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2010-2011 Meetings and Events

• Thu 21 Oct 2010 - 31st Annual Computer Graphics Film Show, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University, 8:00 PM, Princeton University Friend Center
• Sat 13 Nov 2010 - Computer Forensics for Fun or Profit, Rebecca Mercuri, Notable Software, Inc. (Professional Development Seminar/Hands-on Workshop)
• Thu 18 Nov 2010 - Ghost Democracy: the Disappearance of the Vote in the United States, Mark Crispin Miller, New York University
• Thu 16 Dec 2010 - The Future of 4G Wireless, Harry Martin, Verizon Wireless
• Thu 20 Jan 2011 - CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER - Augmented Reality, Steve Feiner, Columbia University
• Thu 17 Feb 2011 - Algorithms for the Masses, Robert Sedgewick, Princeton University
• Thu 17 Mar 2011 - Predicting Faults in Large Software Systems, Elaine Weyuker, AT&T
• Fri 1 Apr 2011 - 6th Annual Trenton Computer Festival Information Technology Professional Conference, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
• Sat 2 and Sun 3 Apr 2011 - 36th Annual Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, Sat 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM / Sun 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
• Thu 21 Apr 2011 - Surveillance or Security: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, Susan Landau, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• Tue 3 and Wed 4 May 2011 - 34th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ
• Thu 19 May 2011 - Augmented Reality, Steve Feiner, Columbia University

2009-2010 Meetings and Events

• Thu 15 Oct 2009 - 30th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University, 8:00 PM, Princeton University Friend Center
• Sat 14 Nov 2009 - Professional Development Seminar - CANCELLED
• Thu 19 Nov 2009 - Computers, Voting, and Election Audits, Andrew W. Appel, Princeton University, 8:00 PM
• Thu 17 Dec 2009 - Cloud Computing - A General State of the Union, David Soll, Omicron Consulting, 8:00 PM
• Thu 21 Jan 2010 - The "P vs. NP" Problem: Efficient Computation, Internet Security, and the Limits to Human Knowledge, Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, 8:00 PM
• Thu 18 Feb 2010 - Database Modernization: Past, Present, and Future, Prakash Nauduri, Oracle Corp., 8:00 PM
• Thu 18 Mar 2010 - Using Large-Scale Computing to Find Equilibrium Solutions in Game Theory, John Nash, Princeton University, 8:00 PM
• Thu 15 Apr 2010 - The Foundations and Future of Information Search, Andrea LaPaugh, Princeton University, 8:00 PM
• Fri 23 Apr 2010 - 5th Annual Trenton Computer Festival Information Technology Professional Conference, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
• Sat 24 and Sun 25 Apr 2010 - 35th Annual Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, Sat 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM / Sun 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
• Thu 20 May 2010 - Tapping into Apps: Local and Cloud Services on the iPhone and Android, Doug Dixon, Manifest Technology (Annual Dinner Meeting)

2008-2009 Meetings and Events

• Thu 16 Oct 2008 - 29th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show, Jeff Posdamer, 8:00 PM
• Sat 8 Nov 2008 - Ruby On Rails, Barry Burd (Professional Development Seminar), 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
• Thu 20 Nov 2008 - Autonomous Vehicles, Alain Kornhauser, 8:00 PM
• Thu 18 Dec 2008 - A Play from the Hilbert Playbook: Challenges to Learning Learning, Walter Bender, Sugar Labs, 8:00 PM
• Thu 15 Jan 2009 - Modeling Science: Topic Models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections, David Blei, Princeton University, 8:00 PM
• Thu 19 Feb 2009 - Social Networking: For Good and For Profit, Peter Shankman, The Geek Factory, Inc., 8:00 PM
• Thu 19 Mar 2009 - Reliable Extraction and Meaningful Inference from Nonstructured Data, R. Bharat Rao, Siemens Medical Solutions, 8:00 PM
• Thu 16 Apr 2009 - Security Printing and Imaging: Stopping Counterfeit Products, Steve Simske, HP Labs, 8:00 PM
• Fri 24 Apr 2009 - 4th Annual Trenton Computer Festival Information Technology Professional Conference, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
• Sat 25 and Sun 26 Apr 2009 - 34th Annual Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, Sat 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM / Sun 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
• Thu 21 May 2009 - How to Sing Like a Computer Scientist, John Dougherty, Haverford College (Annual Dinner Meeting at Charlie Brown's Steakhouse, Kingston, NJ)

2007-2008 Meetings and Events

• Thu 18 Oct 2007 - 28th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show, Jeff Posdamer
• Thu 15 Nov 2007 - Recent Advances in Requirements Engineering, Brian Berenbach, Siemens Corporate Research
• Thu 13 Dec 2007 - The Geometry of Music, Dmitri Tymoszko, Princeton University
• Thu 17 Jan 2008 - Cognitive Radio Networks, Narayan B. Mandayam, Rutgers University
• Thu 21 Feb 2008 - Computational Challenges in Medical Image Processing, Christophe Chefd'hotel, Siemens Corporate Research
• Thu 20 Mar 2008 - Designing Meaningful Agents, Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
• Thu 17 Apr 2008 - The Logic of Passion: Auction Theory and the Collector's eBay, Kenneth Steiglitz, Princeton University
• Fri 25 Apr 2008 - 3rd Annual Trenton Computer Festival Information Technology Professional Conference, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
• Sat 26 and Sun 27 Apr 2008 - 33nd Annual Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
• Thu 8 May 2008 - The Early Days of Computer Hobbyists, Sol Libes (Annual Dinner Meeting)

2006-2007 Meetings and Events

• Thu 19 Oct 2006 - 27th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show, Doug Dixon, Rebecca Mercuri, Phil Sanders
• Sat 4 Nov 2006 - Java Tutorial, Pat Palmer, University of Pennsylvania, 9 AM - 4 PM (Professional Development Seminar)
• Tue 14 Nov 2006 - World Usability Day 2006, Mark Altom, Avaya, Edmond Israelski, Abbott Laboratories, Todd Warfel, Messagefirst, 6:30 PM Exhibits, 7:30 PM Keynote Speakers
• Thu 14 Dec 2006 - High Definition Goes Mainstream, Michael Isnardi, Sarnoff Corporation, Sandra Benedetto, Pioneer Electronics
• Thu 18 Jan 2007 - Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Spam Control, Nathaniel Borenstein, IBM
• Thu 15 Feb 2007 - Intellectual Property for Technology Entrepreneurs, George Awad, Drinker Biddle & Reath, Edward Felton, Princeton University, Brian Murphy, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
• Thu 15 Mar 2007 - Anatomy of a Voting System Hack, Harri Hursti
• Thu 19 Apr 2007 - CANCELLED - The Geometry of Music, Dmitri Tymoszko, Princeton University
• Fri 27 Apr 2007 - 2nd Annual Trenton Computer Festival Information Technology Seminars, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
• Sat 28 and Sun 29 Apr 2007 - 32nd Annual Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
• Thu 17 May 2007 - The Apollo Guidance Computer, Frank O'Brien, Infoage Science/History Learning Center (Annual Dinner Meeting)

2005-2006 Meetings and Events

• Thu 20 Oct - 26th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, CACI
• Sat 5 Nov - C# Tutorial, Pat G. Palmer, University of Pennsylvania (Professional Development Seminar)
• Thu 17 Nov - Next Generation Storage: Terabytes on a Disc, Mark Knox, Advisor to the Toshiba HD DVD Promotion Division, Tony Jasionowski, Panasonic Corporation, Jim Hegadorn, Fuji Photo Film
• Thu 15 Dec - Cryptologic Algorithms, Jonathan Low, BAE Systems
• Thu 19 Jan - Mapping the Internet: Pondering and Patrolling Network Perimeters, Bill Cheswick, Lumeta Corp.
• Thu 16 Feb - Advances in Databases, Tom Laszewski, Oracle
• Mon 27 Feb - From millibits to Terabits and Beyond: over 50 years of innovation, Dr. Renuka P. Jindal, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 5:30 PM, The College of New Jersey
• Thu 16 Mar - Desktop Linux, Frank Middleton, Apogee Communications Technologies
• Mon 27 and Tue 28 Mar - 2006 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ
• Thu 20 Apr - GPS Navigation: From Map Databases to the Mass Market, Michael Goodman, ALK Technologies
• Fri 21 Apr - Trenton Computer Festival Professional Seminars, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
• Sat 22 Apr and Sun 23 Apr - 31st Annual Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
• Thu 11 May - Trustworthy Software Systems, Larry Bernstein (Annual Dinner Meeting)

2004-2005 Meetings and Events

• Sat 14 Aug - Google Guide: Making Searching Even Easier, Nancy Blachman, Variable Symbols (Special Summer Seminar, 10 AM - 1 PM)
• Thu 21 Oct - 25th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, CACI
• Thu 18 Nov - Personalization Technology, Jayendu Patel, ChoiceStream, Inc.
• Thu 16 Dec - Software Patterns: Beyond the Gang of Four, Steve Masticola, Siemens Corporate Research
• Thu 20 Jan - Performance and Load Testing, Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research
• Thu 17 Feb - Preventing Piracy with Digital Watermarking Technology, Jeffery Lubin, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 17 Mar - Outdoor Distributed Computing, Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Thu 14 Apr - Any Sound You Can Imagine - RCA's Electronic Music Synthesizer and the Beginning of Binary Sequencing, Milton Babbitt, Princeton University
• Sat 16 Apr and Sun 17 Apr - 30th Annual Trenton Computer Festival, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
• Thu 19 May - From Vacuum Tubes to Vaporware: RCA and the Computer, 1940-1985, Alex Magoun, David Sarnoff Library (Annual Dinner Meeting, 7 PM)

2003-2004 Meetings and Events

• Thu 23 Oct - 24th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, CACI
• Thu 20 Nov - PlanetLab: A Blueprint for Introducing Disruptive Technology into the Internet, Scott Karlin, Princeton University
• Thu 11 Dec - Wireless: What It Means for the Enterprise and Beyond, Hugh Sheridan, Broadbeam, Inc.
• Tue 16 Dec - Is Wireless Security an Oxymoron?, Bruce McNair, Stevens Institute of Technology; NOTE TIME AND LOCATION: 6:30 PM, Rutgers University, Piscataway
• Thu 15 Jan - The Life of SPICE, Larry Nagel, Omega Enterprises
• Wed 18 Feb - The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, James C. Rautio, Sonnet Software
• Thu 19 Feb - Image Understanding and Web Security, Henry Baird, Lehigh University
• Thu 18 Mar - Natural Language Processing for Automated Evaluation of Student Writing, Dr. Jill Burstein and Dr. Claudia Leacock, Product Development and Research Applications, Educational Testing Service
• Thu 15 Apr - Why Technology Policy Really Really Matters, Barbara Simons, ACM
• Sat 1 May - Sun 2 May - 28th Annual Trenton Computer Festival, Raritan Center, Edison, NJ
• Sat 8 May - Digital Media Bootcamp: Technology and Applications, Douglas Dixon, Manifest Technology (Annual Professional Development Seminar)
• Thu 20 May - The Architectural Evolution of Computers, George Trimble (Annual Dinner Meeting)

2002-2003 Meetings and Events

• Thu 24 Oct - 23rd Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, CACI
• Thu 21 Nov - The DVD Revolution: Trends & Futures, Sandra Benedetto, Pioneer Electronics, Ralph LaBarge, Alpha DVD, Douglas Dixon, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 19 Dec - Extreme Programming and Agile Development, Dennis Mancl, Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs
• Thu 16 Jan - The Freedom to Tinker, Ed Felten, Princeton University
• Thu 20 Feb - Real-time Vision Technologies: Trends and Applications, Visvanathan Ramesh, Real-time Vision & Modeling Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
• Thu 20 Mar - Requirements Engineering with UML, Brian Berenbach, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
• Tue 8 Apr - The Wireless Internet as Defined by IEEE 802 Standards, Roger B. Marks, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Thu 24 Apr - What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?, Brian Kernighan, Princeton University
• Sat 26 Apr - .NET Architecture, Dilip M. Hardas, Omicron Consulting (Professional Development Seminar)
• Sat 3 May - Sun 4 May - Trenton Computer Festival, Raritan Center, Edison, NJ - Admission fee
• Thu 22 May - Intuitive Test Theory, Robert Mislevy, University of Maryland (Annual Dinner Meeting)

2001-2002 Meetings and Events

• Wed 17 Oct - 22nd Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 15 Nov - Adding Sight to Sound: Television's Past, Present, and Future, Alex Magoun, Director of the David Sarnoff Library, Glenn Reitmeier, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 20 Dec - Digital Watermarking for Web Media, Jeffrey Bloom, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 17 Jan - Global Web Sites: Internationalization and Localization Issues, Nuray Aykin, Siemens Corporate Research
• Thu 21 Feb - Parametric Sound Synthesis Techniques: Generating Sound Effects in Real Time, Perry Cook, Princeton University
• Thu 21 Mar - Semantic Information Processing of Spoken Language - How May I Help You? (sm), Allen Gorin, AT&T Labs - Speech Research
• Thu 18 Apr - Challenges in Bioinformatics: From Single Molecules to Whole Genomes, Cynthia Gibas, Virginia Tech
• Thu 16 May - Are Video Games As Fun To Make As They Are To Play?, Scott Marshall

2000-2001 Meetings and Events

• Thu 21 Sep - Digital Cinema: The Future of Filmmaking?, Scott Marshall, Digital Cinema engineer and writer; Brian McKernan, Editorial Director, Videography Magazine; Ken McGorry, Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Post Magazine; Peter H. Putman, Sr. Contributor, Video Systems Magazine, Contributor, Millimeter Magazine
• Thu 19 Oct - 21st Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 16 Nov - Why Computers Shouldn't Count Votes, Rebecca Mercuri, Bryn Mawr College
• Thu 14 Dec - Online Privacy: What are People So Concerned About and What is Being Done About it?, Lorrie Faith Cranor, AT&T Labs-Research
• Thu 18 Jan - Cable and DSL Internet Connections: Implementation and Security Issues, Steve Heffner, Pennington Systems
• Thu 15 Feb - Streaming Web Video: Fact or Fantasy?, Douglas Dixon and Jeffrey Esakov, Sarnoff Corporation (Joint meeting with the Princeton MCAI/ITVA/Moving Image Professionals of Central Jersey, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Audio Engineering Society, and the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America)
• Wed 21 Feb through Wed 28 Mar - SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show at The College of New Jersey
• Wed 14 Mar - Panel Discussion: Trends in Digital Art, Philip Sanders, Associate Professor of Computer Graphics, The College of New Jersey (meeting located at The College of New Jersey)
• Thu 19 Apr - Characteristics of Scalability and Their Impact on Performance, Andre Bondi, Hudson Williams, New York (based on work performed at AT&T Labs)
• Sat 28 Apr - All About UML, Brian Berenbach, Siemens Corporate Research (Professional Development Seminar)
• Tue 22 May - Computer Systems and Values, Helen Nissenbaum, Princeton University (Annual Dinner Meeting)

1999-2000 Meetings and Events

• Thu 28 Oct - 20th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 18 Nov - The Perl Language and the Lambda Calculus, Mark-Jason Dominus
• Thu 16 Dec - Performance Planning for Web Servers, Paul Reeser, AT&T Labs
• Thu 20 Jan - Y2K Celebration and Post-Mortem Panel, David Feyrer, Alan Wallach, and Perry Weaver
• Thu 17 Feb - VBA: Visual Basic for Applications, Stephen Tranchida, Omicron Consulting
• Thu 16 Mar - Digital Signal Processing As Applied To Music Composition, Paul Lansky & Ken Steiglitz, Princeton University (Joint meeting with the Delaware Valley Acoustical Society)
• Sat 8 Apr - XML for Applications, Steve Mohr (Professional Development Seminar)
• Thu 13 Apr - Digital Hollywood, Scott Marshall
• Sat 6 May - Sun 7 May - Trenton Computer Festival, New Jersey Convention Center, Edison, NJ.
• Thu 18 May - The Great Bridge Controversy, James Fink, Gettysburg College (Annual Dinner Meeting)

1998-1999 Meetings and Events

• Thu 15 Oct - 19th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 19 Nov - Windows CE Software Development, Mike Rauch, Cranbury Software Development Center, Inc.
• Thu 17 Dec - Algorithms, Computers, and the Art of Constrained Poetry and Prose, Mike Keith
• Thu 21 Jan - The Unified Modeling Language, Lou Varveris and George Leibman, Popkin Software
• Thu 18 Feb - New Online Social Dating Trends, Nancy Blachman, a.k.a. Nancy Capulet, author of Putting Your Heart Online (special Valentine's topic)
• Thu 18 Mar - Acoustic Measurement and Sound System Optimization: A Practical Discussion of the Topic!, Sam Berkow, SIA Acoustics and SIA Software Company, Inc. (joint meeting with Delaware Valley Acoustical Society of America)
• Thu 15 Apr - The Scout Operating System, Larry Peterson, Princeton University
• Sat 17 Apr - Introduction to Perl, Nancy Blachman, Fuji Securities (Spring 1999 Professional Development Seminar)
• Thu 20 May - Science and Technology Reporting in the Television Age, Bev Aaron, WPVI-TV6 (Annual Dinner Meeting)

1997-1998 Meetings and Events

• Thu 16 Oct - 18th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show and SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 20 Nov - Experiences in Object Oriented Development, Brian Berenback, TRECOM Business Systems
• Thu 11 Dec - Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Problems, David Soll, Omicron Consulting
• Thu 15 Jan - Armageddon Worried about the Year 2000, or How I Learned to Love the Millenium Bomb, Steve Heffner, Pennington Systems
• Thu 19 Feb - Towards Technology of the 21st Century: A Superconducting Fault-Tolerant Memory, Premi Chandra, NEC Research Institute
• Thu 19 Mar - Early Recording Equipment, Aaron Cramer (joint meeting with Delaware Valley Acoustical Society of America)
• Thu 16 Apr - Java Beans, Dennis Mancl, Bell Laboratories
• Sat 25 Apr - Building Interactive Web Sites, Jeffrey Esakov, Sarnoff Corporation (professional development seminar)
• Mon 22 Jun - Computer Trivia Quiz, Rebecca Mercuri, Notable Systems (Annual Dinner Meeting)

1996-1997 Meetings and Events

• Thu 17 Oct - 17th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show: SIGGRAPH Video Review, Jeff Posdamer, David Sarnoff Research Center
• Sat 26 Oct - A Java Tutorial, Dennis Mancl, Bell Laboratories (professional development seminar)
• Fri 8 Nov - Technology Futures and the Internet, Bill Chriss, AT&T Worldnet Service (joint meeting with IEEE Communications Society
• Thu 14 Nov - The Nuts and Bolts of Business Object Modeling, Brian Berenbach, TRECOM Business Systems
• Thu 12 Dec - Inferno, a Distributed Operating System, Ravi Sharma, Bell Laboratories
• Thu 16 Jan - Traffic Management Schemes for Video on Demand, Keith Ross, University of Pennsylvania
• Thu 13 Feb - Architecting Object-Oriented Systems, Tom O'Rourke, TRECOM Business Systems, Inc.
• Thu 20 Mar - Speech Coding -- a Key Enabling Technology for Voice Over IP Networks (VoIP), Raymond Chen, Voxware, Inc. (joint meeting with Delaware Valley Acoustical Society of America)
• Thu 17 Apr - Low Bit Rate Video Coding: Standards and Technologies, Ya-Qin Zhang, Sarnoff Corporation
• Thu 8 May - The Mathematics of Knots, John Conway, Princeton University (Annual Dinner Meeting)

1995-1996 Meetings and Events

• Thu 19 Oct - 16th Annual Computer Graphics Film Show: SIGGRAPH Video Review, Ron Lusen
• Thu 16 Nov - Computer Software for Acoustical / Auditory Analysis, Rebecca Mercuri, Notable Systems
• Wed 6 Dec - Impact of Mobility on TCP/IP: An Integrated Performance Study, Dipak Ghosal (joint meeting with IEEE Communications and Consumer Electronics Chapter)
• Thu 14 Dec - An Anecdotal Romp through a Decade of Software Engineering Process Improvement Experience, Debbie Wolfe, Citibank
• Thu 11 Jan - Software Risk Management, Tim Lister, Atlantic Systems Guild
• Thu 29 Feb - Women of the ENIAC, Cathlene (Mauchly) Antonelli, Jean Bartik, Kathe Jacoby
• Sat 2 Mar - Software Process Definition, Marc Kellner, Software Engineering Institute (professional development seminar)
• Thu 14 Mar - Managing the Desktop, David Soll, Omicron Consulting
• Tue 16 Apr - Java: the New Language for Internet Applications, Dennis Mancl, Bell Laboratories
• Thu 9 May - For Your Eyes Only: Personal Identification Using Iris Patterns, Doug Dixon, David Sarnoff Research Center (Annual Dinner Meeting)