Planning for 2012
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, IEEE members are invited to discuss what you would like to see in 2012. We are seeking member input for additional meeting topics, speakers, and activities. We need your suggestions!
Agenda
1. Chapter officers
2. Talks for 2012
3. Membership development – students in particular
4. Other activities
When
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
6:30 PM pizza/networking
7:00 PM meeting
Where
Nygreen Hall, Room 106, California Lutheran University
Registration
Directions, Parking Info
Trends in Tiered Storage Management
Filed under: Communications, Computer, Data Management, Events, infrastructure, storage management
Wed. evening 13 July, Lawrence Sachartoff, Oracle Corp., presents current trends in storage technologies and their role in Tiered Storage Management solutions.
This is a joint meeting with the IEEE Buenaventura Communications Society chapter.
About the Speaker
Lawrence Sachartoff is a high-tech professional with over thirty years of experience. Starting as an avionics tech in the U.S. Air Force (back in the dark days of analogue electronics), Lawrence has built a career in IT technology working with manufacturers and end users such as Intel, Dell, Hughes Space and Communications, Arco and Countrywide. Lawrence is highly experienced with technologies used in the datacenter; servers, storage, backup, preservation and archiving are specialties Lawrence covers in his current role as a Storage Architect with Oracle Corporation.
Where:
- Richter Hall, Ahmanson Science Center, CLU, 60 W. Olsen Rd, Thousand Oaks
When:
- 6:30pm refreshments, networking; 7pm presentation and discussion
RSVP:
DreamWorks Animation
On Wednesday, June 8, Dr. Saty Raghavachary of DreamWorks Animation returns to show us how studios make computer-animated movies. Since last year’s talk, DreamWorks has released “Megamind” and “Kung Fu Panda 2″. Come hear what it takes to put these projects out!
About the Speaker
Saty joined DreamWorks in 1996, where he is now Senior Training Specialist. His film credits include “Kung Fu Panda 2″, “Megamind”, “Shrek Forever After”, “How to Train Your Dragon”, “Monsters vs Aliens”, “Madagascar”, “Madagascar 2?, “Kung Fu Panda”, “Bee Movie”, ”Flushed Away”, “Over the Hedge”, “Shark Tale”, “Shrek 2?, “Shrek 3?, “Sinbad”, “Spirit”, “The Road to El Dorado”, and “The Prince of Egypt”.
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.
RSVP: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/7067 or events@ieee-bv-cs.org
RED Digital Cinema
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Ted Schilowitz from RED Digital Cinema will talk about RED’s Ultra High Definition camera technology and the software it takes to handle 14 megapixel images at 120 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 5K and beyond acquisition, all in a revolutionary form factor, the EPIC Camera is all about innovation, from the concept, to the radical design, to the remarkable engineering, to the breakthrough price point… everything about the EPIC and RED Digital Cinema is about breaking the rules. The EPIC camera is simply a new breed of tool for Cinematography. 5k resolution, Raw workflow, PL mount for use with Cinema Grade Lenses, the REDCODE Codec, and the 5K Mysterium sensor which RED has created specifically for the EPIC all contribute to the remarkable advancements of this next generation 5K Digital Cinematography system.
RSVP: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/6603 or events@ieee-bv-cs.org
Graphically Simulating Smoke in Three Dimensions
On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, Carmen Putrino will discuss graphically simulating smoke in three dimensions.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to graphically simulate smoke in three dimensions. This study uses the pivotal paper “Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games” by Jos Stam as a starting point. Stam presents a working model, with code, for a realistic two-dimensional smoke simulation. To simulate smoke with realistic behavior one must numerically ‘solve’ complex partial differential equations. This study will analyze and present the mathematics necessary to generate a realistic three-dimensional smoke simulation. Java code has been developed for this simulation and care was taken to create readable code that aligns to the mathematics and algorithms analyzed and is presented in this study.
Rainbow Smoke by Lucy Dell
About the Speaker
Carmen Putrino has worked in the hardware and software engineering fields at several defense and commercial industries. He currently holds the position of senior manger at Amgen, a leading biotechnology firm. Carmen received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University and he is currently pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science at California Lutheran University. While at Amgen, Carmen received Computer World’s “Best Practices in Business Intelligence for Planning, Designing and Building the BI Infrastructure” award for leading the development of the Reporting Data Store operational data warehouse.
Location: Richter Auditorium, Ahmanson Science Center, California Lutheran University
Additional maps and parking details: http://www.ieee-bv-cs.org/meetings/
Refreshments and networking: 6:30 PM
Talk: 7:00 PM
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Chapter Info
Buenaventura Section
Chapter C16 Location R6 01 09
Regular Meeting Info
Meets evenings, 2nd Wed of the month. See link above for meeting info.