Entrepreneur’s Network PRE-MEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham. Since the lean start-up movement began in 2008, there has been an explosion of interest and adoption of the methodology. Recent economic events, technological change and the rapid dissemination of information have highlighted the importance of the lean start-up …

Reliability Society Registration is now closed! Dr Simone Bortolami, Draper Laboratory Complex one-of-a-kind systems are usually built to stringent performance and/or reliability requirements. Nevertheless, they remain vulnerable to catastrophic events that are often a combination of individually nonfatal events and/or processes. Also, the reliability of such systems does not commonly …

Photonics Society Professor Juliet T. Gopinath – Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering – University of Colorado at Boulder I will discuss my research interests in ultrafast diode lasers, nonlinear chalcogenide devices, and electrowetting adaptive optics. Specifically, I will describe a new application of a stochastic parallel gradient descent …

Entrepreneur’s Network – Cambridge Meeting There are lots of ways to fund and launch a life sciences start-up. The work is always interesting, often with the potential to change the lives of patients suffering from an underserved medical condition. Yes, there are lots of ways to get the job done, …

Computer and Social Implications of Technology Societies and GBC/ACM Prof. Ronald L. Rivest, MIT Democracy requires that elections have credible results—otherwise the winner lacks a political mandate and the supporters of losing candidates react with anything from protests to revolution. Yet (U.S.) elections have become larger and increasingly complex, and …

Power & Energy Society Refreshments start at 6PM, talk commences at 6:30PM Speaker: Brian Dow, Director of Engineering at Yaskawa, Solectria Solar With increasing connectivity being designed into PV inverters, security weaknesses may be exposed without strong cyber-security emphasis during design and validation. Yaskawa, Solectria Solar is developing industry leading, …

Life Members and Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Dr. Eli Brookner. Raytheon Co. (retired); Eli.Brookner@gmail.com Covered will be recent developments and breakthroughs in Active Electronically Steered Arrays (AESAs) and radar including Extreme MMIC, graphene, digital beam forming. Potential continuation of Moore’s Law: 1. via Spintronics – which could revolutionize computer …

Companies recognize that if they cannot manage their digital content effectively, they cannot communicate with their customers, prospective customers, partners, or employees. A lot rests on the processes and tools a company employs to manage digital information. As a consultant, you cannot influence how your clients manage their content. You …