Past Meeting Seminar Topics

September 18, 2006: Winning Software Teams

July 17, 2006: A View of 20th and 21st Century Software Engineering

May 18, 2006: Principles Underlying the Construction of Brain-Based Devices

April 20, 2006: Mobile Phones as Ubiquitous Computing Platform -- the "Place-Its" Study

Mar 20, 2006: Explaining success & failure: Value-based software engineering

Feb 16, 2006: From Graphics Accelerator to GPU, and Beyond!

Jan 26, 2006: Wireless Java development on Nokia platforms

Dec 12, 2005: Puppet: Next generation open source server automation

Jun 23, 2005: Going Wide: The transition to multi-core architectures

Apr 21, 2005: Extreme Programming (XP)

Mar 17, 2005: Aspect Oriented Programming with AspectJ and AspectBrowser

Feb 17, 2005: Hive Computing: Scalability and Fault Tolerance from Commodity Hardware

Dec 16, 2004: Learn about Web Services, Interoperability, and Security

Nov 18, 2004: Securing IT Infrastructure Against Attack

Sep 23, 2004: Learn about the Black Ops of DNS

Oct 21, 2004: Security without Firewalls: Myths and Practical Reality of Effective Security

Apr 22, 2004: Learn about Internet Worm Attacks: the Devastation and the Victims

Mar 18, 2004: Learn about Making Data Management Relevant to the Enterprise

Feb 26, 2004: Learn about Xilinx Embedded Processors

Jan 22, 2004: Learn about OpenOffice.org -- an Open Source Application and Project

Nov 20, 2003: Learn about Data Mining Tools and Techniquies and a Respectable Open Source Implementation

Oct 23, 2003: Learn about Oracle 10g - A Database made for Grid Computing

Sep 18, 2003: Learn about Hacking 2003: Beyond Viruses and Trojan Horses

Jun 19, 2003: Learn about the Java vs .NET issue -- from Sun's Vantage

Apr 17, 2003: Learn about .NET and the Enterprise: Does Java *really* rule??

Feb 20, 2003: Learn about EMC's latest storage technology: Centera and Fixed Content

Jan 16, 2003: Learn about the Evolution of Distributed Computing through Platform LSF -- the LAN to the Grid

Dec 19, 2002: The SDSC Rocks Open-Source Clustering Kit

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - Learn About Qualcomm’s Latest Work In BREW™ (Binary Runtime Environment For Wireless)

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - Learn About Sun Microsystems' Latest Work In Symmetrical MultiProcessor Interconnects featuring Andy Phelps.

Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - IEEE Computer Society and San Diego Java Users' Group's Jobs SIG have invited SDACM members to attend a meeting on "Employment & career survival in San Diego's changing Environment."

June 20, 2002: Brad Calder of Entropia, Inc. and Associate Professor of UCSD
Architecture of the Entropia Desktop Grid System and Applications in Life Sciences

March 27, 2002: Dr. David Fogel of Natural Selection, Inc.
Evolutionary Computation: Using Darwinian Thinking to Solve Real-World Problems

February 21, 2002: Dr. David Fogel of Natural Selection, Inc.
Evolutionary Computation: Using Darwinian Thinking to Solve Real-World Problems

October 18, 2001: Dr. David Isaman of Sun Microsystems
Infiniband Technology

June 20, 2001: Eric Pilmore of Sun Microsystems
Shared Memory Architectures

October 19,2000: Philip Staiger of TGS Software
AMAPI AND 3SPACE

May 18, 2000: Ken Arnold
"Invisible Computing: The Future of Embedded Technology"

April 20, 2000: Norman McEntire
"Windows 2000 Kernel Architecture"
Slides posted on the web.

February 17, 2000: Rich Kadel
"LEIF: A Lightweight Extensible Information Framework for Java"
Frode Ødegård
Ideas for SDACM Discussion

January 20, 2000: Eric Grab
"Introduction to Refactoring"

December 16, 1999: Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen
"You Are Cooler Than Liquid Helium"

November 18, 1999: Tom Yengst
"SETI@home"

October 21, 1999: Frode Ødegård
"Testing Considered Harmful"

September 16, 1999: Dr. Brenda K. Weiderhold, M.S
"The Use of Virtual Reality Tools in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology"
Dr. Mark Weiderhold, M.D., Ph.D.
"The Science of Internet Behavior"

August 19, 1999: Sujit Dey "Design Methodologies for Embedded Systems Chips"

July 15, 1999: Eric Grab
"Jini". You may view Eric's slides of the presentation

June 17, 1999: Marty Stein
"General Instruments Technology Division's HDTV". You may view Marty's slides of the presentation.

May 20, 1999: Alex Perry
"The Physics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)"

March 18, 1999: Frode Ødegård
"Formal Methods: A Whirlwind Tour"

January, 21, 1999:
"Further Confessions of an Internet Service Provider"

November 19, 1998:
"Tech Night at the Movies"

October 15, 1998: Larry Mittag
"Embedded Real Time Operating Systems"

September 17, 1998: CTS' Morgan Davis
Life as an Internet Service Provider

June 18, 1998: Dr. Barry Steer
"Unified Modeling Language (UML)"

May 21, 1998:
"Sun Starfire". See also: Photos!

April 16, 1998:
"Artificial Brains"

March 19, 1998:
"Development Process at Stac"