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UT Austin
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2017 IEEE/ACM
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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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NI Week 2017Join NI at NIWeek 2017, the ultimate learning environment that gives you the tools and knowledge to increase your proficiency and develop applications faster, smarter, and more cost-efficiently. |
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Design
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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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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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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
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| Topic/Title | A System of Systems Framework for Autonomy, Big
Data Analytic, Machine Learning and Cloud
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| Speaker | Prof. Mo Jamshidi, Ph.D., DEgr. (h.c.) Fellow,
IEEE, ASME, AAAS, TWAS, NYAS, AF, AIAA Lutcher
Brown Endowed Chaired Professor Member, UT System
Chancellor's Council Department of Electrical and
Computer Engr. University of Texas San Antonio, TX Mo M. Jamshidi (Fellow IEEE, Fellow ASME, A. Fellow-AIAA, Fellow AAAS, A. Fellow TWAS, Fellow NYAS) received BS in EE, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA in June 1967, the MS and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA in June 1969 and February 1971, respectively. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada, 2004 and Technical University of Crete, Greece, 2004. Currently, he is the Lutcher Brown Endowed Distinguished Chaired Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA. He has been an advisor to NASA (including 1st MARS Mission), USAF, USDOE and EC/EU (Brussels). He has over 750 technical publications including 68 books (12 text books), research volumes, and edited volumes in English and a few foreign languages. He is the Founding Editor or co-founding editor or Editor-in-Chief of 5 journals including IEEE Control Systems Magazine and the IEEE Systems Journal. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing published by Taylor & Francis in UK. e is an Honorary Professor at three Chinese Universities (Nanjing and Xi’an), Deakin University (Australia), Birmingham University and Loughbrough University (UK), and Obuda University (Hungary). In October 2005 he was awarded the IEEE’s Norbert Weiner Research Achievement Award. He is a member of the University of the Texas System Chancellor’s Council since 2011. In his two research laboratories with 25 graduate students, he is currently involved in research on system of systems engineering with emphasis on cloud computing, robotics, UAVs, bioinformatics and sustainable energy systems. He has close to 9000 citations on Scholar Google. |
| Abstract | Large data has been accumulating in all aspects of our lives for quite some time. Advances in sensor technology, the Internet, wireless communication, and inexpensive memory have all contributed to an explosion of “Big Data”. System of Systems (SoS) are integration of independent operatable and non-homogeneous legacy systems to achieve a higher goal than the sum of the parts. Today’s SoS are also contributing to the existence of unmanageable “Big Data”. Recent efforts have developed promising approach, called “Data Analytics”, which uses machine learning tools from statistical and soft computing (SC) such as principal component analysis (PCA), clustering, fuzzy logic, neuro-computing, evolutionary computation, Bayesian networks, deep architectures and deep learning, etc. to reduce the size of “Big Data” to a manageable size and apply these tools to a) extract information, b) build a knowledge base using the derived data, and c) eventually develop a non-parametric model for the “Big Data”. This keynote attempts to construct a bridge between SoS and Data Analytics to develop reliable models for such systems. A photovoltaic energy forecasting problem of a micro grid SoS, traffic jams forecasting and a system of autonomous vehicles will be offered for case studies. These tools will be used to extract a nonlinear Model for a SoS-generated BIG DATA. Videos for autonomous vehicles will be shown. |
| Date/Time | 23 February 2017 Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM |
| Location | AT&T Labs 9505 Arboretum Austin, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | NON VOLATILE MEMORY |
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| Speaker | Professor Ethan C. Ahn of University of Texas at
San Antonio Dr. Ahn is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Previously he served as a Senior Panel Process Engineer at Apple, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) and as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in EE at Stanford University in 2015, under the supervision of Professor H.-S. Philip Wong. He joined Stanford in 2010, after a 3-year research career on the STT-MRAM technology with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul, Korea. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in EE from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, Korea, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed research journal and conference papers and wrote one book chapter of Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices. His primary research interests include energy-efficient nanoscale logic and memory devices, carbon-based and other 2D-layered nano-materials, electronic/thermal/magnetic transport in nanoscale devices, and novel energy devices for beyond-CMOS domain. Dr. Ahn has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including John Bardeen Student Research Award for Excellence in Nanodevice Research in 2014 and Best Summer Research Intern Award by T.-C. Chen at IBM T. J. Watson in 2013. |
| Abstract | With the advent of so-called 'abundant data' era
and the required throughput and energy-efficiency
for the next-generation computing paradigm, it
becomes increasingly important to explore more
scalable approaches for both computational (logic)
and information storage (memory) devices.
Significant progress on emerging non-volatile
memory (NVM) technologies such as
spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory
(STT-MRAM), resistive RAM (RRAM), or phase-change
memory (PCM), made it possible to replace the
mainstream NVM (NAND Flash) and even reach certain
on-chip memory requirements (e.g., L2/L3 SRAM
cache). The status, key challenges, visions, and
promising applications of the RRAM, PCM, and
STT-MRAM technologies will be briefly compared and
discussed in the talk. |
| Date/Time | 21 February 2017 Time: 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM |
| Location | 1 Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | MEMS in Austin, Texas – Days of Disruption, Market Creation and Industry Growth |
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| Speaker | Brent Lunceford |
| Abstract | Austin’s MEMS industry started as a result of a joint collaboration between MCC and IBM in the late 1990’s. In 2000, MCC spun out Austin’s first MEMS company and today the Central Texas region benefits from a robust MEMS & Sensors value chain that make up our regional industry. MEMS stands for micro-electro-mechanical systems. Today everyone reading this abstract benefits from more than one form of MEMS technology. This technology is a key enabling technology for smart phones, ink jet printers, hearing aids, pace makers, drones, autonomous vehicles, wearable electronics, and medical devices. In this talk, the history of Austin’s MEMS industry along with cool examples of the technology and the broad applications will be discussed. |
| Date/Time | **Wednesday** (Correction)
February 22 6:00 to 6:30pm -- Networking 6:30 to 8:30pm -- Business and Program |
| Location | 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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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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| Topic/Title | MEMS in Austin, Texas – Days of Disruption, Market Creation and Industry Growth |
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| Speaker | Brent Lunceford |
| Abstract | Austin’s MEMS industry started as a result of a joint collaboration between MCC and IBM in the late 1990's. In 2000, MCC spun out Austin’s first MEMS company and today the Central Texas region benefits from a robust MEMS & Sensors value chain that make up our regional industry. MEMS stands for micro-electro-mechanical systems. Today everyone reading this abstract benefits from more than one form of MEMS technology. This technology is a key enabling technology for smart phones, ink jet printers, hearing aids, pace makers, drones, autonomous vehicles, wearable electronics, and medical devices. In this talk, the history of Austin’s MEMS industry along with cool examples of the technology and the broad applications will be discussed. |
| Date/Time | Tuesday February 21 2PM-4PM |
| Location | PoK-e-Jo's Smokehouse 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY |
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| Speaker | David Monroe, SAMSAT Board Chair & CEO of
E-Watch Corp. David Monroe began his career as an intern at Datapoint Corporation, working on the team responsible for developing the first microprocessor chip. While at Datapoint, he began collecting very early electrical, communication and computer devices and systems. He was vice-president for R&D at Datapoint, holds over 40 patents and has been involved in several technology startup companies. He is presently CEO of E-Watch, a security software company. Over the years David has continued collecting vintage electrical, communication and computer devices and now has an outstanding collection, including many unique items related to technology development in San Antonio. This collection forms the initial nucleus of the SAMSAT exhibits. |
| Abstract | San Antonio has been the site of many technical
and scientific developments ranging from
microprocessors to communications to medical
devices and space technology but there has not
been any facility or museum to highlight these
achievements. In fact, San Antonio is the
only large city in the US that does not have a
museum of Science & Technology. Now
plans are underway to build the San Antonio Museum
of Science and Technology (SAMSAT) including
exhibit areas, meeting facilities, STEM activity
areas, etc. The initial exhibits of the
Museum will be from a collection of items
assembled by David Monroe, SAMSAT Board Chair. The program will include a description of some of the unique artifacts that David has collected over the years and an overview of his vision for a Science and Technology Museum in San Antonio. Since SAMSAT is just getting started, there will be a need for volunteers with technical ability to plan, refurbish and develop exhibits and activities. David will discuss opportunities for IEEE Life Members to become involved in these activities. |
| Date/Time | 16 February 2017 Time: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM |
| Location | Lion & Rose English Pub, 842 NW Loop 410
(Park North) San Antonio, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | Communicating with Your Valentine and Your Boss |
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| Speaker | Leslie Martinich of President, Competitive Focus
and Chair, IEEE Central Texas Section Leslie Martinich received Certification from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business Institute for Managerial Leadership, M.S. in Computer Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin. Her Bachelor's Degree is from the University of California at San Diego. She was selected as the 2012 IEEE Congressional Fellow for Science and Technology Policy. She leads Competitive Focus, a managerial consultancy focused on training technology leaders to be more effective. Her research interests include innovation, strategy and the leadership skills to successfully lead technology firms. She has presented research at the IEEE International Technology Management Conferences and has provided training at universities and companies around the world. She publishes regularly in the IEEE Engineering Management Review. She has over 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry, and currently serves as the Chair of IEEE, Central Texas Section. |
| Abstract | [Editor's note: This is a special event designed
to be useful and informative to all attendees;
please invite your significant other or someone
else to join you.] The purpose of this one-hour workshop is to enhance your capacity to lead technology organizations effectively. Why are some leaders better and more successful than others? One reason involves their ability to communicate with others in the moment, to be mindful and respond to what is happening right now. We borrow techniques from improv to help you learn to better communicate with others. Improv requires skill, preparation and practice to be able to listen, act and react in the moment. This improv workshop prepares both individual contributors and leaders how to react, adapt and communicate honestly with others. We use real world examples and cases to make this workshop immediately applicable to your workplace or your home. You will learn how to listen, ask questions to learn more about your boss or subordinate's goals (or your partner's), and to respond in ways that improve understanding and cooperation. The word "improv" brings to mind improv comedy and laughter. While this class is serious business, the workshop is engaging and entertaining while you learn. In this highly participative class, we use case studies and real-world scenarios from the tech industry, which provide you the opportunity to learn new techniques and put them to immediate use. |
| Date/Time | 28 February 2017 Time: 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM |
| Location | NOTE NEW MEETING
LOCATION Cafe Express 3418 N Lamar Blvd Austin, Texas |
| Cost | MINIMUM $9.95 per member or guest attending
meeting, which includes up to $9.95 of meal
selection. Attendees select from cafeteria
style line and pay restaurant cashier. Meet
in the large glassed-in room past the cashier
station. |
| Reservations | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/43382 |
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| Topic/Title | ETHICS: UPDATES ON
BOARD RULE CHANGES WITHIN THE LAST YEAR |
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| Abstract | Texas Board of Professional
Engineers - Professional Practice Update / Ethics:
Updates on Board rule changes within the last
year, general updates on initiatives the Board is
working on, information on enforcement statistics,
and the engineering Code of Conduct |
| Date/Time | 23 February 2017 Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM |
| Location | 9707 Broadway
Street San Antonio, Texas |
| Cost | |
| Reservations | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/43453 |
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| Topic/Title | Safety Implications of Genetic Engineering |
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| Speaker | Dale Ritzen Originally a college biology major, Dale has held many and varied jobs in several different lines of work prior to his retirement last year. None of them were in the biological sciences. However, he continues to be interested in biology, especially the power that we now possess to change the very basic genetic patterns of animal and plant life on Earth. |
| Abstract | Along with climate change, genetic engineering
is the second greatest challenge - both ethically
and morally - that mankind faces. With the
CRISPR-Cas9 genetic splicing tool we now have the
power to easily alter the genetic patterns in the
double helix of DNA to improve plant and animal
life to benefit mankind. However, the reasons
behind making these genetic changes - and the
implications of allowing the changes to escape
into wild populations - continue to be argued by
the scientific community. They are aware of the
issues and have tried to control or limit this
process within their own international
organizations. However, the CRISPR-Cas9 tool has
changed the whole picture. It has allowed easy
manipulation of genetic material in relatively
simple laboratory settings. In this meeting we
will discuss what this means and the possibilities
- both positive and troubling - that present
themselves in this ongoing debate. |
| Date/Time | February 21, 2017 at 7pm |
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| Location | Dell Parmer South Campus, Building PS4, in the
Victoria conference room (just inside the front
door). |
| Notes | Please RSVP to Dale Ritzen (austin278757@yahoo.com)
to give us some idea of how many attendees to
expect and for directions to the Parmer Lane
location. |
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| Topic/Title | A System of Systems Framework for Autonomy, Big
Data Analytic, Machine Learning and Cloud
Infrastructure |
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| Speaker | Prof. Mo Jamshidi, Ph.D., DEgr. (h.c.) Fellow,
IEEE, ASME, AAAS, TWAS, NYAS, AF, AIAA Lutcher
Brown Endowed Chaired Professor Member, UT System
Chancellor's Council Department of Electrical and
Computer Engr. University of Texas San Antonio, TX Mo M. Jamshidi (Fellow IEEE, Fellow ASME, A. Fellow-AIAA, Fellow AAAS, A. Fellow TWAS, Fellow NYAS) received BS in EE, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA in June 1967, the MS and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA in June 1969 and February 1971, respectively. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada, 2004 and Technical University of Crete, Greece, 2004. Currently, he is the Lutcher Brown Endowed Distinguished Chaired Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA. He has been an advisor to NASA (including 1st MARS Mission), USAF, USDOE and EC/EU (Brussels). He has over 750 technical publications including 68 books (12 text books), research volumes, and edited volumes in English and a few foreign languages. He is the Founding Editor or co-founding editor or Editor-in-Chief of 5 journals including IEEE Control Systems Magazine and the IEEE Systems Journal. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing published by Taylor & Francis in UK. e is an Honorary Professor at three Chinese Universities (Nanjing and Xi'an), Deakin University (Australia), Birmingham University and Loughbrough University (UK), and Obuda University (Hungary). In October 2005 he was awarded the IEEE's Norbert Weiner Research Achievement Award. He is a member of the University of the Texas System Chancellor's Council since 2011. In his two research laboratories with 25 graduate students, he is currently involved in research on system of systems engineering with emphasis on cloud computing, robotics, UAVs, bioinformatics and sustainable energy systems. He has close to 9000 citations on Scholar Google. |
| Abstract | Large data has been accumulating in all aspects
of our lives for quite some time. Advances in
sensor technology, the Internet, wireless
communication, and inexpensive memory have all
contributed to an explosion of "Big Dat". System
of Systems (SoS) are integration of independent
operatable and non-homogeneous legacy systems to
achieve a higher goal than the sum of the parts.
Today’s SoS are also contributing to the existence
of unmanageable “Big Data”. Recent efforts have
developed promising approach, called “Data
Analytics”, which uses machine learning tools from
statistical and soft computing (SC) such as
principal component analysis (PCA), clustering,
fuzzy logic, neuro-computing, evolutionary
computation, Bayesian networks, deep architectures
and deep learning, etc. to reduce the size of “Big
Data” to a manageable size and apply these tools
to a) extract information, b) build a knowledge
base using the derived data, and c) eventually
develop a non-parametric model for the "Big Data".
This keynote attempts to construct a bridge
between SoS and Data Analytics to develop reliable
models for such systems. A photovoltaic
energy forecasting problem of a micro grid SoS,
traffic jams forecasting and a system of
autonomous vehicles will be offered for case
studies. These tools will be used to extract a
nonlinear Model for a SoS-generated BIG DATA.
Videos for autonomous vehicles will be shown. |
| Date/Time | 23 February 2017 Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM |
| Location | AT&T Labs 9505 Arboretum Austin, Texas |
| Cost | |
| Reservations | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/43227 |
| Notes |
Joint meeting for Austin IEEE COMSOC/SP AND
EMBS/CS Chapters |
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| Topic/Title | THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY |
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| Speaker | David Monroe, SAMSAT Board Chair & CEO of
E-Watch Corp. David Monroe began his career as an intern at Datapoint Corporation, working on the team responsible for developing the first microprocessor chip. While at Datapoint, he began collecting very early electrical, communication and computer devices and systems. He was vice-president for R&D at Datapoint, holds over 40 patents and has been involved in several technology startup companies. He is presently CEO of E-Watch, a security software company. Over the years David has continued collecting vintage electrical, communication and computer devices and now has an outstanding collection, including many unique items related to technology development in San Antonio. This collection forms the initial nucleus of the SAMSAT exhibits. |
| Abstract | San Antonio has been the site of many technical
and scientific developments ranging from
microprocessors to communications to medical
devices and space technology but there has not
been any facility or museum to highlight these
achievements. In fact, San Antonio is the
only large city in the US that does not have a
museum of Science & Technology. Now
plans are underway to build the San Antonio Museum
of Science and Technology (SAMSAT) including
exhibit areas, meeting facilities, STEM activity
areas, etc. The initial exhibits of the
Museum will be from a collection of items
assembled by David Monroe, SAMSAT Board Chair. The program will include a description of some of the unique artifacts that David has collected over the years and an overview of his vision for a Science and Technology Museum in San Antonio. Since SAMSAT is just getting started, there will be a need for volunteers with technical ability to plan, refurbish and develop exhibits and activities. David will discuss opportunities for IEEE Life Members to become involved in these activities. |
| Date/Time | 16 February 2017 Time: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM |
| Location | Lion & Rose English Pub, 842 NW Loop 410
(Park North) San Antonio, Texas |
| Cost | |
| Reservations | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/43442 |
| Notes |
Joint meeting held with the IEEE Life Members
and Com/SP Chapters of San Antonio |
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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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SPACE SCIENCE IN SAN ANTONIO |
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Susan Pope, Director, Department of Space
Instrumentation of Southwest Research Institute Susan Pope is Director of the Department of Space Instrumentation in the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and master's degree in engineering management. Ms. Pope is currently the project manager for an ultraviolet spectrograph instrument on the Europa mission. This mission will provide an in-depth look at Europa's ice-shell-covered ocean, plumes, surface chemistry, and geophysics. Ms. Pope was the deputy project manager for the CYGNSS mission. This mission will provide new information on ocean surface winds during tropical cyclones, including the eyewall, enabling advances in the knowledge of storm genesis and intensification. CYGNSS launched in November 2016 and is currently in the commissioning phase of operation. Previously, Ms. Pope was the lead systems engineer for the Solving Magnetospheric Acceleration, Reconnection, and Turbulence (SMART) instrument suite on the MMS mission. This mission launched in May 2015 and has resulted in major scientific discoveries and publications related to magnetic reconnection. |
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Spacecraft hardware designed, developed, and
built in San Antonio is now orbiting several
planets including Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, and
Jupiter, flying by comets and asteroids, and
speeding past Pluto into the Kuiper Belt.
This presentation will cover several of these
unmanned space exploration and scientific
discovery missions. In addition to an
overview of these past missions, the speaker will
provide additional details on two recent missions:
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and Cyclone Global
Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS). |
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21 February 2017 Time: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM |
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Southwest Research Institute P.O. Drawer 28510 San Antonio, Texas |
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This presentation will be webcast. Contact
the meeting organizer for instructions on
participating in the webcast. (w.downing@ieee.org) |
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| Topic/Title | CTS WOMEN IN ENGINEERING MONTHLY BOOK CLUB |
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| Abstract | Book / Article Discussion: Negotiating Your
Salary 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. Free parking is available at on West St. after 6PM. (NW Corner of 7th and West) . No charge for the event. Bring a friend! And make new ones! |
| Date/Time | 21 February 2017 Time: 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM |
| Location | Cirrus Logic 800 W. 6th St. Austin, Texas |
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| Registration | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/43244 |
| Notes |
Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about WIE.