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- | |Jan 5, 2022|Best of Freakonomics, | + | ==== 2022 ==== |
- | |Jan 12, 2022|Downdraft Radar Technology (Dr. Jim Evans) [[https:// | + | <hidden initialState=" |
- | |Jan 19, 2022|Quantum Mechanics Part 1 (Charlie Holbrow)| [[https:// | + | {{page>lctg2022&inline}} |
- | |Jan 26, 2022|Potpourri\\ * Meandering Rivers (John Rudy) Concord River is a good example. e.g., [[https:// | + | |
- | |Feb 2, 2022|Manufacturing Chips (Dan Gamota, son of our George, works for a chip manufacturer)|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Feb 9, 2022|Virus package update; both real-time (e.g., Defender) and off-line (e.g., Malware Bytes). Consider Windows 10 & Windows 11(TPM), but also Mac/OSX. \\ {{lctg: | + | |
- | |Feb 16, 2022|// | + | |
- | |Feb 23, 2022|// | + | |
- | |Mar 2, 2022 10am|George Gamota Space Update |[[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 2, 2022 7pm|Managing File Size - for Photos, email, PDF documents, etc. (Allan Sherman)\\ //Allan was the lead of this group in the past and is well respected by those who know, or meet, him. He also discusses his life in New Zealand for the past two years.// | + | |
- | |Mar 9, 2022| The secret of Tuxedo Park (PBS American Experience) [53m]\\ [[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 16, 2022| Potpourri\\ Upgrading to Windows 11 and getting around the Windows 11 machine requirements (Drew)\\ [[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 23, 2022| Women in Science: David Kahan presenting an overview of the history and accomplishments of women in science over the years.| [[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 30, 2022|Quantum Physics Part 2 (Charlie Holbrow)\\ //Related presentations by Charlie: [[https:// | + | |
- | |Apr 6, 2022| John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854 (Jerry Slate)\\ //John Snow (1813 – 1858) was a British physician who became interested in the transmission of cholera. At the time, airborne transmission of disease, miasma, was the accepted model for cholera. When Snow showed his data on the cholera epidemic of 1854 (in a manner not previously seen), there was much resistance in the scientific community to a paradigm shift.// |[[https:// | + | |
- | |Apr 13, 2022|Craig Fields on DARPA (not recorded at speaker' | + | |
- | |Apr 20, 2022|Potpourri\\ GPS Jamming (Bob Primak) {{lctg: | + | |
- | |Apr 27, 2022|How Air Traffic Control has been impacted by STARS (Mel Weinzimer)\\ //STARS=Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, developed by Raytheon and the FAA as part of the Terminal Automation Modernization and Replacement (TAMR) Program.// | + | |
- | |May 4, 2022|Michael Faraday: Student of the Natural World (Franklin Segall, M.D.) |not recorded|< | + | |
- | |May 11, 2022|James Clerk Maxwell: Scientist as Magician (Franklin Segall, M.D.) |not recorded|< | + | |
- | |May 18, 2022|Rumford -- From Woburn Farmboy to Count of the Holy Roman Empire. (Howard Cohen)\\ From [[https:// | + | |
- | |May 25, 2022|Scheduling meeting| |<color # | + | |
- | |June 1, 2022|Bitcoin and Web3 - Their Technology and Impact on the World; and NFT - Non Fungible Tokens (Jerry Harris [Lex])\\ Suggested video [[https:// | + | |
- | |June 8, 2022|The Prodigy of High Precision Measurements (Daniel Kleppner) |[[https:// | + | |
- | |June 15, 2022|Solar Panels and Energy Storage Devices (Mark Sandeen) -- why or why not, and savings, pluses and minuses |[[https:// | + | |
- | |June 22, 2022|Internet fast lanes, stock trading, net neutrality. (Bob Primak)|[[https:// | + | |
- | |June 29, 2022|Scientific CCD Development at MIT Lincoln Laboratory | + | |
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- | |Jan 6, 2021|**Dr. Peter Braun: A Covid-19 Primer** A scientific look at the virus. Why is COVID-19 so " | + | |
- | |Jan 13, 2021|**Priestly and the Discovery of Oxygen** (presented by Jerry Slate, M.D.) Joseph Priestly (1733 - 1804) is credited with the discovery of oxygen. His discovery was a part of a long term scientific effort to understand the nature of matter. His work as an untrained scientist showed analytical skill which illustrated the relevance of his finding. His discovery of oxygen represents the beginning of the understanding of the composition of the atmosphere and its role in respiration.|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Jan 20, 2021|**Quantum Biology** (GeorgeG) (video and intro) with discussion \\ //When Quantum Mechanics were first introduced widely, pioneers such as Heisenberg thought that quantum effects should play a role in biology, but for the next 50 years it was sort of forgotten. With today' | + | |
- | |Jan 27, 2021|**Potpourri** Peter Albin, your host \\ Y2K (John Rudy, 20min) \\ Drones in the UK, how they threaten aircraft safety, measures taken to address them. (The video is not widely available)|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Feb 3, 2021|**Plastics** having a recycle number on them leads people to think they will be recycled and are perhaps more accepting of then using them. However, many thin plastic containers such as salad boxes or clear takeout containers are not in practice recycled. (**George Burnell**) This might be more than one session. Plastic bags biodegradability, | + | |
- | |Feb 10, 2021|**Polaroid**: | + | |
- | |Feb 17, 2021|**History relating to Rubber**, what used for, how manufactured, | + | |
- | |Feb 24, 2021|(GeorgeG) **Mars landing**, Perseverance landed 2/18/2021, George discusses this with several visuals|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 3, 2021|**Potpourri** \\ * Peter Mui and fixing your machine \\ Peter Mui's Free Fixit Clinic Participant Registration: | + | |
- | |Mar 10, 2021|**Rubber Part 2** George Burnell presents the second part of his talk on Rubber: industrial products, recycling, synthetic, and more.|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 17, 2021|**Why is Venus so bloody hot?** The greenhouse effect. (Charlie Holbrow)|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 24, 2021|I. I. Rabi, a story of scientific rags-to-riches (Dan Kleppner) \\ //Rabi played a principal role in the transition of U. S. Physics from a backwater position to the international leader in the 1940’s and 50’s. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his own work, mentored eight laureates at Columbia University, triggered the founding of Brookhaven National Laboratory and CERN, and created the position of Science Advisor to the President. He invented the atomic clock, played a major role in the creation of the theory of relativistic quantum electrodynamics (QED) and mentored the inventors of nuclear magnetic resonance, the maser and the laser.// |[[https:// | + | |
- | |Mar 31, 2021|**Flying Cars** presented by Bill Passman. //An overview of what is currently called " | + | |
- | |Apr 7, 2021|**Venus 'n greenh' | + | |
- | |Apr 14, 2021|**The Apollo Mission** Presented by Fred Martin, ScD.; Dr. Martin served as the Apollo Software Project Manager while at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now Draper Lab) and then pursued an industrial career in software analysis and management. \\ <font 11px>// | + | |
- | |Apr 21, 2021|> Black Holes by Andrea Ghez (2020 Nobel Prize winner in Physics). [[https:// | + | |
- | |Apr 28, 2021|> Cacelia Payne-Gaposhkin would have received a Nobel prize for figuring out what stars are made of, in a fairer world. [[https:// | + | |
- | |May 5, 2021|**Space Debris: A Big Problem** (Georg Kirchner) \\ <font 11px>// | + | |
- | |May 12, 2021|**What Was It Like: I Lived In Antarctica** Ivor Morgan lived in Antarctica from late 1961 to early 1964 and worked for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) as a surveyor in topographic and hydrographic mapping of the Antarctic Peninsula. His most recent trip south was 5 years ago. The Antarctic Peninsula is still the primary focus of BAS bases. A major secondary area was the Base at Halley Bay on the south of the Weddell Sea—and today almost in it. Ivor will explain more during his talk. He'll also go over maps of Antarctica to help you become familiar with this interesting and unique continent.|[[https:// | + | |
- | |May 19, 2021|**Potpourri** \\ **> **// | + | |
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- | |June 2, 2021|**Telephone Switching Before Computers** (Ken Pogran)\\ //When we think about telephone switching today, we may think of all-digital, | + | |
- | |June 9, 2021|**Quantum Engineering of Superconducting Qubits**. William Oliver, associate professor of EE and Computer Science at MIT and fellow at Lincoln Lab. (Rich Ralston). The abstract of his talk: \\ // | + | |
- | |June 16, 2021|**The Buzz on Bees** The biology, pollination, | + | |
- | |June 23, 2021|* **Iron Mountain: History**. (Carl Lazarus; 45mins +/-) \\ * Stan Rose will talk about his experiences on 9/11. He will include his personal experiences that day and ongoing days. He can also show pictures of what happened to his office and the surrounding area.|[[https:// | + | |
- | |June 30, 2021|**Dentistry** (David Brother). Topics being considered: Dramatic changes that have occurred in dentristy in the past 50 years. Or dental radio graphic imaging and what it can do especially in regard to dental implants. Or History and development of dental implants. Or thehistory and development in the field of orthodontics and prostetic advances. Or Sixty years of Fluoride: what this has meant to our teeth and health.|[[https:// | + | |
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- | |July 7, 2021|**Pluto Strikes Back!** (After all of the suffering Pluto has suffered by the not-a-planet bullying by the International Astronomical Union, we will mount a degree of support for this picked-on planet or non-planet.). Speaker Scott Kenyon will talk about his recent work on the formation of Pluto and its small satellite system. Learn how Pluto came to be a binary planet and how its four tiny satellites grew out of the debris from a major collision.|[[https:// | + | |
- | |July 14, 2021|9am: Discussing how our group can meet in Hybrid mode – both online in Zoom and in person at the same time. \\ 10am: **Cancer Therapy and the Scientific Process. ** The Discovery of the Platinum-Based Compound Used in Cancer Chemotherapy: | + | |
- | |July 21, 2021|**Potpourri**. | + | |
- | |July 28, 2021|We showed and discussed these videos.\\ [[https:// | + | |
- | |Aug 4, 2021|Seager exoplanet presentation (presented via Cary Liby and hosted by GeorgeBurnell) [[https:// | + | |
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- | |Aug 11, 2021|Planning meeting – we schedule upcoming meeting speakers and topics, using the [[: | + | |
- | |Aug 18, 2021|Potpourri| |<color # | + | |
- | |Aug 25, 2021|**Some Arithmetic Pleasantries** (Charles Holbrow) and the infinite hotel paradox\\ (The chat had a number of links to material. | + | |
- | |Sept 1, 2021|Security Update – Lex Liby presentation on security by Bruce Schneier [[https:// | + | |
- | |Sept 8, 2021|**Big Belly Recycling** (Alex Gamota)\\ (From Alex:) “Have you wondered about the gray public waste bins located at Center Field, Lexington High School, or the Center? Or maybe you never noticed them?? | + | |
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- | |Sept 15, 2021|**Potpourri**\\ * Adventures in Tiling the Plane (Ken Cutter) {{lctg: | + | |
- | |Sept 22, 2021|Margaret Geller: **Caught in the Cosmic Web**. | + | |
- | |Sept 29, 2021|What are Blockchains & How They work [[https:// | + | |
- | |Oct 6, 2021|**Is There Intelligent Life Anywhere?** (Howard Winkler)| [[https:// | + | |
- | |Oct 13, 2021|**Potpourri**\\ tech gifts (by: cost, category, knowledge level)|{{lctg: | + | |
- | |Oct 20, 2021|**CRISPR** by Dick Wagner\\ | + | |
- | |Oct 27, 2021|**CRISPR part 2**. Dick Wagner gives a brief review and then more detail.|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Nov 3, 2021|**The linked fates of Haber and Weitzmann** by Bretislav Friedrich //Two scientists who had a significant impact on technology and history//\\ // In the early 1930s, as Nazism was gaining strength in Germany, two renowned German-speaking Jewish scientists found themselves on converging paths: Fritz Haber (1868–1934), | + | |
- | |Nov 10, 2021|**Potpourri**\\ | + | |
- | |Nov 17, 2021|**Covid (and Variants) Update**. Jerry Slate.\\ Note: Should children be vaccinated? Video 32:40. What went wrong? Video 48:00 |[[https:// | + | |
- | |Nov 24, 2021|No meeting (Day before Thanksgiving)| | | | + | |
- | |Dec 1, 2021|The history of knee replacement and the technology behind it. Presented by Dr. Richard Scott| [[https:// | + | |
- | |Dec 8, 2021| 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:// | + | |
- | |Dec 15, 2021|The Glide " | + | |
- | |Dec 22, 2021| Windows 11 (Drew King); useful sites:\\ [[https:// | + | |
- | |Dec 29, 2021|The Useful Information Meeting (Bob Primak):\\ >> What do you do with an older PC? (paperweight alternatives)\\ >> Windows 11 Upgrade Notification\\ >> Installing Linux Mint on an old laptop (it's easy)\\ Notes from the presentation: | + | |
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- | |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) [[: | + | |
- | |Jan 22, 2020|**Tesla-Marconi conflict** //their radio-related patent war from 1900-1943// (Bob Primak) {{: | + | |
- | |Jan 29, 2020|**Potpourri** Ken Cutter spoke on UFO's {{: | + | |
- | |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) [[https:// | + | |
- | |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. Although the study is fifteen years old, little has changed.// |{{: | + | |
- | |May 27, 2020|**George Burnell Part II** \\ Continuation/ | + | |
- | |June 3, 2020|**The Manhattan Project - part 2** (Charles Holbrow){{: | + | |
- | |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). Here are links to what we presented and displayed: \\ Updater apps: [[https:// | + | |
- | |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) {{: | + | |
- | |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. He was a great applied scientist and we owe much of our modern domestic technology to him: the kitchen range, double boiler, layered clothing and thermal underwear, steam heating, | + | |
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- | |Sept 16, 2020|**Potpourri** \\ What to do with your family during a pandemic? (George Gamota) \\ Update of Elon Musk's Starlink Satellite Internet Project (Bob Primak) \\ There were videos we could not include in this presentation. Here are links to them: \\ Video of the launch, fairing recovery, and booster return, and landing on a ship: [[https:// | + | |
- | |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. How did it start, what are its responsibilities, | + | |
- | |Oct 21, 2020|Harry Forsdick: ARPAnet & Internet Conferencing|[[https:// | + | |
- | |Oct 28, 2020|**Potpourri** Slide Rules (remember them?) (Ken Schwarz) \\ The Saga of John Rudy's New TV \\ A bit on Zoom Webinars (John Rudy)\\Recycling electronics (John Rudy) \\ Nuclear R&D Progress Update (David Kahan)|(unable to create video)|< | + | |
- | |Nov 4, 2020|**Atomic Clocks** and, a brief history of Time (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. Peter Albin on history of translation and voice recognition. Jerry Slate discusses and demonstrates Naturally Speaking. Video on Amazon Transcribe [[https:// | + | |
- | |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. Mistakes made, lessons learned. \\ Learn from: Carl Laxarus, Bill Haley, Mike Alexander, Dick Wagner, George Burnell, David Kahan, and Dan Kleppner|[[https:// | + | |
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- | |Dec 25, 2019|// | + | |
- | |Dec 18, 2019|**Potpourri** John Rudy continues AI in Medicine; Steve Isenberg on [[: | + | |
- | |Dec 11, 2019|**AI in Medicine** [[https:// | + | |
- | |Dec 4, 2019|**Tech trends and holiday gift ideas** (Peter Albin and Bob Primak) [[https:// | + | |
- | |Nov 27, 2019|// | + | |
- | |Nov 20, 2019|**Dark Web**. “The legitimate uses of TOR, which is the software on which the so-called Dark Web runs. \\ Or, if more interesting, | + | |
- | |Nov 13, 2019|Steering committee| | | + | |
- | |Nov 6, 2019|Backup Strategies (Peter Albin) [[https:// | + | |
- | |Oct 30, 2019|Space colonies in Solar Orbit \\ The book describing our design study is available at: \\ [[http:// | + | |
- | |Oct 23, 2019 |Tesla vs Edison (Bob Primak) [[https:// | + | |
- | |Oct 16, 2019 |Potpourri: \\ Flying Saucers – from material written by George Adamski; \\ Deep Fakes video; \\ Windows 10 tips (askwoody.com, | + | |
- | |Oct 9, 2019 |//Yom Kippur, no meeting// | + | |
- | |Oct 2, 2019 |Science/ | + | |
- | |Sept 25, 2019 |Application of physics techniques to biology. //Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest//, David Nelson, Professor of Physics, Harvard (friend of Harry Forsdick). Population waves have played a crucial role in evolutionary history, as in the "out of Africa" | + | |
- | |Sept 18, 2019 |Cogito. A few weeks ago Mitch Wolfe sent out two very thought provoking links regarding the new science of voice technology, including what can be gathered by voice analysis using AI. We are fortunate to have Ali Azarbayejani, | + | |
- | |Sept 11, 2019 |[[https:// | + | |
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- | |Aug 28, 2019 |Dava Sobel’s Google talk on “The Glass Universe”, | + | |
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- | |Aug 14, 2019 |Potpourri. \\ [[https:// | + | |
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- | |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 Steve Isenberg on virtual credit cards, space elevators, and more ([[: | + | |
- | |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. Used for churches and other buildings. (Bob Primak)| | | + | |
- | |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). We listened to [[http:// | + | |
- | |April 10, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |April 3, 2019|Showing the 2014 AI movie Ex Machina: A young programmer is selected to participate \\ in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic (artificial) intelligence (AI) by evaluating \\ the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid. Very intriguing movie.|FYI, the movie is available on NetFlix.| | + | |
- | |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. Presenting a representative sample of the 100-part series of 15 podcasts by Neil MacGregor during his time as Director of the British Museum that explores world history from 2 million years ago to the present. We listened to [[http:// | + | |
- | |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: \\ [[https:// | + | |
- | |January 16, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
- | |January 9, 2019|[[https:// | + | |
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- | |December 19, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |December 12, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |December 5, 2018|Endocrine system (no video)|[[https:// | + | |
- | |November 28, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |November 7, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |October 31, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |October 17, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
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- | |August 1, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |July 18, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
- | |July 11, 2018|[[https:// | + | |
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- | [[: | + | * 9/18/2024: [[Claude Shannon Tricks for Creative Problem Solving]] |
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