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-====== Upcoming 2022 Schedule ======
+<fs large>Recently produced meeting videos you can watch now:</fs>
+  * [[https://youtu.be/GZzD47Acosg|Quantum Computing 9/11/2024]]
+  * [[https://youtu.be/4syJvEZDIIo|Covid Update Fall 2024 9/4/2024]]
+  * [[https://youtu.be/AGAS6U5hIg8|The Euclid Space Telescope 8/28/2024]]
+  * [[https://youtu.be/Pdr9zLxsQRA|Developing the First Total Artificial Heart 7/17/2024]]
+  * [[https://youtu.be/vQb1gN0O45U|Old Technology 7/31/2024]]
+  * [[https://youtu.be/Pr9isXNqFTA|Fusion Update 7/24/2024]]
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-|< 100% 10% - 5% 10% >|
+<fs large>::UPCOMING MEETINGS::</fs>
+|< 100% 10% - 5% 8%>|
 ^Date^Topic^confirmed^Followups^
-|July 20, 2022|The Code Breaker: A Conversation with Jennifer Doudna [50m][[https://livestream.com/accounts/2261474/events/10130344/videos/229928052|link]]<fs x-small>//(smi downloaded this)//</fs>|yes|
+|September 18, 2024|Claude Shannon - Father of Information Theory and Father of the Information Age (George Gamota)\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Whj_nL-x8|30 minute overview]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neA0NJNUEfM&t=431s|60 minute MIT lecture by Bob Gallagher]]\\ [[Claude Shannon Tricks for Creative Problem Solving]]| LCC Room 246|
-|July 27, 2022|History of Missions to Mars (George Gamota)\\ Video from [[https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/who-we-are/documentary-series-jpl-and-the-space-age|JPL/NASA Documentary Series]], we saw [[https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/who-we-are/documentary-series-jpl-and-the-space-age/episode-4-the-changing-face-of-mars|episode #4, The Changing Face of Mars]]\\ We showed these "Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech" according to their  {{lctg:jplimageusepolicy.pdf|Permission to use}}|yes|
+|September 25, 2024|<bg yellow>GASP Planning session (Gigantic Allhands Scheduling and Planning)</bg>| Online only|
-|August 3, 2022|Quantum Basics part III (Charles Holbrow)|yes|
+|October 2, 2024|NAS (Network Attached Storage) and Docker Apps. Plex server. (Drew)|
-|August 10, 2022|Ukraine: The Real Truth (George Gamota)\\ [[https://youtu.be/SD2XdUhzTaQ|watch the presentation]]| | |
+|October 9, 2024|Inspiring the next generation: Women’s Technology Program in Mechanical Engineering at M.I.T. (Barbara Hughey)| |DanK, PeterA|
-|August 17, 2022|Weather Models (Matt Belk)|yes |(Bill) |
+|October 16, 2024|Tech for Senior(s) Topic(s)| |Peter & Drew (finders), SteveI(editor)|
-|August 24, 2022|Potpourrri\\ "Math of weight loss" [22m]\\ "25 Chemistry Experiments" [16] |
+|October 23, 2024|Potpourri|
-|August 31, 2022|Fusion part II (Ted Kochanski)|yes|
+|October 30, 2024|Talks at Google (Peter lead)|
-|Sept 7, 2022|Personal Stories, potentially including:\\ * Alan Millner\\ * Dan Kleppner|yes|JohnR|
+|November 6, 2024|
-|Sept 14, 2022|Mega Planning Meeting! <fs x-small><fc #ffffff>smi: Share using Opera left monitor, Edit using Chrome right monitor</fc></fs>|
+|November 13, 2024|
-|Sept 21, 2022|Gravitational Wave Astronomy (LIGO) -- some future, and a little pedagogy about the field. Rainer Weiss (via Charlie Holbrow)|yes| |
+|November 20, 2024|
-|Sept 28, 2022|Prion Diseases: What They Are and How They're Caused (Dick Wagner)|yes ||
+|November 27, 2024|//day before Thanksgiving//|
-|<fc #c0c0c0>Oct 5, 2022</fc>|<fc #c0c0c0>//Yom Kippur // The Jewish Day of Fasting and Repentance. (No meeting)</fc>|
+|December 4, 2024|Potpourri|
-|Oct 12, 2022|Windows 11: Is it time to move to Win 11? Feature Update. (tentative topic) (Drew King)\\ AND MAYBE \\ Windows Must-Haves (important applications and tools) and maybe MacOS must-haves (Peter Albin) |
+|December 11, 2024|<bg yellow>GASP Planning session (Gigantic Allhands Scheduling and Planning)</bg>|
-|Oct 19, 2022|<del>Potpourrie</del> Pottpourri|
+|December 18, 2024|
-|Oct 26, 2022|The project to generate oxygen on Mars surface (Mike Hecht/Lincoln Labs)| | |
+|December 25, 2024|//Christmas day//|
-|Nov 2, 2022|Machine Learning (Henry Morris)| |JohnR|
+|January 1, 2025|//New Year's Day//|
-|Nov 9, 2022|Facial Recognition| |John R|
+|January 8, 2025|
-|Nov 16, 2022|45 Years in Space: From Earth Orbit to the Interstellar Medium (John Belcher)\\ //John Belcher is an MIT professor of physics emeritus.  He received his PhD from CalTech in 1971 and as a postdoc at MIT, helped write the proposal to put a plasma experiment on the Voyager missions, launched in 1977, and is still sending back data.  See: [[https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/]]| yes | |
+|January 15, 2025|
-|Nov 23, 2022|//day before thanksgiving//\\ Taking Advantage of Those Wild Turkeys in your neighborhood for Fun, Profit, and Dinner (Wm Bradford jr)\\ or likely no meeting|no|
+|January 22, 2025|
-|Nov 30, 2022|
+|January 29, 2025|
-|Dec 7, 2022|
-|Dec 14, 2022|Machine Learning Applications (Henry Morris)\\ Machine learning, a key technology of artificial intelligence, is being applied to a wide range of decisions across many industries and disciplines.  This talk defines machine learning and then presents examples of its application to drive predictions in fields such as medicine, fashion, law, real estate, and human resources (employee hiring).  The adoption of these applications is changing the workplace while also raising concerns of bias and fairness.    Henry Morris, co-author of __Augmented Intelligence: The Business Power of Human-Machine Collaboration__, will address these points in his presentation.|yes|
+\\
-|Dec 21, 2022|Early Digital Computers from late 1930's to around 1950 (Carl Lazarus)|
+<hidden initialState="visible" onVisible="Click to hide recent meetings" onHidden="click to show recent meetings">
-|Dec 28, 2022|//between Christmas and New Years - meet or not?//|
+\\
-|Jan 4, 2023|
+<fs large>::RECENT MEETINGS::</fs>
-|Jan 11, 2023|
+|< 100% 15% - >|
-|Jan 18, 2023|
+^Date^Topic^
-|Jan 25, 2023|
+|Jan 3, 2024 |We Will Have a Syncing Feeling: Using applications and files across platforms - a forum (Drew King, lead) [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240103|chat messages]]|
-|Feb 1, 2023|
+|Jan 10, 2024|LIDAR mapping with Dale Fried of 3DEO, hosted by Dan Kleppner [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240110|chat messages]] . [[https://youtu.be/UnrI2kbd1HY|watch the presentation]]\\ For more information on the company and its technology, visit the 3DEO website at [[https://3deolidar.com/]] and their [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFGQNxmO9iwKnCY4E0tNZxg|YouTube Channel]]|
-|Feb 8, 2023|
+|Jan 17, 2024|Unifying Nature’s Laws: The State of String Theory.|
-|Feb 15, 2023|
+|Jan 24, 2024|Videos played:\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs2QcycggWU|How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2oF8oZopdA|Bill Gates talking with Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, about AI transforming education]]|
-|Feb 22, 2023|
+|Jan 31, 2024|potpourri: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc|Feynman: Fun to Imagine]] (67min) followed by luncheon at Bamboo in Bedford|
-|March 1, 2023|
+|Feb 7, 2024 |Space Update (George Gamota) [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240207|chat messages]]|
-|March 8, 2023|
+|Feb 14, 2024|Nifty Smartphone apps. Like Seek; Shazam; Pedometer; etc. [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240214|chat messages]]|
-|March 15, 2023|
+|Feb 21, 2024|Nifty Smartphone Apps Part 2 [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240221|chat messages]]|
-|March 22, 2023|
+|Feb 28, 2024|More neat apps for phones and computers -- and more (Adam Broun)\\ * several interesting apps from the useful to the idiotic: ''Authy'' (2-factor authentication); ''Arc Search'' (Browser with summarization); ''Windy'' (weather in depth); ''Rise'' (Sourdough baking); ''Can of Soup'' (silly pictures)\\ * Self-hosting, moving services away from Google and Apple to resources you can control yourself: ''Proxmox'' (virtual machines); ''OPNSense'' (router); ''Home Assistant'' (Home automation); ''Photoprism'' (photo management); ''NextCloud'' (file sharing and collaboration)\\ List of self-hosted apps: [[https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted]], Self hosted forum: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted]]\\ {{lctg:20240228_homelab.pdf|slides}} [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240228|chat messages]]|
-|March 29, 2023|
+|Mar 6, 2024 |potpourri\\ * [[https://vimeo.com/383913383|"Watchroom"]], a short film by Noah Wagner on AI and Robotics.  It'll make you think. (Dick Wagner)\\ * Android Apps (Drew) -- continuing our topic of Interesting Apps from previous weeks. [[https://youtu.be/3bEpXPT85Vo|watch the presentation]]  [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240306|chat messages]]|
-|April 5, 2023|
+|Mar 13, 2024|Sleep Deprivation (John Rudy) [[https://youtu.be/93zjY59Cn6M|watch the presentation]] {{lctg:20240313_sleeping_is_important.pdf|slides}} \\ What is Passkey and how does it work as compared to Passwords (Steve Isenberg) [[https://youtu.be/UGShrneqNF0|watch the presentation]] [ [[passkey|notes on passkey used during presentation]] ]\\ [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240313|chat messages]]|
+|Mar 20, 2024|2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine: mRNA (Harry Forsdick & Dick Wagner) {{https://youtu.be/RCQWu6dV7AE|watch the presentation}}\\ {{lctg:20240320_nobel_prize_in_medicine.pdf|slides}} [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240320|chat messages]]\\ The link to videos in the slides may not work; here are the links to videos included in the presentation:\\ [[https://youtu.be/WOvvyqJ-vwo|How mRNA Vaccines Work]]\\ [[https://youtu.be/CfZjK2eIDFM|mRNA Vaccines Questions and Misconceptions]]\\ [[https://youtu.be/no3MyGvEbxY|Announcement of the prize]]\\ [[https://youtu.be/h5D3mv8ewCY|TED talk, how mRNA medicine will change the world, Melissa J. Moore]]|
+|Mar 27, 2024|How the MIT museum has restructured itself to a Technology gateway to MIT\\ [[https://youtu.be/9gCslY_YGtQ|Moving and rediscovering the MIT Museum collection (4m)]] and [[https://youtu.be/PsjAcnJl_Q4|Tour of the MIT Museum (49m)]] [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240327|chat messages]]|
+|Apr 3, 2024|"The Science & Lore of Eclipses -- Shadows in Space" a Road Scholar lecture [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240403|chat messages]]|
+|Apr 10, 2024|2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine - mRNA - Part 2|
+|Apr 17, 2024|[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-u1qyRM5w|Richard Feynman Lecture: "Los Alamos From Below"]] (1h18m)|
+|Apr 24, 2024|GASP Planning session (Gigantic Allhands Scheduling and Planning) [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240424|chat messages]]|
+|May 1, 2024|Five Levels of Difficulty Day. Five levels of difficulty on:\\ Time:  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAhbFRMURtg|Brian Greene explains Time in 5 levels of difficulty]]\\ Wormholes: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P6rdqiybaw|Wormholes Explained - Breaking Spacetime]]\\ CRISPR: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweN8d4_MUgBiologist Explains CRISPR in 5 Levels of Difficulty]]\\ PickPocketing: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk__KOrsIMM|9 levels of pick-pocketing, easy to complex, from Wired mag]]\\ [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240501|chat messages]]|
+|May 8, 2024|Inflammation Unmasked: Insights into its Physiology, Detection, and Treatment. (Jerry Harris, Rheumatologist)\\ {{lctg:20240508_inflammation.pdf|slides}} . [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240508|chat messages]] . [[https://youtu.be/8Cq7BFYmZRo|watch the presentation]]|
+|May 15, 2024|Spacecraft Technology, the Design of the International Space Station, and Comparison of Technology in Spacecraft Over Time.  Presented by Dr. Gary H Kitmacher from NASA Johnson Space Center. [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240515|chat messages]] . [[https://youtu.be/nBjHjm04G6E|watch the presentation]]|
+|May 22, 2024|Potpourri: Check Washing 101\\ Your favorite apps and websites. Follow-up to meeting 2/14 {{lctg:20240522_drew-appsnstuff.pdf|slides}}\\ Eclipse photos (TedK) 15m [link to Ted's pictures - coming soon]|
+|May 29, 2024|Oppenheimer and the Institute for Advanced Study, presented by Dan Kleppner [[https://youtu.be/c3QYdhFDmTU|watch the presentation]] [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240529|chat messages]] |
+|June 5, 2024|Selected talk(s) from Google|
+|June 12, 2024|[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2mO_MWRBo0|Materials and Medicine - talk by Robert Langer]], a replay of his presentation at Cary Library on May 28th.\\ <del>Retro Technology: examples, how it/they work, how to use. Sliderule, rotary telephone, abacus, etc.</del>|
+|June 19, 2024|5G and 6G: 10-fold increase in top internet speeds. (TedK & BobP) {{lctg:20240619_5g_update.pdf|5G slides}} . [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240619|chat messages]]|
+|June 26, 2024|YouTube topics on Quantum Mechanics: Sabina and others. (BarryK) Videos shown:\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-aGIvUomTA|Don't fall for quantum hype]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBLVtCYHVO8|The Quantum Hype Bubble Is About To Burst]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UkXJsF8_so|Quantum Computing with Light: The Breakthrough?]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlCsi8zagNw|Quantum Computers cross 1000 Qubits Threshold! What does this mean?]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8A4wEohqT0|It looks like AI will kill Quantum Computing]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSV0RMlJpEg|Bad News for Quantum Computing: Another Advantage Gone]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-j8nGvYMA8|Quantum Internet: No One Needs This]]\\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKVJEuVkPvw|How to Detect Quantum Bullshit]] |
+|July 3, 2024|Potpourri\\ Considerations and specifications for your next computer {{lctg:20240703_copilot_pcs_buying_considerations.pdf|slides}} . [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240703|chat messages]]|
+|July 10, 2024|GASP Planning session (Gigantic Allhands Scheduling and Planning)|
+|July 17, 2024|Development of the Abiocor total artificial heart (Alan Millner)\\ //The Abiocor total artificial heart developed by Abiomed, is an electro-hydraulic device implanted in a patient with the original damaged heart removed. It is self-contained with no tether to hospital equipment.// [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240717|chat messages]] . {{lctg:20240717_total_artificial_heart.pdf|slides}} . [[https://youtu.be/Pdr9zLxsQRA|watch the presentation]]|
+|July 24, 2024|Fusion Update (TedK) [[https://youtu.be/Pr9isXNqFTA|watch the presentation]]|
+|July 31, 2024|Old Technology 1968-1994 (JohnRudy) [[https://youtu.be/vQb1gN0O45U|watch the presentation]] . [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240731|chat messages]] . {{lctg:20240731_computerhistory_1968_to_1994.pdf|slides}}|
+|August 7, 2024|Bob Metcalfe talk: Connectivity is the Thing [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240807|chat messages]]|
+|August 14, 2024|WinGet - Windows Package Manager (Drew)|
+|August 21, 2024|Several Tech-for-Seniors episodes.  Will be useful/interesting even if you're not old enough to be a "senior". [[https://youtu.be/qaDrk7TsqFs?feature=shared|Ep 170A 6/17/2024 Hackers, Duck Duck Go, and more]] [[https://youtu.be/bCKO_AJmLdg?feature=shared|Ep 176A 7/29/2024 Screenshot on Chromebook, Snopes, Trackers]]|
+|August 28, 2024|Euclid Telescope (JerryS) [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240828|chat messages]] [[https://youtu.be/AGAS6U5hIg8|watch the presentation]]|
+|September 4, 2024|Potpourri\\ * Bringing back the dead (info JohnR found)\\ * JerryS Covid vaccination update [[2024lctgmeetingchats#20240904|chat messages]] [[https://youtu.be/4syJvEZDIIo|Watch the Covid presentation]]|
+|September 11, 2024|Quantum Computing (Vladan Vuletic, Dept. of Physics, MIT)\\ //Are quantum computers possible? And if yes, what will we be able to do with them (and when can I buy one)? Vladan will discuss the state of the art in quantum computing, with particular focus on neutral-atom quantum computing based on atoms in Rydberg states.// [[https://youtu.be/GZzD47Acosg|watch the presentation]]|
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