 3D
memory and emerging memory advances including
MRAMs and RRAMs; 2D devices such as Carbon
Nanotube Logic and 1D materials (graphene and
MoS); 3D process technology; charge based memories
such as MONOS, 3D-NAND Flash, Ferroelectric FETS;
and tunnel FETs. Other topics also at the
IEDM which will be mentioned but not reviewed
include: optoelectronics, displays, sensors, MEMs,
power devices, advanced numerical models,
simulations, and various reliability issues. |
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Date: 25 January 2017 6:00 to 6:30pm -- Networking 6:30 to 8:30pm -- Business and Program |
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11501 Alterra Parkway Austin, Texas United States 78758 Building: Amazon Room Number: 2nd Floor Conference Rm |
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Food and beverage provided. Registration is required for
admittance to the building. Registration
closes at 6pm CST, Monday, January 23. Joint meeting with CAS/SSCS, CTCN and ED Chapters |
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Human-Robot Interaction and Whole-Body Robot Sensing |
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Dr. Vladimir Lumelsky of University of
Wisconsin-Madison Vladimir Lumelsky is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics is from the Institute of Control Sciences, Russian National Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He has held engineering, research, and faculty positions with Ford Motor Research Labs, General Electric Research Center, Yale University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Maryland, NASA-Goddard Space Center, National Science Foundation. Concurrently he held visiting positions with the Tokyo Institute of Science, Japan; Weizmann Institute, Israel; USA-Antarctica South Pole Station. He has served аs IEEE Sensors Council President; Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Sensors Journal; chair and co-chair of major conferences; on Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and other journals; on various governing bodies and committees of IEEE; served as guest editor for special journal issues. He has authored over 200 publications (books, journal papers, conferences, reports); is IEEE Life Fellow, and member of ACM and SME. |
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The ability by a robot to operate in an
uncertain environment, such as near humans or far
away under human control, potentially opens a
myriad uses. Examples include robots preparing the
Mars surface for human arrival; robots for
assembly of large space telescopes; robot helpers
for the elderly; robot search and disposal of war
mines. So far advances in this area have been
coming slowly, with a focus on small categories of
tasks rather than on a universal ability typical
in nature. Challenges appear both on the robotics
side and on human side: robots have hard time
adjusting to an unstructured environment, whereas
human cognition has serious limits in adjusting to
robots and grasping complex 2D and 3D motion. As a
result, applications where robots operate near
humans – or far away under their control – are
exceedingly rare. The way out of this impasse is
to supply the robot with a whole-body sensing - an
ability to sense surrounding objects at the
robot’s whole body and utilize these data in real
time. This calls for large-area flexible sensing
arrays - sensitive skin covering the whole robot
body akin to the skin covering the human body.
Whole-body sensing brings interesting, even
unexpected, properties: powerful robots become
inherently safe; human operators can move them
fast, with “natural” speeds; robot motion
strategies exceed human spatial reasoning skills;
it becomes realistic to utilize natural synergy of
human-robot teams and allow a mix of supervised
and unsupervised robot operation. We will review
the mathematical, algorithmic, hardware
(materials, electronics, computing), as well as
control and cognitive science issues involved in
realizing such systems. |
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01 February 2017 6:00-7:00pm Arrival, networking 7:00-8:00pm Presentation 8:00-8:25pm Q & A 8:30pm Depart |
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J.J. Pickle Research Center Building: The J. Neils Thompson Commons Building (TCB), #137 Room Number: Balcones Room 10100 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX Austin, Texas |
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Joint meeting with Sensor Council and Electron
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| Topic/Title | Network Security |
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| Speaker | Allen Hebert, Sr. Systems Engineer at Gigamon With over 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Allen Hébert serves as a senior technical member of Gigamon’s Field Sales Team providing support for Texas and Louisiana customers. Allen sits on the board of directors for the Capitol of Texas Chapter of ISSA. Prior to Gigamon, Allen held various senior system engineering positions and consulting roles at Brocade, AT&T, Marconi, IBM Global Services and Motorola. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. |
| Abstract | In recent years, huge strides in network
management have been made with the advancement of
visibility tools, application layer filtering, and
centralized management yet many networks are
running with the same tools and methodology that
were used 15 years ago. This talk will
provide an overview of the ISO standard of FCAPS
for network management, provide insights of how to
best deploy new network security tools and show
the value of a comprehensive network management
framework in the field of Cybersecurity. The challenge for security and performance monitoring of the computing environment is providing these tools visibility across all the areas of the network that need to be monitored. Traditionally, these tools have been deployed inline at the connection to the Internet or in monitor only mode, they are connected to a SPAN port on a switch or router. Device based management of your computing environment is no longer sufficient, the next generation of performance and security tools require visibility into the packets passing through the network. Employing the use of a Traffic Visibility Platform provides the means to aggregate all sources of network traffic (inline Bypass, SPANs, TAPs, Virtual), sending the right data to the right tool through filtering, cleaning up the data streams by transforming the packet flows and lastly sending the data to all the tools or tool groups that need to see those packets. The computing environment is not only an essential component of every major energy company, it can also provide a competitive edge and be a differentiator in the industry. The ability to deploy new cybersecurity tools in a timely fashion is key to not only protecting your company from cyber attacks, but also saves time and money. The objective of this talk is to help cybersecurity professionals, CISOs, and CIOs understand the importance of effective management of the computing environment from a performance and security perspective, and understand how the tools have evolved over time and how beneficial a Traffic Visibility Fabric is to accomplishing their business goals. |
| Date/Time | January 17 2PM - 4PM |
| Location | Pok-e-Jo's 2121 Parmer Lane Austin, TX 78727 |
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| Topic/Title | NUCLEAR INDUSTRY AND FUKUSHIMA AFTERMATH |
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| Speaker | Dr. Dale Klein, Associate Vice Chancellor for
Research at UT and past Chairman and Commissioner
of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UT Dr. Dale Klein, a past Chairman and Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will update us on the current state of the nuclear industry and the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Dr. Dale E. Klein rejoined The University of Texas System in January of 2011 as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Office of Academic Affairs. In April of 2010, after serving eight and a half years as Presidential Appointee, Dr. Klein returned to Texas from Washington, D.C., working at The University of Texas at Austin as the Associate Director of The Energy Institute, Associate Vice President for Research, and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Nuclear Program). Dr. Klein's full biography is available here: https://www.me.utexas.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/klein |
| Abstract | Nuclear energy has a clear technical advantage
as a source for base load carbon free electricity.
However, the economic advantage for new nuclear
energy plants is less clear and varies
significantly from country to country. The
presentation will discuss the current and near
term status of nuclear energy in the U.S. and the
world. This will include the trend for new nuclear
plants for both large light water nuclear plants,
small modular reactors and non-light water nuclear
plants. In addition, the cause of the Fukushima
accident will be discussed as well as the current
clean-up activities. The safety enhancements for
post Fukushima nuclear energy will also be
discussed. |
| Date/Time | 24 January 2017 Early Arrival & Order Dinner: 6:00 to 6:30 PM Social & Business Meeting 6:30 to 7:00 PM Program: 7:00 to 8:30 PM |
| Location | 3418 N Lamar Blvd Austin, Texas United States 78705 Building: Cafe Express (overflow parking available at the Post Office) Room Number: Large Conference Room |
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| Topic/Title | Discussion of "Keeping the Lights On" a Westmonroe study of how electric utilities are coping with the rise of distributed energy resources. |
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| Date/Time | Date: 26 January 2017 Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM |
| Location | 1289 SW Loop 410 San Antonio, Texas United States Building: Acadiana Café |
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| Topic/Title | We must now graduate from “the century of the
molecule to the century of the system. |
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| Speaker | Dr. CHRISTOPHER MORIATES, MD Assistant Dean
for Healthcare Value Associate Professor of
Internal Medicine Dell Medical School | The
University of Texas at Austin Dr. Chris Moriates is the Assistant Dean for Healthcare Value and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Dell Medical School at UT Austin. He is responsible for creating an innovative curriculum for value-based healthcare for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education, as well as building a robust value improvement program that engages healthcare providers across the healthcare community in Austin. Dr. Moriates co-authored the book Understanding Value-Based Healthcare (McGraw-Hill, 2015), which Dr. Atul Gawande called“a masterful primer for all clinicians.” He led the creation of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Cost Awareness curriculum for internal medicine residents, which was described in JAMA Internal Medicine, and featured in a perspective article in the New England Journal of Medicine. He is a founding editor for the “Teachable Moments” series in JAMA Internal Medicine. He is also the Director of Implementation Initiatives at Costs of Care, a global non-profit organization curating clinician insights that drive better care at lower cost. He previously worked with the American College of Physicians on their national High-Value Care curriculum, and he co-chairs the annual Costs of Care/ABIM Foundation Teaching Value & Choosing Wisely Competition. He speaks internationally on topics related to educating clinicians about healthcare value and how to implement high-value care programs. Prior to joining Dell Medical School, Dr Moriates was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF, where he led the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value’s Caring Wisely™ program, the Division of Hospital Medicine High-Value Care Committee, and the internal medicine residency’s Cost Awareness curriculum. He recently won the “Young Physician Achievement Award” from the ACP California Chapter, and the “Thomas Evans Teaching Award” from the UCSF Department of Medicine. Dr. Moriates received his Medical Degree from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at UCSF. |
| Abstract | The model for medical school curricula has
largely not changed over the past 100 years.
However, as others have pointed out, we must now
graduate from “the century of the molecule to the
century of the system.” Medical trainees need to
learn about how to improve complex systems and how
to help ensure we are creating model healthy
cities. Dell Medical School at The University of
Texas at Austin is the first medical school opened
at a Tier I research university in nearly 50
years. This presentation will discuss some of the
innovative curricular models being introduced at
Dell Medical School, as well as efforts to engage
resident physician trainees in programs to improve
safety, quality and value. |
| Date/Time | Date: Jan 18, 2016 6:00 p.m. Networking and Gathering 6:20 p.m. Call to Order, Announcement 6:30 p.m. Presentation 7:30 p.m. Q&A 8:00 p.m. Meeting Survey Feedback, Networking |
| Location | AT&T Labs 9505 Arboretum Austin, Texas United States 78729 Building: AT&T Labs Room Number: #220 |
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Seating is limited. Please RSVP Joint meeting with Austin Computer/EMB and Comsoc/SP Chapters |
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Membership in the Sensor Council is free if you are already a member of one of the sponsoring IEEE Societies. Those Societies are: AES, AP, BT, CAS, COM, CPMT, C, DEI, ED, EMB, EMC, IE, IA, IM, MAG, MTT, OE, PE, PHO, RA, SP, SSC, UFFC, and VT.
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Human-Robot Interaction and Whole-Body Robot Sensing |
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Dr. Vladimir Lumelsky of University of
Wisconsin-Madison Vladimir Lumelsky is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics is from the Institute of Control Sciences, Russian National Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He has held engineering, research, and faculty positions with Ford Motor Research Labs, General Electric Research Center, Yale University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Maryland, NASA-Goddard Space Center, National Science Foundation. Concurrently he held visiting positions with the Tokyo Institute of Science, Japan; Weizmann Institute, Israel; USA-Antarctica South Pole Station. He has served аs IEEE Sensors Council President; Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Sensors Journal; chair and co-chair of major conferences; on Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and other journals; on various governing bodies and committees of IEEE; served as guest editor for special journal issues. He has authored over 200 publications (books, journal papers, conferences, reports); is IEEE Life Fellow, and member of ACM and SME. |
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The ability by a robot to operate in an
uncertain environment, such as near humans or far
away under human control, potentially opens a
myriad uses. Examples include robots preparing the
Mars surface for human arrival; robots for
assembly of large space telescopes; robot helpers
for the elderly; robot search and disposal of war
mines. So far advances in this area have been
coming slowly, with a focus on small categories of
tasks rather than on a universal ability typical
in nature. Challenges appear both on the robotics
side and on human side: robots have hard time
adjusting to an unstructured environment, whereas
human cognition has serious limits in adjusting to
robots and grasping complex 2D and 3D motion. As a
result, applications where robots operate near
humans – or far away under their control – are
exceedingly rare. The way out of this impasse is
to supply the robot with a whole-body sensing - an
ability to sense surrounding objects at the
robot’s whole body and utilize these data in real
time. This calls for large-area flexible sensing
arrays - sensitive skin covering the whole robot
body akin to the skin covering the human body.
Whole-body sensing brings interesting, even
unexpected, properties: powerful robots become
inherently safe; human operators can move them
fast, with “natural” speeds; robot motion
strategies exceed human spatial reasoning skills;
it becomes realistic to utilize natural synergy of
human-robot teams and allow a mix of supervised
and unsupervised robot operation. We will review
the mathematical, algorithmic, hardware
(materials, electronics, computing), as well as
control and cognitive science issues involved in
realizing such systems. |
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30 January 2017 6:00-7:00pm Arrival, networking 7:00-8:00pm Presentation 8:00-8:25pm Q & A 8:30pm Depart |
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J.J. Pickle Research Center Building: The J. Neils Thompson Commons Building (TCB), #137 Room Number: Balcones Room 10100 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX Austin, Texas |
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Devices Chapters |
AESS Chapter of the Year Award
2016 for US-based chapters
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Applied Research and Development for the Aerospace Industry |
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Walt Downing, Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Society Distinguished Lecturer Mr. Downing is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Southwest Research Institute. Mr. Downing joined SwRI in 1979 as a senior research engineer. In 1981 he was promoted to Manager of Instrumentation and Control Systems. He developed and expanded his technical program into a department in 1988 and a division in 1994 when he was appointed Vice President of Aerospace Electronics and Training Systems. Mr. Downing has served as Executive Vice President since 1998 and was named Chief Operating Officer in 2016. He is also a member of the SwRI Board of Directors. Mr. Downing is active in a variety of city, regional, and national organizations. He is on the industry advisory boards for the College of Engineering and the College of Business at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Mary’s University. He is a life senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), is an IEEE ABET engineering program evaluator, and a member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu electrical engineering honorary society. He also serves on the Boards of Governors of the IEEE Systems Council and the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS), as vice president of technical operations of both groups, and chairs the IEEE Central Texas Section Joint Chapter of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and AESS. Mr. Downing is a graduate of Southern Methodist University (BSEE with high honors), the University of Texas at San Antonio (MBA), and has executive certificates in management and leadership from the University of Texas at Austin and MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Texas and Florida. |
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Opportunities to create incremental
technological innovations are often relatively
easy to accomplish and adopt. Disruptive
technologies significantly alter the ways that
businesses operate, and therefore are often more
difficult to adopt. Applied research and
development plays an important role in technology
transfer of disruptive innovations from the
laboratory to industry. This talk will
describe that role and provide examples from the
aerospace industry. It will be a repeat of a
talk presented at the 2017 AIAA SciTech Forum,
whose theme is "Addressing Full Spectrum
Disruption Across the Global Aerospace Community." |
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Date: 19 January 2017 Time: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM |
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Southwest Research Institute 6220 Culebra Road San Antonio, Texas United States 78238-5166 Building: Tom Slick Memorial Library Room Number: Reading Room |
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This will be a brown-bag lunch seminar.
Attendees are invited to bring their lunch with
them to the meeting. Food is available at
the Southwest Research Institute Cafeteria located
across the parking lot from the Library. |
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| Abstract | Book / Article Discussion: "Managing Your Boss" Join us for a light dinner, a glass of wine, good company and a fantastic book club, focused on SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE TECH INDUSTRY. Get a free copy of Gabarro and Kotter's classical HBR article at https://ccrod.cancer.gov/confluence/download/attachments/32967024/Managing+your+boss_HBR.pdf In this classic HBR article, first published in 1980, John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter advise readers to devote time and energy to managing their relationships with their bosses. The authors aren't talking about showering supervisors with flattery; rather, they ask readers to understand that the manager-boss relationship is one of mutual dependence. Bosses need cooperation, reliability, and honesty from their direct reports. Managers, for their part, rely on bosses for making connections with the rest of the company, for setting priorities, and for obtaining critical resources. It only makes sense to work at making the relationship operate as smoothly as possible. Successfully managing your relationship with your boss requires that you have a good understanding of your supervisor and of yourself, particularly strengths, weaknesses, work styles, and needs. Once you are aware of what impedes or facilitates communication with your boss, you can take actions to improve your relationship. You can usually establish a way of working together that fits both of you, is characterized by unambiguous mutual expectations, and makes both of you more productive and effective. No doubt, some managers will resent that on top of all their other duties, they must also take responsibility for their relationships with their bosses. But these managers fail to realize that by doing so, they can actually simplify their jobs, eliminating potentially severe problems and improving productivity. |
| Date/Time | Date: 17 January 2017 6:30 Dinner and networking 7:00 Discussion 8:00 Adjourn |
| Location | Cirrus Logic 800 W. 6th St. Austin, Texas United States 78701 |
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| Registration | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/42910 |
| Notes | Free parking is available at Aziz
Salon and Day Spa, at 710 W. 7th Street (NE Corner
of 7th and West) . No charge for the event.
Bring a friend! And make new ones! |
Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about WIE.