PC MeetingWednesday November 13, 2002
Roger is founder, and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Dialog Information Services, Inc. Under his leadership Dialog grew to be the world's most extensive online information retrieval service offering over 325,000,000 documents in over 500 databases to over 150,000 customers worldwide. He is an expert in systems design and information systems and has experience in many areas of computer application. He has received many awards, has held several positions in professional associations and advisory boards, and has published over 100 papers and journal articles. Following his retirement December 31, 1991 he was named Chairman Emeritus of DIALOG and subsequently Knight-Ridder Information (KRI). Since that time he has delivered invited papers, has served on several public and private Boards of Directors and has become strongly positioned in the development and use of Internet applications and services. In 1998 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of The Dialog Corporation (formed through the purchase of Dialog by the British Company, Maid. This relationship has continued with the current owner of Dialog, The Thomson Company. |
PC MeetingWednesday October 9, 2002
IMPORTANT CHANGE: We will not meet at the Elks Lodge. The October 9th meeting will be held in room 12 of the Senior Center located at the Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Food services are not available, but you may bring your own lunch. Meeting time and additional details will be emailed to the CompuSIR mailing list. The speaker for the October meeting of CompuSIR is Ned Hooper, Director, Corporate Business Development, Cisco Systems. Ned is responsible for corporate business development for the wireless and broadband access and aggregation markets for Cisco Systems. In this role, Ned leads a team responsible for developing corporate strategy for the wireless and broadband access and aggregation sectors including the direction and implementation of acquisitions and private equity investments in that space. In this capacity, he holds Board seats with a number of venture companies. Ned has an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business where he earned the faculty award for academic excellence. Ned will be speaking to us about mergers and acquisitions. |
PC MeetingWednesday September 11, 2002
The first part of the meeting will be a discussion and a decision about where to hold future CompuSIR meetings and whether the meeting should include lunch. The September 11th meeting only will continue the practice of meeting in the Lodge room of the Elks Club. The program will begin at 12:30 PM. You are on your own for lunch. THERE WILL BE NO LUNCH AVAILABLE AT THE ELKS and expect that a fee will be charged for our use of the room. |
PC MeetingWednesday August 14, 2002
Our August 14th meeting is at the Elks Lodge. Lunch will at 11:30AM in the Lanai room with the talk beginning at 12:30PM in the Lodge room. |
PC MeetingWednesday July 10, 2002
Mike spoke to us in March, 2000. |
PC MeetingWednesday June 12, 2002
We will not meet at the Elk's Lodge in June. The June 12, 2002 CompuSIR meeting will be an on-site visit to Hewlett Packard's Briefing Center, on Wolfe/Pruneridge Road in Cupertino. Our host will be Joe Podolsky of Hewlett Packard. We will meet at the Briefing Center at 10:00 AM for an introduction by Joe followed by a tour of the facility. Lunch will be at 12:15 at the Briefing Center, hosted by Hewlett Packard (that means they are providing the lunch at no cost to us). Instructions to the HP Briefing Center are: Enter the Cupertino site from the Pruneridge entrance (Pruneridge runs between Wolfe and Lawerence, about a block from I280) and follow the signs to the Briefing Center lobby, (NOT the building 44/46 lobby). The Briefing Center lobby has a big cobalt blue wall sticking out of it. It is important that we have a sign-up for attendance no later than June 5, 2002. Either sign-up at the May CompuSIR meeting or let Graham Wallace know at 650-948-4797 or graham0@pacbell.net. If you have any special dietary needs, or will not be staying for lunch, indicate that during sign-up. |
PC MeetingWednesday May 8, 2002
Donn Parker will be our speaker. His talk will be about "State of the Art of Computer Crime and Security - The golden age of computer crime, the sad state of computer security, and what you can do to protect yourselves". Donn is a retired information security consultant, researcher, speaker, and writer from RedSiren Technologies, Inc. (a spin-off from SRI International). He has performed security reviews for more than 250 large corporations world wide and formed the International Information Integrity Institute in 1985. He has done research on computer crime and hackers for the past 35 years funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Justice. Donn has appeared on CBS 60 Minutes, ABC 20/20, NBC Today, and in People and Fortune Magazines. He has written 6 books on computer crime and security including his most recent one, "Fighting Computer Crime" published by Wiley in 1998. Donn referenced a security web site - the Home Network Security Web Site. It's URL is http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/home_networks.html Mac users should find our May program interesting and are welcome to attend. |
PC MeetingWednesday April 10, 2002
![[Clay Ross]](clayross2.jpg) LANs, MANs, WANs Central Offices, Data Centers, Switches, Routers, Copper, and Fiber How does your E-mail get from here to there? Where are those web pages stored? What is the current state of the art? What is the roadmap for the next 2 years? What does this hardware look like? Clay is a system engineering lead on the development of next-generation ethernet switches for metro area networks and large enterprises. His responsibilities include overseeing mechanical, thermal, and power design for the new chassis, designing PC boards, backplanes, and power distribution, and integrating and testing the systems. Extreme Networks, founded in 1996, has over 1000 employees worldwide, including more than 500 people at its Santa Clara headquarters. Extreme Networks develops layer-3 & layer-2 ethernet switches. Extreme promotes "Ethernet Everywhere"(TM) as a reliable, simple, lower cost solution to traditional long-range network technologies. Before coming to Extreme, Clay worked at SRI International for 15 years developing and testing GPS-based tracking systems and communication systems for government clients. Clay has a BS in Systems Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. Mac users, here is a topic of mutual interest to both PC and Mac users. Come join us for lunch at 11:30 AM followed by the technical presentation. |
PC MeetingWednesday March 13, 2002
A page of useful Windows XP Help resources is available. Tahnks, Bob. |
PC MeetingWednesday February 13, 2002
During the 1999-2000 school year, the St. Andrews after school science club taught 12 students the basics of computers, electronics, and created a general interest in science. By the summer, the students (11 of whom had earned ham licenses) put their skills to the test, launching their "satellite" payloads 15,000 feet above the Black Rock desert in Nevada. The next year, the same students (now 8th graders) continued their work, flying cameras in model airplanes, designing control systems using computers-on-a-chip, and launching a ham radio repeater 15,000 feet over the same desert in Nevada. Skip La Fetra, one of the parent teachers for the effort, will share the Science Club students' experiences, as well as be available to answer any questions about Hewlett Packard's "Pavilion" computer line, where he is software manager. |
PC MeetingWednesday January 9, 2002
Further information about the talk may be found online. |