Let’s learn HTML5
This event requires payment. Please see: Click here to register for the HTML5 Seminar HP Campus location and map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=19483+Pruneridge+Ave,+Cupertino,+CA+95014&ie=UTF8&om=1 Map of HP Campus http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/ebc/cup-campus.html ...
May 14, 2011 @ 8:30 amFree meeting: The Art of Social Data by the Chief Scientist of Amazon
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions), Bldg. 48, Oak Room, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, CA
May 18, 2011 @ 6:30 pmFREE at Linkedin: Bayesian [see full title below] by Professor David Draper, PhD
Bayesian Statistical Reasoning: an inferential, predictive and decision-making paradigm for the 21st century, May 23, 2011 LOCATION: LinkedIn, 2025 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043 Date: Monday May 23, 2011; 6:30 pm 6:30 – 9:00 pm (6:30 – 7:00 networking... Read more
May 23, 2011 @ 6:30 pmthe New Micro-Information Product Economy, by Peter Ebert, CEO of vTricity
Meet the New Micro-Information Product Economy Presented by: Peter Ebert, vTricity Date: Wednesday, 15 June, 2011, 6:30 PMLocation: Hewlett Packard (see directions), Bldg. 48, Oak Room, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, CA Abstract We already see the ever growing scale... Read more
June 15, 2011 @ 6:30 pmDataMining – Recycling Digital Exhaust for Fun and Money
DMSIG – Recycling Digital Exhaust for Fun and Money – Challenges and approaches to the design of contextual and behavioral interest classification systems in online advertising, June 27, 2011 Location: LinkedIn, 2025 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043 Date:... Read more
June 27, 2011 @ 6:30 pmFree ACM Event: Designing With the Mind in Mind
Free ACM Event: Designing With the Mind in Mind: The Psychological Basis for UI Design Ruleshttp://www.sfbayacm.org/home <a href=”http://www.sfbayacm.org/home”></a>Wed, Jul 20 Hewlett Packard, Bldg. 48 Oak Room, Cupertino, CA, US Keywords: ACM, UI, design rules, application...
July 20, 2011 @ 6:30 pmFree ACM talk on Speech Recognition
DMSIG – Segmental Conditional Random Fields in Speech Recognition Date Monday, July 25, 2011 – 6:30pm – 9:00pm Venue LinkedIn LinkedIn 2025 Stierlin Ct. Mountain View, CA 94043 See map: Google Maps Speaker: Patrick Nguyen Event Details Novel techniques in... Read more
July 25, 2011 @ 6:30 pmFree Talk: Organizing the Exchange of Smart Meter Data
Mechanical meters are being replaced with electronic meters in an effort to create more efficient electricity markets and, in doing so, to achieve climate targets. Making meters smart by equipping them with computing and network capabilities might have a huge... Read more
August 10, 2011 @ 6:30 pmDMSIG – Formal Ontology and the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO)
Speaker: Adam Pease Event Details This talk presents an overview of ontology, including how formal ontology compares to less formal approaches and how the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) ( www.ontologyportal.org) compares to other formal ontologies. Classes of ontology-based applications....
August 22, 2011 @ 6:30 pmACM Data Mining Camp
For more information: http://www.sfbayacm.org/event/data-mining-camp-october-2011 For Registration: http://www.sfbayacm.org/content/dm-camp-registration For Training Class Information and Registration: http://www.sfbayacm.org/introduction-mining-big-data-map-reduce Data Mining Camp Saturday, Octo...
October 15, 2011 @ 8:30 amDMSIG – The Web as a Laboratory for Studying Humanity
Speaker: Jure Leskovec Event Details With an increasing amount of social interaction taking place in on-line settings, we are accumulating massive amounts of data about phenomena that were once essentially invisible to us: the collective behavior and social interactions of... Read more
October 24, 2011 @ 6:30 pmLeveraging the Cloud, Mobile, and Social to Transform Video Editing
Leveraging the Cloud, Mobile, and Social to Transform Video Editing Wednesday, November 16, 20116:30pm – 8:30pm6:30pm Networking & Refreshments7:00pm Announcements & Lecture HP Oak Room19111 Pruneridge AvenueCupertino, CA 95014See map: Google Maps Joint meeting with ACM SIGGRAPH....
November 16, 2011 @ 6:30 pmSIGGRAPH 2011 Electronic Theater Screening and Re-launch
San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH “SIGGRAPH 2011 Electronic Theater Screening” Relaunch of San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 7:00PM Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Letterman Visual Arts Center San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to announce that... Read more
November 20, 2011 @ 7:00 pmDMSIG – Mobile App Search
Event Details Mobile app discovery, and specifically app search, is becoming a significant problem for both users and developers. However the app search problem is fundamentally different from web search; there is no link structure, and there is significantly less... Read more
November 28, 2011 @ 6:30 pmDart, a structured web programming language
DateWednesday, January 18, 2012 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm VenueHP Oak Room19111 Pruneridge AvenueCupertino, CA 95014See map: Google Maps Speaker: Seth Ladd Event Details Dart is a new programming language for structured web programming. The Dart project includes a language, libraries,... Read mo...
January 18, 2012 @ 6:30 pmBig Data & Predictive Analytics – Leveraging the New Data Science
Big Data & Predictive Analytics – Leveraging the New Data Science: Applications and Challenges DateMonday, January 23, 2012 – 6:30pm – 9:00pm VenueLinkedIn2025 Stierlin Ct.Mountain View, CA 94043See map: Google Maps Speaker: Usama Fayyad Event Details Virtually all organizations ar...
January 23, 2012 @ 6:30 pmDrupal – Gateway to Web Apps
Drupal – Gateway to Web Apps DateWednesday, February 15, 2012 – 6:30pm – 8:00pm VenueHP Oak Room19111 Pruneridge AvenueCupertino, CA 95014See map: Google Maps Speaker: Padmanabhan Balamani Event Details So you want to start a web based company? See how... Read more
February 15, 2012 @ 6:30 pmScaling Up Machine Learning: Parallel and Distributed Approaches
Scaling Up Machine Learning: Parallel and Distributed Approaches DateMonday, February 27, 2012 – 6:30pm – 8:10pm VenueLinkedIn2025 Stierlin Ct.Mountain View, CA 94043See map: Google Maps Speaker: Ron Bekkerman, LinkedIn Event Details In this talk, I’ll provide an extensive introd...
February 27, 2012 @ 6:30 pm$$Bargain Seminar: introduction to the “R” language (fee required)
All-day Seminar at eBay, presented by SF Bay ACM$$ NOT free $$An introduction to the “R” language for Software Developers and Data AnalystsSaturday, March 10, 2012 – 8:30am – 5:00pmEntry fee required, book purchase highly advisedSee this URL for full... Read more
March 10, 2012 @ 8:30 am‘Natural’ Search User Interfaces
‘Natural’ Search User Interfaces DateWednesday, March 21, 2012 – 6:30pm – 8:00pm VenueHP Oak Room19111 Pruneridge AvenueCupertino, CA 95014See map: Google Maps Speaker: Marti Hearst Event Details What does the future hold for search user interfaces? Following on a recently......
March 21, 2012 @ 6:30 pm@Intuit!! Randomized algorithms for matrices and data
NEW LOCATION: Intuit – MTV-09 Innovation and Invention2600 Casey AveMountain View, CA 94043 Speaker: Michael W. Mahoney New Location Details: GETTING TO THE MEETING ROOM Go to the sfbayACM.org web site, click on the goolge maps link, change to satellite... Read more
March 26, 2012 @ 6:30 pmThreads and Shared Variables in C++11 and elsewhere
Venue HP Oak Room 19111 Pruneridge Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 See map: Google Maps Speaker: Hans Boehm Event Details In spite of over 40 years of shared memory parallel programming, there has been a surprising amount of confusion surrounding the basic meaning of shared... Read more
April 18, 2012 @ 6:30 pmIntroduction to Bayesian Belief Networks and their Applications
Please download and set up the free software ahead of time! We will not take time during the presentation to do this! Bayesia Lab is offering a free one month license to all the attendees for a special BayesiaLab Extended... Read more
April 23, 2012 @ 6:30 pmThe Online Revolution: High-Quality Education for Everyone
DateWednesday, May 16, 2012 – 6:30pm – 8:00pmVenueHP Oak Room19111 Pruneridge AvenueCupertino, CA 95014See map: Google MapsSpeaker: Andrew Y. NgEvent DetailsLast year, Stanford University offered three online courses, which anyone in the world could enroll in and take for free.... Read m...
May 16, 2012 @ 6:30 pmAdvances in Regularization: Bridge Regression and Coordinate Descent Algorithms
ACM Data Mining SIG Title: Advances in Regularization: Bridge Regression and Coordinate Descent Algorithms Speaker: Giovanni Seni Event Details Please note the date change to June 4 A widely held principle in Statistical model inference is that accuracy and simplicity... Read more
June 4, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmYes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and Design
Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and Design Speaker: Steve Portigal Event DetailsImprov is not “stand-up comedy.” It is often presented series of games with rules that offer huge degrees of freedom within a set of constraints. In... Read more
June 20, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmProbabilistic Models for Predicting Multiple Correlated Labels
Data Mining SIG Title: Probabilistic Models for Predicting Multiple Correlated Labels Speaker: Kevin Murphy Event DetailsJoint probability models are useful for unsupervised learning (“knowledge discovery”) as well as supervised learning tasks such as where we want to predict multiple co...
June 25, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmRepresenting Knowledge with Primitives in Conditional Probabilities
Speaker: Bob Kirby 6:30 – 7:00 Registration, pizza, networking7:00 – 7:10 Announcements, job openings, book drawing for members7:10 Talk Event Details This research talk espouses using conditional probabilities to represent and process knowledge from natural language, images, and sensed data...
July 18, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmRepresenting Predictive Solutions with PMML
Speaker: Dr. Alex Guazzelli Agenda 6:30 – 7:00 Registration, pizza, networking7:00 – 7:10 Announcements, job openings, book drawing for members7:10 Talk Event Details Data mining scientists work hard to analyze historical data and to build the best predictive solutions out... Read more
July 23, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmOntology Professional Development Seminar
You MUST signup at http://sfbayacm.ticketleap.com/a-course-in-formal-ontology-with-adam-pease/ Event DetailsYou MUST signup at http://sfbayacm.ticketleap.com/a-course-in-formal-ontology-with-adam-pease/ Description The purpose of this course is to give participants a working knowledge in formal onto...
August 6, 2012 @ 10:00 am - August 9, 2012 @ 4:00 pmIntelligent Design: Analyzing User Stories Like Stocks
Speaker: Jon InnesEvent DetailsThe practice of software development is evolving. In the past decade we’ve seen the widespread adoption of agile and UX practices. Agile has focused mainly on development, not requirements analysis and design. The Lean Startup movement and... Read more
August 15, 2012 @ 6:30 pmData Mining Hackathon on Big Data
This is the kickoff for a Big Data competition that will end in October, 2012. Winner will be announced at the Big Data unConference on October 13. (COMPETITION CLOSES:Saturday, 10/6/2012, 6pm PST )====================COMPETITION: Which person or team can develop the... Read more
August 18, 2012 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pmArchitectures for Big Data Analytics and Data Mining Platforms
How are cutting edge, stellar companies advancing the state of the art in big data mining?We will take a look at some outstanding platforms for analytics and data mining on “Big Data.”Our panelists helped…Netflix to analyze massive data on customer’s... Read more
August 27, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmTopic Change: the well known Sean Murphy will speak on Startups
Speaker and topic have changed: The well known Silicon Valley personality Sean Murphy will speak. Sean is the owner of SKMurphy, Inc. The talk will address the challenge of associating different inputs about a problem or a need... Read more
September 19, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmPower of Declarative Languages: From Information Extraction to Machine Learning
DateMonday, September 24, 2012 – 6:30pm – 9:00pmVenueLinkedIn2025 Stierlin Ct.Mountain View, CA 94043 Speaker: Shivakumar ‘Shiv’ Vaithyanathan, IBM Research – Almaden Event DetailsModern enterprises are performing complex analyses on increasingly large data sets to drive busine...
September 24, 2012 @ 6:30 pm$99 Cloud Conference at Computer History Museum
==========================================THIS IS NOT AN ACM event – we are just helping advertise it.========================================== Please see http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/56678082/ for fees and info. Cloud Tech III Saturday October 6th Computer History Museum Plea...
October 6, 2012 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pmData Mining Camp – October 2012
Don’t worry, you can officially register on http://sfbayacm.ticketleap.com/dm-camp-2012/ Find out more details about this unique event at http://www.sfbayacm.org/DMcamp2012 Remember, you should officially register on </a><a href=”http://sfbayacm.ticketleap.com/dm-camp-201...
October 13, 2012 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pmBig Data Professional Development Seminar
This requires $$ payment $$ to attend! See this web page to sign up: http://www.sfbayacm.org/event/big-data-professional-development-seminar This requires $$ payment $$ to attend!
October 14, 2012 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pmWhat does it mean to be literate in the age of Google?
Daniel RussellGoogle Agenda 6:30 pm Networking, Snacks, Great Door Prizes for Members!7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm Presentation and Q&A Event Details What does it mean to be literate at a time when you can search over billions of texts... Read more
October 17, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmNetflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 Stars
Xavier AmatriainResearch/Engineering Manager at Netflix Agenda 6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm Presentation and Q&A Event Details Netflix is known for pushing the envelope of recommendation technologies. In particular, the Netflix Prize put a focus on using... Read m...
October 22, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmCombating Antipatterns with Platform as a Service *NEW LOCATION*
John WetherillDeveloper Evangelist at ActiveState *** NOTE THE NEW LOCATION ***Agenda 6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm Presentation and Q&A *** NOTE THE NEW LOCATION ***Event Details Building reliable and successful enterprise software is hard. Given the breadth and... Read...
November 14, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmParty to honor Stanford Professor Andrew Ng and his CS229 Machine Learning class
You MUST be a current or former student of this class! RSVP at http://linkd.in/RNNhdT Party at Linkedin to honor Stanford Professor Andrew Ng and his CS229 Machine Learning class. LinkedIn is inviting all alumni of the class to attend.... Read more
November 15, 2012 @ 6:00 pmData Analysis Webinar by Salford Systems (no charge)
Salford Systems has been a sponsor of our Big Data unconference (in October). They are providing a Webinar at no charge: Advances in Gradient Boosting: the Power of Post-ProcessingDecember 14, 10-11 a.m., PST Webinar Registration: http://2.salford-systems.com/gradientboosting-and-post-processing/ &l...
December 14, 2012 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 amWhat’s it like to design a user interface for six billion people?
What’s it like to design a user interface for six billion people?A personal history of modeless text editing and cut/copy-paste. Larry Tesler DateWednesday, January 16, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:15pm VenueTo Be Announced Agenda6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm... Read ...
January 16, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:15 pmSIGGRAPH 2012 Computer Animation Festival (Electronic Theater)
The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is the annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. An internationally recognized jury receives hundreds of submissions and presents the best work of the year in daily... Read more
January 17, 2013 @ 7:00 pmGraphLab: A Distributed Abstraction for Machine Learning in the Cloud
Carlos Guestrin DateMonday, January 28, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:00pm VenueTo Be Announced Agenda 6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm Presentation and Q&A Event Details Today, machine learning (ML) methods play a central role in industry and science.... Read more
January 28, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmConceptual Models: Core to good design
SpeakersJeff Johnson and Austin Henderson DateWednesday, February 20, 2013 – 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm No entry after 8 pm VenueHP – 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA · Use the 1501 Page Mill entrance, at Page Mill... Read more
February 20, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmAPL BUG: APL2: Early Years: Can You & Should You Compromise on Technical Issues?
APL BUG (Bay Area User Group) Meeting APL2: the Early Years: Can you and should you compromise on technical issues? Jim Brown’s talk originally given at York University at a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ken Iverson’s book “A... Read more
February 23, 2013 @ 2:00 pmMahout 0.8 – New and Improved with Super-fast Clustering (TM)
Ted DunningChief Application Architect — MapR Technologies DateMonday, February 25, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:00pm VenueeBay Whitman Campus, Community Building (Voices Conference Room)2065 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA Agenda6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm Presentation and ...
February 25, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmSEMINAR: Practical Data Visualization with R
Click HERE to register on TicketLeap Professional Development SeminarSF Bay ACM & SV ACM SIGGRAPH Practical Data Visualization with R Robert Kabacoff REGISTRATION & PAYMENT REQUIRED – Click HERE to register Saturday, March 9, 2013 – 8:30am –... Read more
March 9, 2013 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pmEnterprise Gamification – Exploiting people by letting them have fun
Mario Herger, SAP Wednesday, March 20, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:00pm HP Palo Alto1501 Page Mill RoadPalo Alto, CA 94304 Use the 1501 Page Mill entrance, at Page Mill and Peter Coutts Rd.Drive straight. Find parking after the second... Read more
March 20, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmWhen Science Meets Data: Three Stories from the Field
Neel SundaresanSenior Director of eBay Research Labs Monday, March 25, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:00pm eBay Whitman Campus, Community Building (Voices Conference Room)2065 Hamilton Ave, San Jose, CA Agenda6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm Presentation and Q&A Event Detail...
March 25, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmThe Future Is Responsive
Jonathan Smiley Event Details ***** Event is in Building 5 ***** Location details: Use the 1501 Page Mill entrance, at Page Mill and Peter Coutts Rd. Drive straight. Find parking after the second stop sign. The entrance is... Read more
April 17, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmMachine Learning Applications using big data for securing end users
Event DetailsSymantec protects hundreds of millions of users (consumer and enterprise) and their online interactions. We leverage massive amounts of anonymously collected data such as application behaviors, application stability and performance details, URL/web page characteristics, file information...
April 22, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmHow the Internet Transformed the Software Industry
Speaker: Tony Wasserman Event Details Location CHNAGEd TODAY, see map Directions: Use the 1501 Page Mill entrance, at Page Mill and Peter Coutts Rd. Drive straight. Find parking after the second stop sign. The entrance is at the left corner... Read more
May 15, 2013 @ 7:00 pmSF SIGGRAPH: Game Design Using Autodesk Tools
http://san-francisco.siggraph.org/ Game Design Using Autodesk Tools Presentation: Using Autodesk tools for Game Development Presenter: Greg Castle & Louis MarcouxWhen: May 22, 2013Time: 6:30 to 9:00pmWhere: Autodesk Gallery, 1 Market Street, San Francisco 2nd Floor Are you currently using Autode...
May 22, 2013 @ 6:30 pmA few Challenges to Make Machine Learning Easy
Speaker: Dr. Francisco J Martin Event Details In the age of data, Machine Learning is the key component to make data-driven decisions, develop smart applications, and build predictive analytics. However, Machine Learning is complex. The current tools are complicated and do... Read more
June 3, 2013 @ 6:45 pm - 9:00 pmCSS For Real Pages and Apps with Flexbox
Tab AtkinsWeb Standards HackerGoogle *** Free Food, Prizes – Once-a-Year Member Appreciation Night *** Agenda 6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:07 pm Annual Elections7:10 pm Presentation and Q&A Event Details *** Free Food, Prizes – Once-a-Year Member Appreciation N...
June 19, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmLarge-Scale Graph Data Mining with MapReduce: the Bag of Algorithmic Tricks
Nima Sarshar, Ph.D.Intuit Agenda 6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm Presentation and Q&A Event Details Many modern large-scale data mining problems are defined on graphs (think of People you May Know) , or have a graph representation (think of... Read more
June 24, 2013 @ 6:30 pmDevelopment on SAP HANA – what, how? And why?
Juergen Schmerder SAP Location SAP, 3475 Deer Creek Road, Palo Alto, California 94304 Building 7, Sequoia room Agenda Registration 6:30 pm to 7 pm Announcements 7 pm to 7:10 pm Presentation 7:10 pm to 8:30 pm Q&A 8:30 pm... Read more
July 17, 2013 @ 6:30 pmMachine Learning as a Service (Joint Meeting with SVForum & The Hive)
Registration is closed. Panel:Andy Bartley, Algorithms.ioFrancisco Martin, BigMLSubutai Ahmad, Grok SolutionsSashikanth Chandrasekaran, SnapAnalytxDavid Steier, Director – Deloitte (Moderator) SFBayACM joins with SVForum and the Hive to Present:“Machine Learning as a Service” Regis...
July 22, 2013 @ 6:30 pmBest Practices for Conducting Remote Research on the Web
Kyle Henderson, YouEye NEW Venue (Not HP) This event will be recorded at the Midpeninsula Community Media Center. Agenda 6:30 pm Networking & Food7:00 pm Announcements7:15 pm Presentation and Q&A(Latecomers after 7:15 will be quietly escorted into the studio) Event... Read more
August 21, 2013 @ 6:30 pmA Big Data Solution using JSONiq, by Dr. Matthias Brantner – CTO of 28msec
Dr. Matthias BrantnerCTO of 28msec Agenda 6:30 pm Networking, Snacks7:00 pm Announcements7:10 pm Presentation and Q&A Event Details 28msec will give a free copy of their book on JSONiq, to the first 50 people to enter the meeting room. JSONiq... Read more
August 26, 2013 @ 6:30 pmInner Source in Product Line Engineering — Dirk Riehle
Dirk Riehle Wednesday, September 18, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:00pm HP Palo Alto3000 Hanover Street, Building 20 – Auditorium Palo Alto, CA 94304 Event Details While open source *software* helps you improve your products, open source *methods* help you improve your... Read more
September 18, 2013 @ 6:30 pmScalable Recommender/Advertising Systems
Speaker: Joaquin A. Delgado, PhD.Event DetailsIn this presentation I will talk about the design of scalable recommender systems and its similarity with advertising systems. The problem of generating and delivering recommendations of content/products to appropriate audiences and ultimately to individ...
September 23, 2013 @ 6:30 pmPlatform as a Service Professional Development Seminar (NOT free)
Speaker: John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist, ActiveState *** Click HERE to Register *** The Cloud is poised to revolutionize software development, and PaaS (Platform as a Service) is at the center of this revolution. PaaS allows development teams to focus on... Read more
September 28, 2013 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pmDave Nielsen: the HP OpenStack Cloud
Dave Nielsen, well known cloud guru and friend of the ACM, is giving a talk on Saturday at SVCC (Silicon Valley Code Camp). Room 4302 This getting started talk is for any developer (beginner o intermediate) who wants to build... Read more
October 5, 2013 @ 5:00 pmMining Big Data Camp
Click Here to Register Mining Big Data Camp Date Saturday, October 12, 2013 – 8:30am – 7:30pm Venue eBay Town Hall 2161 North 1st Street San Jose, CA 95131 See map: Google Maps Event Details Join Our Unconference or camp... Read more
October 12, 2013 @ 8:30 am - 7:30 pmTaming Latency Variability and Scaling Deep Learning
Jeff Dean, Google DateWednesday, October 16, 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm6:30 Food & Networking7:00 Presentation VenueHP Palo Alto Briefing Center (Main Lobby)3000 Hanover Street Building 20APalo Alto, CA 94304 Event Details Today’s large-scale web services operate in warehouse-sized...
October 16, 2013 @ 6:30 pmToyota-ITC /ACM pre-Hackathon #1 of 3
Click here for info and to Register! Quantified Car Ideathon Kickoff #1: one of three evening Ideathons for Toyota-ITC ACM Quantified Car HackathonThursday, October 17, 2013 at 6:30pm – 10:00pmWho: Developers, designers, marketers, entrepreneurs who want to make the driving... Read more
October 17, 2013 @ 6:30 pmToyota-ITC /ACM pre-Hackathon #2 of 3
Click here for info and to Register! Quantified Car Ideathon Kickoff #2: one of three evening Ideathons for Toyota-ITC ACM Quantified Car HackathonTMonday, October 21, 2013 at 6:30pm – 10:00pmWho: Developers, designers, marketers, entrepreneurs who want to make the driving... Read more
October 21, 2013 @ 6:30 pmEleanor Rieffel, NASA: How to Compute with Schroedinger’s Cat
Quantum Computinghttp://www.meetup.com/Quantum-Computers/events/145591202/ Meet Eleanor.Rieffel, one of the top experts in the field of Quantum Computing, who has worked in QC since the 1990s. Eleanor co-authored “Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction” (MIT, 2011) and was recently fea...
October 24, 2013 @ 6:30 pmPredictionIO – An Open Source Machine Learning Server for Developers
Simon Chan – PredictionIO VenueeBay Whitman Campus2065 Hamilton AveSan Jose, CA 6:30 Food & Networking7:00 Presentation Event Details With the advancement of Machine Learning, software applications can now learn from Big Data efficiently and perform all kinds of intelligent tasks.... Read ...
October 28, 2013 @ 6:30 pmToyota-ITC /ACM pre-Hackathon #3 of 3
Click here for info and to Register! Quantified Car Ideathon Kickoff #3: one of three evening Ideathons for Toyota-ITC ACM Quantified Car HackathonTuesday, October 29, 2013 at 6:30pm – 10:00pmWho: Developers, designers, marketers, entrepreneurs who want to make the driving... Read more
October 29, 2013 @ 6:30 pmToyota ITC ACM Quantified Car Hackathon
Toyota-ITC / ACM Quantified-Car Hackathon Toyota InfoTechnology Center, U.S.A., Inc. (Toyota-ITC) together with ACM, announces sponsorship of Toyota-ITC ACM Quantified-Car Hackathon. Come join this competition to create apps that utilize the API for vehicle data on either iOS or Android... Read more
November 9, 2013 @ 8:00 am - November 10, 2013 @ 8:00 pmProbabilistic Color-by-Numbers: Pattern Colorizations Using Factor Graphs
Joint Event with Silicon Valley ACM SIGGRAPH and SF Bay ACM DM SIGNote different time and location. Probabilistic Color-by-Numbers:Suggesting Pattern Colorizations Using Factor Graphs Sharon Lin, Ph.D. candidate, Stanford UniversityDaniel Ritchie, Ph.D. candidate, Stanford UniversityMatthew Fisher, ...
November 14, 2013 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pmWhat is Lean? – Lean Innovation 101
Sean Murphy Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking7:00 Presentation Event Details “Lean” provides a scientific approach for creating a product and developing new businesses. Teams can iteratively building products or services to meet the needs of early customers by adopting a... Read more
November 20, 2013 @ 6:30 pmBust the Android Fragmentation Myth!
Joint Event with CodeChix Bay Area Chiu-Ki Chan, Square Island Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking7:00 Presentation Event Details There is a great variety of Android devices out in the market. How do you make apps that work well on so... Read more
January 15, 2014 @ 6:30 pmCognitive Computing with Associative Memories: Reasoning by Similarity
Speaker: Paul Hofmann, CTO Saffron Technology Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking7:00 Presentation Event Details We combine two very powerful ideas, Associative Memories and Kolmogorov Complexity for Cognitive Computing in order to make meaning from huge data sets in real time.... Read more
January 27, 2014 @ 6:30 pmAvailability, Consistency, and Horizontally Scalable Data Management
Speaker: Peter Bailis Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking7:00 Presentation Event Details In this talk, I’ll discuss recent advances in scalable data stores, focusing on the fundamental trade-offs between availability, consistency, and latency required by replication. As services are increasing...
February 19, 2014 @ 6:30 pmBuilding Scalable, Flexible Data Pipelines for Big Data
Speaker: Vivek Ganesan Data Science SIG (formerly Data Mining SIG) Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Abstract This presentation will be an overview of ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tasks and tools in Hadoop and will cover the pros/cons of different approaches.... Read mor...
February 24, 2014 @ 6:30 pmReplicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball
Doug Terry, Microsoft ResearchAgenda 6:30 Food & Networking7:00 Presentation Event Details Some cloud storage services, like Windows Azure, replicate data while providing strong consistency to their clients while others, like Amazon, have chosen eventual consistency in order to obtain better... ...
March 19, 2014 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pmGPU Programming for the Data Sciences
Mark Ebersole, NVIDIA Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking7:00 Presentation Event Details The past decade has seen a shift from serial to parallel computing. No longer the exotic domain of supercomputing, parallel hardware is ubiquitous and software must follow: a serial,... Read more
March 24, 2014 @ 6:30 pmData Mining Camp planning
Meeting location: The address for the building for Rosie McCann’s says it is on Santana Row, but the only entrance to the restaurant is on Plazza De Valencia. See this Google Map link. Free WiFi is available, bring your smart... Read more
April 14, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pmAgeism and Today’s Older Technology Worker
Andrew Davis, Synergistech Communications Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Event Details Hiring managers and older candidates often experience frustration that is related to ageism and generational differences. Andrew Davis, a recruiter of technology industry content developers ...
April 16, 2014 @ 6:30 pmLearning Parse Structure of Paragraphs and its Applications in Search
Boris Galitsky, Elastica Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Event Details We propose to combine parse forest and discourse structures to form a unified representation for a paragraph of text. The purpose of this representation is to tackle answering complex... Read more
April 28, 2014 @ 6:30 pm3D Printing – Where Materials & Structures Collide
San Francisco Bay ACM & Silicon Valley ACM SIGGRAPH Joint Meeting Geoffrey Doyle, GrowShapes Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Event Details GrowShapes CEO Geoffrey Doyle will begin with a brief history of 3D printing, the various types of technologies... Read more
May 21, 2014 @ 6:30 pmImplementing Randomized Matrix Algorithms in Parallel & Distributed Environments
Michael W. Mahoney, UC Berkeley Agenda 6:30 Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation ** MUST ARRIVE BEFORE 7 PM TO ENTER ** Event Details Motivated by problems in large-scale data analysis, randomized algorithms for matrix problems such as regression and low-rank matrix approximation... Read more
June 2, 2014 @ 6:30 pmIconoclasts
Ted Neward, iTrellis Agenda *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** >>> Note not in usual location ! <<<>>> See map for exact entrance <<< 6:30 Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Event Details >>> Note not in usual... Read more
June 18, 2014 @ 6:30 pmProfessional Seminar: Getting Started with AngularJS
Here is the registration link and fee information! https://sfbayacm.ticketleap.com/getting-started-with-angularjs/dates/Jun-21-2014_at_0830AM Professional Development Seminar Getting Started with AngularJS Deborah Kurata & Jerry Kurata Saturday, June 21, 2014 – 8:00am – 5:00pmRegi...
June 21, 2014 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmDistributed Computing with Spark: Reza Zadeh, ICME program at Stanford
*** Notice the Location – North Campus! *** As computer clusters scale up, data flow models such as MapReduce have emerged as a way to run fault-tolerant computations on commodity hardware. Unfortunately, MapReduce is limited in efficiency for many numerical... Read more
June 23, 2014 @ 6:30 pmRAML: DDD (Delight-Driven Development) For APIs
Uri Sarid, CTO, Mulesoft Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language (http://raml.org), is a relatively new open format for specifying web APIs.... Read more
July 16, 2014 @ 6:30 pmHadoop Talk: Details of Anomaly Detection in Big Data
Nikunj Oza, Leader, Data Sciences Group, NASA Ames Research Center Speaker supplied by the Hadoop Talks meetup. See this link for the Hadoop Talks meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-Talks/ Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security ***6:30 Doors Open,... Read mor...
July 28, 2014 @ 6:45 pmHTML5 WebSocket for the Real-Time Web and the Internet of Things
Peter Moskovits, Kaazing Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details In his talk Peter gives a brief introduction to WebSocket and discusses how real-time Web communications technologies can... Read more
August 20, 2014 @ 6:45 pmAugust Data Science Meeting – CANCELED
The meeting is CANCELED. There will NOT be such a meeting in August.
August 25, 2014 @ 6:30 pmTechnology Applications for Seismic Events
Jennifer Strauss, PhD <b style=”font-size : 16px”>External Relations OfficerBerkeley Seismological Laboratory Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details More often than not, earthquakes are associated ...
September 17, 2014 @ 6:30 pmnoSQL, SQL, and mo’SQL – Big Data Complexities for Sci. Comp. in Oil and Gas
noSQL, SQL, and mo’SQL – Big Data Complexities for Scientific Computing in the Oil and Gas Industry David M. Butler, PhDPresident and Founder Limit Point Systems, Inc. <b style=”font-size : 16px”>Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security... Read ...
September 22, 2014 @ 6:45 pmData Mining Quick Start Seminar and Hands On Training
MUST REGISTER HERE:http://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-mining-quick-start-tickets-12698217711 Sponsored Professional Development Seminar Speaker: Mikhail Golovnya, Senior Scientist, Salford Systems Hands-on data mining training Saturday, September 27th Includes free 90-day access to the SPM Salford P...
September 27, 2014 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmIf We’re Agile Why Do We Need Managers?
Ron Lichty Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If... Read more
October 15, 2014 @ 6:45 pmData Science Camp
Register Here on Eventbrite Details on Campsite. Make and see session proposals Event Summary The Data Science Camp event is at eBay in North San Jose, October 25 from 9am to 6pm. From 9-11am, there is a $40 tutorial on... Read more
October 25, 2014 @ 9:00 amSpecial Event: Alex Pentland: Social Physics and Urban Computing
Special Data Science/IoT Event Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab NOTE Location Target Digital100 Mathilda PlaceSunnyvale, CAPlenty of parking available under the building and on the street. NOTE This talk is on a Tuesday! Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Pizza & Networking 7:00... Read more
October 28, 2014 @ 6:30 pmSensors, Wearable Devices and Internet of Things
Walt MaclayPresident and Chief EngineerVoler Systems Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Today, it is all about being connected and staying connected. Low-cost sensors are revolutionizing medical,... Read mor...
November 19, 2014 @ 6:45 pmNO November Data Science SIG Meeting (Past Videos Available)
Next meeting will be in 2015 Enjoy a video from one of the past Data Science SIG meetings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL87GtQd0bfJx73ibrce-Hl_kUhX2MBXGn 2014 Presentations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UrpBM7cD98&list=PL87GtQd0bfJx73ibrce-Hl_kUhX2MBXGn&index=1 https://www.youtu...
November 24, 2014 @ 7:00 pmBuild. Better. Content!
Jonathon Colman Content Strategist Facebook Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Content strategists at Facebook plan, structure, and create content for more than a billion people. But... Read more
January 21, 2015 @ 6:45 pmHow to Detect Anomalies in High Cardinality Dimensions and Make Them Actionable
Shankar Vedaraman, Manager, Data Science & EngineeringChris Colburn, Senior Analytics Engineer Netflix Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security... Read more
January 26, 2015 @ 6:45 pmCommunity Sense and Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake Detector
Annie Liu, Software Engineer, FacebookMichael Olson, Software Engineer, Google Agenda *** Alternate HP Location ***6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details The proliferation of smartphones and other powerful sensor-equip...
February 18, 2015 @ 6:45 pmGoing from Hadoop to Spark: A Case Study
Sujee Maniyam, Co-Founder, Elephant Scale Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Spark is an up-and-coming... Read more
February 23, 2015 @ 6:45 pmSynopsys Science & Technology Championship Judging
For more details visit http://www.sfbayacm.org/science-fair Call for Volunteers: Judges for Bay Area Regional Science Fairs ACM San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Is looking for volunteer Judges the regional Science Fair. It’s easy and fun. You will spend less than... Read more
March 11, 2015 @ 10:00 amTreodeDB: Replicated, Sharded, Transactional
Christopher Olson, Founder, Treode Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation >%$> Fully Gated Campus may Lock by 7 pm <&*% Event Details TreodeDB is a resilient and consistent database for petabytes, it’s open source, and it runs on commodity... Read more
March 18, 2015 @ 6:30 pmPutting Apache Kafka to Use: Building Real-Time Data Platform for Event Streams
Jay Kreps, Co-founder & CEO, Confluent Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details What happens... Read more
March 23, 2015 @ 6:45 pmCurrent State of Physically Modeled Musical Instruments on Mobile Devices
Current State of Physically Modeled Musical Instruments on Handheld Mobile Devices Pat Scandalis, CTO and acting CEO moForte.com Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Handheld mobile computing... Read more
April 15, 2015 @ 6:30 pmCollaborative Modeling, Simulation, and Analytics with Splash
Peter J. Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details In... Read more
April 27, 2015 @ 6:30 pmA Look Under the Hood of the Connected Car
Panelists: E. Jason Dietrich, Technology Analyst, General Motors Divya Toopran, Software Engineer, Toyota InfoTechnology Center Naoki “Nick” Sugimoto, Senior Program Director, Honda Silicon Valley Lab John Suh, Executive Director, Hyundai Ventures Steve Goldberg, Partner, Venrock...
May 20, 2015 @ 6:30 pmScalable Data Science and Deep Learning with H2O
Arno Candel, Chief Architect, H2O.ai Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details H2O is fast scalable... Read more
June 3, 2015 @ 6:30 pmTransforming Chaos to Clarity: Making Your Software Development Hum (& VOTING)
SF Bay ACM Members: We NEED you to attend! Chapter Elections will be briefly held at the beginning of this meeting. Ron Lichty, Lichty Consulting Inc. Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Chapter Elections & Announcements7:10 Presentation *** Please arrive... Read more
June 17, 2015 @ 6:30 pmCollaborative Modeling, Simulation, and Analytics with Splash
Peter J. Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details In... Read more
June 22, 2015 @ 6:30 pmHTTP/2 is Here, Let’s Optimize!
Ilya Grigorik, Developer Advocate, Google Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details HTTP is, hands down, one of the most important and successful protocols. That said, the use... Read more
July 15, 2015 @ 6:30 pmKamanja: A New Open Source Real-Time System for Scoring Data Mining Models
Greg Makowski, Director of Data Science, LigaDATA Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details This talk will... Read more
July 27, 2015 @ 6:30 pmNo August General Meeting
There will be no General Meeting in August.
August 19, 2015 @ 6:30 pmData Science Reinvents Learning
Paco Nathan, O’Reilly Media Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Project Jupiter https://jupyter.org/ evolved from IPython notebook...
August 24, 2015 @ 6:30 pmFrom Monoliths to Microservices via PaaS
John Wetherill, Developer/Evanglist, Activestate Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details These days every enterprise is a software company. In the ongoing and accelerating race to innovate, compete,... Read more
September 16, 2015 @ 6:30 pmVisit SF Bay ACM at Integrate 2015 at Booth 321
Come visit the SF Bay ACM at Booth 321 at Integrate 2015 (Booth open on September 29 and 30) SF Bay ACM has partnered with the Integrate + API World 2015 Conference (Sept. 26-30, Santa Clara) and will be offering... Read more
September 26, 2015 @ 9:00 am - September 30, 2015 @ 5:00 pmScalable Machine Learning at Yahoo
Andy Feng, VP Architecture, Yahoo Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details At Yahoo, our Hadoop... Read more
September 28, 2015 @ 6:30 pmBuilding Out an Application Security Program
HP requires that you stay out of the meeting room until the ACM registration desk checks you in. Seth Law, Director of Research & Development, nVisium Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to... Read more
October 21, 2015 @ 6:30 pmData Science Camp 2015
Save the Date! YOU MUST SIGN UP AT THIS LINK! For this event, we are not signing up through Meetup. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-camp-silicon-valley-2015-tickets-17667573187 We (SF Bay ACM) have been putting on this mostly free Data Science unConference for several years. Come join....
October 24, 2015 @ 8:30 am - 6:30 pmScala Professional Development Seminar
You will need to register and pay on EventBrite. Speaker: Cay S. Horstmann, Computer Science, San Jose State University Event Details Professor and book author Cay Horstmann invites you to an interactive crash course into the Scala language. Bring you laptop... Read more
November 7, 2015 @ 8:00 amOnline Controlled Experiments: Lessons from Running A/B/n Tests for 12 Years
First Speaker at Data Science SIG (formerly Data Mining SIG) Ron Kohavi, Distinguished Engineer & General ManagerAnalysis & Experimentation, Microsoft Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation ***....
November 30, 2015 @ 6:30 pmComputer History Museum: Community Days @CHM: Adafest
Celebrate Computer Pioneer Ada Lovelace with a Day of Fun and Learning for All Ages We don’t hold meetings in December so instead, we are listing this ACM sponsored event at the Computer History Museum. Museum general admission is $15Students,... Read more
December 13, 2015 @ 10:00 amThe Super Bowl, Football and Computers
Joint meeting between SF Bay ACM and Silicon Valley ACM SIGGRAPH This meeting will NOT be held at HP. We will be meeting at Target Digital. Agenda Note half-hour earlier time 6:00 Doors Open, Food & Networking 6:30 Presentation *** Please arrive by... Read more
January 20, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmUsing Deep Learning to do Continuous Scoring in Practical Applications
Greg Makowski, Director of Data Science, LigaDATA Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Please RSVP or un-RSVP... Read more
January 25, 2016 @ 6:30 pmTensorFlow: Machine Learning for Everyone
The Event is “Sold Out” – No Room Left. Rajat Monga, TensorFlow Technical Lead & Manager, Google Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM... Read more
February 22, 2016 @ 6:30 pmFive Stages of Open Source Volunteering
NOTE NEW LOCATION AND SPECIAL DATE Professor Dr. Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Today’s software systems build on open source software...
March 1, 2016 @ 6:30 pmUrgent! TV Audience needed Tomorrow, Thursday, March 3
At the Midpeninsula Media Center on Thursday, March 3, either morning OR afternoon (or both). Our Past Chairman Greg Weinstein says:“taping segments for a webinar for Denodo. There will be some one-on-one segments, and then ending with a panel including... Read more
March 3, 2016 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pmMagic Moments in Research and Teaching
Jennifer Widom, Stanford UniversityACM-W 2015-2016 Athena Lecturer Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7:00 PM due to Security *** Event Details A few magic moments have occurred during my approximately 30 years of computer science... Read more
March 16, 2016 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmSynopsys Science & Technology Championship Judging
Call for Volunteers: Judges for Bay Area Regional Science Fairs ACM San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter is looking for volunteer judges for the regional Science Fair. It’s easy and fun. You will spend less than one day viewing students’... Read more
March 17, 2016 @ 10:00 amCustom discount for Strata + Hadoop World San Jose 2016 is UGSFACM
Conference Description with Custom discount for Strata + Hadoop World San Jose 2016 Strata + Hadoop World is the leading event on how big data and ubiquitous, real-time computing is shaping the course of business and society. It brings together... Read more
March 28, 2016 @ 8:00 am - March 31, 2016 @ 5:00 pmMicrosoft Data Group Machine Learning Lightning Talks @ Strata
SF Bay ACM and Microsoft IMML invite you to an evening of lightning talks on Machine Learning. The event is free and open to all; you do not require a conference pass to attend. All RSVPs received by Saturday, March... Read more
March 31, 2016 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pmThe Shape of Data
NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND NEW LOCATION and Time http://math.stanford.edu/~gunnar/GunnarCarlssonPhoto338585.JPG Gunnar Carlsson, Co-founder, Ayasdi Inc. Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for Pivotal Security *** Starting at 6:30 pm, before our talk, there will be Cloud Foundry Meetup...
April 7, 2016 @ 8:15 pmArtificial Intelligence: Think Again
Jerry Kaplan, CodeX Fellow, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics Location Room 190 1st FloorF.I.R. Hall, Classroom BuildingStanford School of Law559 Nathan Abbott WayStanford, CA We recommend parking at Wilbur Field Garage/Parking Structure 6.Parking is free after 4:00 pm.http://cyberlaw.sta...
April 20, 2016 @ 6:30 pmWin a Free FULL Pass to the SVVR Conference, April 27, 28, 29
Completely Free FULL Entry to the SVVR ConferenceApril 27, 28, 29 at the San Jose Convention Center We will do two drawings Monday night (for SF Bay ACM members only = join now!) so two winners will each be given one... Read more
April 25, 2016 @ 11:45 pmDrawing for Two Free Full Passes to IoT World + Connected Car + Wearables …
Drawing for Two Free Full Passes to Apps World + IoT World + Connected Car + Wearables, which are all co-located and happening all at once. ALSO: Free Expo passes and Special ACM20 discount code! Must be a Member of... Read more
May 8, 2016 @ 11:45 am - 12:00 pmIEEE – The Ten Commandments of Effective Software Technology Management
CANCELLED Unfortunately they had to cancel this talk by Karen Bartleson; please watch our comments for a re-schedule. Karen Bartleson, Sr. Director, Corporate Programs and Initiatives, Synopsys Agenda 6:00 Doors Open, Food & Networking 6:30 Presentation REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE FOR TICKETShtt...
May 24, 2016 @ 6:00 pmHow to Transform your Business with AI, Deep Learning & Machine Learning [+VOTE]
Paid SF Bay ACM Members: We need you to attend! Chapter Elections will be briefly held at the beginning of this meeting. Free O’Reilly ebook for paid SF Bay ACM members who attend. Join or renew onsite. How to Transform your... Read more
June 15, 2016 @ 6:30 pmData Science goes to Hollywood
Todd Holloway, Director of Content Science & Algorithms, Netflix Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00-8:30 Presentation Event Details Netflix will spend six billion dollars this year on content, making the company a major player in Hollywood. An increasing portion... Read mo...
June 20, 2016 @ 6:30 pmAT&T Park for a meetup? Join us there Fri. evening, July 15!
How cool would it be to attend a meetup at AT&T Park? Well, now’s your chance! Register at http://soc.att.com/1r5JIab and use this coupon code: MUMSSF to attend the event for free. As part of “Shape, an AT&T Tech Expo”, AT&T is inviting... Read more
July 15, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 10:00 pmAlgorithms to Live By
Brian Christian, Author, The Most Human Human Tom Griffiths, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details There is a set of... Read more
July 20, 2016 @ 6:30 pmA Framework for Processing Large Graphs in Shared Memory
Julian Shun, Miller Research Fellow, UC Berkeley ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event... Read more
July 25, 2016 @ 6:30 pmManagement 3.0 – Happiness at Work
NOTE SPECIAL DAY: THURSDAY Jurgen Appelo Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details The research is clear: happy workers are more productive workers. Managing for Happiness is about... Read more
August 18, 2016 @ 6:30 pmReal-Time Object Recognition on Mobile
NEW LOCATION: DOBE China, Newark, CA Alberto Rizzoli, Founder, Aipoly Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Event Details Object recognition using convolutional neural networks has been extensively used in the cloud because of its computing costs. However... Read mo...
August 22, 2016 @ 6:30 pmIs Deep Learning and Statistical AI the Silver Bullet in Understanding Language?
Michal Wroczynski, CEO & Co-founder, Fido Labs Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details We will cover the history of language understanding in AI, go through examples of what... Read more
September 21, 2016 @ 6:30 pmHacking Digital Video Via Deep Learning, A Video Machine Learning Solution
NOTE SPECIAL DAY THURSDAY AND NEW LOCATION Chase McMichael, CEO & Co-Founder, InfiniGraph, Inc. Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Deep Learning, image and object recognition... Read more
September 29, 2016 @ 6:30 pmTraining Course: Deep Learning and TensorFlow (With Hands-On Exercises)
Please Note: This is a paid event. Sign up and details are available at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/training-course-deep-learning-and-tensorflow-with-hands-on-exercises-tickets-27859381159 The goal of this course is helping you to understand fundamentals of deep learning and become practical in it...
October 8, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pmTruth, Trustworthiness and Technology in Political Campaigns
*** Note CHANGED DATE/DAY to THURSDAY! *** Jeff Hancock, Professor of Communication, Stanford University Agenda *** Note CHANGED DATE/DAY to Thursday ! *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to building security ***... Read more
October 20, 2016 @ 6:30 pmBrain-Like Machine Learning Algorithms Enabling Real-Time Learning
NEW EBAY BUILDING — MAIN STREET BUILDING IS 2 BUILDINGS EAST Tsvi Achler, Founder, Optimizing Mind Agenda *** Bring ID (e.g. Driver’s License) for eBay Security *** 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7... Read more
October 24, 2016 @ 6:30 pmData Science Camp 2016
Sign up on EventBrite. $10 for Camp 11am and later, or $60 for day, including the morning tutorial. http://datasciencecampsiliconvalley2016.eventbrite.com/?aff=meetup Schedule 8:30 Tutorial registration8:50 – 10:50 Tutorial: $60 Introduction to TensorFlow for 2 hours (details listed at ww...
October 29, 2016 @ 8:15 amHacking Video Games: How TASBot Exploits Glitches and Plays Games Perfectly
*** NEW LOCATION *** Allan Cecil Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details TASBot is an augmented Nintendo Robotic Operating Buddy that can play classic video games without... Read more
November 16, 2016 @ 6:30 pmOrigins of Silicon Valley: How It Happened & Predictions for the Upcoming Years
*** Special Event: Open to your entire family *** Event co-sponsored by Intel Corporation. Paul Wesling, Tandem Computers/H-P (retired), past IEEE SF Bay Area Communications Director, IEEE Life Fellow Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by... Read ...
December 7, 2016 @ 6:30 pmLearn About Complex Ecological Networks Through Gaming
Dr. Ilmi Yoon, ProfessorComputer Science DepartmentSan Francisco State University Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Learn About Complex Ecological Networks Through Gaming Advances in computer science are... Read ...
January 18, 2017 @ 6:30 pmExperience Emerging Research and More Around Immersive Analytics
Todd Margolis, Product Manager, Qlik Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Interested in learning more about Immersive Analytics? Join Todd Margolis from Qlik as he discusses... Read more
February 15, 2017 @ 6:30 pmContinuous Spark ML & Tensorflow AI Training & Deployment Across Hybrid Cloud
NOTE SPECIAL DAY: TUESDAY (Seating is limited to 150 people, so please un-RSVP if you change your mind) Continuous Spark ML and Tensorflow AI Model Training and Deployment Across Hybrid Cloud Environments Chris Fregly, Research Scientist, PipelineAI Agenda 6:30... Read more
February 28, 2017 @ 6:30 pmSynopsys Science & Technology Championship Judging
Call for Volunteers: Judges for Bay Area Regional Science Fairs ACM San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter is looking for volunteer judges for the regional Science Fair. It’s easy and fun. You will spend less than one day viewing students’... Read more
March 23, 2017 @ 11:00 amDebunking the Myth of 100x GPU vs CPU: Efficient Training & Prediction of NN
Debunking the Myth of 100x GPU vs. CPUEfficient Training and Prediction of Neural Networks on the CPU Victor Jakubiuk, Chief Scientist, OnSpecta.com Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details... Read more
April 24, 2017 @ 6:30 pmTraffic Sign Recognition with TensorFlow Deep Learning
Speaker Waleed AbdullaEntrepreneur, software engineer, deep learning consultant.https://github.com/waleedkahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/waleedka/ Agenda 6:30 – 7:00 audience arrives, registers, network, pizza7:00 – 7:10 ACM announcements, pass mic to audience for DS hiring or announce o...
May 22, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 8:45 pmMaking Sense of Blockchain Data Structures and Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
Speaker Bhairav Mehta, Senior Data Scientist at Apple Agenda 6:30 – 7:00 audience arrives, registers, network, pizza 7:00 – 7:10 ACM announcements, pass mic to audience for DS hiring or announce other events, introduce speaker 7:10 – 7:20 Annual SFbayACM Board... Read more
June 20, 2017 @ 6:30 pmDistributed Deep Learning on Apache Spark w/ BigDL – incl Caffe/Torch/TensorFlow
Sergey V Ermolin Technical Program Manager Spark Analytics, Big Data Technologies Intel Corp Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Event Details Intel recently released BigDL, an open source distributed deep Learning framework for Apache Spark ( https://github....
June 26, 2017 @ 6:30 pmData Science SIG (seeking speaker)
NOTE: this meeting is on TUE, 7/25, because of the location availability. We are seeking talk Data Science SIG talk proposals (generally for the 4th Monday of the month). We are seeking General Computing talk proposals (generally the 3rd Wed... Read more
July 25, 2017 @ 6:30 pmSpark with Scala – Professional Development Seminar
The course will introduce Apache Spark to participants. This is an introductory course and no previous knowledge of Spark is needed. Detailed course outline is listed below. About the Course: Apache Spark This course will introduce Apache Spark. The students will learn... Read more
August 5, 2017 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm[EVENTBRITE] Spark with Scala – Professional Development Seminar $130-195
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spark-with-scala-professional-development-seminar-tickets-33637186731?aff=meetup2 YOU MUST REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE AND PAY THE FEE TO BE ENROLLED IN THE SEMINAR $130-195 The course will introduce Apache Spark to participants. This is an introductory course and no previ...
August 5, 2017 @ 8:00 amBias in the Web
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August 17, 2017 @ 6:30 pm[EVENTBRITE] Predictive Data Science in R
TICKETS $130-195, SIGN UP THROUGH EVENTBRITE </a> <a href=”https://www.eventbrite.com/e/predictive-data-science-in-r-tickets-35366885306?aff=MeetupSFbayACM”>https://www.eventbrite.com/e/predictive-data-science-in-r-tickets-35366885306?aff=MeetupSFbayACM Tickets $130-195. We...
September 16, 2017 @ 8:30 amEnvisioning the Customer Experience of Autonomous Vehicles, 5-20 Years Out
Distinguished ACM Speaker: Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details What it will be like to use autonomous vehicles as riders and citizens, and where and how they... Read more
September 20, 2017 @ 6:30 pmSafety and Ethics for Advanced Autonomous Artificial Intelligences
Speaker Richard Mallah, Director of AI Projects at the Future of Life Institute. Richard is flying out from Boston. Agenda 6:30 – 7:00 audience arrives, registers, network, pizza 7:00 – 7:10 ACM announcements, pass mic to audience for DS hiring... Read more
September 25, 2017 @ 6:30 pmACM Data Science Camp 2017, Silicon Valley
Register on Eventbritehttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/acm-data-science-camp-2017-silicon-valley-tickets-35662563688?aff=MeetupSFbayACM (NOTE: over 100 people have paid, the “xx going” on the meetup is a smaller number. The meetup RSVP’s are closed, only RSVP or un-RSVP on Eve...
October 14, 2017 @ 8:00 am - 6:30 pmNew Era in Distributed Computing with Blockchains and Databases
A new era is emerging in the world of distributed computing with the growing popularity of blockchains (shared, replicated and distributed ledgers) and the associated databases as a way of integrating inter-organizational work. Originally, the concept of a distributed ledger... Read more
October 18, 2017 @ 7:00 pm50 Years of Software Engineering
Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details The term “software engineering” was defined in late 1967. The ability to develop and deploy large complex software-intensive systems has progressed... Read mo...
November 15, 2017 @ 6:30 pmNatural Language Processing (NLP) will Revolutionize Industry
ACM Data Science SIG talk series SK Reddy, https://www.linkedin.com/in/sk-reddy/ SCHEDULE 6:30 register, network, food 7:00 – 7:10 ACM introduces future events, speaker 7:10 – 8:30 Presentation 9:00 hard time for all to be out DESCRIPTION: Processing text is a little more diffi...
December 4, 2017 @ 6:30 pmAI in the Clouds: Data, ML and AI in the new world of software in the Cloud
Neel Sundaresan. Partner Director, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft Agenda: • 6:30 arrive, register, network, food • 7:00 ACM upcoming events, general announcements • 7:10 to about 8:30 Presentation • 9:00 hard stop, all out. Description: In the recent years we... Read more
January 22, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmWriting Applications that are Easier to Defend than Attack
Alan H Karp, Earth Computing Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Event Details Conventional wisdom says that the attacker has an enduring economicadvantage over the defender. After all, the... Read more
February 21, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmDeep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
Geeta Chauhan, Consulting CTO, Silicon Valley Software Group Agenda: • 6:30 arrive, register, network, food • 7:00 ACM upcoming events, general announcements • 7:10 to about 8:30 Presentation • 9:00 hard stop, all out. Description: This talk will cover use... Read more
March 5, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmSynopsys Science & Technology Championship Judging
Call for Volunteers: Judges for Bay Area Regional Science Fairs ACM San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter is looking for volunteer judges for the regional Science Fair. It’s easy and fun. You will spend less than one day viewing students’... Read more
March 15, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pmFundamentals of Cloud Security
Join us as we discuss how to effectively detect and respond to threatswithin your AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments. Proliferation ofcloud has fundamentally changed the way applications are developed,deployed and secured. Security teams not only need visibility & controlover... Read more
March 21, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmBuilding a new Operating System
Subhajeet Mukherjee, student, Computer Science, Foothill College (A.S) Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** Round Focus is a theory to visually demonstrate a problem of ambiguous gestures, multitasking, and... Read more
July 18, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmWhat is new on Software I.P. for startups, and how to detect I.P. Theft
Relevant I.P. updates in 2018 to software start-ups-by Steve Bachmann, Bachmann Law GroupSoftware Forensics: Detecting Software Intellectual Property Theft-by Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Consulting Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *****...
August 15, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmFaster Data Science & Best Practices for Building AI-enabled applications
Digital transformation demands faster, more productive data science-by Ian Swanson, VP of Product Management AI and ML, Oracle CloudSoftware Engineering Best Practices for Building AI-enabled applications-by Rama Akkiraju, Director, IBM Watson Division Agenda 6:00 Doors Open, Food & Networking6:...
August 27, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmAdvanced Image Recognition with Mask R-CNN
Aniket Rangrej, Data Scientist II, FogHorn SystemsRavi Ilango, Sr Data Scientist, FogHorn Systems Agenda6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7:00 PM due to Security ***8:30 wrap up Event DetailsWe will cover the progression of deep learning... Read more
September 19, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmRapid Adoption of Cloud Data Warehouse Technology Using Datometry Hyper-Q
Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation by Lyublena Antova &Mohamed Soliman*** Please arrive by 6 PM due to Security *** AbstractThe database industry is about to undergo a fundamental transformationof unprecedented magnitude as enterprises start trading their well-establi...
October 17, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmSDN: Changing Only Everything About Networking (and IT)
Agenda6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7:00 PM due to Security ***8:30 wrap up Event DetailsIt’s been about eight years since Software-Defined Networking (SDN) hit the headlines with a lot of fanfare, initially as a way... Read more
October 22, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmDesign and Deployment of Artificial Neural Networks with Spark
This is a one-day, 8 hour bootcamp during which you will cover artificial neural network introduction to getting to production with optimized deployment. TICKETS $130-195, SIGN UP THROUGH EVENTBRITE( Door Prize of AI Frontier Conference 11/9-11/2018, $1,295 Business pass –... Read more
October 27, 2018 @ 8:00 am - 6:00 pmThe Data Analytics of Application Scaling and Why There Are No Giants
Dr. Neil Gunther, Performance Dynamics Company Agenda6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7:00 PM due to Security ***8:30 wrap up Event DetailsLike the 30 ft. giant in ‘Jack and the Beanstalk,’ myths and fallacies abound regarding... Read more
November 14, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmImportant issues facing Women in the Data Science Community
A Panel Discussion on Women in Data Science WHEN: Wed, Dec 5, 20186:30 arrive, network, food7:00 Introduce the panel7:15 Panel discussion8:30 wrap up DESCRIPTION:* Why aren’t we using more of the women brainpower available to this profession?* Review surveys discussing... Read more
December 5, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmNew Trends in EDA & Reactive Cloud-Native Networking with RSocket
Antun Domic: New Trends in EDARyland Degan: Reactive Cloud-Native Networking With RSocket Agenda 5:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking with Synopsys recruiters6:30 Presentation by Antun Domic with Industry instructor Panel7:30 Presentation by Ryland Degnan*** Please arrive by 6 PM due... Read more
January 17, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pmNext-generation cybersecurity via data fusion, AI, and big data
WHERE: WalMart Labs WHEN: Mon, Jan 28, 20196:30 register, network, food7:00 ACM introduce upcoming events, pass the mic to the audience to announce other events or DS hiring, introduce the speaker7:15 talk begins8:30 rough time to finish (9pm is a... Read more
January 28, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmHands on Lab – Test Drive an Autonomous Data Warehouse Powered by AI/ML
Hand on Lab -Test Drive an Autonomous Database Warehouse powered by AI/ML Agenda 6:00 Doors Open, Food & Networking6:30 Workshop lead by Sai Valluri & Santosh Kumar Ramarathnam6:45 Registration close Abstract Please join us for an Oracle workshop on Autonomous... Read more
February 20, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmWhy Deep Learning Works: Implicit Self-Regularization in Deep Neural Networks
6:30 arrive, register, pizza, network7:00 ACM intro7:10 to 8:30-ish talk7:10 Live stream Click the link to set your PC up and get readyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qF8TezRwS0 Description/Abstract:Random Matrix Theory (RMT) is applied to analyze the weight matrices of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs),...
February 25, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmPart II – From Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Mad Scientist
Part II – From Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Mad Scientist:How to Meet Today’s Performance, Security, and Affordability Desires-by Dr. Mark Cummings Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security ****** Bring PHOTO ID... Read more
March 20, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmInnovative applications using Deep Learning and Blockchain w/ Insight AI Fellows
A panel of Insights Fellows, sharing their projects in Deep Learning / AI. Speaker 1 – Michelle Bonat, CEO & Co-Founder, Data Simply, Inc –“What I Learned Predicting Crypto Flows with Deep Learning and Blockchain” Speaker 2 – Josh Deetz,... Read more
March 25, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmDevOps Journey Experiences
DevOps Journey Experiencesby Sumesh Vadassery, Software/Cloud department, Paypal, Inc. Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation7:10 Live Streaming on this link:https://www.youtube.com/watch? *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security ****** Bring PHOTO ID (passport, driver licen...
April 17, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmServerless Stream Processing: Using Serverless concepts to the streaming world
By Sanjeev Kulkarni, co-founder, Streamlio 6:30 arrive, register, pizza, network7:00 ACM intro7:10 to 8:30-ish talk7:10 Live stream Click the link to set your PC up and get readyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Abstract:The last few years have seen the emergence of serverless as a... Read more
April 22, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmThe Origins of Silicon Valley: Why and How It Happened Here
Speaker Paul Wesling, ACM member, IEEE Life Fellow and DistinguishedLecturer (retired from H-P/Tandem) SF Bay ACM, IEEE-SCV Computer Chapter; Stanford and MIT Alumni co-presenting Registration: https://may1siliconvalley.eventbrite.com 6:45 arrive, register, network7:30 lecture Abstracts:Early 20th c...
May 1, 2019 @ 6:45 pm - 8:45 pmDistributed Tensorflow on Kubernetes – Organized by SFBay ACM & ValleyML.ai
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, ****** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/distributed-tensorflow-with-kubernetes-ai-workshop-by-sfbay-acm-tickets-58548919394?aff=meetup One-day, 8-hr Bootcamp, during which you will have deep learning introduction to getting to p...
May 4, 2019 @ 8:30 am - 5:30 pmScalable Agreement is What We Need
By Mahnush Movahedi, senior research scientist, Dfinity 6:30 arrive, register, pizza, network7:00 ACM intro7:10 PresentationLive stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdEa74WcYXI Abstract:Fast rise of decentralized systems and cloud computing introduces a new challenge, designing highly scalable...
May 20, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmEmerging AI Applications & Infrastructure Systems w/ Active Storage-class Memory
by Dr. Wen-mei W. Hwu, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 Presentation7:10 Live Streaming on this link:https://www.youtube.com/watch? *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security ****** Bring... Read...
May 22, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmHuman Intuition, Decision Analysis, and the Value of Information
By Dr. Max Henrion, Founder & CEO, Lumina Decision Systems Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:00 PresentationLive Streaming on this link:https://www.youtube.com/watch? *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security ****** Bring PHOTO ID (passport, driver license, etc.) ***... Read more
June 19, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmReal-time monitoring of Twitter’s network infrastructure with Heron
By Julien Delange, Phd. Software Engineer, Twitter 6:30 arrive, register, pizza, network7:00 ACM intro7:10 PresentationLive stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch? Abstract:Twitter users start and join multiple conversations every day, so monitoring and mitigating any potential network issue in rea...
June 24, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmInside the Black Box: How Does a Neural Network Understand Names?
By Kfir Bar, CHIEF SCIENTIST, BASIS TECHNOLOGY 6:30 arrive, register, pizza, network7:00 ACM intro7:10 PresentationLive stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch? Abstract:A cornerstone of customer relationship management, chatbotanalytics, and research automation systems, Named Entity Recognition (NE...
July 17, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmBest Practices in DS on Rapid Model Development & Faster Production Deployment
Moonsoo Lee, Creator of Apache Zeppelin & Co-Founder/CTO, ZeplLouis Huard, Senior Product Manager of Zepl 6:30 arrive, register, pizza, network7:00 ACM intro7:10 to 8:30-ish talk7:10 Live stream Click the link to set your PC up and get readyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBXzAW_K-Y Description...
July 22, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmState of AI and ML- Summer 2019 – Organized by ValleyML.ai & SFBay ACM
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, ****** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/state-of-ai-and-ml-summer-2019-tickets-59979710930?discount=SFBAYACM_0816 Two-day Bootcamp, to know the state-of-the art advances in AI technology from the industry leaders. Tickets:$0 –...
August 16, 2019 @ 8:00 am - August 17, 2019 @ 6:00 pmEmergence of RISC-V computer architecture- embedded apps & ML acceleration
by Dr. Zvonimir Z. Bandić, Sr. Director of Next Generation Platform Technologies at Western Digital Corporation, Board of Directors member of RISC-V foundation, Chair of OpenCAPI foundation, Registration onhttps://valleyml-acm-seminar1.eventbrite.com Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking7:0...
August 21, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmMajor Applications of AI in Healthcare
By Alex Ermolaev, Director of AI at Change Healthcare 6:30 arrive, register, pizza, network7:00 ACM intro7:10 PresentationLive stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch? Abstract:The latest AI advances have the potential to massively improve our health and well-being. However, most of the work is... R...
August 26, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmMachine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp – by ValleyML.ai & SFBay ACM
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, ****** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-and-deep-learning-bootcamp-tickets-62743151455?discount=VALLEYML_ACM40 Eight-day Bootcamp with Tickets:$150 – $900, Early Birds have 40% discount, until 6/30/2019 .Build...
August 31, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pmMachine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp – by ValleyML.ai & SFBay ACM
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, ****** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-and-deep-learning-bootcamp-tickets-62743151455?discount=VALLEYML_ACM40 Eight-day Bootcamp with Tickets:$150 – $900, Early Birds have 40% discount, until 6/30/2019 .Build...
September 5, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pmMachine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp – by ValleyML.ai & SFBay ACM
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, ****** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-and-deep-learning-bootcamp-tickets-62743151455?discount=VALLEYML_ACM40 Eight-day Bootcamp with Tickets:$150 – $900, Early Birds have 40% discount, until 6/30/2019 .Build...
September 12, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pmMachine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp – by ValleyML.ai & SFBay ACM
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, ****** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-and-deep-learning-bootcamp-tickets-62743151455?discount=VALLEYML_ACM40 Eight-day Bootcamp with Tickets:$150 – $900, Early Birds have 40% discount, until 6/30/2019 .Build...
September 19, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pmProbability Management – A Cure for the Flaw of Averages
By Dr. Sam L. Savage, Executive Director of ProbabilityManagement.org Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Live Streaming on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** *** Bring PHOTO ID (passport, driver... Read more
September 19, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm[CALL FOR SPEAKERS for: Security, Social Modeling, Data Science]
The Association of Computing Machinery http://www.acm.org/about-acm/about-the-acm-organization is the world’s largest computing society, handling Computer Science conferences and publications. The San Francisco Bay Area ACM is a local professional chapter, a non-profit 501c(3), founded in 1957. We...
September 23, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmMachine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp – by ValleyML.ai & SFBay ACM
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, *** *** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-and-deep-learning-bootcamp-tickets-62743151455?discount=VALLEYML_ACM40 Eight-day Bootcamp with Tickets: $150 – $900, Early Birds have 40% discount, until 6/30/2019 .Bu...
September 26, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pmDeep Learning with PyTorch and Transfer Learning – AI Workshop II
8 HR CLASS – Deep Learning with PyTorch and Transfer Learning TICKETS PURCHASE THROUGH EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deep-learning-with-pytorch-and-transfer-learning-ai-workshop-by-sfbay-acm-tickets-64856725211 Abstract PyTorch is the fastest growing framework to build deep learning...
September 28, 2019 @ 8:30 am - 5:30 pmMachine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp – by ValleyML.ai & SFBay ACM
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, *** *** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-and-deep-learning-bootcamp-tickets-62743151455?discount=VALLEYML_ACM40 Eight-day Bootcamp with Tickets: $150 – $900, Early Birds have 40% discount, until 6/30/2019 .Bu...
October 3, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pmMachine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp – by ValleyML.ai & SFBay ACM
*** NO RSVP on MEETUP, *** *** MUST PURCHASE TICKET on EVENTBRIGHT, click this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-learning-and-deep-learning-bootcamp-tickets-62743151455?discount=VALLEYML_ACM40 Eight-day Bootcamp with Tickets: $150 – $900, Early Birds have 40% discount, until 6/30/2019 .Bu...
October 10, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pmRACE your FACTs: Making AI work for Enterprises
By Rama Akkiraju, IBM Fellow, Director of IBM’s Watson Division Agenda 6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking 7:00 Presentation Live Streaming on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch? *** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security *** *** Bring PHOTO ID (passport,... Read more
October 16, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmMachine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp – July 14 to September 10
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Boot Camp - July 14 to September 10
July 14, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmPDS 2-day Event on Quantum Computing
Hands-On Quantum Computing Primer: Theory to Application Key topics covered This will be a very lecture and lab heavy workshop. We will plan on a 1-hour webinar before the workshop weekend to get you ready for the class so that... Read more
January 22, 2022 - January 23, 2022SitePassword: A Different Kind of Password Manager
by Dr. Alan H Karp, Location to be announced. Agenda 7:00 Talk introduction 7:10 Speaker starts 8:20 – 8:45 Speaker finishes Event Details Do you use a password manager? You should. How else are you going to have a different... Read more
January 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmEntra-Verified ID: A cheaper, faster & more trustworthy ID for remote employees
by Ankur Patel, leads Growth for Identity @ Microsoft Location to be announced. Agenda 7:00 Talk introduction 7:10 Speaker starts 8:20 – 8:45 Speaker finishes Abstract For the past few years, Microsoft has been working with Decentralized Identity Foundation and... Read more
February 15, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmNanobody Optimization via Machine Learning
Nanobodies are antibody fragments that mimic human’s natural immune response to diseases; unlike traditional small-molecule drugs, nanobodies rarely induce toxic side effects. Moreover, because nanobodies are smaller than antibodies, nanobodies can cross the blood-brain barrier and have shown prom...
February 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmScaling Computer Vision Workloads with Ray Workshop
A 2-day virtual/in-person workshop intended to teach you how you can architect reliable scalable AI solutions with Ray Distributed Price: $55-$75 Register at https://bit.ly/sfbay-acm-ray Refunds up to 7 days before event, Eventbrite’s fee is nonrefundable. For viewing the intro to... Read more
March 11, 2023 @ 9:30 am - March 12, 2023 @ 4:00 pmHuman-Centered Design for VR Training
by Dr. Jason Jerald, CEO, NextGen Interactions and Lead VR Advisor at XMod Location: Hacker Dojo Hacker Dojo, 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 and also online, a hybrid event. Agenda 7:00 Talk introduction 7:10 Speaker starts 8:20 –... Read more
March 15, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmSmaller not bigger data: securing an interconnected world
Mollie Breen, Co-founder and CEO of Perygee, the cybersecurity company. Agenda 7:00 Talk introduction 7:10 Speaker starts 8:20 – 8:45 Speaker finishes Abstract: From the filters ensuring clean water in our homes to the bed monitors keeping patients alive at... Read more
March 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmImproving VR/AR Experiences by Understanding the Human Visual System
Brooke Krajancich, Electrical Engineering PhD Candidate, Stanford Joint event hosted by Silicon Valley ACM SIGGRAPH This is the second of two joint events on VR with SV SIGGRAPH Agenda 7:00 Talk introduction 7:10 Speaker starts 8:20 – 8:45 Speaker finishes... Read more
April 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmHuman-centered design for VR Training
Dr. Jason Jerald, CEO, NextGen Interactions Joint event with Silicon Valley ACM SIGGRAPH This is the second of two joint events on VR with SV SIGGRAPH Agenda 7:00 Talk introduction 7:10 Speaker starts 8:20 – 8:45 Speaker finishes Abstract: Design... Read more
May 17, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmHow A Toxic Workplace Environment Impacts Employee Engagement
An SFBay ACM joint event with IEEE-CNSV at Hacker Dojo 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 OR pre-register on Zoom at this link: https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_veoBrqtXQPmLAaNNHYV6WA AGENDA 6:30 Open doors for networking (Please RSVP if you plan to attend in person,... Read more
July 21, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmICADS ’23: Second International Conference on Applied Data Science
…Smart Classroom and Smart Home Applications, Machine Learning Tools in the Cloud, … Panel discussion “Should AI development really take a pause?” Agenda 8am – 9am PT AI-based Decision Frameworks for Smart Environments – Some Case Studies, Prof. Ram Mohana... Read more
July 25, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 12:30 pmGoing from the State of the Art (SOTA) to the Future of LLMs and Generative AI
LOCATION ADDRESS Hacker Dojo 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 …and zoom link provided for remote viewing, if that is preferred https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/99855656394?pwd=YWI2czQ1V3hFbWNFWlVsSWd4VEpWQT09 AGENDA 6:30 Door opens, Food, Drink 7:00 SFbayACM intro, upcoming events, introduce th...
July 25, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmHow to build LLM-based product
By Dr. JunLing Hu, founder and CEO of Coach.ai LOCATION ADDRESS Hacker Dojo 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 AGENDA 6:30 Door opens, Food, Drink 7:00 SFbayACM intro, upcoming events, introduce the speaker 7:10 presentation starts (~90 min with... Read more
September 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmHow to Build Personalization into LLM Recommendations
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose) Hacker Dojo 855 Maude Ave Mountain View, CA 94043 (for faster sign in, read Hacker Dojo policies. When you sign up, state “accept HD policies”.) If you want to join... Read more
October 23, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmBuilding Enterprise Large Language Model Applications
In this full-day in-person workshop, we will cover the foundations of Large Language models and using custom dataset applications Modules 1-2: Fundamentals of Language Models Modules 3-4: Deployment of LLM applications LOCATION ADDRESS Hacker Dojo 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View,... Read more
November 11, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 5:30 pmBuilding Enterprise Large Language Model Applications
In this full-day workshop, we will cover the foundations of Large Language models and using custom dataset applications Abstract This full-day workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to building AI applications with large language models. Attendees will learn the foundations of... Read more
November 11, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 5:30 pmNonfungible Tokens (NFTs): Transformative Potential and Risk Management
Nonfungible Tokens (NFTs): Transformative Potential and Risk Management – Emergence, tokens, blockchain technology, applications, workflows, challenges, strategies. – By Dr. Andrew Park, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. An SFBay ACM joint event with IEEE Silicon Valley chapt...
November 15, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmRoundTable: Taking Generative AI Enterprise Models to Production
Panel discussion “Taking Generative AI Enterprise Models to Production” AI User Conference 2024 – Developer Day The Hibernia – 1 Jones Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 Agenda This is three days conference at the landmark building Hibernia in San Francisco.... Read more
January 31 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pmZoom of 2024 Engineers’ Week Banquet and Hall of Fame Ceremony
This event is SOLD OUT. Please sign up for the webinar from 6:55PM to 8:15 PM to interact with the speakers via Zoom: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/97299032915?pwd=Q0J6RFlLMWxOejBHcjRZekdBc29tdz09 Or YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/SNqirGM3XYE Agenda 5:00 PM Reception 6:10 PM Dinner with colleagues an...
February 20 @ 6:55 pm - 8:55 pmWorkshop: Cloud Native AI
LOCATION Hacker Dojo 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 You MUST Register at this link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cloud-native-ai-tickets-810745079357 Abstract Cloud Native (CN) technologies provide scalable and reliable platforms to host AI based technologies. This 1-day workshop is intended ...
March 2 @ 9:30 am - 4:30 pmCloud Native AI
In this full-day workshop, we will cover the foundations of building scalable & reliable AI applications using Cloud Native (CN) technology Abstract Cloud Native (CN) technologies provide scalable and reliable platforms to host AI based technologies. This 1-day workshop is... Read more
March 2 @ 10:00 am - 5:30 pmSeeking Judges for SYNOPSYS CHAMPIONSHIP Science Fair March 14, 2024
SF Bay ACM is seeking JUDGES for computer-related science fair projects in the Synopsys Championship science fair. This is a large event (over 1,000 entries in total) for middle and high school students in Santa Clara County. Many projects can... Read more
March 14 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmThe Crossroads of Security, Privacy and AI Technologies
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid in person and zoom) In-person at Hacker Dojo, 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 For faster entry at the Dojo, please read the Dojo policies and when you sign up, state “I accept the Hacker Dojo... Read more
March 20 @ 6:45 pm - 8:45 pmLeveraging Medical Discourse to Answer Complex Questions
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid in person and zoom) In-person at Hacker Dojo, 855 Maude Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043 For faster entry at the Dojo, please read the Dojo policies and when you sign up, state “I accept the Hacker Dojo... Read more
March 27 @ 6:45 pm - 8:45 pm