PC Meeting
Wednesday December 8, 2004
Nancy Blachman on how to REALLY search using Google. Nancy has written a
book on how to do Google searches and will impart her knowledge to you. |
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PC Meeting
Wednesday
November 10, 2004
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Ken Kolence, founder of Boole & Babbage |
Ken Kolence, founder of Boole & Babbage many
years ago, comments:
"My major interest these days is to find a way to provide
software
engineering with a "hard science" structure for computer
science. I
believe this is necessary for software engineering to evolve into
a real
engineering discipline, one comparable to the classical engineering
disciplines based on the natural physics. I have some interesting
ideas
and examples which I will share with the audience."
You are also invited/directed to attend the Microsoft presentation
that
evening at the SPAUG/SVCS meeting at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge at
4249 El
Camino Real next to Ricky's Hyatt House. |
PC Meeting
Wednesday
October 13, 2004
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Hank Skawinski, President of DataWise |
The function of Datawise is to maintain thousands of computers on
site for industry.
Hank Skawinski has a wealth of knowledge about the future of computing
and the practicalities of the present and has agreed to grace our
meeting |
PC Meeting
Wednesday September 8, 2004
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User Group
Relations
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We are pleased to announce that User Group
Relations will be making the presentation in CompuSIR. User Group Relations
have some
exciting new products to talk about, and of course, you all know Gene gives
an interesting and informative presentation on computer hard drives. You
can count on him to deliver an outstanding presentation that will keep the
interest of your audience. Gene's talk will include: information about
Maintaining A Healthy PC, Backing Up Your Computer system, and Securing The
Information On Your Hard Drive.
They also have significantly expanded the number of products offered
to user group members in their recently
announced store (some of the new products will be announced the
middle of June & in our store then). They will have many of these
products with them at the meeting so you may select from a wide variety
of excellent products at Great user group discount prices. |
PC Meeting
Wednesday
August 11, 2004
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George Sidman, of Monterey Net |
George will tell us about their business. Here's a link
to a MNC page with George Sidman at the top.
George Sidman, President, Monterey Network, an ISP Provider and
Chairman of the Board of WebLOQ, a Privily Solution Provider. George
is supremely competent in the realities of the Internet marketplace
and the effects on users. A rare opportunity to ask questions in
depth about where the Internet is gong and some of the fallout. |
PC Meeting
Wednesday July 14, 2004
Calculators I have Written or Owned
John will discuss how he, as a CompuSIR member, calculated, created
and composed a series of calculators in various languages for general
use.
See his website for
examples. |
PC Meeting
Wednesday June 9, 2004
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Corey Bridges of Zone Labs
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June 9 Wednesday - Corey Bridges of Zone Labs, the generator of Zone Alarm
firewall will present to CompuSIR the ins and outs of what the employment
of Zone Alarm can do to assure your continued use of your computer in the
face of the zillions of attempts to invade your computer by bots, trojans,
viruses, worms and zombies. |
PC Meeting
Wednesday
May 12, 2004
2:00 pm
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Computer History Museum Tour
Tour at 2:00 pm |
The CompuSIR meeting will be at the Computer History Museum, 1401
Shoreline at Avenidas in Mountain View at 2:00
p.m. Lunch will be across the street at yet another
Chinese restaurant - the address and directions are forthcoming. |
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PC Meeting
Wednesday
April 14, 2004
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John Toole, Director of the
Computer History Museum
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John will join us for a talk on just what the Museum is all about.
I will be picking up John at 11 a.m. and taking him to
the Lucky Restaruant at 140 State Street. All
Directors are asked to attend the restaurant in an
informal board meeting. |
PC Meeting
Wednesday
March 10, 2003
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Keeble & Schuchat
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In just a week on Wednesday, March 10, we will all be on the second
floor of Keeble & Suchat for our program on Digital Photography.
There are two Keeble stores = we want the one on the corner. We
will be on the second floor of that building. There is a parking
structure on the next street behind the store.
If you show up at the Senior Center, you will be lonely.
Plan on lunch on your own on the California Street area. I'm going
to head for the Chinese restaurant on
the same side of the street called Szezuan Cafe where I have had
a bunch of good meals. I will arrive there at 11:30 to beat the
crowd - the Photography show starts at 12:30. If the Board of Directors
were to meet there and discuss business, it would be very helpful.
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PC Meeting
Wednesday
February 11, 2004
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David Harrah, Strategic Initiatives Marketing Manager at Hewlett Packard
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I will address WiFi in the context of mobility as a new enabling technology
for computing. I will review some of what HP is doing with wireless
Local Area Netwroks (PWLAN), Personal Area Networks (PAN) enabled
by Bluetooth, and Wide Area Networking (WAN)resulting from the convergence
of computing and telephony. Examples
will include Starbuck's HotSpot program, other venue PWLANs, such
as Santana Row and the Venetian Hotel. I will also review the broader
strategic implications of these new technologies on personal and business
computing.
David Harrah Biography
David joined Hewlett-Packard in May, 2003 as Mobility Marketing
Manager for the Mobility Program Office. Prior to HP, David spent
four years managing Java public relations at Sun Microsystems.
David's additional PR experience includes Director of Communications
at VLSI Technologies (now part of Philips), Director of Corporate
Communications at Apple, Senior V.P. at Edelman Public Relations
and corporate product spokesman at IBM. David did 15 years at IBM
in sales and communications. David counts as career highlights his
work
launching the PowerPC with Motorola and Apple, Lou Gerstner's arrival
at IBM, the creation of James Cameron's special effects company
Digital Domain, the birth of the DVD, the return of Steve Jobs to
Apple, and the rise of Java as an enterprise and mobile application
platform. |
PC Meeting
Wednesday January 14, 2004
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Ray Long - GM of Micro Center
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Ray Long - GM of Micro Center will discuss how they
are different and some of the ins and outs of the retail computer business. |
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