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- | =====Lexington Computer and Technology Group===== | + | |
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- | ====Jump to view previous year presentations==== | + | * [[https:// |
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+ | * Jump to meetings for: [[# | ||
+ | * [[LCTG speaker info|Info for Speakers]] including, how to make your cursor larger so it is more visible! | ||
+ | * [[LCTG Planning Meeting About|About our planning meetings]] | ||
- | * [[#2020]] | + | * April 8, 2024 Total Eclipse of the Sun [[https:// |
- | * [[#2019]] | + | |
- | * [[#2018]] | + | |
- | ====Upcoming Meetings==== | + | < |
- | {{page>LCTG Speaker Schedule}} | + | \\ |
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- | ====Past Meetings==== | ||
- | //Click to expand and see the year's meetings and their recordings// | ||
- | ====2020==== | ||
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- | ^Date^Topic and links^ | + | |
- | |Jan 8, 2020| **Ig Nobel 2019 Awards** //awards for dubious inventions// | + | |
- | |Jan 15, 2020|[1] **How we accomplished the change from Yahoo Groups and using the new system** (30min, Steve Isenberg) [[switching_email_list_server_for_lctg|Slides]] \\ [2] **Windows Security Settings and Windows 7 Anti-Malware** (30min, Gary Patrick) | + | |
- | |Jan 22, 2020|**Tesla-Marconi conflict** //their radio-related patent war from 1900-1943// (Bob Primak) | + | |
- | |Jan 29, 2020|**Potpourri** | + | |
- | |Feb 5, 2020|**Career Day** Attendees discuss interesting things from their career. |[[https:// | + | |
- | |Feb 12, 2020|**Space Update** (George Gamota)| | + | |
- | |Feb 19, 2020|**Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad AI** This is a later presentation, | + | |
- | |Feb 26, 2020|**Patents** -- What they are, a brief history of patents, how to read them, and how to obtain them |[[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 4, 2020|**Patent Licensing from Universities** (Lita Nelson)| [[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 11, 2020|**Geodesy**, | + | |
- | |Mar 18, 2020|**Tracking New Diseases**: Medical issues incl Vaping (Jerry Slate)| [[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 25, 2020|**Patents for high technology** (and when not to have them) (Dick Wagner) |[[https:// | + | |
- | |Apr 1, 2020|**3D Printing and Robotics in Industry: An Update** (George Burnell) | + | |
- | |Apr 8, 2020|Christine Muir, Community Librarian at Cary Library, will demonstrate how to access all the online resources offered by the library. There is no fee for any of these resources, which include ebooks, digital audiobooks, movies, music, TV shows, newspapers, and more. |[[https:// | + | |
- | |Apr 15, 2020|**Futurism** We started with something different ([[https:// | + | |
- | |Apr 22, 2020|**Potpourri** Gary Patrick with information on Encryption and some Utilities.\\ Charly Sestokas with computer buying tips, etc; HD vs SSD; SD Longevity; MS Surface;\\ plus Potential House Fires from Phone, Tablet, Laptop, other Electronic Charging setups|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Apr 29, 2020|**The Science behind Columbus** (Bob Melanson)\\ Bob finishes this up on July 15|[[https:// | + | |
- | |May 6, 2020|**The Manhattan Project** first part (Charles Holbrow)|[[https:// | + | |
- | |May 13, 2020|**Nuclear Power Generation** (David Kahan)|{{: | + | |
- | |May 20, 2020|**Boost-Phase Defense against ICBMs** presented by Dan Kleppner.\\ //Because little was known publicly about the Bush proposal, the American Physical Society initiated a study. Our presenter was co-chair of the study group. | + | |
- | |May 27, 2020|**George Burnell Part II**\\ Continuation/ | + | |
- | |June 3, 2020|**The Manhattan Project - part 2** (Charles Holbrow){{lctg: | + | |
- | |June 10, 2020|**Potpourii** NY Times article dealing with privacy (Peter Albin)\\ Phone tracking of people (Charlie Holbrow)\\ The Immortal (BBC program)|(not recorded)|< | + | |
- | |June 17, 2020|**Sabermetrics** The Statistical Analysis of Baseball (Andy Andres)\\ Andy Andres is a senior lecturer of natural science at the Boston University College of General Studies who is an expert in exercise physiology, nutritional biochemistry and baseball. In addition to the work listed above, Andres writes, lectures, and speaks to the media about the effects of steroids on baseball players, and he teaches a course at Tufts University in sabermetrics, | + | |
- | |June 24, 2020|**MOOC** Massive Open Online Courses -- What's there, what's new. (John Rudy, Charlie Holbrow)\\ Broken into three presentations: | + | |
- | |July 1, 2020|Variety Special with Bob Primak and John Rudy on SUMo updater, other topics presented by Steve Isenberg including: Getting loads of music files legally for free after inexpensive application purchase; Video on Deepfakes (how it's done), and a video on Virus Mobility (a haha). | + | |
- | |July 8, 2020|5G and Internet of Things in the Age of Coronavirus (Bob Primak)\\ | + | |
- | |July 15, 2020|**Potpourri**\\ last part of Bob Melanson' | + | |
- | |July 22, 2020|Video on Secrets of the lost Antikythera; | + | |
- | |July 29, 2020|Frontline AI part 1 (AI for the Masses) [[https:// | + | |
- | |August 5, 2020|Back to the Basics -- Office Tools\\ Interesting Excel Spreadsheet uses (Jonathan)\\ neat applications of functions (SteveI) {{lctg: | + | |
- | |August 12, 2020|More on AI. [[https:// | + | |
- | |August 19, 2020| [[https:// | + | |
- | |August 26, 2020|**Myths and Facts on Climate Change - a non-alarmist perspective** Presented by Shelly Lowenthal who says: "I developed a class on climate change that I give to life long learning organizations. It’s part of my History Course that I present. ... There is science involved." | + | |
- | |Sept 2, 2020|**Count Rumford and his 18th Century Technology Innovationns** Dan Kleppner: Quite a few years ago I became interested in __Benjamin Thompson__ (1752-1814) , aka Count Rumford. | + | |
- | |Sept 9, 2020| **//Blind Bombing// by Norman Fine**\\ "I found this book spellbinding and with insight | + | |
- | |Sept 16, 2020|**Potpourri**\\ Outdoor Movie Nights and Netflix Party (George Gamota/ | + | |
- | |Sept 23, 2020|**The future of music -- production and delivery** by Charles J Holbrow (CJH). What can we learn about the future or music and music technology by looking at the past? I will present examples that illustrate the evolution of musical ideas and technologies from their conception to how they have influenced and continue to influence popular music today. I will describe how popular music is created today and review some research-stage music production technologies that aim to influence the current music production paradigms. As part of my PhD studies at the MIT Media Lab, I am developing software to enable a new kind of online musical collaboration and distribution. I will conclude by showing you an early example of this software\\ Who is CJH? His early education was in Germany. His high school was the Sudbury Valley School, an alternative school in Sudbury, MA. After a year at Middlesex Community College, he transferred to UMass Lowell where he majored in sound recording technology and performance (piano). Following jobs developing software for games, he took up an internship at MIT's Opera of the Future program with noted composer Prof. Tod Machover. Subsequently, | + | |
- | |Sept 30, 2020|**Covid-19 Update** (Jerry Slate)|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Oct 7, 2020|**Producing a TV Show using DaVinci Resolve** (Steve Isenberg)|[[ https:// | + | |
- | |Oct 14, 2020|**The CAC** Ken Pogran tells about the Lexington Communications Advisory Committee. | + | |
- | |Oct 21, 2020|Harry Forsdick: | + | |
- | |Oct 28, 2020|**Potpourri** | + | |
- | |Nov 4, 2020|**Atomic Clocks** (Dan Kleppner)|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Nov 11, 2020|**Atomic Clocks (part 2)** by Dan Kleppner\\ //followed by (and not in recorded presentation)// | + | |
- | |Nov 18, 2020|**Speech Input and Translation**. George Gamota on Google Translate. | + | |
- | |Nov 25, 2020|// | + | |
- | |Dec 2, 2020|**Potpourri**\\ [[https:// | + | |
- | |Dec 9, 2020|Sara Seager/ | + | |
- | |Dec 16, 2020|**Acoustic Detection & Localization of an Active Shooter or Sniper** presented by Tony Galaitsis\\ Deranged shooters and terrorist or enemy snipers have been a concern for a long time. Technological advances over the past few decades have used gunfire acoustic information to detect and localize active shooters and snipers in order to prevent or minimize their deadly impact. This presentation reviews the general state of acoustic shooter/ | + | |
- | |Dec 23, 2020|Vacation - Enjoy the holidays!| | + | |
- | |Dec 30, 2020|**Career stories** (update). People with careers during which interesting (and now unclassified) things have happened. | + | |
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- | <hidden Click to expand and see calendar year 2019 topics> | + | \\ |
- | ^Date^Link to Video(s)^Slides/ | + | =====Future Meetings Schedule===== |
- | |Dec 25, 2019|// | + | //[[# |
- | |Dec 18, 2019|**Potpourri** John Rudy continues AI in Medicine; Steve Isenberg on [[cloud_storage_options|Cloud File Storage Options]]| | + | {{page> |
- | |Dec 11, 2019| **AI in Medicine** [[https:// | + | |
- | | Dec 4, 2019| **Tech trends and holiday gift ideas** (Peter Albin and Bob Primak) [[https://youtu.be/ | + | ---- |
- | | Nov 27, 2019| //Happy Thanksgiving! No meeting.// | + | |
- | | Nov 20, 2019| **Dark Web**. “The legitimate uses of TOR, which is the software on which the so-called Dark Web runs.\\ | + | ===== Past Meetings ===== |
- | | Nov 13, 2019 | Steering committee | | + | |
- | | Nov 6, 2019| Backup Strategies (Peter Albin) [[https://youtu.be/ | + | ==== 2023 ==== |
- | | Oct 30, 2019 | Space colonies in Solar Orbit\\ | + | |
- | | Oct 23, 2019 | Tesla vs Edison | + | {{page> |
- | | Oct 16, 2019 |Potpourri: | + | |
- | | Oct 9, 2019 | + | |
- | | Oct 2, 2019 | Science/ | + | \\ |
- | | Sept 25, 2019 | Application of physics techniques to biology. | + | ==== 2022 ==== |
- | | Sept 18, 2019 | Cogito. | + | <hidden initialState="invisible" |
- | | Sept 11, 2019 | [[https:// | + | {{page> |
- | | Sept 4, 2019 | [[https:// | + | |
- | | Aug 28, 2019 | Dava Sobel’s Google talk on “The Glass Universe”, | + | |
- | |Aug 21, 2019 | "UNIX, Linux - Origins, History, Ongoing Futures", | + | |
- | |Aug 14, 2019 | Potpourri.\\ [[ https:// | + | |
- | |Aug 7, 2019 | [[https:// | + | |
- | |July 31, 2019 | [[https:// | + | |
- | |July 24, 2019|Breaking the WWII Enigma Machine (Material from the April 2019 Lexington Veteran’s meeting, search LexMedia On Demand for " | + | |
- | |July 17, 2019|Potpourri including | + | |
- | |July 10, 2019|Apple Computer, History and Devices, by Josh Turiel [[https:// | + | |
- | |July 3, 2019|//No Meeting due to Holiday// | + | |
- | |June 26, 2019|Update on 5G (Bob Primak) [[https:// | + | |
- | |June 19, 2019|Black Hole 60-minute video (Gamota) plus | | + | |
- | |June 12, 2019| From talks at Google [[https:// | + | |
- | |June 5, 2019|3D Reconstruction. | + | |
- | |May 29, 2019|Potpourri including Y2K. What was it, why did it happen, was it real? (John Rudy) and Gary Patrick on Windows Issues| | + | |
- | |May 22, 2019|Potpourri. Showed several movies. [[https:// | + | |
- | |May 15, 2019|Career stories. Come prepared to tell us about your technical experiences.\\ (We have done this 2-3 times before; but not recently).|[[ https:// | + | |
- | |May 8, 2019|Ray Kurzweil + Disruptive Technologies and Dangerous Ideas Singularity University co-founder, Google AI Director and noted futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Peter H. Diamandis for a 90-minute Ask Me Anything, all aimed at providing you an unfair advantage for your business.|[[https:// | + | |
- | |May 1, 2019|Potpourri and Steering Committee| | + | |
- | |April 24, 2019|Documentary on Neil Armstrong|Gamota| | + | |
- | |April 17, 2019|History of the World in 100 Objects (continued). | + | |
- | |April 10, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |April 3, 2019|Showing the 2014 AI movie Ex Machina: | + | |
- | |March 27, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |March 20, 2019|George Gamota shows video [[https:// | + | |
- | |March 13, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |March 6, 2019|History of the World in 100 items. | + | |
- | |February 27, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |February 20, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |February 13, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |February 6, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |January 30, 2019|2019 lg Nobel awards ceremony (presenter Peter Albin)\\ [[https:// | + | |
- | |January 23, 2019|Shown: | + | |
- | |January 16, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |January 9, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
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- | |December 19, 2018|[[https:// | + | ==== 2021 ==== |
- | |December 12, 2018|[[https:// | + | < |
- | |December 5, 2018|Endocrine system (no video)|[[https:// | + | {{page> |
- | |November 28, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |November 7, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |October 31, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |October 17, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |October 10, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |October 3, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |August 1, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |July 18, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |July 11, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
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- | ====Links to Interesting Stuff==== | + | \\ |
- | * [[Recipes# | + | ==== 2019 ==== |
- | * Artificially mimicking people' | + | <hidden initialState="hidden" |
- | * Leap day. Leap year. Meridian. And more. [[https:// | + | {{page> |
- | * [humor] Buddy Hacket and the 3-legged chicken. | + | </hidden> |
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- | ====Software Maybe of Interest==== | + | ==== Links to Interesting Stuff ==== |
- | //Neither the Lexington Computer and Technology Group nor the author of this Wiki page guarantee | + | |
- | the application(s) listed here. While we have investigated and tried them ourselves, they come | + | * [[: |
- | with no guarantee.// | + | * Artificially mimicking people' |
- | *[[Downloading Videos from the Internet]] | + | * Leap day. Leap year. Meridian. And more. [[https:// |
+ | * [humor] Buddy Hacket and the 3-legged chicken. Cows and horns. The duck. [[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Software Maybe of Interest ==== | ||
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+ | //Neither the Lexington Computer and Technology Group nor the author of this Wiki page guarantee the application(s) listed here. While we have investigated and tried them ourselves, they come with no guarantee.// | ||
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+ | * 9/18/2024: [[Claude Shannon Tricks for Creative Problem Solving]] | ||
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+ | * The group meets weekly on Wednesdays at 10:00am online. It meets online every week, and most weeks also at the [[https:// | ||
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