Pacwest Center

Intellectual property rights is a hot topic in Portland, Oregon. With the Beer and Blog community in particular I've had several conversations about steps to take in securing exclusive rights to our idea inventions, that intangible creativity from the mind. And what the heck is the process for getting something trademarked? Or patented? What qualifies as a trade secret?

Wonder no longer. On July 14 from 6-8 pm Mike Cohen, an intellectual property-focused attorney at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, will be answering these questions in a FREE off-site topic discussion. Mike will also cover general IP issues relevant to bloggers, such as copyright and trademark infringement, as well as defamation.

A reception from 6-6:30 with beer, wine, non-alcoholic beverages and appetizers will be served. Then, from 6:30-7:15 Mike will talk. After that, we have time for questions. We'll have the room until 8 pm.

The law offices of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt is located in the building where Oracle lives, so remember there are two entrances: 5th and 6th Ave. If you enter from 5th Ave. you must go up the escalator and use an elevator in the bank of elevators located on the right to get to the 19th floor. If you enter from 6th Ave. just walk to the last bank of elevators.

Don't miss this free, informative evening of expert advice and learn how to protect your work and your right to montetize your work. Rearrange your schedule if you have to and attend this Beer and Blog off-site topic event. The free drink and food that goes along with the free IP counseling? BONUS!

When: Tuesday, July 14th 6-8 pm Schedule: 6-6:30 pm beverages and appetizers, 6:30-7:15 pm Intellectual Property presentation, 7:15-8 pm Q & A Location: Law offices of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, 1211 SW 5th Ave. Ste. 1900, Portland, OR 97204 (19th floor) Speaker: Mike Cohen, Shareholder Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Questions: Contact Nichole Enriquez: nenriquez[at]schwabe.com

Topic: Poker Bots 2008

Poker bots! The term conjures images of programmers hacking away late at night, trying to make a fast buck. But how interesting is the subject really? Well, as it turns out, very interesting. The game of poker poses the dual problems of nondeterminism and limited information, making computer poker implementations a deeper conceptual challenge than deterministic open-information games like chess. Better, there now exists a body of academic literature dedicated to analyzing the subtleties of the problem. But best of all, the de facto standard environment for development of poker AI software is 100% pure Java.

This talk will begin with a bit of historical context, delve into the problem space, and then offer a demonstration and source-level view of working "bots". The bots run in an offline, not-for-money, but highly competitive game environment.

Basic knowledge of the rules to Hold'em Poker (both limit and no-limit tournament varieties) is helpful to understand the presentation. This is a legitimate AI presentation aimed at professional software developers and students. No license agreements or U.S. laws were violated during its creation - and if your goal is to "cheat" at online poker, this presentation won't help you very much.
Speaker: Jeff Berkowitz, Oracle Jeff Berkowitz has worked for a variety of computer, instrumentation and software companies since the 1970s. His programming travels have included embedded systems, proprietary Unix kernels, RDBMS toolware, middleware, and both web and desktop application development. Jeff is equally uncomfortable with Unix and Microsoft programming environments, having been intermittently successful with both. Over the past few years Jeff has enjoyed the virtues of verifiable bytecode while developing systems in Java and C#.

Jeff has lived in the Portland, Oregon area since 1988 and is presently employed by Oracle Corporation in Portland. Jeff is married and enjoys nothing better than a warm day spent hovering over the smoker, microbrew in hand, slow cooking some kind of barbecue.

Location:
Oracle downtown Campus
8th Floor - Room 8005 Pacwest Center
1211 SW 5th Avenue Portland, Oregon

Java User Group meeting

Location:

Oracle downtown Campus
8th Floor - Room 8005 Pacwest Center
1211 SW 5th Avenue Portland, Oregon

Date: Tuesday July 15th 6:30pm

Topic: Hibernate, ORM & JPA
Part 1 Hibernate the Traditional Way

* Issues in object-relational mapping (ORM)<br />
* Overall goals of Hibernate<br />
* Hibernate architecture<br />
* Map a simple class to a database using a Hibernate XML mapping file<br />
* Retrieving, inserting, updating, deleting Hibernate persistent objects<br />
* Querying with Hibernate Query Language (HQL) <br /><br />

Part 2 Hibernate with the Java Persistence API (JPA)

* JPA Overview<br />
* Map a simple class to a database using JPA annotations<br />
* Retrieving, inserting, updating, deleting JPA persistent objects<br />
* Querying with JPA Query Language (JPQL)<br />
* Comparing Hibernate-traditional with JPA Hibernate-JPA<br />

Java User Group meeting

Location:

Oracle downtown Campus
8th Floor - Room 8005 Pacwest Center
1211 SW 5th Avenue Portland, Oregon