I'm helping put on this event. It's totally free (please RSVP though)
and has a very distinguished speaker - Dr. Bernard Widrow. ~Elise
Silicon Valley Engineering Council
The Alliance for Engineering Leaders in the Silicon Valley www.svec.org
SVEC Open House
Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Hosted at the headquarters of Ultratech, Inc.
2880 Junction Avenue, San Jose
Please RSVP http://svec2006openhouse.eventbrite.com
You are cordially invited to attend our annual open house when the 2007
SVEC Engineering Hall of Fame recipients will be announced. The evening
includes a complimentary light buffet and engineering camaraderie.
Welcome Reception: 6:00pm-7:00pm
SVEC Open House: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Welcoming Remarks and Acknowledgements:
Barbara Roberts, President, Silicon Valley Engineering Council SVEC
Educational Outreach Programs Announcement of 2007 Silicon Valley
Engineering Hall of Fame Inductees
Keynote speaker: Dr. Bernard Widrow
SVEC Engineering Hall of Fame 1999 recipient
"Cognitive Memory: Human and Machine"
Expand your understanding of human memory. Hear about new advancements
in computer memory that will use artificial neural networks to simulate
how memory is stored in the human brain.
Bernard Widrow is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford
University. His fields of teaching and research are signal processing,
neural networks, acoustics, and control systems. Before coming to
Stanford in 1959, he taught at MIT where he received the Doctor of
Science Degree in 1956. Dr. Widrow is the author of two books: "Adaptive
Signal Processing," and "Adaptive Inverse Control," both published by
Prentice-Hall. Each is the first of its kind, establishing new fields of
research and engineering that are being pursued worldwide by students,
faculty, and practicing engineers. Dr. Widrow is the inventor or
co-inventor of 17 patents. One of his inventions, an adaptive filter
based on the LMS (least mean square) algorithm, is used in almost all
the computer modems in the world, making high-speed digital
communications (such as the internet) possible. He is co-inventor of a
directional hearing aid that will enable many people with severe to
profound hearing loss to regain speech recognition and communication
ability. Dr. Widrow has started Cardinal Sound Labs to develop and
commercialize the technology. He has been honored many times for his
research. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
elected him a Fellow in 1976. In 1984, he received the IEEE Alexander
Graham Bell Medal. He was inducted into the National Academy of
Engineering in 1995. Dr. Widrow is currently supervising ten doctoral
students at Stanford. Over the years, more than sixty students have
completed their Ph.D.'s under his supervision. Many of his former
students have become founders and top scientists in Silicon Valley
companies. About ten have become university professors, four have gone
on to medical school and become MD's, and two have become Admirals in
the U. S. Navy.
The Silicon Valley Engineering Council gratefully acknowledges our Open
House Sponsors:
Ultratech, SEMI and the Pipe Trades Training Center
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