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New Site Location!
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The IEEE BV Section CS chapter is moving to a new URL. Please find the new site at
The new site runs Wordpress, the leading blogging and content management platform on the web. We are also seeking CS chapter members who would like to write for the chapter. If you are interested, contact one of the chapter officers.
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Upcoming Meetings
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Next Meeting Wed. 10 Feb. 2010
Heterogeneous Sensor Networks:
A Bio-Inspired Overlay Architecture
Jerry Burman,
Sr. Research
Scientist, Teledyne Scientific Company
The Army currently employs heterogeneous unattended ground sensors (UGSs) using a sparse deployment to maximize coverage, minimize pilferage and to monitor terrain bottlenecks. A team consisting of Teledyne Scientific Company, the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is developing technologies in support of automated data exfiltration from heterogeneous battlefield sensor networks as part of a US Army contract with the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB).
The ICB program is developing a new system consisting of novel bio-inspired software algorithms for autonomous operations that will leverage proven research to monitor sensor networks from extended ranges, that will collect data in a timely fashion, that will collaboratively control the motion of a sparse network of collectors (e.g. unmanned aerial vehicles) using bio-inspired sampling, that will accurately detect and localize field events and will fuse and classify sensed data. A new bio-inspired event discovery technique will enable fusion of sensor observations at low signal-to-noise ratio without requiring a prior model for the event signature;this is a first step towards sensor networks that are capable of learning. Jerry Burman works as a senior research scientist at Teledyne Scientific Company in Thousand Oaks, CA in the Information Science Division. He is the program manager and contributing scientist for a team of researchers in support of the development
of advanced bio-inspired systems and sensor networks used to support US Army Research Labs through the Institute of Collaborative Biotechnologies at UCSB. Jerry is a graduate from UCLA with advanced degrees in Mathematics, System Science Engineering and attended a PhD program at Stanford University. He has over a dozen publications and six patents in image and information processing.
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2009 Special Events
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Wednesday 14 October 2009
IEEE Buenaventura All-Chapter Special Event Dinner
The Public is Invited
Frontiers in Digital Entertainment
Evening Dinner and Panel Discussion
on the Leading Edge of Digital Entertainment
Social Gaming :: Location-Aware Entertainment
Collaboration :: Animation :: Social Media
Panelists
Mark Brown, CTO, Rhythm and Hues
Roie Edery, Founder, Arzoola
Andy Hendrickson, CTO, Disney Animation
Phil Maness, Dir Technology, DTS Sound
Sam Roberts, Co-Founder, The Singularity
Neville Spiteri, Founder, WemoMedia
Palm Garden Hotel
101 Fwy & Ventu Park Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Tickets: $75 in advance / $99 at the door
Advance Tickets Available at
https://www.123Signup.com/register?id=jvksp
Add'l Info: Karl Geiger 888-753-7311 x25
Background original image courtesy of nasaimages.org
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Previous Meetings
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Wednesday, 8 December 2009
The BV Communication Society invites Computer
Society and Microwave Chapters to a
special presentation on
10 Gigabit Ethernet Speaker: Robert Jadon
Gigabit Ethernet is a ubiquitous interconnect
that constantly affects our lives. As applications like cloud computing
and video become a part of our daily lives, existing infrastructure
becomes more and more strained. 10 Gigabit Ethernet has gained traction
in metro and data center applications, and continues to proliferate with
the 10/100/1000 Ethernet structure in place. The presentation will
cover 10 Gigabit Ethernet, how it has evolved, and how it is being
implemented today.
Wednesday, 9 November 2009
November's CS event is a joint meeting with the IEEE Buenaventura Section's Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).
A Panel / Audience Conversation
on
Landing Your First Job
Beyond the Bachelors Degree
This meeting is a panel discussion
featuring Craig Reinhart and Mike Shaw of California Lutheran
University. David Steinmeier, IEEE-EMBS BV Chapter Program Chair
(2009/2010) President, MicroJoining Solutions is the panel moderator. This
first-of-its-kind panel discussion will address issues pertinent to
those students seeking their first job - whether Bachelors, Masters, or
Doctorate.
Polishing your resume, networking, interviewing - everything is on the table!
In addition, audience members are specifically invited and welcomed to bring their own questions or anecdotes.
Wednesday 9 September 2009 No Silver Bullet III: Business and Software Engineering in the CloudKarl Geiger, Convergent Informatics, Inc.
Life in the cloud is heady, but few remember to bring ladders and parachutes.
Cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) have received much press as the next “silver bullet” for business systems. Although they can lower technical, software development, and support costs, Cloud projects run like any other systems development/deployment effort. They require clear goals, well-defined requirements with testable endpoints, and diligent project oversight. This talk highlights how good software engineering practices applied to two projects: Convergent Informatics’s eCompany-in-a-Box™ and the resuscitation of an ecommerce company. It covers what works, what to beware, and where technical folks can have lots of fun.
About the Speaker
Karl Geiger is one of the founders and principals at Convergent Informatics, Inc., “The Virtual CIO Company”. Formerly he worked as Director of Enterprise Architecture at Amgen, Inc., where he and his staff guided development and set standards for infrastructure and global systems such ERP. Karl also did extensive work in clinical development and on research information retrieval systems. Prior to Amgen, he developed library systems and supported mainframes at the University of Southern California. He holds BA in Classics (Latin and Greek) from USC and an MS in Computer Science from California Lutheran University. Karl belongs to the IEEE, the ACM, and the AAAS.
Wednesday 8 July 2009
Modern CG Animation Production, a 'Behind-the-Scenes' Look
Dr. Saty Raghavachary, Dreamworks Animation
This talk describes how studios such as DreamWorks and Pixar make computer-animated movies. It explores the departments that make up a modern "production pipeline", paying extra attention to computational techniques and software development problems. A variety of DreamWorks-related and 'found' clips will illustrate several facets of animation production (such as character animation and visual effects), focusing on techniques and technology.
About the Speaker
Saty joined DreamWorks in 1996, where he is now Head of Digital Training for DreamWorks Feature Animation. His film credits include "Monsters vs Aliens", "Madagascar", "Madagascar 2", "Kung Fu Panda", "Bee Movie", "Shrek 3", "Flushed Away", "Over the Hedge", "Shark Tale", "Sinbad", "Spirit", "The Road to El Dorado", and "The Prince of Egypt". He is currently involved with "Shrek 4",
"How to Train Your Dragon", and "Oobermind", all scheduled to be released next year.
Saty is a part-time instructor at the University of Southern California and also teaches at Gnomon School of Visual Effects and TD College. He is the author of Rendering for Beginners: Image synthesis using RenderMan and a co-author of The RenderMan Shading Language Guide. Prior to joining DreamWorks he was Software Manager at MetroLight Studios. He holds three MS degrees and a PhD from The Ohio State University. He has a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and is a member of Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computer Society, and American Mensa.
Additional recent materials:
Wednesday 10 June 2009
RFID in Implantable Medical DevicesNilanjan
Dey Roy discusses his research into RFID systems used in implantable
medical devices. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is the next
generation identification technique with a cheap and simple design. As
RFID finds its way into the medical environment, this paper tries to
approach the various promises of RFID in medical devices and questions
which of these are true. With all the possibilities of RFID, it is
important to place all safeguards before we unleash the technology upon
the world. In this paper we try to research and exploit security
vulnerabilities of a RFID. In addition we propose a RFID system for a
medical organization which processes the data from an implantable
device.At first, an overview of RFID technology and the involved
system components will be given. In the subsequent sections, aspects of
security and privacy will be presented. And finally an overall system
with data management will be presented. In this project we try to
present a set of research which will help us to understand the
possibilities and level of risk involved in a RFID in implantable
devices. Contact the speaker for his paper or to engage him in another presentation at darkmedian <at> gmail.com. Recent related work discussed at the meeting: Andersen, Mark; "Quirks of RFID Memory Make for Cheap Security Scheme", IEEE Spectrum, 18 March 2009. Upson, Sandra; "RFID Systems May Disrupt the Function of Medical Devices", IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2008.
Wednesday 13 May 2009 LEADERS OF THE REBELLIONRED Digital CinemaTed Schilowitz from RED Digital Cinema, will talk about RED's Ultra High Definition camera technology and the software it takes to handle 12 megapixel images at 30 frames per second.
Ted is currently part of the development team at RED Digital Cinema, that is taking the Digital motion picture camera to the next level of resolution, functionality and design. With 4K and 2K acquisition, all in a revolutionary form factor, the RED ONE Camera is all about innovation, from the concept, to the radical design, to the remarkable engineering, to the breakthrough price point... everything about the RED ONE and RED Digital Cinema is about breaking the rules. The RED ONE camera is simply a new breed of tool for Cinematography. 4k resolution, Raw workflow, PL mount for use with Cinema Grade Lenses, the REDCODE Codec, and the 12 MegaPixel Mysterium sensor which RED has created specifically for the RED ONE all contribute to the remarkable advancements of this next generation 4k Digital Cinematography system.
Wednesday 8 April 2009 Meet the Metalheads
 Charles Seabury and high school students Kevin Jordan, and Steven Moore discuss their results in the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Competitive robotics has been gaining popularity
nation wide as a supplement to the conventional science, math and engineering
curriculum. Thousand
Oaks, Newbury Park and Westlake High Schools now have competitive teams using the VEX
platform, and the three schools together compete in the FIRST robotics program.
We will describe the history of our program, the current activities
ideas for the future as well as needs and opportunities for contributions from
the engineering community. Examples of
the VEX robots as well as our current
FRC entry will be demonstrated. Contact the club through their Yahoo! Groups page, Conejo Robotics Pictures of the 2009 FRC robot. The team built it in only six weeks:
Wednesday 11 March 2009
Cloud Computing and SaaS
Come hear Kim Terry,
Terrosa Technologies, discuss the efficiencies and IT impacts of
Software as a Service (SaaS). Kim’s talk surveys and defines SaaS
vendors, the market place, what’s accelerating SaaS deployments, and
effects on the businesses’ infrastructure & data communications.
Kim Terry is Founder and CEO of Terrosa Technologies.
Terrosa provides Software as a Service (SaaS) Creation Services for
software providers, SaaS Transition Services for organizations, and
CloudForm Services Infrastructure Platforms and Data Integration.
Terrosa’s technologies lower cost of operations and speed deployment of
existing and new applications onto cloud computing environments. The
company’s core technologies enable the move from in-house to
Internet-based applications using virtualization, data movement
controls, and custom.
Prior to founding Terrosa
Technologies, Kim was VP and CIO at 3n Global, a mass notification
services provider. Prior to 3n, he was Director of IT at Jafra
Cosmetics and an IT executive at Transamerica. He also co-founded a
consulting firm that sold, integrated, and supported technology used
for field office and mobile data communications. Presentation: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dfgx6t8c_161ccjfbzhc
Wed, Feb 11 2009
IEEE BV CS Organizational MeetingJoin
us to set the agendas for the Ventura County 2009 IEEE Computer and Robotics
chapter meetings this Wednesday evening, February 11th.
This
year is the year to see and share with your colleagues, friends, and interested
parties what's really driving innovation in computers, software, robotics, and
automation. Following William Gibson's assertion that "the street finds
its own use for things", help figure out what hacks, tweaks, new ideas and
novel uses are out there and that you and your organization want to know more
about. Pizza at 6pm, roundtable at 7pm. New members welcome; please
forward this message.
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