Upcoming Events

Hands On Workshop: Learn To Use Capacitative Sensing Technology to Interface to Sliders, Buttons and Clickwheels

Peter Mager — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:06:43 +0000

When:

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 6:00pm

Venue:

MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)

Room:

E51-315

Lecturer(s):

Patrick Kane and Mike Daly, Cypress Semiconductor

This workshop will teach you approaches for providing touch sensing capabilities using Cypress CapSense technology. Workshop attendees will perform hands-on labs utilizing the Cypress PSoC in multiple touch sense and proximity sensing applications. Kits will be available for the labs and a discount code will be supplied for those registered attendees who want to purchase kits before or after the lab. More information on PSoC can be found at www.cypress.com/cua .

IEEE 802.22 Standard: Regional and Rural Area Broadband Wireless Access Using Cognitive Radio Technology in Television Whitespaces

Peter Mager — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:25:40 +0000

When:

Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 7:00pm

Venue:

Verizon Laboratories, Inc.

Lecturer(s):

Apurva N. Mody, Chair, IEEE 802.22 Standard Working Group

This talk will be about the IEEE 802.22 Standard on Wireless Regional
Area Networks (WRANs) which was published in July 2011. IEEE 802.22
systems will provide broadband access to wide regional areas around
the world and bring reliable and secure high-speed communications to
under-served and un-served rural communities, which are estimated to
include nearly half of the worlds population. The IEEE 802.22-2011 is
the first IEEE 802 Standard for operation in the Television (TV)
Whitespaces, defined as the available or un-occupied TV channels. It

Dr. Apurva N. Mody (apurva.mody@ieee.org) is the Chair of IEEE 802.22
Working Group (WG) for Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) (www.ieee802.org/22)
. He is the driving force behind the WhiteSpace Regional Area Networks
Alliance (www.wranalliance.org). The primary aim of the IEEE 802.22 WG
is to create commercial wireless standards that will use TV

IEEE 802.22 Standard: Regional and Rural Area Broadband Wireless Access Using Cognitive Radio Technology in Television Whitespaces

Peter Mager — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:24:53 +0000

When:

Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 7:00pm

Venue:

Verizon Laboratories, Inc.

Lecturer(s):

Apurva N. Mody, Chair, IEEE 802.22 Standard Working Group

The Secret Lives of Links

Peter Mager — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:21:14 +0000

When:

Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 7:00pm

Room:

Constant Contact

Lecturer(s):

Jared M. Spool

IEEE Computer Society, GBC/ACM and BostonCHI

7:00 PM, Thursday, January 19, 2012
Constant Contact, Reservoir Place, Waltham, MA
[Admission is free, but you must register at http://ieeemeetsjaredspool.eventbrite.com]
The Secret Lives of Links
Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering

Links are the molecular bonds of our web sites, holding all the pages together. They are the essence of a web site.

Genome Engineering and the Construction of New Genetic Codes

Peter Mager — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:35:59 +0000

When:

Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 7:00pm

Venue:

Broad Institute - 7 Cambridge Center

Room:

auditorium

Lecturer(s):

Peter Carr

Our capacity to engineer genetic material is moving beyond the level of single genes to the scale of genomes. Still, our ability to paint effectively on a canvas as large as a genome is minute, dwarfed by our growing ability to synthesize DNA, which is in turn dwarfed by our ability to sequence. Current attempts to engineer at this scale are first and foremost an exploration of to what extent living systems can be re-designed and modified.

Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems

Peter Mager — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:08:11 +0000

IEEE Computer and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, MIT biological engineering and biomedical engineering student group (BE-BMES), and GBC/ACM

7:00 PM, Thursday, October 27, 2011

MIT room 66-110

Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems

Ron Weiss

Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems

Peter Mager — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:07:20 +0000

When:

Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 7:00pm

Venue:

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)

Room:

32-G449 Kiva/Patel *** NEW LOCATION ***

Lecturer(s):

Ron Weiss

IEEE Computer and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Societies, MIT biological engineering and biomedical engineering student group (BE-BMES), and GBC/ACM

Ron Weiss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from MIT in 2001 and held a faculty appointment at Princeton University between 2001 and 2009. His research focuses primarily on synthetic biology, where he programs cell behavior by constructing and modeling biochemical and cellular computing systems.

Building the Internet of Things: Rapid Prototyping Using PSoC Technology

Peter Mager — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:46:15 +0000

When:

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 9:00am

Venue:

MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)

Room:

E51-345

Lecturer(s):

Ted Kochanski, President and Chief Scientist, Vital Electronics Institute, Inc. Patrick Kane, Director, Cypress University Alliance

GBC/ACM and IEEE Computer and Electron Devices Societies Hands-On Workshop
9:00 AM, Sunday, 25 September 2011, 09:00am - 04:00pm

Thaddeus (Ted) P. Kochanski, SB, Ph.D. , (Ted), an Affiliate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Hampshire, is an experimental physicist, systems engineering consultant and entrepreneur, with a passion for informal education, walking, and history. He has contributed to wired and wireless sensor networks, soft x-ray, VUV, IR and cosmic-ray muon imaging, Giga-scale IC's, radar propagation, Ground Penetration Radar, data acquisition, signal processing and interactive multimedia.

Genetic evidence for interbreeding between archaic and modern humans

Peter Mager — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:37:25 +0000

When:

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 7:00pm

Venue:

Broad Institute - 7 Cambridge Center

Room:

Auditorium

Lecturer(s):

David Reich

It has recently become possible to sequence the DNA of ancient humans, and to compare the sequence to DNA from present-day humans to learn how they are related. Here I report the results of two such studies. In the first study, we showed that Neandertals contributed about 2.5% of the genetic material of all non-Africans today. In the second study, we showed that Denisovans contributed about 5% of the genetic material of New Guineans today.

David Reich is a geneticist and professor in the Department of Genetics at the Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute. He has a doctorate in Statistical Genetics from Oxford University and worked at the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research from 1999-2003. While at Harvard he received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in the Biomedical Sciences (2003-2009), the Genzyme Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Research Award (2007) and an Excellence in Teaching Award for his course in Human Genetics (2009).

Rethinking user research for the social web

GBCACM Administrator — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:55:21 +0000

When:

Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 7:00pm

Venue:

IBM Innovation Center, Waltham, MA

Lecturer(s):

Dana Chisnell

While the Web has evolved from flat documents to being fluidly ambient, we’re using the same user research and usability testing methods and techniques we were using in 1994. We know that conducting usability tests can tell us where people get frustrated. What will testing reveal about frustrations with interactions people have with other people online? When interaction is protean, how do you derive a task scenario? What are the success criteria? When you have large-scale social, individual workarounds turn into functionality and social norms. Etiquette evolves organically.

Dana Chisnell has helped thousands of people learn how to make better design decisions by giving them the skills they need to gain knowledge about users. She has observed hundreds of study participants for dozens of clients to learn about design issues in software, hardware, web sites, online services, games, and ballots, helping these organizations perform usability tests and user research to inform design decisions for products and services. These days, her pet topics are election design, usable security, and researching social interactions mediated by technology.