Scrum on April 21, 2010

Posted March 1st, 2010 by Martin Stein and filed in ACM Meeting

Presented by: Jeff McKenna, Chief Agile Evangelist at Serena Software
Date: Wednesday, 21 April,  2010, 6:30 PM
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions), Bldg. 48, Oak Room, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, CA

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Architecting Applications for the Cloud on March 17, 2010

Posted March 1st, 2010 by Martin Stein and filed in ACM Meeting

Presented by:  Jorge Noa, Hyperstratus
Date: Wednesday, 17 March  2010, 6:30 PM
Location Hewlett Packard (see directions), Bldg. 48, Oak Room, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, CA

Abstract


The specifics of a cloud’s computing architecture may have an impact on application design. This is particularly important in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud environments.

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ACM Data Mining Camp, March 20, 2010

Posted February 25th, 2010 by GregMakowski and filed in ACM Meeting, Conference, DM SIG Meeting

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We have 265+ participants who have RSVP’ed by Thr, 3/11/2010!

WHAT is an UNCONFERENCE or CAMP?

An unconference is an event where users suggest topics, get together and discuss them in detail. This camp is focused on Data Mining, Analytics, Cloud Computing and the various applications of these technologies. There is an option to join the SF Bay ACM for $20 per year. Our last Data Mining Camp had 225 participants.

SPONSORS:

LOCATION:

  • eBay 2161 N First St, San Jose, CA 95131 (free parking)
  • The auditorium seats 420 people and 10 other rooms are available for break out sessions.
  • If you plan on connecting a Mac to a projector, please bring your connector cables.

REGISTER / RSVP:

SCHEDULE for Saturday, March 20th, 2010:

(click the “more” tag below, or the event title above for the full page)

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DMSIG – Large Matrices beyond Singular Value Decomposition on March 22, 2010

Posted Febuary 9, 2010 by Patricia Hoffman, PhD

Location: LinkedIn, 2027 Stierlin Ct., Mountain View, CA 94043.  Notice: NEW MEETING LOCATION for 2010.      This is NOT the main LinkedIn building (2029), it is their new building to the right (2027).        For PARKING, you may have to go to the back of the new building (2027).

Date: Monday March 22, 2010; 6:30 pm Notice: NEW MEETING day of Month for 2010 – the fourth Monday of each month!

Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $20/year. Anyone may join our mailing list at no charge, and receive announcements of upcoming events.

Speakers:  Andrea Montanari, Stanford Professor in Electrical Engineering and Statistics

Title:  “Large Matrices beyond Singular Value Decomposition”

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Using Katta to Search, Monitor and Index Log files on October 20, 2010

Posted February 23rd, 2010 by Martin Stein and filed in ACM Meeting

Presented by: Stefan Groschupf, Katta
Date: Wednesday, 20 October  2010, 6:30 PM
Location Hewlett Packard (see directions), Bldg. 48, Oak Room, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, CA

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PDS: Intro to Android Programming on May 1st, 2010

Posted February 23rd, 2010 by Martin Stein and filed in ACM Meeting, Professional Development Seminar

Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 8:30am – 4pm

Location: TBD (mid-peninsula, Mountain View to Palo Alto)

Cost: $100+ (TBD)

Objective: Understand the Android programming model. Understand the lifecycle of an Android application. Know where to look for information.

Instructor: Marko Gargenta, Marakana

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