New Memberships for 2011
Full-price Computer Society membership for 2010/2011 are available starting 16 August 2010. New memberships are valid September 2010 through December 2011 — that’s an extra four months of membership for new members who join now.
Membership benefits include subscription to IEEE Computer digital edition, thousands of distance learning and certificate courses, an IEEE email address (you@COMPUTER.ORG), and best of all, free access to the Safari online technical library that holds over 600 titles, most of which cost $30-60 apiece when purchased through normal channels.
- Join the IEEE Computer Society
- Join as a Student member
The Member Resource Guide contains detailed information about all Computer Society services.
If you have any questions, please contact one of the other chapter officers (see list on the chapter homepage). If you have already joined this year, please send us your new membership number from your new computer.org address; we’d like to welcome you personally!
1/2-Price Membership Through mid-August
Filed under: Computer, Events, Memberships, Professional Development
Half-price Computer Society membership for 2010 are available only through 13 August. Memberships are $50 for professionals, $20 for students. Benefits:
Membership benefits include subscription to IEEE Computer, thousands of distance learning and certificate courses, an IEEE email address (you@COMPUTER.ORG), and best of all, free access to the Safari online technical library that holds over 600 titles, most of which cost $30-60 apiece when purchased through normal channels.
If you’ve been thinking about joining the Computer Society, now is the time to do it. It’s cheaper than food and a lot more fun.
If you have any questions, please contact Karl Geiger or one of the other chapter officers (see list on the chapter homepage). If you have already joined this year, please send us your new membership number from your new computer.org address; we’d like to welcome you personally!
Putting Graphic Novels and Comics Online
… funny thing I saw online everywhere yesterday …
Digital Comics: Technical Challenges of 21st-Century Publishing
The world of comics/graphic novels has leaped online with new delivery systems, channels like iTunes, and on multiple platforms ranging from traditional PCs to Sony PSP and Apple iPads/iPhones. Quicksilver Software’s founder, William Fisher, has been working with major publishers and artists to deliver comics in these new, digital formats.
In this talk, Bill will discuss his company’s new LongBox Digital Comic Book publishing and distribution system. He will present background about why digital distribution is so critical in this and many other markets, and then discuss some of the key technical challenges faced by the development team as they put together a state-of-the-art infrastructure for multi-platform digital content delivery.
The talk will include details about the competing challenges of providing solid protection against copying while at the same time giving users great freedom in how they can use and enjoy the content that they download. He will also discuss his company’s technical design philosophy, how it influenced the design of the application, the tools, and the back-end infrastructure for the system which is now in final public beta testing.
About the Speaker and His Company
Bill Fisher is the Founder, Kingpin, and Scoutmaster of Quicksilver Software, Inc. Quicksilver creates strategy, simulation, and educational titles, including Star Trek: Starfleet Command, and the U.S. Army’s Full Spectrum Command series.
The company also excels in embedded and vertical market product development, and projects that require custom hardware components. Recent projects include a mobile counter-IED trainer for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, a game for Apple iPhone and iPad, a live poker game show in Las Vegas, a keyboarding skills product, and a military “urban stability operations” simulator.
Prior to founding Quicksilver Software, Inc. in 1984, he managed home computer software development for Mattel Electronics where he developed Intellivision programs.
Bill has spent 26 years managing his own software development company. His interests range from strategy game development to simulation-based training and artificial intelligence design to usability and user interface design. He maintains an active role in guiding development of the company’s projects, which include products targeted at markets ranging from commercial entertainment software and educational software to simulation software and mobile applications
When: 6:30-8:00pm Wed. evening, 14 July 2010
Where: Richter Hall, California Lutheran University
Free, open to the public. RSVP requested.
Details, parking info: see our Meetings page.
“Exploiting SOA Strategies for Software Solutions”
The industry chatter over Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has subsided and analysts have even provocatively proclaimed that “SOA is dead.” However, utility (e.g. “cloud”) computing has risen as a viable architecture pattern, and once again SOA is front and center. Join Richard Seroter, a solutions architect at Amgen and author of SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 (Packt Publishing, 2009), as he looks at what SOA really is, how to build to that pattern, and how to use SOA strategies to unlock legacy assets and leverage new assets in the cloud.
About the Presenter
Richard Seroter is a solutions architect for Amgen, a Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and a Microsoft Connected Technology Advisor. He has spent the majority of his career consulting with customers as they planned and implemented their enterprise software solutions. Richard worked first for two global IT consulting firms, which gave him exposure to a diverse range of industries, technologies, and business challenges. Richard joined Microsoft as a SOA/BPM technology specialist where his sole objective was to educate and collaborate with customers as they considered, designed, and architected BizTalk solutions. He joined Amgen full time as an developer and implementer after the company committed to using BizTalk Server for their enterprise service bus. After establishing the BizTalk environment, Richard transitioned to an architect role where he now identifies enterprise best practices and applies good architectural principles to a wide set of IT initiatives.
When: Wed. evening, 12 May 2010
Where: Richter Hall, California Lutheran University
Details, parking info: see our Meetings page.
Conejo Robotics Team at FIRST Robotics Competition
Filed under: Computer, Events, Programming, Robotics, Robotics and Automation, Sensors
Wednesday, April 14 2009, Charles Seabury and high school students from Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, and Westlake High show off their robots and discuss their efforts to win the FIRST Robotics Competition in 2010.
Competitive robotics has been gaining popularity nationwide 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.
Meeting location and directions.
We hope to see you there.
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- PrePrint: A Cross Analysis of Master Curricula in ICT and Professional Profiles
- PrePrint: Cloud Computing for Mobile Users
- PrePrint: Use of the IEEE Codes of Conduct to Resolve Legal Disputes
- PrePrint: Model-based Runtime Verification of Web Service Interface Contracts
- IEEE Spectrum
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Buenaventura Section
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