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===== In the Works – Potential Topics ===== | ===== In the Works – Potential Topics ===== | ||
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- | - **SCHED SEPT 29** | + | |
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- | - Women in Science, Scientists in Other Cultures (Charlie ask Dan for suggestions; | + | |
- | - Advances in Surgery (interesting but need speaker); past, present, future. | + | |
- | - Solar Panels, Solar Technology. Mark Sandeen (Lex SelectPerson); | + | |
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- | - idea: Telescopes (JohnR; huge telescope being decommissioned. Rich Ralston has contacts at Lincoln Lab & MIT, possible talks on optical, ground, space, | + | |
- | - idea: ISO-NE webinar being presented by the Attorney General' | + | |
- | - **REMOVED** BBC Horizon video, | + | |
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- | - **Chris Hess**: Musicians record themselves at home on their phones. They send me their files and I build virtual video performances in software. We've done a couple dozen virtual ensemble pieces at First Parish since the lockdown started. I work on a PC, with tools in the Adobe Creative suite. If that's of interest, I could do an introduction to the process and tools and then do some Q&A. Zoom isn't directly relevant, although we do stream the stuff I make over Zoom at virtual Sunday services at First Parish. | + | |
- | - Revisit Cloud Storage Options (update from December 2019, **steveI**) //Potpourri option// | + | |
- | - The first LASER of 2021 explores the relationship between humans, DNA, and data, featuring media artist and TED speaker Refik Anadol in conversation with Dr. Robert Grass from ETH Zurich, and Christine Choirat from Harvard and the Swiss Data Science Center. [[https:// | + | |
- | - Count Rumford (Supplemental to Dan Kleppner' | + | |
- | - Automatic Bucks meeting: Programmed Trading and Internet Fastlanes //Not sure what or how to present// | + | |
- | - Approach LHS Grad Brandeis, MD, now at Penn; re Moderna technology **Harry** | + | |
- | - Weather modeling tools: Stella. (Jay Forester?) Modeling a dynamic system. **Steve** to fup w/JJ | + | |
- | - Meandering Rivers (proposed by **John Rudy**) Concord River is a good example. e.g., [[https:// | + | |
- | - Virus package update; both real-time (e.g., Defender) and off-line (e.g., Malware Bytes). Consider Windows, but also Mac/OSX. **Peter** | + | |
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- | - **SCHED SEP08** Linux. Compare to Windows. Use on old computer equipment. Different varieties. (BobP, SteveI, maybe others) | + | |
- | - LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamic Satellite) launched 5/4/1976 with message plaque. (Howard Winkler, via PeterA) | + | |
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- | - Barbara Liskov (John Rudy to fup) | + | |
- | - Shiela Widnel and Women in the Air Force (David Kahan) | + | |
- | - **Freakonomics** Best of Freakonomics an interview with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, moderated by Faith Salie. Recorded at the 92nd Street Y on May 2015. (Peter Albin has link to 70min video) | + | |
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+ | - Black Holes: Seeing the Unseeable (60min; World Science Festival) (John Rudy)\\ //Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is observing black holes; latest achievement is first image of supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Video explores the breakthroughs.(this video dated around June 2022)// | ||
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+ | - Quantum Entanglement and Action at a Distance on Video. Suggested by Ted. K. Dick W. could give his follow-up impressions after the videos. | ||
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==== Rich Ralston suggested topics ==== | ==== Rich Ralston suggested topics ==== | ||
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//Website for MIT Lincoln Lab: [[http:// | //Website for MIT Lincoln Lab: [[http:// | ||
- | Some topics I propose within the next year, including the August 21 meeting. | + | Some topics I (Rich Ralston) |
- | - Low-noise and large-area visible and x-ray focal planes in space- and ground-based telescopes. (~90 minutes) | + | - (Low noise moved to 6/29/2022) |
- Flash LIDAR (LADAR) with single-photon sensitivity for rapid 3-D imaging with applications from look-through-foliage military surveillance to self-driving vehicles. (~90 minutes) – **not to be recorded for later viewing**\\ //Dr. Simon Verghese, head of Waymo’s (Google) sensor development for self-driving cars. In their 5th generation, the sensors are designed to meet the challenging requirements of moving people and goods safely and efficiently in dense cities and on highways. The goal is to make them affordable while meeting the performance needed for driverless operation in various applications and weather conditions. The talk will review some history of the project and describe a few use-cases for sensors and machine learning on Waymo vehicles.// | - Flash LIDAR (LADAR) with single-photon sensitivity for rapid 3-D imaging with applications from look-through-foliage military surveillance to self-driving vehicles. (~90 minutes) – **not to be recorded for later viewing**\\ //Dr. Simon Verghese, head of Waymo’s (Google) sensor development for self-driving cars. In their 5th generation, the sensors are designed to meet the challenging requirements of moving people and goods safely and efficiently in dense cities and on highways. The goal is to make them affordable while meeting the performance needed for driverless operation in various applications and weather conditions. The talk will review some history of the project and describe a few use-cases for sensors and machine learning on Waymo vehicles.// | ||
- High-sensitivity passive IR focal planes for wide-area surveillance. (Copious Imaging, a spin off in Lexington from LL). (~45 minutes) | - High-sensitivity passive IR focal planes for wide-area surveillance. (Copious Imaging, a spin off in Lexington from LL). (~45 minutes) | ||
- Bio-agent warning sensor with single aerosol particle sensitivity. (~45 minutes) | - Bio-agent warning sensor with single aerosol particle sensitivity. (~45 minutes) | ||
- Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for quantum sensing. (~45 minutes) | - Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for quantum sensing. (~45 minutes) | ||
- | - Development of Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for Airports. (LL developed, manufactured by Raytheon.). (~90 minutes) | + | </hidden> |
- | - NOVA video on the Secret of Tuxedo Park. (Culminates in UK bringing magnetron to US during WWII). [[https:// | + | \\ \\ |
- | - Radar that looks for downdrafts at airports\\ //Dr. Jim Evans, leader of the work at MIT Lincoln on the “Terminal Doppler Weather Radar and its Deployment for the FAA to Avoid Microbursts at airports”. | + | |
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- home theater, camera monitor, media player | - home theater, camera monitor, media player | ||
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- Headsets and cameras for Zoom; auxiliary microphones? | - Headsets and cameras for Zoom; auxiliary microphones? | ||
- Your experience with Raspberry or other tiny computer | - Your experience with Raspberry or other tiny computer | ||
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- Railway Car identification (George Burnell; Greg Sheehan) | - Railway Car identification (George Burnell; Greg Sheehan) | ||
- “Book Review” of Walter Isaacson’s book Code Breaker about the competing CRISPR teams. Maybe we can bring back Allan Kleinman | - “Book Review” of Walter Isaacson’s book Code Breaker about the competing CRISPR teams. Maybe we can bring back Allan Kleinman | ||
+ | - Backup Strategies, ranging from the kinds of backup we use (Data, System Image, Cloud, other) to how to make and maintain (and test) our backups, and what the various hardware and software options are for making and maintaining a reliable backup. | ||
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- Computational Photography - changing what's used as a camera. [[https:// | - Computational Photography - changing what's used as a camera. [[https:// | ||
- How one builds a web application (e.g., using spreadsheets) (**Harry Forsdick**) | - How one builds a web application (e.g., using spreadsheets) (**Harry Forsdick**) | ||
- (**Harry**) Getting Streaming Programming Into Your TV (what to do when your TV just isn't smart enough) | - (**Harry**) Getting Streaming Programming Into Your TV (what to do when your TV just isn't smart enough) | ||
- | - [resched from 6/2/21] Eli Brookner would like to present to the group "Fun Family Talk on Contributions of Radar to Winning WWII". Abstract from Eli: \\ //Radar was in its infancy at the start of World War II. The British were using radar effectively along their coastline with a network of antennas on very tall towers to warn of approaching German aircraft, but they needed an invention that would allow radars to be small enough to fit on ships and aircraft. They came up with the cavity magnetron. However they looked to American manufacturing know-how and resources to mass produce this device in a hurry. After turndowns by all the major US firms, a small Boston newcomer, Raytheon Company, came up with a solution and ended up making 85% of all magnetrons used by the allies in the war, and changed the course of the war.// | ||
- [orig sched 7/28/2021] CERN and the Hadron Collider. History, Why It Was Built, Hoped Outcomes, Discovery of Bison, What is Next (Harvey Newman, professor Cal Tech). Harvey will introduce the status and outlook for the LHC, its past and present and near term outlook, and provide a panorama of the future including some of the leading programs. (John Rudy) | - [orig sched 7/28/2021] CERN and the Hadron Collider. History, Why It Was Built, Hoped Outcomes, Discovery of Bison, What is Next (Harvey Newman, professor Cal Tech). Harvey will introduce the status and outlook for the LHC, its past and present and near term outlook, and provide a panorama of the future including some of the leading programs. (John Rudy) | ||
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