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CHAPTER MEETINGS OEB-Mag - 10/29 | Understanding the Behavior of Nanoscale Magnetic Heterostructures - energspin control, visualization ... [more]

SPECTRUM - 11/4 | The Future of Smart Grid Technology: Leveraging Big Data to Realize the Future Grid - micro grids .. [more]

SCV-CNSV - 11/4 | Human Cell Analysis: The Technology Behind the World's Most Common Diagnostic Test - blood count, cells ... [more]

SCV-Phot - 11/4 | Four-Fold Resolution Increase in Scan-Free Single-Fiber Endoscopic Imaging - multi-mode, features, optimization . [more]

SCV-Hist - 11/5 | The Early History of Silicon Valley Technology (1907-1970) - radio, Litton, Stanford, klystron, ICs, processors ... [more]

Computer - 11/6 | The 10 Commandments of Building Global Software - internationalization, coding examples, best practices ... [more]

SPECTRUM - 11/6 | 3D Printing for Machine Design - affordable, simple, low cost, part evolution, capabilities ... [more]

SCV-TMC - 11/6 | Transforming And Maintaining An Organizational Culture of Excellence - attitude, performance, growth oriented ... [more]

SCV-PES+IAS - 11/6 | Nuclear Innovation for the 21st Century - low-carbon, scalable, innovation, hybrid systems, choices ... [more]

SCV-WiE - 11/11 | IP and Open Source: Making the Conflict Constructive - specific contribution, benefits, promotion ... [more]

OEB-Life - 11/12 | Electric Vehicles in California: Charging Ahead to 1 million EVs - battery EV, hybrid, fuel cell, policy, trends ... [more]

SCV-ComSoc - 11/12 | LTE-U: Just Another Wireless Technology or a Game Changer? - 2 talks: mobile data, co-existence, status ... [more]

SCV-SPS - 11/12 | Intelligent Personal Assistants and Signal Processing Challenges - Siri, Cortana, spoken dialog, recognizer. [more]

SF-PES - 11/12 | Power Microgrid of the Future - small systems, distributed, independent, technical developments ... [more]

SCV-PV - 11/12 | The Evolution of the Global PV Industry, Its Technologies, Prices, Applications, Business Models - growth .. [more]

SCV-CPMT+CNSV - 11/13 | Thermal Management & Reliability of Power Electronics in Renewable Energy & Transportation ... [more]

SCV-MTT - 11/13 | An Introduction to Software Defined Radio for Microwave Engineers - oversampling, firmware, live demo ... [more]

SCV-MTT - 11/18 | Nanotech-Enabled Energy Generation & Storage - half-day: graphene, electrodes, batteries, supercapacitors ... [more]

SCV-EDS - 11/14 | Annual Symposium on Memory - flash memory, SSDs, density, scaling, 3D, projections ... [more]

SCV-Nano - 11/18 | Nanotech-Enabled Energy Generation & Storage - half-day: graphene, electrodes, batteries, supercapacitors ... [more]

SF-IAS - 11/18 | Measuring and Analyzing VFD Shaft Voltage - capacitive coupling, discharges, waveforms, grounding ... [more]

SCV-CPMT - 11/18 | Designing for the Internet of Things: A Paradigm Shift in Reliability - network hdwre, upgrades, models [more]

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SCV-Ed - 11/19 | Education Opportunities in Big Data - shortage, business, revenue, entrepreneurial opportunities ... [more]

SCV-MEMS - 11/19 | Innovative Pressure Sensing Solutions - ultra-small devices, DRIE Etch, cavities, non-uniformities ... [more]

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SCV-CS - 12/2 | 3-D Visualization of Big Data - big data, trends, patterns, holographic platform ... [more]

SCV-CNSV - 12/2 | Computer Vision Grows Up - gesture-based, smart security, embedded, algorithms ... [more]

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Over the last 60 years, IEEE/IEDM has been the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. IEDM is the flagship conference for nanometer-scale CMOS transistor technology, advanced memory, displays, sensors, MEMS devices, novel quantum and nano-scale devices and phenomenology, optoelectronics, devices for power and energy harvesting, high-speed devices, as well as process technology and device modeling and simulation.

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Monday Pre-Conference Half-day Symposia: “2.5/3D-IC Design Tools and Flows", Moderated by Herb Reiter, President, eda2asic Consulting "3D Integration: 3D Process Technology", Moderated by Phil Garrou, IEEE Fellow and Consultant, Microelectronic Consultants of NC

Keynotes from Silicon Integration Initiative, Micron Technology and Xilinx

Sessions – 25 top industry speakers on: ● IoT, Memory and More than Moore ● Perspectives on Manufacturing and Costs ● Design Analysis and Modeling: SI, Thermal, Power ● Monolithic 3D Integration ● Interposers ● 2.5/3D Systems ... and more. Earlybird Rates through November 10th (save $150).

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-- 1,900 Presentations -- Hundreds of Sessions -- Professional Short Courses by leading experts

The CLEO: 2015 technical program is composed of 25 topics categories. New this year! Applications & Technology has expanded submission acceptance criteria to recognize Optical Engineering Excellence (see at right). Abstracts/ summaries are solicited in the following areas:

CLEO: Science & Innovations CLEO: Science & Innovations is the "classic" CLEO which for over 38 years has reported applied research results on all types of lasers, optical materials, and photonic devices. Topics include laser processing of materials, terahertz technologies, high-field and ultrafast optics, optical communications, biophotonics, optical sensing and metrology, micro- and nano-photonics and non-linear optics.

CLEO: Applications and Technology CLEO: Applications & Technology presents the latest advancements in applied optics and photonics and discusses how these technologies can be used in products. This area of the conference is where innovative commercial technologies are demonstrated through new components, advanced processing technology and optoelectronic systems. Sessions may provide proof-of-concept prototypes, field trials and test data, and manufacturing advances in areas such as metrology, “green” technologies (LEDs and solar cells), biomedical applications, industrial instrumentation, and other end-user markets.

CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science CLEO: QELS – Fundamental Science is a descendent of the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), which has been traditionally collocated with CLEO. QELS has long been a leading venue for presenting the newest research results in physics-related areas of optics, modern spectroscopy, atomic and molecular manipulation and control, quantum optics, optical materials, interactions of electromagnetic radiation with matter, ultrafast phenomena, and nonlinear optics. More recent additions include fields such as quantum information science, nanophotonics, and metamaterials.

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Technical Conf: May 10-15, 2015 Exposition: May 12-14, 2015 San Jose Convention Center

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Designing Servers from Industry-Standard Hardware and Open-Source Software for Clouds, Big Data, Megawebsites, Real-Time Analysis, and High-Performance Computing

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Keynote Speakers Tom Bradicich, PhD, Vice President, Server Engineering, HP; Jian Li, Ph.D., Research Director/ Chief Architect, Huawei; Raejeanne Skillern, GM/Cloud Service Provider Business, Intel; Kushagra Vaid, GM, Cloud+Enterprise Division, Microsoft; Riccardo Badalone, CEO & Co-Founder, Diablo Technologies; Dr. Leendert van Doorn, Corporate Fellow, AMD; Arpit Joshipura, Vice President, Dell Networking ... and more.

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Understanding the Behavior of Nanoscale Magnetic

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Speaker: Amanda K. Petford-Long, Materials Science

Division, Argonne National Laboratory Time: 3:00 PM Cost: none Place: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

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Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/oeb/mag

Dr. Amanda K. Petford-Long is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. In addition to her own research program, she heads the strategic initiative on Integrated Imaging at Argonne. She holds a D.Phil in Materials Science from the University of Oxford (1985) and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from University College, London (1981). She moved to Argonne in 2005 from the University of Oxford where she was a full professor in the Materials Department and a tutorial fellow at Corpus Christi College. From January 2010–Feb 2014 she was director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a Department of Energy national user facility at Argonne National Laboratory, focused on capabilities tailored to the creation and characterization of new functional materials on the nanoscale.

Dr. Petford-Long’s research interests include the dependence of magnetic, transport and optical properties of layered ferroic films and nanostructures on microstructure and composition. She has been particularly involved in exploring the physical properties of the nanomaterials, such as magnetic domain behavior and transport behavior, using in-situ transmission electron microscopy techniques including Lorentz microscopy. She has published over 300 papers in the scientific literature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the American Physical Society, and she is also a full professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Northwestern University, where she is active in graduate teaching.

As the dimensions of magnetic materials decrease

to the nanoscale, novel distributions of spin can be created. We are exploring the formation of these novel distributions and ways to control them through gaining an understanding of the local energy landscape of the nanostructures. We have used a combination of Lorentz TEM and in-situ magnetizing experiments, together with magnetic force microscopy (MFM) to study the micromagnetic behavior at the sub-micron scale of magnetic nanostructures such as heterostructures composed of coupled, patterned magnetic disks, and artificial spin ice arrays. Quantitative analysis of the Lorentz TEM data has been carried out using the transport of intensity equation (TIE) approach, which we have also extended to allow us to visualize the magnetic structure in three dimensions. By comparing these data with the results of simulations, we are able to gain a fuller understanding of the various energy terms that contribute to the behavior that we observe.

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Human Cell Analysis: The Technology Behind

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Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.com

Giacomo Vacca, PhD, is an award-winning physicist and inventor with 17 years of experience in commercial R&D. He has been responsible for several 510(k) product launches, and is the inventor of 28 patents -- both issued and pending. His expertise includes optical design, microfluidics and digital signal processing.

He is the founder of Kinetic River, a biophotonics design and product development company with a mission to create innovative tools for life science research and biomedical diagnostics.

Cell analysis is a bit like the air we breathe: nobody thinks about it much, but try taking it away and people take rapid notice. Without cell analysis, it would be impossible to perform blood counting -- a routine diagnostic test performed about 300 million times a year worldwide.

Each of us has about 6 quarts of blood, which contains some 1011 white blood cells, 1012 platelets, and 1014 red blood cells. Tweak any of them by some percentage points and you get serious disease -- anemia and leukemia just to name the best-known ones. Accurate counting and identification of the different kinds of cells in blood is therefore critical to distinguishing between illness and health.

Counting and analyzing blood and other types of cells is absolutely ubiquitous and an extremely important aspect of both health care and biomedical research. This talk will show how cell analysis is done today, and what exciting innovations are coming out that will revolutionize how it will be done tomorrow.

TUESDAY November 4, 2014

SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley

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Four-Fold Resolution Increase in Scan-Free Single-Fiber

Endoscopic Imaging

Speaker: Prof. Joseph M. Kahn, Stanford University Time: Networking/Light Dinner at 6:00 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: INTEL Building SC-12 Auditorium, 3600

Juliette Lane, Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos

Joseph M. Kahn received the A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1981, 1983 and 1986, respectively. From 1987-1990, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, in Holmdel, NJ. He demonstrated multi-Gbit/s coherent optical fiber transmission systems, setting world records for receiver sensitivity. From 1990-2003, he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at U.C. Berkeley, performing research on optical and wireless communications. Since 2003, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he heads the Optical Communications Group. His current research interests include: fiber-based imaging, spatial multiplexing, rate-adaptive and spectrally efficient modulation and coding methods, coherent detection and associated digital signal processing algorithms, digital compensation of fiber nonlinearity, and free-space systems. Professor Kahn received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. From 1993-2000, he served as a Technical Editor of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine. From 2009-14, he was an Associate Editor of IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. In 2000, he helped found StrataLight Communications, where he served as Chief Scientist from 2000-2003. StrataLight was acquired by Opnext, Inc. in 2009.

Image transmission through multi-mode fibers

(MMFs) has long been of fundamental interest and is now being pursued vigorously for applications such as endoscopic in vivo imaging. An endoscope using one MMF would be potentially much more compact than endoscopes employing a bundle of fibers or one fiber with a scanning head. We experimentally demonstrate endoscopic imaging through a MMF in which the number of resolvable image features approaches four times the number of spatial modes per polarization propagating in the fiber. In our method, a sequence of random field patterns is input to the fiber, generating a sequence of random intensity patterns at the output, which are used to sample an object. Reflected power values are returned through the fiber and linear optimization is used to reconstruct an image. The factor-of-four resolution enhancement is due to mixing of modes by the squaring inherent in field-to-intensity conversion. The incoherent point-spread function (PSF) at the center of the fiber output plane is an Airy disk equivalent to the coherent PSF of a conventional diffraction-limited imaging system having a numerical aperture twice that of the fiber. All previous methods for imaging through MMF can only resolve a number of features equal to the number of modes. Most of these methods use localized intensity patterns for sampling the object and use local image reconstruction.

TUESDAY November 4, 2014SCV Photonics

Patent Agent Jay Chesavage, PE

MSEE Stanford 3833 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 94303

info@file-ee-patents.com

www.File-EE-Patents.com

TEL: 650-619-5270 FAX: 650-494-3835

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The Early History of Silicon Valley Technology (1907-1970)

Speakers: Ted Hoff, Norm Pond, Paul Wesling Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:00 PM;

Panel at 6:30 PM; Audience Q&A at 8:00 PM

Cost: $5 donation requested for food Place: Keypoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave.,

Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/sv-techhist

Norman Pond is a founder of Intevac and has served as Chairman of the Board since February 1991. He has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. Before joining Intevac, from 1988 to 1990, Mr. Pond served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Varian Associates, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor, communication, defense and medical products where he was responsible for overall management of Varian's operations. From 1984 to 1988, he was President of Varian's Electron Device and Systems Group and became a Director of Varian in 1986. Prior to joining Varian, Mr. Pond was employed by Teledyne, a diversified electronics company, from 1963 to 1984 where he served in various positions, including Group Executive. Mr. Pond holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Missouri at Rolla and a M.S. in Physics from UCLA.

Ted Hoff, Jr. received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958, and he applied for his first two patents based on work done for the General Railway Signal Corp. of Rochester, New York during the summers of his undergraduate study. He then received his master's degree in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1962 from Stanford University. As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, Hoff co-invented the least mean squares filter with Bernard Widrow. Hoff joined Intel in 1968 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of using a "universal processor" rather than a variety of custom-designed circuits in the architectural idea and an instruction set for the Intel 4004 - the chip that started the microprocessor revolution in the early 1970s. In 1985, Hoff was named the first Intel Fellow; he stayed in that position until 1988.

Key technology advances of the 20th century were

initiated right here in the SF Bay Area, just as they continue to be today. Four time periods will be examined during this History of Silicon Valley session, featuring two technical pioneers from that era:

a] 1907-1932: Early tech history in Santa Clara County. Paul Wesling will explain how Silicon Valley has its roots in ham radio, WW I, early vacuum tubes, patent fights, new materials and processes, and contributions of some key innovators.

b] 1933-1947: Vacuum tube development and applications. Paul and Norman Pond will discuss the depression, interdependency, Stanford University, the klystron, WW II, process development, new materials, and post-war companies.

c] 1948-1959: Pushing limits of vacuum tube applications. FM radio & TV, the bipolar transistor, microwave communications, medical applications, innovation, and manufacturing process development.

d] 1960-1970: Start of the IC era. Ted Hoff will discuss Stanford, Shockley Labs --> Fairchild –> new semiconductor companies (Intel, AMD, National, Intersil, many others); MOS process development, MOS LSI memories, the Intel 1102/1103, calculators, the 4004 microprocessor.

Finally we will touch on the business and entrepreneurial environment in Santa Clara County and the SF Bay Area, and show how it is, in many ways, still the same. For example, about 1 in 8 patents currently originate here, as the nation's top patent incubator, and 55% of venture capital is invested here.

Paul Wesling received his BS in electrical engineering and his MS in materials science from Stanford University. Following assignments at GTE/Lenkurt Electric, ISS/Sperry-Univac, Datapoint Peripheral Products (VP - Product Integrity), and Amdahl (mainframe testing), he joined Tandem Computer in Cupertino (now part of Hewlett Packard) in 1985. Paul retired from HP in 2001, and now serves as the Communications Director for the IEEE S.F. Bay Area’s Council.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, received the IEEE Centennial Medal, the CPMT Board's Distinguished Service award, the Society Contribution Award, and the IEEE's Third Millennium Medal.

WEDNESDAY November 5, 2014

SCV Silicon Valley Technology History

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From Worst to Best: Transforming And Maintaining

an Organizational Culture of Excellence

Speaker: ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D., Diamond

Associates Time: Networking at 6:00 PM; Forum at 6;30 PM;

Dinner at 7:00 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM Cost: $11 for IEEE members; $14 for non-

members ($3 more, at the door) Place: Ramada Inn, 1217 Wildwood Ave,

Sunnyvale RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee-scv-tmc.org

ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D. has an extensive career in business, education, psychology and consulting, culminating in her current work as a consultant to management, specializing in people and processes in the workplace. She established her firm, Diamond Associates in1981. Her over-riding principle is to help her clients get the most out of themselves and others. Because she focuses on both the people and the systems that make them successful, her interventions are consistent with a client company’s strategic objectives. Thus her solutions are practical, timely, reliable, sustainable, and successful.

ArLyne appears on radio and television programs and speaks to community organizations about a wide range of topics. She teaches university courses in: Organizational Development, Working with a Multi-Cultural Organization, Marketing, Mediation, Diversity Training, Conflict Resolution, Interviewing and Hiring Practices, Ethics and Expectations in the Workplace, Group Decision Making and Problem-Solving, and Professional and Personal Development. In the past she taught graduate level psychology courses, including psychological testing and evaluation, career counseling, and many others. She has guest-lectured at Stanford Law School and other colleges and universities.

We all say we want excellence in attitude, behavior

and performance – but how often do you feel as though you were experiencing those values regularly in your organization? Is everyone devoted to providing quality at all times, or is there a rush to get things done?

If we were to ask your stakeholders (customers, stockholders, community neighbors) whether your trademark stood for the best – what would they say? Are people clamoring to work for you and buy from you because of your reputation?

Dr. Diamond has been transforming individuals, groups and companies into becoming highly functioning, with a positive spirit and growth oriented. One of the CEOs who hired her said, “Raise the Bar, Make Things Better.” That was her mandate for working within this fast changing and growing firm with significantly increased responsibilities. She took them from ho-hum to wow and will share her stories with you.

In this talk she will share some of the techniques she has used that have transformed client groups from having the worst reputation in the organization to the best in customer service. She will provide methods of quality improvement that start from the onset of the project and she will share ways in which people can be held accountable, properly rewarded, and incentivized to not only do their personal best, but to inspire others to do the same.

Bring Your Management Challenge Arrive by 6:30 PM to join our new Management Forum

We have added a new meeting activity: the opportunity for you to have a small group of colleagues offer you their experience and insight to help you solve an engineering or technology management challenge. When signing in for the meeting, let the person at the registration desk know that you would like to have a challenge discussed. The meeting organizer will pick two to four of the challenges for discussion. Attendees will break out into small groups to discuss the challenge and offer ideas that may help you solve the challenge.

THURSDAY November 6, 2014

SCV Technology Management

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Nuclear Innovation for the 21st Century

Speaker: Prof. Richard Lester, Head of the Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT

Time: Networking and dinner at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM

Cost: $35 for IEEE members (use code IEEE1106); $45 for non-members

Place: Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pes_ias/Event1.html

Richard Lester is Head of MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), and also faculty chair of the Industrial Performance Center. His research focuses on local, national, and international systems of innovation. He is also active in research and teaching on nuclear technology innovation, management and control. As head of NSE he works with his faculty colleagues to help develop the next generation of leaders of the global nuclear enterprise and to provide technical leadership in energy and non-energy applications of nuclear science and technology. As the founding director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center, he has led several major studies of national and regional competitiveness and innovation performance commissioned by governments and industrial groups around the world.

Professor Lester’s latest book is Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System. He is the author or co-author of seven other books on energy, innovation and productivity.

He obtained his undergraduate degree in ChemE from Imperial College and a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT and he has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1979. He serves on several boards and as an advisor to corporations, governments, and non-profit groups, and speaks frequently to academic, business and general audiences throughout the world.

Nuclear energy will be essential for achieving

deep, rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions. Today it produces almost two-thirds of all low-carbon electricity in the U.S. Nuclear power technology is highly reliable, easily scalable, and orders of magnitude more compact than other energy sources.

But new nuclear plants are costly, risky investments and cannot compete with gas-fired electricity at today’s low natural gas prices. Many of America’s 100 commercial nuclear power plants are likely to shut down over the next two decades, and there are no plans to replace them.

In this talk, Professor Lester will discuss the role of innovation in making an energy source -- already much safer than it was 40 years ago -- less expensive, more secure and safer still, while developing new approaches that are designed to meet the rapidly evolving capabilities and limitations of electric power grids.

What new developments seem most promising today? Can innovations in nuclear power and fuel cycle technologies, as well as in nuclear governance and education, unlock the potential of nuclear power to help drive the global transition to an affordable, reliable, low-carbon energy system? Professor Lester will describe some of the advanced technologies under development at MIT. Examples will include hybrid nuclear-renewables systems, nuclear air-Brayton combined cycle systems, new reactor siting strategies and off-grid applications.

Finally, he will describe the choice facing the US -- become a 21st century nuclear also-ran, or lead the development of a new generation of nuclear technologies? He will outline a new approach to large-scale nuclear innovation, designed to tap into America’s formidable industrial capabilities and entrepreneurial strengths.

THURSDAY November 6, 2014 SCV Power & Energy and Industry Applications

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IP and Open Source: Making the Conflict Constructive

Speaker: Victoria (Vicki) Mitchell, Director of SoC

Software Engineering, Altera Time: Networking and light lunch at 11:30 AM;

Presentation at 12:00 PM Cost: none (lunch provided by Altera) Place: Altera Corp Building 3,, 101 Innovation Dr,

San Jose RSVP: from website Web: ieee-wie-scv.org

Victoria (Vicki) Mitchell manages the worldwide embedded software team at Altera. Her group is responsible for models and simulation, development tools, and OS enablement for Altera’s microprocessor subsystems. Vicki has been leading this team since joining Altera in late 2011, and is responsible for the build-out of the software function at the Austin Technology Center.

Vicki has over 25 years experience in low-level, systems software, the majority of which has been for semiconductor companies including Cirrus Logic, SigmaTel, and IDT. Prior to joining Altera, she was the Director of Software Development for Wolfson Microelectronics, where she produced software for audio controllers. Vicki holds a BS in Software Engineering from Colorado Technical University.

Altera, like many others, contributes to the open

source community to enable software such as the Linux kernel to run on our SoCFPGA platform. Altera's contributions include improvements to the general kernel and devices, as well as new SoCFPGA-specific functions such as FPGA Management. By nature, these improvements benefit everybody -- Altera, our customers, and our competitors. This presentation helps answer the question, "How does a technology company protect innovation yet still differentiate to win in an open source world?"

We have reviewed several examples of strategies and behaviors for managing open source software. The strategies come from three distinct hardware platforms: Soft processor IP, embedded FPGA SoCs, and stand-alone SoCs such as i.MX and OMAP. Key components of leadership are identified, and the steps a hardware vendor can take to establish such leadership are explained. An example of how these specific strategies were applied in a recent Altera contribution to the open source community is included. We also share how open source contributions can be promoted in the market, as well as some tips to help overcome the technical and legal challenges, with the ultimate goal of making everyone a winner in the open source community.

TUESDAY November 11, 2014SCV Women in Engineering

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Electric Vehicles in California: Charging Ahead to 1 Million EVs

Speaker: David Reichmuth, Ph.D., Senior Engineer, Clean Vehicles Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

Time: 11:30 AM Cost: $10.00 (includes sandwich lunch) Place: University of California Berkeley, Richmond

Field Station, South 47th Street, Richmond RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee4life.org

David Reichmuth is a senior engineer in the Clean Vehicles Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, focusing on alternative fuel vehicle analysis and policy. Before coming to UCS, Dr. Reichmuth worked for Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, where he modeled the potential costs and benefits of the large-scale adoption of battery electric, hydrogen fuel cell electric, and improved petroleum-fueled vehicles. His peer-reviewed publications compared the value of these different vehicles under a range of technology and policy assumptions.

Dr. Reichmuth earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees, both in chemical engineering, from University of California-Berkeley and he earned his bachelor’s degree at University of California-Davis.

In less than 5 years, electric vehicles (EVs) in

California have gone from a handful of home-built conversions to over 100,000 EVs on the road. Soon hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles will join plug-in electric vehicles on Bay Area roads, further increasing access to electric-drive vehicles. This talk will discuss the current trends in EV technologies, policy developments in California and the environmental benefits gained from switching from gasoline engines to electric motors.

WEDNESDAY November 12, 2014 OEB Life

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LTE-U: Just Another Wireless Technology or a Game Changer?

Speakers: Apostolos (Tolis) Papathanassiou,

Principal Wireless Architect, Intel, and Kai Tang, Director, Technical Marketing, Qualcomm

Time: Networking and Refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentations at 7:00 PM

Cost: $5 donation for food Place: TI Conference Center Auditorium (Building

E), 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: scvlte.eventbrite.com

Apostolos (Tolis) Papathanassiou is Principal Wireless Architect at Intel, responsible for LTE PHY (Physical Layer) standardization and technology development activities in the Standards and Advanced Technology (SAT) division of Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group (MCG). He has more than 50 scientific contributions to international journals, conferences, and books since 1994, more than 20 awarded patents/patent applications in 3G (TDSCDMA and WCDMA), 4G (WiMAX, LTE), satellite (LEO/MEO), and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11a/g/n) wireless communications systems since 1996, and more than 100 contributions to wireless standardization bodies such as 3GPP, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16, and WiMAX Forum since 1999. Previously at Intel, he led multiple standardization efforts in ITU-R and IEEE/WiMAX Forum. Before joining Intel, Tolis worked on multiple-antenna PHY techniques and algorithms for 3G, satellite, and Wi-Fi wireless systems.

Kai Tang is Director of Technical Marketing at

Qualcomm. Kai's current role is responsible to promote LTE evolution and small cell technology to operators and infra vendors, with a focus on North America. Previously he has helped to drive the adoption of key Qualcomm technologies including LTE and LTE-Advanced, DO-Advanced, 1X-Advanced, Femtocells and UltraSON™. Kai joined Qualcomm in 2001 as a system engineer in the mobile chipset division. He has participated in the design and testing of multiple Qualcomm chipsets, spanning gpsOne, 1X/EV-DO and UMTS technologies. Kai holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MBA degree, both from University of California, San Diego. He received his BS and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Southeast University, China. He holds 5 US patents related to wireless communications.

LTE-U, or as more recently rechristened LTE-

Licensed Assisted Access, has attracted a lot of attention, both positive and negative, from network operators, traditional wi-fi vendors and enterprises. But what is it all about? And how will it help alleviate the mobile data rate crunch? We will have two experts from Intel and Qualcomm share the inside picture on how it's shaping up.

LTE System Deployment and Performance in Unlicensed Bands

The ever increasing demand for mobile data is fueling a new wave of innovations to increase the capacity of cellular networks. As opportunities for conventional licensed spectrum below 6 GHz are becoming scarce, other spectrum frequency bands, such as unlicensed bands, have gained considerable attention recently. In order to enable the best possible system operation in unlicensed bands, design issues with respect to co-existence among multiple LTE operators sharing the unlicensed band as well as co-existence with other wireless systems, such as IEEE 802.11, need to be addressed. In this presentation, we evaluate the overall system level performance in unlicensed bands by proposing appropriate deployment scenarios. Different LTE and WiFi system configurations are described and evaluated in LTE/WiFi coexistence scenarios, including multiple LTE operator coexistence, demonstrating important system-level performance aspects in unlicensed bands.

Extending the Benefits of LTE Advanced to Unlicensed Spectrum

Bringing LTE Advanced to unlicensed spectrum allows operators to better utilize the unlicensed 5 GHz band through a unified LTE network and offer higher network performance, as well as an enhanced user experience. In this presentation, we will introduce LTE-U use cases, regulatory requirements and standardization status. We will also present LTE-U performance and benefits, and how it would coexist with WiFi in the unlicensed band.

WEDNESDAY November 12, 2014 SCV Communications

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Intelligent Personal Assistants and Signal Processing Challenges Speaker: Dr. Gokhan Tur, Microsoft Research Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: donation accepted for food Place: AMD Commons Theater, 991 Stewart Dr.,

Sunnyvale RSVP: from website, for visitor badge Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps

Asli Celikyilmaz is a Senior NLP Scientist at the Language & Intent group at Microsoft Silicon Valley. Asli's research interests are natural language processing, spoken language understanding, and machine learning (specifically structured prediction, unsupervised learning of parameters and features). Prior to Microsoft, Asli was a postdoc researcher at the Computer Science Department of University of California, Berkeley between 2008-2010 working on machine learning methods on automatic text summarization and question answering. Asli has co-authored 50+ papers on AI, Natural language processing including question answering, summarization and spoken language understanding.

Following the rapid proliferation of mobile devices,

especially smart phones, multimodal virtual personal assistant (VPA) applications such as Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana and google Now started to emerge. With the advances in speech recognition, language understanding, and machine learning coupled with client-side capabilities coming with larger screens that enable multi-touch displays and server-side capabilities based on cloud computing, these applications have begun to move beyond conventional simple command/control based speech applications. One of the core technologies in a VPA system is understanding what the users are saying, called as spoken language understanding (SLU). In the last decade, a variety of practical goal-oriented spoken dialog systems have been built for limited domains, employing "targeted" SLU capabilities. Given an utterance, SLU in dialog systems extracts predefined semantic information from the output of an automatic speech recognizer (ASR). This semantic information usually contains the intent of the user and associated arguments (slots), matching the back-end capabilities. The dialog manager (DM) then determines the next machine action given the SLU output. In this talk I highlight some of the technical challenges and research efforts for multimodal virtual personal assistant applications, especially focusing on spoken language understanding and dialog aspects, pointing out issues and opportunities in this area.

WEDNESDAY November 12, 2014

SCV Signal Processing

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Power Microgrid of the Future

Speaker: Dr. Yazhou (Joel) Liu, Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager, Schneider Electric

Time: Networking and light Chinese lunch at 11:30 AM; Presentation at 12:00 PM

Cost: $5 for IEEE members, students; $10 for others (no cost for only presentation)

Place: California Public Utilities Commission, 505 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

RSVP: by November 10, to Sean Ely, S1E7@pge.com,415-973-7192

Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1411-sf-pes.pdf

Dr. Yazhou (Joel) Liu is a Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager in Schneider Electric Power System Engineering group. He is managing the engineering services team in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. Before joining Schneider Electric, he worked for THALES and Honeywell to design airplane electrical power systems.

Dr. Liu received his B.S. and M.S. from Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China, and his Ph.D. from Arizona State University, all in electrical engineering with focus on power system engineering. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Advanced Power System on the project of Navy All Electric Ship power system conceptual design. He has published over ten technical papers in leading international peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and two book chapters. He has been invited to give presentations at several US and international conferences, and he is also a frequent reviewer on international peer-reviewed journals in power engineering. He is an IEEE senior member and was a member of the IEEE Task Force on Harmonic Modeling and Simulation. He is registered as a PE in the states of California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. He was honored as one of “New Faces of Engineering” by National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) in 2006.

A microgrid is a small power system composed of

one or more distributed energy resources which can be operated independently from the power grid. The concept was introduced in late 1990s. With the new development of distributed generation -- for example, wind, fuel cell, and solar, and other new technologies -- microgrid is being implemented and commercialized. Market data predicts that microgrid vendor revenue will increase to $12 billion in 2018. In this presentation, Dr. Liu will talk about the definition, application, technical development, and technical challenge of microgrid. Dr. Liu will also share some real case studies where Schneider Electric has been involved.

WEDNESDAY November 12, 2014 SF Power & Energy

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The Evolution of the Global PV Industry,

Its Technologies, Prices, Applications and Business Models

Speaker: Paula Mints, Chief Market Research

Analyst, SPV Market Research Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Palo Alto Research Center, Pake

Auditorium, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pv

Paula Mints is the Founder and Chief Market Research Analyst of the global solar market research firm SPV Market Research. Ms. Mints began her solar market research career in 1997 with Strategies Unlimited. In 2005 she left Strategies Unlimited for Navigant where she continued her practice until October 2012, when she founded SPV Market Research. Ms. Mints provides classic market research products based on primary research and focused on the supply and demand sides of the solar industry and its technologies. She publishes often with Renewable Energy World and Renewable Energy Focus. Her chapter, Overview of Photovoltaic Production, Markets and Perspectives, was published in the Fraunhofer/ Elsevier book Advances in Photovoltaics Volume 1, edited by Dr. Gerhard Willeke and Dr. Eicke Weber. Ms. Mints also speaks at several high profile conferences a year, including the IEEE PVSC, the EU PVSEC, Intersolar Europe and US as well as others. All of Ms. Mints work is based on primary research of the supply and demand sides of the solar industry. The database that forms the foundation of her work was established in 1974. Ms. Mints has continued the classic market research methodology that was established at that time. Ms. Mints earned her MBA at San Jose State University in 1999.

The global PV industry has experienced

significantly strong growth during its >40-year history. From 1978 through 2013 for example, the industry grew by a compound annual rate of 35%. During this period industry participants have worked hard to lower manufacturing costs, fought to maintain necessary incentives, struggled with low to negative margins all the while continuing to develop and commercialize PV technologies and mature the business models necessary to make PV a mainstream energy choice. This presentation will provide the history and context of PV technology development in terms of costs, prices, application deployment and the political/economic climate of select periods as well as discussing the current situation and future opportunities for deployment.

WEDNESDAY November 12, 2014

SCV Photovoltaics

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Thermal Management & Reliability

of Power Electronics in Renewable Energy &

Transportation Applications

Speaker: Dr. Eckhard Wolfgang, European Center of Power Electronics, and University of Dortmund

Time: Networking and buffet lunch at 11:30 AM; Presentation (no charge) at 12:15 PM

Cost: $25 for IEEE Members, $30 for non-members, $10 for students, unemployed ($5 more at door)

Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd, Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv

Dr. Eckhard Wolfgang is a consultant at the European Center of Power Electronics, active in the education of engineers in the field of power electronics reliability and thermal management. Since 1994 he has also been Honorary Professor at the University of Dortmund, Department of Electrical Engineering.

From 1970 to 2006 he was at Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, where his area of work and research were: analytics, testing of high-density DRAMs, power semiconductor devices and power electronics, and reliability of electronic components and systems. He has chaired the German VDE/ITG technical committee on "Reliability Testing of VLSI Circuitsâ € , and has been technical chairman of ESREF and CIPS.

Dr Wolfgang studied Mechanical Engineering and Technical Physics at the Technical University, Vienna, where he received the diploma in engineering (Dipl.-Ing), and the PhD degree. He has published over 130 technical and scientific articles.

In this presentation we will discuss the broad

range of demands and technologies for power electronics applications, as distinct from the needs of microelectronics. I will demonstrate the importance of building in system reliability from the very early stage of design, and share examples of hybrid vehicles and inverters where this approach has been used effectively. Examples of Integrated Power Boards, Thermal Interface Materials, and bonding wire will be presented. Finally I will discuss some cooling technologies, including liquid cooling, used in thermal management of power electronics.

THURSDAY November 13, 2014

SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, with Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley

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An Introduction to Software Defined Radio

Speaker: Jeffrey Pawlan, Distinguished Lecturer,

IEEE MTT Society Time: Networking and snacks at 6:00 PM;

Presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Aristotle Room, Keysight (Agilent)

Technologies, 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

RSVP: not required Web: meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/29125

Jeffrey Pawlan (M 1989, SM 1996) has been a consultant as owner of Pawlan Communications for 25 years. Prior to that, he had worked for many companies in very diverse areas of analog, RF, and microwave design. Some of his work was for NASA projects including the very successful design of the SARSAT/COSPAS search and rescue satellite ground stations. He also taught engineering part-time. He attended UCLA and several other universities. He enjoyed learning many different fields and has 13 years of higher education including a Doctorate degree.

He has worked on projects for consumer, industrial, and military applications covering a wide range of the spectrum from LF to 50GHz. In addition to his primary involvement with the MTT society, he is also a member of the UFFC (frequency control) concentrating on low-phase-noise oscillators and phase-noise measurements, a member of the AP-S, and also the Communications Society. He has published several papers and has two patents. He is serving as a member on the IEEE SCV Section ExCom and also is on the ExCom of the Central Area, Region 6. He is a member of two MTT technical committees, MTT-9 and MTT-20.

He has been designing RF and microwave hardware for Software Defined Radio uses within instrumentation and military satellite communications since 1984. For the past nine years he has been concentrating on Software Defined Radio technology with his own radio designs including the development of very capable software and hardware. He has presented talks in a workshop at the 2010 IMS in Anaheim, the 2011 IMS in Baltimore, the 2012 IMS in Montreal, and also at chapter meetings and a short course.

This lecture will begin with the definition, history

and evolution of Software Defined Radio (SDR). RF/microwave engineers will find it clear and understandable because analogies will be made to conventional classic radio systems and components. The talk will introduce the concepts of oversampling and undersampling as it applies to SDR. There will also be an introduction and explanation of the firmware and software portions of SDR. A comparison with state-of-the art conventional analog circuitry will be shown. Several live demonstrations of SDR will be presented.

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the culmination of advances on several fronts and probably the most significant area of development in radio systems today. The entire worldwide cellular system uses SDR. NASA and the US military communications are now almost exclusively using SDR.

THURSDAY November 13, 2014

SCV Microwave Theory and Techniques

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Annual Half-Day Symposium on Memory

Speakers: Jim Handy, President, Objective Analysis;

Deepak C. Sekar, Director, Rambus; Krishna Parat, NAND Flash Scaling, Intel; Akira Goda, Micron; Stan Williams, Senior Fellow, HP

Time: Registration at 12:30 PM; Presentations from 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Cost: TBD Place: Texas Instruments Building E Conference

Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/eds

Tentative Agenda

12:30 - Registration 1:00 - Introduction

1:10 – 1:50 Jim Handy (President of Objective Analysis) - Keynote speech “What's Changing in NAND Flash, and What Isn't”

1:45 – 2:20 Krishna Parat (Intel) – “Scaling trends in NVM”

2:20 – 2:55 Akira Goda (Micron) - “3D NAND cell technology overview”

2:55 – 3:15 Refreshment Break 3:15 – 3:50 Deepak C. Sekar (Director at Rambus) —

“RRAM: What are the barriers to adoption? How can they be overcome?”

3:50 – 4:25 Stan Williams (Senior Fellow at HP) - “The mysterious memristor”

4:25 – 5:00 Guenole Jan (STT) – “MRAM: A New Class of Memory”

5:00 – 5:35 Tamer San (TI) – “Emerging NVM Technologies in Embedded Products”

5:35 – 6:00 Wrap up

Please join IEEE Santa Clara Valley Electron

Devices Society’s Annual Symposium on Nov. 14th. The 2014 Symposium will focus on New Frontiers in Memory

Program Overview: Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, watches, digital cameras using flash memory have become ubiquitous and are everywhere. Flash memory is enabling ever increasing use of on-line cloud services and applications for everything from picture and video archiving to games and video streaming. With rapid increase in capacity and decrease in price more and more users can afford a PC with flash-based solid state drives (SSD).

For mobile computers SSDs are becoming most feasible choice since they do not have moving parts, are robust to vibration and shock, enable low power and prolong battery life, can boot up quickly, and considerably lighter. Besides consumer devices, flash memory products are becoming more common in enterprise storage application. There is dramatic increase in utilizing SSDs in enterprise data centers as compared to CPUs and HDD upgrades. SSDs and other flash memory products can provide higher level of performance in terms of input/output operation speed and lower cost compared to HDDs. Huge energy cost savings for SSDs vs. HDDs add to key advantages.

At the time when traditional memory technologies face serious scaling and physical limits, the advent of 3D NAND architectures provide for new and additional opportunities of taking flash “virtual scaling” to the next level. Further, down the road 3D memories based on new physical principles, such as resistive or magnetic may come into play. All this will enable semiconductor memories to continue on the path of further advancement and opening up more and more applications and devices that transform human lives and experiences.

So how far can we go in scaling, increasing density, improving performance and power, and reducing cost of advanced memory devices and processes? What are the current status and trends?

What are the best and most promising architectures and replacement opportunities for traditional memory technologies, currently and going forward, near and longer term? This Symposium will help answering some of these critical questions.

FRIDAY November 14, 2014

SCV Electron Devices

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Half-Day Symposium: Nanotech-Enabled Energy

Generation & Storage

Speakers: from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Japan MITI, Qnovo, Ultora

Time: Registration at 12:15 PM; Networking and Lunch at 12:30 PM; Presentations begin at 1:00 PM; Dismissed at 4:30 PM

Cost: $15 IEEE Members, $20 non-members (includes full lunch)

Place: TI Auditorium E-1, 2900 Semiconductor Drive. Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/sfbanano 12:30: lunch 1:00 Welcome and Introductions 1:10 Dr. Jeff Urban, Staff Scientist, Materials Science

Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, "Fueling the future: Safe, Dense, Reversible Hydrogen Storage in Hybrid Nanomaterials"

Historical trends have shown gradual decarbonization of our fuel sources over hundreds of years, the ultimate endpoint of which is hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel cell applications offer safe, emissions-free energy and all of the major auto manufacturers have made commitments to the technology. However, despite this technological push, there remain fundamental scientific issues that have delayed widespread adoption of the technology. In this talk, I’ll discuss ongoing work in my group to develop hybrid nanomaterials approaches to safe, energy-dense, and reversible hydrogen storage in metallic Magnesium nanocrystals, with a focus on new work on 2D hybrid materials. This talk will specifically highlight new work which advances these materials toward room-temperature storage and the atomic limit of selective encapsulation.

1:45 Dr. Lennie Klebanoff, Sandia National Lab, "Nanomaterials Enabled Hydrogen Storage Technology & Its Role In Mitigating Climate Change"

A “big picture” presentation of the need for hydrogen technology to deal with global climate change, with some technical discussion of how nanomaterials can influence hydrogen storage together with some recent R&D results.

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2:20 Dania Ghantous, VP Technology, Qnovo, "Extending Battery Storage Now with Silicon and Software"

Lithium ion batteries have come a long way since they were first commercialized. The improvements in performance are based on materials innovation, design and optimization of the manufacturing process. However, with the ever increasing demands from consumer and automotive applications, lithium ion batteries are still lacking in performance. This presentation will provide an overview of the status and challenges of lithium ion batteries and introduce the audience to Qnovo’s unique approach to improving battery performance.

2:55 Networking & Break 3:10 Dr. Michael Stadermann, Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory, "Impact of Nano- and Meso-structure on the Performance of Capacitors"

The morphology of supercapacitor electrodes can significantly affect their performance. The dimensions of pores on the nanoscale has been shown to affect the capacitance per area, while the dimensions of pores on the mesoscale can affects mass transport and power density. In this presentation, I will discuss modeling and experimental results on how pore dimensions can give rise to increased capacitance, and how altering of mesoscale pore dimensions by compressing the electrode affects energy and power density. Finally, I will show how hierarchical pore structures improve performance of capacitive desalination devices.

3:45 Dr. Phil Kraus, CEO, Ultora, "Monolithic Carbon Nanotube Electrodes: Technology and Energy Storage Applications"

Ultora has developed a proprietary method to grow carbon nanotubes directly from a metal foil, providing a means of producing flexible, monolithic CNT electrodes in a single processing step. The novel growth method results in excellent adhesion and electrical contact between the CNTs and the metal foil. Ultora’s CNT electrodes comprise only materials – CNTs and metal foil – that are stable at high temperatures. When paired with ionic liquid electrolytes, supercapacitorsare made that are operable at very high temperatures – more than twice the typical maximum operating temperature of commercial supercapacitors. Applications of Ultora’s monolithic CNT-on-foil material,where low mass and thermal stability are important include: harsh environments, thermal interface materials, electromagnetic shielding, infrared absorption materials, and catalyst substrates.

4:20 John Suh, Executive Director, Hyundai Ventures, "The impact of Battery and Fuel Cell Storage on the Automotive Marketplace"

5:00: conclusion

TUESDAY November 18, 2014SCV Nanotechnology

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Measuring and Analyzing VFD Shaft Voltage

Speaker: Ken Wegrzyn Time: Networking and no-host bar at 5:30 PM;

Presentation at 6:00 PM; Dinner at 7:00 PM Cost: $25 ($10 for IEEE student members) Place: Sinbad's Restaurant, Pier 2 The

Embarcadero, San Francisco RSVP: from website Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1411-sf-ias.pdf

Ken Wegrzyn has extensive experience in industrial product development and commercialization, most recently in application and design of passive dissipative technology for unwanted electrical currents and charges. He has presented seminars on the subject of bearing current mitigation at professional conferences across the US, as well as performed site analysis of bearing currents in numerous locations. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master’s of Business from DePaul University.

The bearings in electric motors operating on

variable frequency drives (VFD) are vulnerable to shaft voltages that are capacitively coupled from the motor’s stator to the rotor and may be of sufficient amplitude to cause electrical discharges in the motor's bearings. These high-energy discharges produce an electrical discharge machining (EDM) effect in the motor’s bearings that cause fusion craters, pitting and fluting and premature bearing failure. The shaft voltages may be detected and measured using an oscilloscope and a shaft voltage probe that touches the motor’s shaft while it is running. The waveforms may then be analyzed to determine if there is a potential for bearing discharges or if bearing discharges are in fact already occurring. Testing the VFD driven motor early in its life cycle will allow potential problems to be detected and a shaft grounding ring implemented as mitigation on the motor. Incorporating shaft voltage measurements into preventive maintenance programs will help prevent unplanned downtime and improve equipment reliability and sustainability.

TUESDAY November 18, 2014

SF Industry Applications

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Designing for the

Internet of Things: A Paradigm Shift in Reliability

Speaker: Mudasir Ahmad, Distinguished Engineer,

Cisco Systems, Inc. Time: Networking and dinner at 6:00 PM;

Presentation (no charge) at 6:45 PM Cost: $25 for IEEE Members, $33 for non-

members, $10 for students, unemployed ($5 more at door)

Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd, Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv

Mudasir Ahmad is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. He has been involved with mechanical design, microelectronics packaging design and reliability analysis for 15 years. He received his Bachelors from Ohio University and his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University.

Mudasir is leading the Center of Excellence for Numerical Analysis, developing new analytical algorithms, experimental design and reliability characterization of next generation 3D packaging, System-in-Package Modules and Silicon Photonics. Mudasir is also implementing Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics solutions to streamline Supply Chain Operations and design for Internet of Things applications.

Outside of Cisco, he is involved with programs at the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Society of the IEEE, and actively participates in IPC and JEDEC standards organizations. Mudasir has over 25 publications on microelectronic packaging, two book chapters, and 7 US Patents. He received the internationally renowned Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2012 from IEEE CPMT.

More than 50 Billion devices are expected to be

internet enabled by 2020. These devices, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), are expected to become ubiquitous and involved in every aspect of life, ranging from wearable devices to sensors monitoring industrial processes. The networking equipment connecting these devices will need to seamlessly communicate with several different software platforms, with software continuously upgraded. In addition, these devices will be exposed to unprecedented, highly varying external stimuli: harsh thermal fluctuations, fluids, moisture, vibrations and shock.

Networking products have traditionally been protected in data centers, where temperature, humidity and vibrations are well controlled, and software upgrades well managed with significant redundancy. Traditional networking devices are not designed for use in the unpredictable, varying environments that devices supporting the IoT Ecosystem will endure. A paradigm shift is needed, to develop new methodologies to characterize and estimate the system level reliability of these devices. Traditional Telecom industry requirements for hardware reliability are "5 Nines": 99.999%, which translates to 5 minutes and 15 seconds of downtime in a year. Software is typically expected to be 99.95%, which translates to 1 day, 19 hours and 48 minutes in a year. The combined reliability of a system will need to incorporate hardware and software reliability and capture the interaction between the two. Moreover, the product can be designed to be "self-aware" such that it can adapt to changing use environments to maintain target reliability.

We will present a new methodology for estimating hardware and software reliability given uncertain use conditions, to derive probabilistic estimates for overall system reliability. The methodology is applied to an illustrative case study: estimating the impact of temperature variation on the reliability of two component types in a typical networking product: solder joint interconnects and fans. The methodology is then extended to software applications in a networking product, capturing the effects of distinct variables: firmware upgrades and resource consumption (memory, processing, graphics etc.). Moreover, the interaction between hardware and software (such as time varying changes in firmware updates for different hardware systems) is also captured. The models developed can then be used to perform sensitivity studies to determine which factors are most influential in degrading reliability, and rank ordering them. This in turn can help identify the specific issue (hardware component or software issue) to focus on, to meet target reliability goals for uncertain IoT applications.

TUESDAY November 18, 2014

SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, with Reliability

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Education Opportunities in Big Data

Speaker: KRS Murthy, CEO, Big Data Experts Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:00 PM;

Presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: SVPTI, 1762 Technology Drive #228, San

Jose RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/es

Dr. KRS Murthy, big data strategy advisor to companies, has delivered over 40 talks and moderated 20 panels in various aspects of big data at international conferences in the recent 5 years. A well known, reputed serial entrepreneur and serial C-level executive, his achievements include leading the growth of a few American companies to record revenues and corporate valuation.

Big data education deserves serious attention at

national and international levels in both education strategy and big data implementation strategy There is a serious shortage of big data professionals, in the USA and in other fast growing economies. The acuity of talent shortage is even more pronounced compared to the Year 2K talent shortage. Companies implementing big data initiatives can't fill their big data jobs fast enough, resulting in lost business and revenue opportunities. Every vertical in industrial, consumer, government and also the aerospace/military space want to leverage big data for corporate decision making, needs not only big data specialists, but also those with vertical domain experience. The speaker will specially address educational, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities. The speaker will also present US national strategy for big data education.

WEDNESDAY November 19, 2014 SCV Education

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Innovative Pressure-Sensing Solutions

Speaker: Holger Doering, Chief Operating Officer,

Silicon Microstructures, Inc. Time: Pizza and beverages at 7:15 PM;

Presentation at 7:45 PM Cost: $5 donation for food Place: Qualcomm Cafe @ Building B, 3165 Kifer

Road, Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-mems

Holger Doering is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Silicon Microstructures Inc (SMI). He joined SMI in 2007 as a Consultant in Operations, then took over the VP Operations position in 2008 and was promoted to COO in 2011. He is responsible for Production, Process Engineering, IT, Assembly, Test, and Facilities Management. He started at ELMOS in 1995 as a Process Engineer and became Production Engineering Manager in 1997. From 1999 he was responsible for Production, Process Engineering and Equipment Maintenance in the Plasma-Module of the ELMOS fab. In 2003 he began to transfer the 0.8 μm process from the 6-inch fab in Dortmund to the 8-inch line of the joint ELMOS/Fraunhofer IMS fab in Duisburg and in 2005 became responsible for the complete 8-inch Operations in Duisburg.

Holger holds a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dortmund (Germany) with a focus on semiconductor manufacturing. His diploma thesis work was carried out at ELMOS in 1994 where he developed a CMOS-compatible process module to produce monolithic integrated piezoresistive pressure sensors in a EU-funded project.

MEMS Pressure Sensor portfolio and the different

Technologies/Process methods that are used to manufacture them; Specialties of SMI pressure sensors to address niche medical markets as well as high-volume automotive markets; Application examples for SMI pressure sensors in the different markets; Design, Simulation and Process requirements for development and manufacturing of advanced pressure sensors

DRIE Etch for MEMS pressure sensor miniaturization: Comparison of classic wet etch processes to DRIE to create ultra-small devices; Advantages of DRIE in process control to achieve high accuracy and repeatability; Limitation of DRIE etched devices and how they can be addressed by intelligent design; Products at SMI that benefit from the advantages of DRIE Etching; Different approaches of using DRIE formed cavities for pressure sensor devices; Compensation of process related non-uniformities by design adjustments

Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) for defect detection in MEMS Devices: Automated optical Inspection to assure highest quality of MEMS Devices; Importance of visual inspection in MEMS devices to assure reliability; Criteria and methods that are used to detect the different types of defects; Inspection of frontside and backside as well as in different stages of the process to access visually all critical areas; Benefit of having pictures from inspections available as quality gate before shipment; Reduction of Inspection time and cost by automated detection and classification ofdefects by AOI

WEDNESDAY November 19, 2014

SCV MEMS and Sensors

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Multimedia Forum Seminar on Deep Learning

Speakers: Jianchao Yang, Adobe; Ronan Collobert,

Facebook; Yangqing Jia, Google; Richard Socher, Stanford; Jia Li, Yahoo Research

Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Cost: none Place: PARC Auditorium, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd,

Palo Alto RSVP: from website Web: www.bammf.org

Ronan Collobert received his master degree in pure mathematics from University of Rennes (France) in 2000. He then performed graduate studies in University of Montreal and IDIAP (Switzerland) under the Bengio brothers, and received his PhD in 2004 from University of Paris VI. He joined NEC Labs (USA) in January 2005 as a postdoc, and became a research staff member after about one year. His research interests always focused on large-scale machine-learning algorithms, with a particular interest in semi-supervised learning and deep learning architectures. Two years ago, his research shifted in the natural language processing area, slowly going towards automatic text understanding.

Yangqing Jia obtained his BS and MS degrees

from Tsinghua University, and his PhD degree at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Trevor Darrell. He is currently a research scientist at Google. His main interest includes large-scale and cognitive science inspired computer vision, efficient learning of state-of-the-art visual features, and parallel computation in vision applications.

Richard Socher is a PhD student at Stanford

working with Chris Manning and Andrew Ng. His research interests are machine learning for natural language processing and vision. He is interested in developing new deep learning models that learn useful features, capture compositional structure in multiple modalities and perform well across different tasks. He was awarded the 2011 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, the Distinguished Application Paper Award at ICML 2011, a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship in 2012 and a 2013 "Magic Grant" from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

In this talk Yangqing Jia will introduce recent

developments in the image recognition fields from two perspectives: as a researcher and as an engineer. For the first part he will describe our recent entry "GoogLeNet" that won the ImageNet 2014 challenge, including the motivation of the model and knowledge learned from the inception of the model. For the second part, he will dive into the practical details of Caffe, an open-source deep learning library he created at UC Berkeley, and show how one could utilize the toolkit for a quick start in deep learning as well as integration and deployment in real-world applications.

(Plus 4 other talks -- more informatoin to follow) Jia Li is a research scientist at Yahoo! Research.

Her research interests are computer vision, social network analysis, machine learning and multimedia analysis. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department at Stanford. She was the leader of the OPTIMOL team, which won the first prize in the Semantic Robotics Vision Challenge in 2007. She served as the volunteers chair in CVPR 2010 and travel funding committee for ACM Multimedia Systems 2014. Jia co-organized the 1st IEEE workshop on Visual Scene Understanding (ViSU) in conjunction with CVPR 2009 as well as the Fine-Grained Challenge at ICCV 2013.

THURSDAY November 20, 2014

Bay Area Multimedia Forum

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Application Issues with Inverter-Based PV Power Plants

Speaker: B. Ben Banerjee, Schneider Electric Time: No-host social at 5:30 PM; Presentation at

6:15 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM Cost: $25 for IEEE members, $30 for non-

members, $15 for student, retired members Place: Zio Fraedos, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant

Hill RSVP: by November 17 to Michael Nakamura,

michael@mkireps.com (925) 330-6595 Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1411-oeb-ias.pdf

B. Ben Banerjee (IEEE Life Member) holds B.E.E from the University of Calcutta, India and M.E.E from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Ben’s work experience includes the Grid Interconnection & Power Systems, Power Conditioning, Energy Storage, Renewable Energies, & Micro-Grid. Presently, he is working as Sr. Global Application Engineer in Solar Business of Schneider Electric Company, where he is responsible for applications of 3-phase Inverter Systems for large Commercial Sector & Utility Power Plants. Prior to that, he has worked as Power Conditioning Manager at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, and as Order Engineering Manager for Square D Company, in SC. He has participated in NEMA Subcommittees, and is the author/co-author of several IEEE papers. His work at EPRI has generated more than thirty patents for EPRI, about eighty EPRI technical reports, and won Four ‘R&D 100 Awards’.

The role of the Central Inverter is pivotal to cost

effective solution to DG-Solar Generation. On one hand, this Power Electronics based Inverter’s operation goal is to optimize the variable DC Power Plant input to Active Power (KW) output. On the other hand, the Inverter is also responsible for maintaining the grid stability. Often, this Inverter Generation is misunderstood and is deemed to be the same as Rotating Generators. This presentation is going to review Inverter system applications, more specifically, covering topics such as: • Grid Interconnection Issues • Effective System Grounding • MV Step Up Transformer • Energy Storage for Frequency & Ramp Control • Volt-VAR • Technology Trend

THURSDAY November 20, 2014 OEB Industry Applications

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3-D Visualization of Big Data Speaker: David Chavez, Chief Technology Officer,

zSpace, Inc. Time: Networking/Refreshments at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Cadence / Bldg 10, 2655 Seely Ave, San

Jose RSVP: from website Web: computer.ieeesiliconvalley.org

David Chavez brings over 20 years of experience in start-up companies, working with technologies ranging from GSM infrastructure to laptops, printers, PDAs and smartphones, in both consumer and commercial product spaces. He has managed product development teams through the full range of the product life cycle, from initial concept to volume production. David has extensive experience working with suppliers and manufacturing partners worldwide, with a particular emphasis in Asia. He has held various positions in product development organizations such as pen-based computer companies GO & EO, Hewlett Packard, and Handspring.

With the big data explosion in full steam,

companies across multiple industries are resourcefully aggregating data to pinpoint numbers, trends and patterns that hold the key to improving their bottom lines. But as data grows increasingly cumbersome and complex, managing that data and extracting the highest value of intelligence is presenting a challenge for organizations looking to drive truly educated decisions. Many valuable analytics solutions have come to market over the last few years, but as we look ahead, will 3D visualization techniques offer companies a new way to manage, analyze and interact with their data?

Big data solution providers are using zSpace, an interactive 3D virtual holographic platform, to empower their customers with big data visualization. In the future will see more companies looking for new ways of utilizing big data to drive their business forward, and from the development side we will likely see more focus on creating visualization applications. While 3D capabilities are still advancing, the potential to use these types of technologies as a way to discover valuable organizational trends is certainly within reach.

TUESDAY December 2, 2014

SCV Computer

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Computer Vision Grows Up

Speaker: Goksel Dedeoglu, PercepTonic, LLC Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Agilent Technologies, Inc. Bldg. 5, 5301

Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org

Goksel Dedeoglu is a seasoned researcher and optimization expert in Computer Vision, with seven years in the doctoral program at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and another seven years at Texas Instruments’ R&D labs. As Lab Director at Dallas-based PercepTonic, LLC, he formulates embedded vision solutions for clients needing custom algorithms to build next-gen products.

Goksel's product experience and patents include automotive safety, video security, face analysis and gesture recognition. He is a long-time IEEE member, and is organizing the 2015 IEEE Embedded Vision Workshop in Boston. Goksel's personal website includes demo videos, tutorials and publications that he has created over the years.

Long regarded as an obscure academic subject,

Computer Vision is quickly becoming a differentiator in consumer electronics. Recent successes in gesture-based games, smart security cameras and automotive safety systems are early indicators of an era in which visual intelligence will be embedded, everywhere, and ever-ready.

While these advances are happening at a remarkable pace, the field of Computer Vision needs to mature algorithmically, get standardized and get hardware-accelerated before it can become mainstream.

This talk will describe the challenges engineers face in deploying Computer Vision on embedded platforms, and how every Computer Vision solution seems to require its own computationally demanding algorithm. It will also explore the opportunities ahead as low-cost embedded devices such as wearables promise a world full of vision-enabled devices.

TUESDAY December 2, 2014SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley