The Value And Elegance Of Digital Signal Processing
Bill Anklam, Agilent
10/09/2014
The continuing advance and usage of digital signal processing has delivered greater accuracy and speed with higher reliability and at lower cost to electronic and life science measurements. This tutorial will highlight some of the key techniques and technologies that are used in commercial communications systems and that have had significant impact on products from Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent Technologies and originally Hewlett-Packard). In particular, the mathematical beauty and elegance of these techniques will be explored.
How To Make Business Applications Talk To Each Other
Vicki Shreiner, Talend
10/16/2014
In a world filled with different types of databases, file formats and web services how do you make them all get along to easily share data, create reports and automate processes? Enter Talend Open Studio for ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) an open-source free software package for Application Integration. In this talk I’ll highlight various open source technologies (Apache Camel and ActivemQ) and describe how Talend ESB leverages them to allow non-programmers to easily develop solutions that allow the different pieces to communicate.
The Psychology Of The Augmented World
Jason Shankel, The Stupid Fun Club
10/23/2014
Since the time of Freud, we have been trying to quantify the experience of being human. In this talk, I will describe how modern psychology, post-modern literature and socially connected mobile devices have opened new vistas of human understanding. (PIZZA AFTER TALK IN DARWIN 28)
Openstack
Alex Freedland, Mirantis
10/30/2014
OpenStack is the most popular open source "cloud operating system". OpenStack is also the largest Open Source ecosystem currently combining more than 1,200 developers. It is housed in its own Foundation boasting over 350 corporate and over 16,000 individual members -- all of this being created in less than four years, a completely unprecedented story.
Barriers To Bioinformatics: Why Doesn’t Your Doctor Have Digital Diagnostics Yet?
Tom Slezak, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
11/06/2014
Driven by advances in bioinformatics and diagnostics technologies, a wide range of infectious disease diagnostics are available and widely used in research. From multiplex PCR to pan-microbial microarrays to NextGen Sequencing of complex samples, sensitive and specific identification of harmful pathogens can be made. But these are not yet available in your doctor’s office or HMO lab, in most cases. This talk will identify some of the many Valley of Death barriers that must be overcome before we can bring the dreams of precision (personalized) medicine and mobile medicine to fruition. Although focused on medical diagnostics, most of the material discussed here applies equally well to other fields where regulations, IP, or historical inertia of practitioners can stall your CS-led breakthrough ideas for years.