On June 23, 2008 the Future Salon hosted Jeremy Toeman talk about Buglab’s new mobile base station called the bug. The modules connect like Lego blocks with screens, phones, GPS, cameras, and run on open source software. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On June 20, 2008, Heidi Roizen hosted the SDForum’s 2008 Visionary Awards, given to pioneers leading the way in high technology. Executive Director Susan Lucas-Conwell welcomed San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed who praised this year’s guests and awardees. Scott Sandell of NEA introduced fellow partner and Visionary Forrest Baskett. Dr. Mendel Rosenblum of VMware introduced his CEO and Visionary Diane Greene. Tim Haley of Redpoint introduced Netflix founder and Visionary Reed Hastings. Dr. Richard C. Atkinson of the University of California introduced Qualcomm chairman and Visionary Irwin Jacobs. John Markoff of the New York Times introduced Visionary Steven Levy who recently left Newsweek to begin writing for Wired magazine. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On June 23, 2008 SDForum’s Virtual Reality SIG hosted Richard Childers, CEO of Virtual Space Entertainment, Inc. (VSE) to present a massively multiplayer virtual world called “Blue Mars 2150″. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On Thursday June 12, 2008 the STC Silicon Valley Chapter Council held its annual dinner at Il Postino in Sunnyvale. Viki Maki received her Associate Fellow from Revathi Sampath. Text from DJCline.com.
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On June 4, 2008 at Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo Alto, SDForum and Accel presented “The Consumerization of Software”. Susan Lucas-Conwell of SDForum and Kevin Efrusy of Accel welcomed the large crowd to talk about the big shift in adopting technology. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
June 9, 2008 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple kicked off this year’s World-Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) with Steve Jobs keynote speech introducing the new iPhone. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
As part of our 50th Anniversary, the STC Silicon Valley Chapter held a special event on Tuesday May 27, 2008 at the Computer History Museum. There was quite a crowd touring the exhibits, enjoying dinner and the awards ceremony for long time members. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On Thursday May 22, 2008 at SAP in Palo Alto the Bay Area Future Salon hosted Erna Grasz of the Asante Foundation and two members of Kenya’s Maasai tribe. Salaton Ole’ Ntutu is a shaman and his companion Sabore is a warrior. Text from DJCline.com Read the rest of this entry »
On May 21, 2008 in East Palo Alto at DLA Piper SDForum for startups to present to the Harvard Angels Selection Committee. When I first heard of name “Harvard Angels” I thought they were a well-dressed motorcycle gang. It turns out they ride in to town to raise money instead of hell. Any disruption they cause will be in technology. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
As part of our 50th Anniversary, the STC Silicon Valley Chapter is holding a special event on Tuesday May 27, 2008 between 6:00 and 8:00 PM at the Computer History Museum. There will be a tour of the Visible Storage and Babbage exhibits, food and recognition of long time members. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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On May 20, 2008 in San Francisco, Nixon Peabody and Moss Adams sponsored a presentation on how clean tech companies are increasing energy efficiency. Susan Lucas-Conwell of SDForum and Anne Morrissey of ASTIA kicked off the event. Andrea Cohen of Nixon Peabody moderated a panel with panelists Zach Gentry of Adura Technologies, Barbara Grant of American River Ventures, Bennett Johnston of Lumenergi and Tim Woodward of Nth Power. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On May 13, 2008 at HP in Palo Alto, SDForum held it’s second annual Teen Tech event. NPR, the San Jose Mercury News and CBS 60 Minutes covered this year’s bigger event. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On May 13, 2008 at HP in Palo Alto, SDForum held it’s second annual Teen Tech event. Text from DJCline.com.
A full review is in the works. Here are some pictures from the event.
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As part of our 50th Anniversary, the STC Silicon Valley Chapter is holding a special event on Tuesday May 27, 2008 between 6:00 and 8:00 PM at the Computer History Museum. There will be a tour of the Visible Storage and Babbage exhibits, food and recognition of long time members. Text from DJCline.com.
To register for this rare event, visit our website at:
http://www.stc-siliconvalley.org/
The museum is located at
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
For directions:
http://www.computerhistory.org/directions/
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On Wednesday May 7, 2008 at Michael’s in Mountain View, SDForum held a volunteer breakfast to discuss upcoming events like next week’s Teen Tech at HP. Text from DJ Cline.com.
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On May 2, 2008 at Orrick offices in Redwood City, SDForum and NASSCOM hosted a social mixer for the Indian delegation at Orrick and with senior TiE charter members. The people at Orrick make you feel welcome and know how to organize an event. The facility has this great Scandanavian design that looks like the entire building came out of a big flat box from IKEA. You can see my pictures of the chairs and tables that look like abstract art even when stored. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On April 29, 2008 at Intel’s Campus in Sunnyvale, the California Israel Chamber Commerce held a discussion of Israeli high tech pioneer Dov Frohman’s new book “Leadership The Hard Way: Why Leadership Can’t Be Taught - And How You Can Learn it Anyway”. Robert Howard, author of “Brave New Workplace” led the discussion with David Perlmutter, Executive VP and General Manager of of Intel’s Mobility Group. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On April 29, 2008 at Fish & Richardson in Redwood City SDForum Mobile SIG hosted the Digital Media Quarterly to discuss business models, pitfalls, technology, and controlling content. Richard Horning of Fish & Richardson moderated a panel including Neal Hansch of Rustic Canyon, Eric Ries of IMVU, Todd Sawicki of Lookery, Richard Yen of Blueprint Ventures and Jian Zhang of Tradescape, Inc. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On April 28, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Fiona Tang showed me the Babbage Difference Engine No. 2 being installed for exhibition on May 10, 2008. It is the perfect graduation present for any Victorian gentleman who wants to accurately calculate the carbon footprint of any orphan labor sweatshop he builds. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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On April 24, 2008 at Arthur’s in Santa Clara, STC Silicon Valley chapter held it’s spring Schmooze. It was a big happy crowd of people networking for the next job. In honor of Earth Day, everyone got a free tote bag. Pat Harvey won an iPod and Andrew Davis won a tank of gas. The good news is he drives a hybrid. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »