Computer Society Planning for 2011

December 30, 2010 by Deron Johnson · Leave a Comment
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On Wednesday, January 12, 2011, IEEE members are invited to join the Buenaventura Section – Computer Society Chapter officers in planning talks and events for 2011. We have already scheduled seminars from Dreamworks, CRASHspace, and others; and we are seeking member inputs for additional meeting topics, speakers, and activities.

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
Discussion: 7:00 PM

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Beyond the Bachelors Degree II: On Landing Your First Job (or maybe your next…)

November 20, 2010 by Deron Johnson · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Computer, Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Events, IEEE Societies, Professional Development

At 7 PM on Wednesday, December 8, 2010, IEEE-EMBS and IEEE-CS combine resources for their second annual panel discussion addressing issues pertinent to audience members, whether students, graduates, people in transition or those who are just interested in the “possibilities”. You are invited and welcomed to bring your own questions or anecdotes.

The forum will be led by Moderator Abby Corrin, who is employed at Teledyne and also studying for her PhD at UCLA. Our panelists will include Karl Geiger of the Computer Society; Dr. Bob Rumer from CLU; Pat Jacobs, President of Advanced Personnel Profiles; Nathalie Gosset, futurist and business development expert at AMI-USC; Nicole Bidwell, Executive Recruiter; and Steven Johnson of Amgen. With a combination of representatives from industry, academia and executive placement we will have a comprehensive overview of today’s exciting job opportunities.

When and Where
Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 7 PM
Nygreen Room 1, California Lutheran University.
Maps and parking details are here: http://www.ieee-bv-cs.org/meetings/

Dinner and networking
This is a joint meeting with IEEE-EMBS. A sit-down buffet-style dinner will be available for $10, and we hope that you will join us for networking. Dinner will be held at 6 PM at 100 Ahmanson Science Building. No RSVP is necessary; fee is payable at the door.

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The Whats and Whys of the Semantic Web

October 15, 2010 by Deron Johnson · 1 Comment
Filed under: Events, Semantic Computing

On Wednesday, Nov. 10, Graham Matthews, CEO of OrangeDog, will discuss The Whats and Whys of the Semantic Web.

Abstract

If you look up a definition of “the semantic web” you will most likely find an acronym soup of technologies (RDF, RDFS, OWL-Lite, OWL-DL, OWL-Full, SPARQL, SWRL, etc), whose purpose is to add “meaning” (i.e. semantics) to the data on the web so that machines can “understand” and “reason with” web content.

From such descriptions you might conclude that the semantic web has something to do with web pages, philosophy and artificial intelligence. You might even be skeptical, thinking that you have heard such promises of machine understanding before, that this is probably all hype.

While such impressions are partly valid (there is a lot of hype around the semantic web!), I hope to convince you in this presentation that the semantic web actually has something useful to offer, especially in the area of data management and organization. I will show in very practical terms what it means to “add meaning to data”, and hence what it means for machines to “understand” data. I will also show how each of the various semantic technologies fulfills a specific and highly constrained role.

Finally, and most importantly, I will discuss how semantic technologies are a fundamentally different approach to data modeling, an approach that offers many advantages over the standard object oriented and relational approaches.

About the Speaker

Graham Matthews is the CEO of OrangeDog, a Thousand Oaks-based semantic software, applications and consulting company. OrangeDog’s fundamental company goal is to improve the ability of clients to interact with their data in ways that they understand. OrangeDog employs semantic technologies to achieve this goal, specifically using ontologies to provide federated data integration and personalized, but automatically generated, user interfaces. OrangeDog’s product suite deploys as a layer over the existing data environment — no systems have to be changed or replaced to employ OrangeDog’s semantic tools.

When: 6:30 – 8:30 PM Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Where: Nygreen Room 1, California Lutheran University
See our Meeting Information page for location details, maps, and parking.