Previous Las Vegas Computer Society Meetings
The Las Vegas chapter of the IEEE Computer Society was founded in 2010 and has had several interesting, friendly, interactive and collegial meetings:
- 9/23/2010 “Let’s Build A Low Earth Orbit Cellular Public Carrier” by Robert E. O’Neil, PE.
- 12/11/2010 Virtual Meeting
- 4/7/2011 Dr. Patricia Dues, DMIST, MBA, PMP, Enterprise Program Manager, City of Las Vegas on the topic of “Cloud Transitioning”
- 11/10/2011 Jim Morrow, Vice President, Strategic Architecture of Aristocrat Technologies, Inc speaking on public-private key cryptography and the gaming industry; and PKI: where can we expect Intel, Microsoft and others to lead us in its use in the future?
- 5/9/2012 Dr. Charles A von Urff presenting on technology and telemedicine.
- 11/27/2012 Eric Olsen of Spectronix/Digital System Research spoke on “A new form of computer which doesn’t use binary!”
- 5/9/2013 Ryan Short of Monster.com on Monster’s power resume service and Military Skills Translator
- 10/9/2013 Dr. Tom Coughlin, national expert on digital storage and Chair-elect of Region 6, gave an excellent talk on digital storage of a wide variety of media to a joint meeting of the IEEE Las Vegas Computer Society and the Las Vegas Section. This meeting was held at UNLV’s Science and Engineering Building and was well attended.
- 4/28/2014 Cobalt Data Center. The agenda covered a discussion of the design, operations and use of a state-of-the-art data center and a tour of the facility.
- 11/9/2015 UNLV Technology Transfer Program presented by Zach Miles, Esq. Also Dr. Robert O’Neil spoke of the successes and failures of bringing product to market in BIG business
- 6/27/2016 Jeanette Stewart on Language Localization – an important topic in today’s global and multi-cultural environment.
- 12/15/2016 Joint Meeting with AASIM Cyber Group on RANSOMWARE
- 10/30/2017 Tour of RedFlint Experience Center
- 11/16/2017 Tour of Switch Data Center (SUPERNAP)
- 10/16/2018 Girls Who Code. Presentation by Izzy Thorn.
- 12/10/2018 What is Energy Storage and How Did We Get to Where We are Today? Presentation by Bill Cantor and Chris Searles.
Our meetings are open to all and we are busy planning more interesting and informative meetings in the near future.