Moorpark College CS Advisory Committee
Dean Lisa Miller and the Moorpark College CS and CNSE departments invite Computer Science professionals to participate in our yearly Advisory Committee meeting for the Computer Science and Computer Network Systems Engineering departments. The purpose is to reach out to the community around Moorpark College in order to gain your insight and feedback as to what our programs are doing and what they should be doing.
We will begin the meeting by reviewing what our programs are doing and the future plans we have. We then ask that you, who will teach/employ Moorpark students, give us your feelings as to what we should be preparing our students for at the community college level. (This level is the first two years of a bachelor’s degree and/or job training.) What are the trends you see developing that you want students to learn? If you already employ/teach our students, what are we doing right and what can we improve on?
This should be a one hour meeting (until 8 PM). However, if we wish to, we can certainly go beyond this time if you feel that the discussion merits it.
Thank you for considering attending. If you know others who you feel should be at this meeting, please do not hesitate to ask them to contact me. I also ask that you please RSVP to me. We will supply parking passes.
WHAT: Moorpark College CS/CNSE Advisory Committee Meeting
WHEN: Monday March 28 at 7 PM
WHERE: Academic Center Conference Room 221 on the Moorpark Campus
Thank you,
Martin Chetlen
Department Chair
CS/CNSE Departments
Moorpark College
Robots at Flory School
Flory (Moorpark public elementary school) has a new Science Specialist and Principal this school year. These ladies are super excited to launch a robotics program at Flory. Principal Tammy Herzog and Lynn White want to hit the ground running in their first year at the school and introduce the program to current 4th and 5th graders by February of this year.
This will be a terrific learning experience for these future scientists and engineers. Flory is seeking one-time donations to Flory PTA for the purchase of robots. Can you help make a difference? A financial contribution of 1 or 2 robots would be a terrific help towards our goal of purchasing 28 robots by February 2011.
The cost is $155/kit. Contact Lynn Darrow at 805-279-1184 or darrowlynn@yahoo.com.
For details, see the Robotics Program Fundraiser flyer.
Cyber-Security at Central Coast Section’s Fall Dinner Event
Botnets, armies of enslaved computers that have been infected with carefully crafted worms or viruses, are responsible for more than 80 percent of the over 100 billion spam messages e-mailed daily. Antivirus programs are often ineffective against them, because the software typically works by scanning a computer for signatures of known viruses – and the viruses that turn computers into bots are often too new for characteristic patterns to have been identified.
Dr. Christopher Kruegel, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present research and practical applications from the UCSB Computer Security Group showing how this new breed of cybersecurity threats are being countered and destroyed. These threats represent and entirely new level of cybersecurity challenges for today’s Internet.
Dr. Kruegel will demonstrate the approach of taking the “last line of defense” to overcome the shortcomings of current anti-virus software in warding off malware and other cyber-threats. Through case studies and technical descriptions of this new approach, he will also highlight the ramifications of ever-increasing cybersecurity threats in a variety of areas beyond personal use of the Internet, such as healthcare information systems, communications for national defense, and control systems on the electric grid and elsewhere.
- When:
- Thursday, December 2
- Details:
- Program at http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/central_coast/
- Price:
- No charge to IEEE members
- Contact:
- Sign-up:
Giving Sight to the Blind
Filed under: Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Events, IEEE Societies
IEEE Buenaventura EMBS – Giving Sight to the Blind: The Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis System Clinical Trial
Presented by Dr. Nick Talbot, Second Sight.
Wed. evening, 17 November. 6:00pm dinner and networking in Ahmanson Hall, 7:00pm presentation across the way, both at California Lutheran University.
Dinner is $10 at the door, no RSVP required.
Contact Steve Johnson, sfjohnso@ieee.org, for more information.
CS Oct 2010 Meeting – Thursday the 14th
The regular Wednesday Computer Society Chapter meeting this month is moved to Thursday, 14 October, as part of the all-Section dinner event, “Personal Security: Keeping your Live Private on the Intenet”. A dinner buffet at 6:30, panel discussion with security experts follows.
See full details at the original posting.
Register for the event at 123Signup . Tickets are $40 IEEE members, $50 non-members, $10 students (show ID at the door).
Person Security: Keeping Your Life Private on the Intenet
IEEE Computer- IEEE Spectrum
- Delta Frequent Flyers Need to Check Their Airfares 2012/05/18 Robert N. Charette
- Open Season on Aerial Robots 2012/05/18 Philip E. Ross
- Video Friday: Robo Cheetah Goes for a Trot, Mind-Controlled Arms, and Robots Playing Football 2012/05/18 Evan Ackerman
- Samsung Creates a Graphene Transistor with a Band Gap and Electron Mobility 2012/05/18 Dexter Johnson
- This Robot Makes Its Own Custom Tools Out of Glue 2012/05/18 Evan Ackerman
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.