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May 2015 Tom Coughlin's Welcome to Region 6 - page 7

CHAPTER MEETINGS

SCV-SPS - 5/7 | Scale-space processing for Light Field Cameras - Light field scale-and-depth (Lisad) spaces, scale-space analysis, scale of objects...(AMD Sunnyvale, 6:30 pm)

SCV-TEMS - 5/7 | How to Hire the "A Team" - define the A team, why you are an unemployed A team member, how to pick out the A team on a non A team looking resume...(AMD Sunnyvale, 6:00 pm)

SCV-REL - 5/7 | Making Use of Reliability Statistics - ariability causes failures, statistics is the language of variability, find the resources to learn the statistical tools necessary to be successful... Food sponsored by I.C.E. Labs, ISO 9001 & 17025 Reliability Test Lab, www.rel-test.com. (Qualcomm, Santa Clara, 6:00 pm)

SCV-CS - 5/7 | Overview of HDR (High Dynamic Range) - Image Processing, Multimedia, Signal Processing, Computer Graphics... Cosponsored with Bay Area Multimedia Meetup (Microsoft, Mountain View, 6:00 pm)

SCV-CNSV - 5/11 | The USPTO and Silicon Valley: Opportunities for Engineers and Inventors - impact of the new Menlo Park Satellite Office (soon to move to San Jose), and the impact of the PTAB ... (HP, Palo Alto, 7 pm)

SCV-EMC and SCV-APS - 5/12 | Introduction to Antenna Calibration Methods: An overview of new antenna developments, related standards, calibration and what you need to know for efficient and compliant EMC testing - antenna calibration, measuring instrument, reference standard, traceability and measurement uncertainty... (SIEMIC test lab, Milpitas, 5:30 pm networking and light dinner, 6:30 pm presentation)

Career Development

Professional Skills Courses - Advanced Presentation Skills - Getting Things Done Across Organizational Borders -Managing Time & Priorities more

RF and Wireless Training Besser Associates Classes Digital Wireless, Cognitive Radios, Networks, more UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley - Engineering Classes

CONFERENCE CALENDAR CLEO: Laser Science to Photonics Applications, May 10-15, San Jose Convention Center Medical Device Trends - Robotics & Accelerated Product Development conference , May 21, Santa Clara Convention Center Electronic Materials Symposium May 22, 2015, Keysight Technologies Inc. in Santa Clara Women In Technology International (WITI) Summit, May 31-June 2, DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose Workshop on Civic Technology and Smart Cities, June 8th, San Francisco Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age: The Race is On! , June 16 - 17, 2015, at Stanford University Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic MicroSystems (InterPACK), July 6-9, 2015, The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco Rock Stars of Cybersecurity October 27, 2015, San Jose Rock Stars of Tech Startups November 10, 2015, The Village, San Francisco

CALL FOR PAPERS Asilomar Conference, before May 1st; conference is November 8-11, Pacific Grove

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Workshop on Civic Technology and Smart Cities, before May 8th; conference is June 8th, San Francisco

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OEB-SPS - 5/13 | Signal and Image Sciences Workshop - Learning Tools for Big Data Analytics ... (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, HPC Innovation Center (HPCIC), 9 am to 5 pm)

SCV-PV - 5/13 | Long-Duration Energy Storage and PV: Renewable Energy's BFFs - critical parameters for configuring a PV and storage project to maximize value and returns, availability of long-duration storage systems ...(PARC, Palo Alto, 6:30 pm)

SCV-COMSOC - 5/13 | NFV, SDN, and the Need for Optimized Server and Processor Architectures - Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), evolution of cloud computing ... (TI, Santa Clara, 6:30 pm)

OEB-LMAG - 5/13 | Plans for the Future of the Group - Planning meeting, social purposes, technical achievement, active input wanted ... (Englander Sports Pub & Restaurant, 11:30 am)

SF-CS - 5/14 | Why you should pay attention to Go (golang) - unreliable VMs, talk to multiple databases, queues, caches, APIs; Go Language to solve problems... (Spunk, SF, 6 pm)

OEB-PES and ISA NorCal - 5/19 | Elect/I&C Design and Construction of a 750 foot-deep Slanted Well - Test wells to monitor and test water quality factors, Electrical and Instrumentation/Control aspects of the project ... (RSVP By May 14th, Buttercup Grill and Bar, Oakland, 5:30 pm)

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SCV-EMBS - 5/20 | The Voice of the Body — Samsung's Simband and SAMI - physiological sensors all on your wrist, cloud-based data platform for collecting data, open source hardware and software ... (Stanford University, 7:30 pm)

SCV-CPMT - 5/21 | The Current Capabilities and Future Challenges of Acoustic Microscopy (AM) for 3D Interconnect & Underfill Inspection - C-SAM® systems, can be applied to 3D IC interconnect, especially in SCV-NANO - 5/19 | The Promise and Progress of NanoPhotonics - Quantum Dots and Photonic Crystals, Nanoscale optical electronics and sensors, Nanoscale Silicon Photonics, • Nanoplasmonics, Photonic Metamaterials ... (TI, Santa Clara, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm)

SCV-EDS - 5/19 | Nanoscale Vacuum Electronics - entirely and exclusively silicon technology, drive voltage of only 2 V, potential for THz electronics ... (TI, Santa Clara, 6 pm)

SCV-CS - 5/19 | NFIC: Smartgrid Ecosystems: Public and Personal - Smartgrid, Power, Optimization, Regulation, Solar..., Sponsors: IEEE SCV CS, NATEA-SV, Stanford Student IEEE (Stanford, 4:00 pm)

SCV-EMBS - 5/20 | The Voice of the Body — Samsung's Simband and SAMI - physiological sensors all on your wrist, cloud-based data platform for collecting data, open source hardware and software ... (Stanford University, 7:30 pm)

SCV-SPS - 5/21 | Perceiving Graphical and Pictorial Information via Hearing and Touch - use of hearing and touch for conveying graphical and pictorial information to visually impaired people. ... (AMD Sunnyvale, 6:30 pm)

OEB-IAS - 5/21 | Lessons Learned From Power System Failures - Electrical Failure Investigations - electrical power system failures, Lessons learned, improve system wafer bond quality, thickness, bow, warp, sori and flatness... (TI, Santa Clara, 11:30 am)

SCV-CPMT - 5/21 | The Current Capabilities and Future Challenges of Acoustic Microscopy (AM) for 3D Interconnect & Underfill Inspection - C-SAM® systems, can be applied to 3D IC interconnect, especially in wafer bond quality, thickness, bow, warp, sori and flatness... (TI, Santa Clara, 11:30 am)

SCV-CE - 5/26 | Making Better Pixels - three key aspects of next generation consumer imaging, higher dynamic range and wider color gamut to generate better pixels... (NVIDIA, Santa Clara, 6:30 pm)

SCV SSCS - 5/28 | The Return of Neuro-Inspired Computing - Why Now? - Computational paradigms, interaction between neuroscience and information technology may lead to an exciting future ... (Maxim, San Jose, 6 pm)

SF-PES, SFSU, SF-IAS - 5/29 | Measurement, Safety, and Protection Workshop - Motor and Transformer Protection, Arc Flash Hazard Mitigation using Bus Protection Schemes, and Micro- synchrophasors.... (SFSU, The Annex 1, 8 am to 5 pm)

SV-HIST - 6/1 | EDA's pivotal role in development of fabless semiconductor industry - how EDA helped transform the semiconductor industry into the fabless semiconductor mode ... (Keypoint Credit Union, Santa Clara, 6 pm)

SCV-SPS - 6/3 | Computational Imaging: From Photons to Photos - Computational imaging, changing the rules of image capture, clever algorithms, dedicated hardware architectures ... (AMD Sunnyvale, 6:30 pm)

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More Chapter Events

SCV-VTS - 6/3 | How Deep Learning will Enable Self-Driving Cars - algorithms for teaching machines to understand images, speech and video, "hierarchical representation" to get smarter... (nVidia, Santa Clara, 6:30 pm)

SCV-VTS - 6/3 | How Deep Learning will Enable Self-Driving Cars - algorithms for teaching machines to understand images, speech and video, "hierarchical representation" to get smarter... (nVidia, Santa Clara, 6:30 pm)

SCV-CS - 6/9 | Assembling Data and Predictive Analytics to Hiring and Team Assembly - Big Data Analytics, Management, Human Resources ...(Cadence, San Jose, 6:30 pm)

SCV-IMS - 6/9-11 | VNA Tools-Uncertainty Calculator Workshop - Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs), metrological traceability, error correction algorithms, ISO-GUM ... (Anritsu Company, Morgan Hill, 8:00 am)

SCV-CNSV - 6/11 | Annual CNSV Dinner Meeting: The Fairchild Patent Notebooks - Curating the Founding Documents of Silicon Valley - Fairchild Patent Notebook highlights, incl. Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, a unique insight into the work and life of each author... (Turmeric Restaurant, Sunnyvale, 6:00 pm)

SF-NANO - 6/16 | An introduction to the 3D Subnanometer Compositionally Sensitive Technique of Atom Probe Tomography - Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP), semiconductor applications, advantages for yield and data quality ... (TI, Santa Clara, 12 noon)

SF-PES - 6/17 | Community MicroGrids - achieves higher penetrations of renewable energy with greater reliability and resilience... (CPUC, San Francisco, 11:30 am)

OEB-IAS, SCV IAS-PES, SF PES - 6/18 | Large-Scale Microgrids Design and Deployment - design and deployment of large Microgrids, future of the electric grid reliability, integration.... (Zio Fraedos, Pleasant Hill, 5:30 pm)

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Message from the new IEEE Region 6 Director IEEE Region 6 is a wide geographical area with diverse interests. As a consequence, we have many opportunities and challenges that face our members. We also have enormous resources, both physical and human, in Region 6. Over the last few years we have developed a series of annual conferences focusing on the IEEE motto of “Advancing Technology for Humanity.” These include our Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) and the Technologies for Sustainability Conference (SusTech).

This year, as last year, Region 6 is hosting the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference in San Jose and we plan a new Virtual Career Expo in June. In January 2016 we will have our second IEEE Conference for Young Engineers, the Rising Stars Conference.

Over the next couple of years we are considering expanding our collection of conferences to include an Industrial Technology Conference and a Patent and Intellectual Property Conference. We are interested in what sort of events would interest you, so please let us know. Also if you are excited about getting engaged in these events we are always looking for committee members to make them successful, so let the chairs of these Conferences know if you want to get involved.

In any case, please consider coming to these events and/or letting your friends and colleagues know about them. We hope that you can come to one or more of these events and participate in the growth and development of our IEEE Region 6.

Best wishes,

Tom Coughlin

IEEE Region 6 Director 2015-16

tom@tomcoughlin.com

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Capturing the Best you ever missed an interesting technical chapter meeting in your IEEE section because you weren't in town? Do you have a hard time getting to

Capturing the Best Have you ever missed an interesting technical chapter meeting in your IEEE section because you weren't in town? Do you have a hard time getting to meetings because they are far away from you? Does your section have a hard time attracting interesting speakers to give presentations in their section? If any of these are true for you, Region 6 members, and in the future IEEE members all over the world, may soon have access any time of day or night to some of the most interesting technical talks in the world. The best thing about this is that you have that access because you are an IEEE member and because IEEE volunteers captured this content for you. The volunteers of Region 6 have a unique opportunity to capture their technical chapter meetings and share them with other IEEE members. Region 6 and Region 4 have embarked upon a project in 2015, funded by an IEEE New Initiatives Committee (NIC) grant, to provide local sections and their chapters with the tools and training to record their technical chapter meetings on the laptops used to make the speaker presentations. Once captured, these recordings are uploaded by the volunteer to a website with other information on the talk, including the date, section and chapter as well as the talk title, talk abstract and speakers biography. IEEE members can access the web site with the collection of recordings after they authenticate their IEEE membership and search, watch, comment and share interesting talks with their colleagues. They can watch the content streaming over the Internet or download the video file for viewing later. There are over 228 chapters in Region 6. Many of these chapters have monthly meetings. If these chapters record their meetings we can have hundreds of recordings in only a few months time and thousands in a few years time. This would be a valuable resource to IEEE members all over the world since local technical meetings can be interesting briefings on the latest development in a field, advice on how to develop your career and help others, or a real insightful tutorial or inspirational talk on some topic. While IEEE members can have access to this content as part of their membership, non-members can buy access to these recordings. The money from non-member content access can be used to help pay for the expenses of the on-line storage and website maintenance, and any surplus would go back to the sections or chapters that generated the original recordings and posted them. In doing this we have created a new value to IEEE membership and thus an incentive for additional people to become or remain members. We will also have generated new intellectual property in the IEEE that is created by and for the grass roots members of the IEEE. After some extensive research and thinking about how this meeting recording can be done simply and in most meeting settings, we decided to encourage the use of a system with the least complicated setup possible in order to make it easy to be successful in recording. This system comprises installing a program called Camtasia on the laptop used to make the chapter technical presentations and then either connecting that laptop to the house sound in the room where the meeting is taking place in order to capture the presenters voice, or else using a wireless microphone set with a receiver plugged into the presenting computer to capture the voice of the presenter. In this simple case, after having the speaker fill in a form giving their permission to use their recorded talk (note that the chapter would probably want to get this form to the speaker before the talk if

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possible so the speaker or someone in authority at the speaker's institution can review it), the Camtasia software is used to capture the presentation and the voice of the presenter. No external camera is required and no video of the actual presenter is required. Using software installed on the presenting computer no Internet access is required to capture the content. After stopping and saving the recording, the chapter volunteer would convert the Camtasia recording of the presentation and voice of the presenter to an MP4 file using Camtasia. If desired the volunteer could edit the content to remove non-relevant recordings--e.g. local chapter slides. After converting to an MP4 file the volunteer logs onto the chapter recording website and uploads the recording as well as the talk title, talk abstract, speaker permission form and biography of the speaker. He also fills in a form to say which section and chapter did the recording and what the recording date was. If there is more material on the talk available at the chapter web site (e.g. a copy of the presentation slides) the volunteer can also enter the URL for that information. The IEEE NIC funding is being used to purchase copies of the Camtasia software as well as wireless microphone sets that have been tested by IEEE volunteers. The Camtasia software and the microphone sets are being sold to the chapters by Region 6 at a significant discount to their purchase price. Note that the microphone sets that we are purchasing have both a wireless lavaliere microphone and a wireless handheld microphone and a receiver for the wireless signal. The handheld microphone allows capturing questions from the audience as well as the presenter. The NIC funding is also being used to set up the chapter recording website with all the desired functionality. We plan to have that website set up by June 2015 and want to have 100 microphone sets and Camtasia software packages distributed to sections and chapters in Region 6 and Region 4 in 2015. We would like to have at least 200 recorded chapter meetings from Region 6 and Region 4 by the end of 2015. In order to jumpstart these chapter recording efforts we have placed tutorial materials on how to do the chapter meeting recording on the Region 6 website including how to connect with house sound or using the microphone sets. You can find some of these materials here: http://ieee-region6.org/category/region-meetings/ on the Region 6 website. We will be adding more tutorial materials and making a dedicated page to this effort over time. This material is from a chapter recording training session at the joint Region 6 and Region 4 meeting in San Diego in January. At the Spring Region 6 area meetings we are having additional training on how to do meeting recording as well as taking additional orders for microphone sets and Camtasia licenses. Our goal is to create a common practice for sharing local IEEE technical meetings with the broader IEEE community. In the future this could also include, in meeting locations where broadband Internet access is available, live streaming and recording of presentations using Google hangouts. Where the volunteers are able to handle the additional complexity this may also include video of the speaker as well as the presentation being recorded and posted on the chapter recording web site. Our plan for volunteers to capture technical chapter meetings to share with other IEEE members leverages the ability of our local volunteers to contribute to the IEEE and their fellow members. Both the volunteers doing the recording as well as the IEEE members that view these presentations benefit from this captured content. In addition, being able to share presentations to a much broader audience may help in getting high level speakers to local chapter meetings either in person or using these recording as a technical talk in a chapter or section meeting. Because of these recording these speakers can reach a much broader audience and over a longer period of time than they could have at a local chapter meeting. Will you join us to create this new grass-roots generated IEEE content and share your meetings with

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fellow IEEE members all over the world? Will you help us create greater value for the speakers at our local IEEE events? This is the opportunity to make an impact on the world just by running and recording your technical meetings. We hope that you can help us in this simple and powerful endeavor and thus create greater value for yourselves and your fellow IEEE members. If so, contact Scott Tamashiro (tamashiro@ieee.org) to order your microphones and Camtasia licenses. If you already have your recording kit together you can send your recordings to Xun Luo (xun.luo@ieee.org) so he can get them posted as the web site comes together. We look forward to offering an impressive contribution to the IEEE by this June. Thanks! Tom Coughlin IEEE Region 6 Director

The Value of Time Tom Coughlin IEEE Region 6 Director Time is the great motivator of action, but time can be the enemy of success. Busy technical professionals are both inspired and constrained by time. We may want to help each other and our profession, but there is so little time to do so. On the other hand we only have so many hours in our lives to make a difference, there is no time to waste. IEEE leaders need to help our fellow IEEE members achieve a balance of their time spent as employees, entrepreneurs, consultants, fathers or mothers, members of their communities; as well as IEEE volunteers. We can do this by using modern program management techniques and technologies to create and manage volunteer time, as well as creating useful volunteer tasks that allow people to accomplish good things with small investments of time and energy. Being a section or chapter officer, being a member of a society governing body or serving on various IEEE committees can be very rewarding, but often requires a significant investment of time and may not be right for all IEEE volunteers. Smaller tasks carried out in short bursts of time could help create more IEEE members volunteers. A volunteer who feels energized and rewarded by these smaller tasks could later feel more comfortable with getting further involved in IEEE volunteer activities. There is a concept, called micro-volunteering, that has been developed to create small manageable volunteer tasks for non-profits. Volunteers can choose these tasks that will help the non-profit, and in doing so contribute to the progress of the non-profit. IEEE Region 6 wants to leverage the concept of micro-volunteering to accomplish our goals. We can do many things with micro-volunteering but we want to start off by trying to reverse the loss of members year-by-year in IEEE Region 6. Below is a figure showing the number of higher-grade IEEE members in Region 6 year-by-year in the 21st century.

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Our peak higher-grade membership was in 2002 and we have been declining year over year since then. The table following this figure breakdown the loss of members in December 2014 compared to December 2013.

As can be seen from this table the biggest membership losses (in real numbers) are our regular members and graduate student members. We want to reverse the IEEE membership loss in 2015 and we feel that these two categories of non-renewing members should be the target. We are creating a micro-volunteer program to get volunteers from IEEE sections to call their fellow section members who have not renewed their membership. These volunteers will sign up as a micro-volunteer and be given a list of 10 non-renewing IEEE former members in their section (or branch for student branches) to call and/or email to find out why they didn’t renew, find out what their impressions of the IEEE are and get their input on what we can do better. If the non-renewing member is interested in renewing their membership they will offer them appropriate options for renewing. The volunteer will be able to keep track of their discussion with the non-renewing member via a Google document that will be shared with the IEEE membership development community who can follow up if needed—e.g. to offer easy membership renewal options. Volunteer callers can ask for new call lists each time

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they finish calling (and-or emailing) their prior list and there are incentives for the volunteers who can achieve various levels of membership renewals. With the deactivation of non-renewing IEEE members completed in late February 2015, the lists of non-renewing members is very fresh. Now is the time to try and bring some of these former members back to the IEEE. Remember, the more members, the greater the pool of IEEE volunteers and thus the more IEEE volunteers to do good work. Will you donate some time to call 10 of these non-renewing members to find out what would get them motivated to renew and what they think the IEEE should be doing? This effort will be a test of the value of micro-volunteering for IEEE members and we want this effort to be a success. There are a lot of other activities that we can break down into small tasks and reach out to the IEEE volunteer community to make them happen. Let’s see if we can use this approach to reverse the 12-year trend of declining IEEE Region 6 membership. We need these people back and I think we can do it! You can sign up to participate in this project at: http://www.ieee-region6.org/volunteer-2/ meetings because they are far away from you? Does your section have a hard time attracting interesting speakers to give presentations in their section? If any of these are true for you, Region 6 members, and in the future IEEE members all over the world, may soon have access any time of day or night to some of the most interesting technical talks in the world. The best thing about this is that you have that access because you are an IEEE member and because IEEE volunteers captured this content for you. The volunteers of Region 6 have a unique opportunity to capture their technical chapter meetings and share them with other IEEE members. Region 6 and Region 4 have embarked upon a project in 2015, funded by an IEEE New Initiatives Committee (NIC) grant, to provide local sections and their chapters with the tools and training to record their technical chapter meetings on the laptops used to make the speaker presentations. Once captured, these recordings are uploaded by the volunteer to a website with other information on the talk, including the date, section and chapter as well as the talk title, talk abstract and speakers biography. IEEE members can access the web site with the collection of recordings after they authenticate their IEEE membership and search, watch, comment and share interesting talks with their colleagues. They can watch the content streaming over the Internet or download the video file for viewing later.

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There are over 228 chapters in Region 6. Many of these in IEEE Region 6 Director eaker: Steven Kunsman, ABB, Inc. Time:

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