Panel members lead a discussion or experts in the field present relevant topics for human resource professionals in the technology industry. These events are open to member and non-member companies.

Duncan Coutts, from Well-Typed (http://well-typed.com), will be giving a tech talk tomorrow about the technical direction of Cabal, Haskell package infrastructure, and the problems of managing very large amounts of Haskell code. ... TITLE: The Future of Cabal -- "A language for build systems" and "Constraint solving problems in package deployment" SPEAKER: Duncan Coutts, Well-Typed, LLP DATE: Tuesday, Oct 7, 2008 10.30am LOCATION: Galois, Inc. 421 SW 6th Ave. Suite 300 (3rd floor of the Commonwealth Building) Portland, Oregon ABSTRACT: This will be an informal talk and discussion on two topics: 1. A language for build systems Build systems are easy to start but hard to get right. We'll take the view of a language designer and look at where our current tools fall down in terms of safety/correctness and expressiveness. We'll then consider some very early ideas about what a build system language should look like and what properties it should have. Currently this takes the form of a design for a build DSL embedded in Haskell. 2. Constraint solving problems in package deployment We are all familiar, at least peripherally, with package systems. Every Linux distribution has a notion of packages and most have high level tools to automate the installation of packages and all their dependencies. What is not immediately obvious is that the problem of resolving a consistent set of dependencies is hard, indeed it is NP-complete. It is possible to encode 3-SAT or Sudoku as a query on a specially crafted package repository. We will look at this problem in a bit more detail and ask if the right approach might be to apply our knowledge about constraint solving rather than the current ad-hoc solvers that most real systems use. My hope is to provoke a discussion about the problem. We can concentrate on one topic or the other depending on peoples interest. ABOUT THE GALOIS TECH TALKS: Galois (http://galois.com) has been holding weekly technical seminars for several years on topics from functional programming, formal methods, compiler and language design, to cryptography, and operating system construction, with talks by many figures from the programming language and formal methods communities. The talks are open and free. If you're planning to attend, dropping a note to <dons> is appreciated, but not required. If you're interested in giving a talk, we're always looking for new speakers.

Bring friends and join us to celebrate the launch of the official Obama '08 iPhone application. We'll screen the presidential debate and then show highlights of the Obama '08 app and meet the Portland members of the development team.

Note: This event is likely to fill up quickly, and is first come, first served. Show up early to get a good seat!

To be decided.

Join the OurPDX authors (and help celebrate Betsy's birthday!) at the Green Dragon. We'll have appetizers there for all to share (although you'll need to spring for your own beverages or full-on meals, though.)

Please RSVP so we know you're coming, will you?

Welcome to Portland Fashion Week: Spring/Summer 2009 Collections. Several internationally known independent and eco labels from all over the country and the world are launching their upcoming season's collections from the bamboo-runway in the green building of 14 Square in the swanky Pearl District. After being the first sustainable production of a fashion week in the world in 2007, this year Portland Fashion Week continues its commitment to eco-responsibility and high-fashion. This event is benefiting Children's Cancer Association

OEN's Seed Oregon: The Road to Angel Oregon

Seed Oregon is a unique competition for Oregon and Southwest Washington seed-stage companies who are seeking capital within the range of $100,000 to $2,000,000. One winner from each preliminary round will move on to a championship round, where a finalist will earn a coveted presenting opportunity at OEN's Angel Oregon 2009, the premier angel investing event in the Northwest. The 2009 conference will be held at the Governor Hotel in Portland on March 12th.

Nine presenting companies in total will be selected to compete in the 2008-2009 Seed Oregon tournament. Each will have 10 minutes to present their concept to the PubTalk audience, followed by a 10 minute Q&A session. Three companies will compete at each of the preliminary rounds, with the audience voting for the winning presentations to move to the championship round.

Interested in applying to present inthe Seed Oregon Tournament? Then stay tuned for more details!

Details:
Date and Time: Oct 8, 2008
05:15 pm - 07:00 pm
Location: 1313 NW Marshall
Portland, Oregon
For Purchase:
OEN Member Price: $15.00
Non-Member Price: $25.00
OEN Member Fee to Present at Seed Oregon: $75.00
Non-Member Fee to present at Seed Oregon: $174.00

Come play Werewolf with us.

We have the private room in the back reserved. From 6-7 we'll have a social hour were we can just hang out, drink, and eat. Then at 7 we'll start to play. Please make sure to RSVP and for directions.

Refresh Portland is a monthly talk (held every 2nd Wednesday) about design, front-end development, usability and web standards.

We’re in the process of choosing the speakers, so please watch this space and our twitter account (http://twitter.com/refreshportland) for future developments.

Refresh Portland is part of the Refreshing Cities Movement.

We're relegated to the classroom at freegeek this month, so I figure we should make the best of it and have a perl 6 class. Jerry Gay will be visiting from Seattle. Jerry is a key contributor to parrot/rakudo and will be very helpful in understanding what rakudo can do right now and diagnosing any troubles that come up. We will have a short walk-through at the beginning and if a projector is available we can use it to increase the tutorial bandwidth. Bring a laptop if you have one, preferably with parrot (or even pugs) already setup. If you do not have a laptop or if you would be able to bring more than one, please let me know. I would like this to be very hands-on learning and I imagine we'll probably be working in pairs or small groups as well as spending some time reading documentation and sharing what we've learned. If you have some experience with Perl 6 or have been playing with it recently, please share your useful links or insights by posting them on the list or the wiki. http://pdx.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?October2008Meeting If you have no experience with Perl 6, this is where you get it! Bring your friends. There's still more than one way to do it in Perl 6 and I'm looking forward to seeing where people's interests are. Working through some of the perl quizzes or porting other illustrative examples might be fun for some while others might be interested in playing with the classes and objects, or mod_perl6, etc. As always, social hour at the lucky lab afterwards.

The Portland CocoaHeads group is devoted to discussion of Apple's Cocoa Framework for programming on Mac OS X. During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics. Developers using any Cocoa-related language (Objective-C, Python, Ruby, etc.) are welcome, as well as related platforms like iPhone.

Meetings are on the second Wednesday of the month at 7pm, at CubeSpace, in the "Persian" room.

We'll go around the table to introduce ourselves and mention what we're working on or what we're interested in. Then, the floor will be open to anyone with a 10-minute demo or presentation topic. We'll also have a general Q&A discussion. A projector and wifi will be available.

Thursday, Oct 9th, 2008

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: Renaissance on the Riverfront
136 SW Washington Ave.
1000 NE Circle Blvd
Corvallis, Oregon 97333

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RSVP TO: SAO by emailing Sao-info@thebec.com


FREE this month for SAO members or students, and non-members

Includes finger food and no-host bar

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar

6:15 - 6:30: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elevator pitch!!)

7:00 Program: Dawn Foster - Online Commuities and Marketing

PROGRAM:

Dawn Foster, Fast Wonder Consulting (http://fastwonderblog.com/)

Dawn M. Foster provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities through various social media technologies including discussion forums, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and more. She is also the community evangelist for Shizzow, a new Portland startup. She has more than 13 years of experience in technology and software with expertise in open source software, web 2.0, social media, blogging, and community building.

Dawn is the author of the Fast Wonder Blog and is currently working on a book for O’Reilly Media about the Art of Community. She organizes a monthly Portland BarCamp Meetup event for local technology employees, is an organizer for the Portland BarCamp event, and helps organize Ignite Portland. She is a co-founder and Chair of Legion of Tech.

Previously, Dawn worked at Jive Software, Compiere, Intel, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to open source strategist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kent State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Ashland University.

How much of our brain development is determined by our experiences, and how much is hardwired into our physiology? By studying an array of people, including deaf and blind individuals, researchers at the Brain Development Lab at the University of Oregon have begun to understand the changeability (i.e., neuroplasticity) of the human brain. Some neural systems appear strongly determined?experience doesn't alter them at all. Others are highly affected by experience, and a third neural system is capable of change throughout life. Come find out about current research on brain function, including intervention studies with 3- to 5-year-old preschoolers that hope to unravel the learning processes of developing children. Helen J. Neville, PhD, is the Robert and Beverly Lewis Endowed Chair and professor of psychology and neuroscience, director of the Brain Development Lab, and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. Her major research interests are the role of biology and experience in neurosensory and neurocognitive development in humans. She has written several books and her work has been widely published in journals, including Nature and Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Reed Economics Lecture Series: The Electricity Restructuring Debate
William Hogan, "Energy Policy for Electricity Markets"

William W. Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy at Harvard University, is the research director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, which explores the issues involved in the transition to a more competitive electricity market. Hogan has served on the faculty of Stanford University, where he founded the Energy Modeling Forum, and is past president of the International Association for Energy Economics. Hogan's research focuses on the interaction of energy economics and public policy, which, in recent years, has meant an emphasis on the restructuring of the electricity industry in the U.S. and worldwide. He has worked to design market structures and market rules by which regional transmission organizations, in various forms, coordinate bid-based markets for energy, ancillary services, and financial transmission rights that allow market participants to hedge congestion costs.

7:30 p.m., Reed college, Psychology 105.

Join us for the second annual PostgreSQL Conference West! Scheduled to begin October 10 and go through the weekend, West being held at Portland State University is going to be the destination for learning, fun and general education about PostgreSQL.

Join us to work on adding features and improving Calagator!

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

A study/user group exploring the world of functional programming based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Scala, and others. The group meets regularly and provides presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts. The meetings are usually on the second Monday of the month.

Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are everywhere. With Web businesses like Google and Yahoo! and brick and mortar companies like Harley Davidson and Sherwin Williams embracing RIAs for their online presence, the media buzz is giving way to the reality of a better Internet. Adobe has recently contributed AMF support to the Zend Framework, allowing PHP developers to easily build Rich Internet Applications using Flex and Adobe AIR that interact with a PHP backend. Ryan Stewart, a technical evangelist with Adobe, will give an introduction to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, and will walk through how to create a Flex application powered by PHP and the Zend Framework. Working with Zend Studio for Eclipse, and Flex Builder (an Eclipse plugin), Ryan will demonstrate how to build, debug and deploy applications built with Adobe Flex, and how to have these same applications run on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime. With this knowledge, developers will be able to easily build rich Internet applications that combine data from PHP and rich media like audio and video into a compelling application. Ryan’s bio can be found online at http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?page_id=2

The Portland Lunch 2.0 saga continues at the Art Institute of Portland in the Pearl, and big thanks to Bram Pitoyo for making this work.

Come join your old Twitter pals, meet some new people, learn about what the Art Institute has going on these days, and check out the exhibits, all with a full belly.

This will be at the beginning of the Fall term so it won't be totally hectic just yet.

Lunch 2.0 is a Valley phenomenon that you can read about at lunch20.com, and we're putting a PDX stamp on it.

This space is enormous, so don't worry about bringing some extras. The more, the merrier, assuming only merry people decide to come.

Are you vegan or vegetarian? Please leave a comment so we can plan food accordingly. Thanks.

Mark your calendars: on Thursday, October 16, CubeSpace marks our second birthday! What does this mean for you? A community-wide open house, with delicious food, great company, and some fun and games to boot. Current, former, and future members of CubeSpace are all invited, as are general well-wishers, curious onlookers, and newsletter devotees (hey, I can dream, right?). The festivities will be happening from 4 to 8 p.m., so drop by and help us ring in Year Number Three!

Celebrating its fifth year, Bend Venture Conference has established itself as the major regional event connecting seed and early stage companies with investment opportunities. The annual conference attracts over 300 entrepreneurs, investors and service providers and gives attendees the opportunity to network with the best of the Northwest.

The Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series Building a Brand that Matters Alfred Lin COO, CFO and Chairman, Zappos.com Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 7-8:30 p.m. Milam Hall, Room 026 Alfred Lin is responsible for all financial, administrative, and warehouse operations of Zappos.com. Since 2005, he has brought focus, strategy, and financial discipline to help grow the business efficiently and profitably. In less than ten years, Zappos.com has matured from an upstart to the top Internet shoe seller that is forecasted to generate $1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008. The e-tailer stocks 3 million pairs of shoes, handbags, apparel, and accessories, specializing in some 1,000 brands that are difficult to find in mainstream shopping malls. Using an interactive Q&A format, Alfred will discuss the ingredients to building a brand, culture, and company that matters. He will share his top ten lessons learned while growing the business over the last decade as well as key insights on e-commerce and entrepreneurship.

Equilibrium: The Human Mash Up RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/art-tech08 Read reviews of the first of three Mash Up events: http://tinyurl.com/yelpreview08 Featuring Live DJs Echoik & Frequency Working Artists Network + Software Association of Oregon introduce Equilibrium: The Human Mash Up. In the spirit of disruptive ideas and breaking down barriers we ask, "How can art and technology and the synergy of the two address humanity's next evolutionary step?" Four categories of work will address these questions and collectively speak to the power of human ingenuity. We invite artistic and technological creators to submit their work that addresses human survival in an era of interspecies evolution, revolution, and devolution. Art and technology are two words that for many represent vastly different worlds, and for generations have largely existed along parallel, yet non-convergent lines. But now the potential for unprecedented collaboration is here. Ever-evolving technologies allow us to share ideas across borders, both geographic and symbolic. Such potential for shared ideas has helped break down long standing silos that for generations inhibited expansive thought and human progression. The lines are now blurred. Creators of all sorts now have public space to mutually ponder where we've been, where we are, and where we're going. By sharing once segregated perspectives, we can see the world through a different lens and evolve as a species like never before. E= m4 humanity - Submissions will fall into one of four conceptual areas: Momentum: captures the inertia and velocity of human innovation Maintenance: captures the drive for ecological and human preservation Multiplicity: captures the boundless potential of human convergence Mobility: captures the facilitation of human movement and idea exchange http://tinyurl.com/yelpreview08

"Society is being transformed by new maps and new mapping technology. Our mission is to help create a free forum for people to talk about, present, explore, and learn about projects that involve place." What is WhereCamp PDX? WhereCampPDX is a free unconference focusing on all things geographical and cartographical. This informal meeting of minds welcomes all geo-locative enthusiasts, anyone who asks "where am I" or feels the need to "know their place". We share a vision of a fully transparent world where data is geographically relevant and just in time. An unconference is a conference planned by the participants, we all convene together, plan sessions, and have break-outs into sessions. This gives everybody an opportunity to bring to the table the things that interest them the most and lets us talk about new topics that are still new and exploratory. Part of what is important to hearing new voices and getting new ideas is lowering barriers to participation - this event is free and it is driven by the participants. What kinds of people and topics will be discussed? This event is community driven and is what you make it. It provide cross pollination between many different kinds of folks from all walks of life. Topics may include remote sensing, geoinformatics, forestry and agriculture, food chain transparency, civil engineering, emergency disaster relief, urban planning, local search, context awareness, place hacking, social cartography, citizen journalism, locative gaming, psychogeography, locative art, and beyond. Expect to participate in conversations on the nature of place as described in pixels, with rays, on paper, and by social practice!

Hold the Dates: The fourth annual Government Open Source Conference returns to Portland Oregon with an expanded program which will include an International Open Source Summit, hosting international governments as well as US state and locals. Focus this year will be on OSS solutions in the public sector space. You can subscribe to the conference mailing list for program updates, registration information on the conference web site. GOSCON is produced by Oregon State University's Open Source Lab.

If you are involved in an OSS project or initiative you think we'd like to know about as we put the program together, please let us know!

Saturday, October 25
Cocktail Cabaret presents: "A NIGHT AT THE CARNIVAL"

All proceeds from this show will be donated to the Oregon Humane Society.

8 p.m. doors, 8:30 p.m. show

$14 advance, $17 day of show

21 and over

COCKTAIL CABARET

Cocktail Cabaret started when a small group of friends came together in late 2004 to form an eclectic cabaret troupe. All members of Cocktail Cabaret bring years of professional performance experience to the stage, ranging from musical theatre and dance to stand up comedy.

Cocktail Cabaret offers its audience a unique experience rarely found today. The show is reminiscent of days past when vaudeville and cabaret were the veins of entertainment. They combine dance, song, risqué innuendos, great costumes, loads of energy, and downright funny stuff to create a new era of cabaret. Cocktail Cabaret specializes in themed shows such as Tropicana, Viva Las Vegas, Broadway Baby, and Follies Bergere along with their more mixed shows that they fondly refer to as A Barrel Full of Monkeys.

Cocktail Cabaret has performed in many of Portland's favorite music venues, including Lola's Room (Crystal Ballroom), McMenamin's White Eagle Saloon, and the Mississippi Pizza Pub. Because the members of Cocktail Cabaret are committed to service, the ensemble also performs for fundraisers and other charity events throughout the year.

Visit www.cocktailcabaretpdx.com for more information.

The Renewable Energy Finance Forum-West (REFF-West) will unite investors, financiers and project developers in the renewable energy sector, with a particular focus on the Western U.S. The conference builds on the success of the Clean Tech Investing in the Pacific Northwest conference and REFF-Wall Street. Attendees will take part in focused conference sessions on relevant topics and network with over 250 senior financial and industry delegates from across the sector. Speakers and session chairs include Maria Cantwell, US Senator-Wash.;Peter Duprey, CFO, Acciona Energy North America Corp.;Stephen C. Hall, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP; Michael Rosenfeld, Vice Consul, British Consulate-General, Los Angeles; and Kenneth Westrick, CEO, 3Tier. Who should attend? Renewable energy project developers and technology companies, green building sector and related industries, energy management companies and ESCOs, corporate CEOs, CFOs and planners, Energy storage and electric vehicle companies, commercial and investment bankers, venture capital and private equity investors, financial analysts and advisors,

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

pdx.st is the Portland Smalltalk Users Group. The group welcomes programmers interested in the Smalltalk language. Members interact through a mailing list and meet regularly for presentations, demos and discussions.

Come see physics in action! Jugglers, acrobats, and other circus artists often base their acts on simple Newtonian principles of motion and balance taken to extremes. How does gravity's constant rate of acceleration affect the juggling of bowling balls? Why would a Nobel Laureate beg a vaudevillian to spin a ball on his finger? Which tricks are created using math? Did the Japanese really acquit a 17th-century prisoner on the strength of his inertia skills? Which came first: the bed of nails or the ladder of swords? How many new performance ideas can a desperate juggler glean from a room full of science-minded folks? Rhys Thomas, has been making a living performing hilarity and dexterity for over 20 years. His science shows have been presented in Trinidad, Singapore, at museums across the U.S. and Canada, and even toured by dogsled across frozen ocean to Siberian Yupik villages. Thomas has served as artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution and performs as an OMSI educator at schools in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and other western states.

It starts with a simple seed. But from that seed grows strong, vibrant and sustainable companies that are ripe for investment. Venture Northwest (formerly Venture Oregon) is the premier forum for new and emerging investment opportunities in exciting companies from Oregon, Washington, and throughout the Pacific Northwest. Learn about the region's growth segments, explore exciting new technology and research, and connect with entrepreneurs from the area's hottest emerging companies including nanotech, microtech, bioscience, sustainability and more.

This annual conference draws institutional investors and investment bankers from across the western US who are interested in the emerging companies that the Northwest has to offer. Companies that have presented at Venture Oregon have raised over $1.3 billion in venture capital since 1996 and over $68 million in angel investment.*

*Not all companies who presented had investments reported in Venture Source

Interested in applying to present at Venture Northwest 2008? If so, then visit the Venture Northwest 2008 Application & Guidelines page for more information.

Whether you call it strategic product development, technology forecasting, or something else, planning your company's technology evolution while also keeping an eye on technologies in your market is a critical capability. It supports developing successful technologies, gaining investor confidence, and successfully competing in the market. Come learn the basics from an experienced industry product developer who now teaches for PSU. Who: Tugrul Daim, PSU faculty member and former Intel product manager When: October 30, Noon - 1pm Where: Portland State Business Accelerator, Mt. Hood Conference Room - 209

The Portland Lunch 2.0 saga continues at the Eclipse Foundation in downtown.

Come join your old Twitter pals, meet some new people, learn about what the Eclipse Foundation has going on these days. Did you know they had a Portland office?

Worried about parking downtown? It's probably going to be raining by then. No worries, the Max Oak Street stop is right in front of their building.

Lunch 2.0 is a Valley phenomenon that you can read about at lunch20.com, and we're putting a PDX stamp on it.

Are you vegan or vegetarian? Please leave a comment so we can plan food accordingly. Thanks.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Refresh Portland is a monthly talk (held every 2nd Wednesday) about design, front-end development, usability and web standards.

We’re in the process of finalizing the speaker. Please watch this space and our twitter account (http://twitter.com/refreshportland) for future developments.

Refresh Portland is part of the Refreshing Cities Movement.

Eclipse enthusiasts meet up and demo what they are doing with Eclipse. The demos can be of research projects, Eclipse open source projects, applications based on Eclipse, commercial products using Eclipse or whatever you think might be of interest to the attendees. The only stipulation is that it must be Eclipse related. RSVP on the wiki

Save the date! Ignite Portland 4 will happen on Thursday November 13, 2008, at the Bagdad. Same venue. Same format. Even more burning ideas.

More details to come - stay tuned!

http://www.igniteportland.com

http://twitter.com/igniteportland

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/igniteportland

People sometimes talk of being "moved" when listening to a piece of music, or about "traveling" up and down the scale when hearing a sequence of notes. Do these experiences have some real relationship to physical motion and how is it connected to the feelings we have when we listen to music? This Science Pub will explore recent research in cognitive science using music analyses, psychological experiments, and computer modeling to show how physical motion relates to what we experience when we hear music, as well as the important role metaphor plays in creating musical meaning out of our sense of motion. Come see for yourself how music moves you, complete with live musical examples drawn from a variety of styles. Steve Larson, PhD, is the Robert M. Trotter Professor of Music and a member of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon, where he teaches courses in music theory. He also serves as visiting faculty researcher at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (the artificial-intelligence lab of Douglas Hofstadter) at Indiana University. He is a jazz pianist, performing solo and with the group BLUE SONJA. A few of his recordings can be found at his website.

Important Dates =============== Early Registration Deadline: October 14, 2008 Hotel Registration Deadline: October 18, 2008 Conference Overview =================== FMCAD 2008 is the eighth in a series of conferences on the theory and application of formal methods in hardware and system design and verification. In 2005, the bi-annual FMCAD and sister conference CHARME decided to merge to form an annual conference with a unified community. The resulting unified FMCAD provides a leading international forum to researchers and practitioners in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for formally reasoning about computing systems, as well as open challenges therein. Local Information ================= The Conference will be held at the Embassy Suites (Downtown) in Portland, Oregon. We have negotiated a special rate with the hotel for conference attendees. Please book early to secure the reduced rate. For details, please see the conference web page. A dinner cruise on the Willamette River is planned. Technical Program ================= The technical program is available at the conference web page. It includes 2 invited keynotes, 4 invited tutorials, 24 regular papers, 4 short papers, and 2 panels. Keynotes -------- o Ken McMillan (Cadence): Interpolation -- Theory and Applications o Carl Seger (Intel): Formal Methods and Physical Design: Match Made in Heaven or Fools' Paradise? Tutorials --------- o Kevin Jones (Rambus): Analog and Mixed Signal Verification: The State of the Art and some Open Problems o Moshe Levinger (IBM): Building a Bridge: From Pre-Silicon Verification to Post-Silicon Validation o Byron Cook (Microsoft): Computing Bounds on Space and Time for Hardware Compilation. o David Hardin (Rockwell Collins): Considerations in the Design and Verification of Microprocessors for Safety-Critical and Security-Critical Applications. Panels ------ o High Level Design and ESL: Who Cares? o The Future of Formal: Academic, IC, EDA, and Software Perspectives Sponsors ======== Sponsored by: IEEE CEDA In cooperation with: ACM SIGDA Financial support: Cadence, Galois, IBM, Intel, NEC, Synopsys

Topic to be decided.

CyborgCamp is a simulcast unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We'll discuss topics such as social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy.

CyborgCamp's aim is to have many communication channels such as Twitter, Flickr, UstreamTV, Video and Audio recordings and live chats displayed on the screen. In this way, the conference attendees can exist in three places at once -- Vancouver, Portland, and Cyberspace.

Half of the conference will be organized BarCamp style, and the other half will have structured experts on various topics.

Classrooms, individuals and businesses are encouraged to attend the event remotely. It will be livestreamed through multiple channels and will be archived and tagged for future viewing. Details on remote conference access will be available a week before the conference begins.

What is a cyborg? A cyborg (shorthand for “cybernetic organism”) is a symbiotic fusion of human and machine. Join in our pre-conference discussion and help organize the event at http://www.cyborgcamp.org and faster updates on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cyborgcamp.

CyborgCamp is open to sponsors. We're interested in cutting edge companies or non-profits who are interested in education/technological development. Please E-mail caseorganic@gmail.com if you or your organization/business is interested in this. Your logo will be added to any paper brochures, the website, and will be included in live Twitter streams during the event.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

What is WordCamp:Las Vegas? WordCamp:Las Vegas is a conference style event covering topics related to the WordPress software. We are also planning for Unconference style sessions in the afternoon to let the people attending WordCamp help choose the topics discussed at WordCamp:Las Vegas. Who Should Attend WordCamp:Las Vegas? No matter if you are a casual user, full time blogger, plugin developer, theme designer or if you are curious about getting in to blogging for the first time, WordCamp:Las Vegas promises to have a little something for everyone. When Is It? Mark your calendar, January 10th and 11th, 2009 Where is it? OK, you got me there. We are still working on securing a location for the event. As soon as we have a confirmed location, we’ll update the site and let you know.

The Southern California Linux Expo (“SCALE”) is sponsored by the Linux Expo of Southern California Inc. SCALE's mission is to evangelize the advantages of Open Source software. Open Source software is any software that meets the litmus test of the OSI (Open Source Initiative). Examples of OSS are Linux and the various BSD operating systems, and applications such as OpenOffice.org and Firefox. Our target audiences are both current and potential users of OSS. Those users can be individual computer users, educational institutions, or businesses. The Expo's educational focus is composed of (but not limited to) technical seminars and booths where, among other things, both commercial software and hardware vendors, and local non-profit groups (for example, Linux Users Groups), participate in product display, and software demonstrations and tutorials, respectively. We are vendor- and distribution neutral in our outreach efforts.

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/453651/ ] What is the SXSW Interactive Festival? The SXSW Interactive Festival offers five days of panels, keynote discussions, Trade Show, and exciting evening events. Attendees benefit from hands-on, how-to training as well as long-term, big-picture analysis in an atmosphere that charges creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. More to the point, coming to SXSW Interactive is a great way to recharge your creativity. Where does the SXSW Interactive Festival occur? Daytime panel programming (as well as the Trade Show & Exhibition) takes place at the Austin Convention Center (500 E. Cesar Chavez) in downtown Austin. Evening events occur at various nightspots around the city. Who attends this event? SXSW Interactive appeals to uber-geeks and digital creatives who push the cutting edge of technological change. The event appeals to content developers, web designers, programmers, bloggers, wireless innovators, gamers, tech entrepreneurs, investors, and educators. Even if you are not a technical person, you will benefit from the outside-the-box thinking that thrives at SXSW. What kind of topics are covered at the event? Panel topics cover everything from web design, usability, and blogging to wireless innovation and new technology business models. Other panels focus on more general topics that are nonetheless relevant to the digital creatives who attend SXSW Interactive. Discovering new ideas that lead us to a better future is the underlying theme on all of this programming.

June 4th - 7th, 2009

Teva Mountain Games