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March 23, 2010“Microchip Fabrication Technologies" Kiyoshi Mori, Ph.D.
While the progress in microchip technologies allows the manufacturers to
produce more advanced medical devices, the processes of microchip
fabrication are still new to many engineers. This presentation will show
step by step how to build a very basic IC device, will review in more
detail the nanotechnologies used in today's microchip production and
will discuss the potential applications of microchip technologies in the
medical device field.
Presentation slides should be available soon.
February 16, 2010“CMMI for small Business and Small Departments"
Nat Guadagnino, PMP
Embracing process improvement has been beneficial for large companies doing Federal and DOD contracts. Poor project performance in the Federal environment was the principle reason for the creation of the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburg PA. Projects were, late, over budget, out of scope and poor quality. The CMMI process framework and infrastructure was created and is still being updated today as a cure for these problems. The last 20 years of experience have proven this. Small business and small departments have benefited tremendously, also. Why??? The bottom line is that ANY process improvement is better than NO process improvement! We will show how a small business or a small department can easily select and implement the processes that most benefit them. From Project Planning to Requirements Management, the CMMI framework has something for all businesses. " Presentation slides are available courtesy of the presenter, SAIEEECS_Feb2010_Guadagnino.pdf .
January 26, 2010“Automated computation and batch processing for remote sensing data and applications"Dr. Hongjie Xie, Assistant Professor in the Geological Sciences Department at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
The industry is rapidly changing based on the need to optimize the electrical grid that supplies energy to all market segments. The price of energy and the environmental impacts of continuing business as usual has been the catalyst for the evolution to a Smart Grid model for the energy industry. The way the industry generates, transmits, distributes and most importantly the way customers consume energy, will need to transform to a new more sustainable model. As utilities develop their vision for the future, they must consider a myriad of complex challenges. Growing power demand, carbon emissions and environmental compliance, an aging infrastructure and aging workforce, and increasing requirements for greater reliability are all just the beginning. At the same time, the utility customer - accustomed to conveniences of a modern digital economy -- expects increasingly better and faster service in every dimension of life. For many utilities, designing their future around a smart grid as a central enabling technology provides the only way to satisfy all these
October 20, 2009“The Smart Grid"Stephen Mokry, P.E., Senior Director, System Planning & Asset Management, CPS Energy
The industry is rapidly changing based on the need to optimize the electrical grid that supplies energy to all market segments. The price of energy and the environmental impacts of continuing business as usual has been the catalyst for the evolution to a Smart Grid model for the energy industry. The way the industry generates, transmits, distributes and most importantly the way customers consume energy, will need to transform to a new more sustainable model. As utilities develop their vision for the future, they must consider a myriad of complex challenges. Growing power demand, carbon emissions and environmental compliance, an aging infrastructure and aging workforce, and increasing requirements for greater reliability are all just the beginning. At the same time, the utility customer - accustomed to conveniences of a modern digital economy -- expects increasingly better and faster service in every dimension of life. For many utilities, designing their future around a smart grid as a central enabling technology provides the only way to satisfy all these demands.
Please join us for CPS Energy's insights and discussion associated with "Smart Grid". Presentation slides are available courtesy of the speaker, SAIEEECS_Oct2009_Mokry.pdf
March 17, 2009“Computer Security, Information Disclosure, and Cybercrime"Dr. Wenbin Luo, Engineering Department at St. Mary's University
Computer security continues to be a growing concern because the number of viruses, intrusions, and other attacks on computer systems increases every year. Without robust computer security systems, financial and business transactions would be unable to efficiently function. Personal information that exists in electronic formats is extremely vulnerable. In this talk, I will first give a brief review of existing cryptography techniques and protocols including DES, AES, RSA, ECC, SSL, and current research trends. Then, I will discuss web application vulnerabilities and how attacks are constructed based on those vulnerabilities. Example web vulnerabilities covered in the talk include SQL injection, cross domain attacks, phishing, and pharming etc. At the end, if time permits, I will discuss how to write secure code. For example, how to control hijacking attacks (buffer overflows and format string bugs).
February 17, 2009“Embedded System Portability"Matthew Sealey, Genesi USA and Dr. Kevin Nickels, Trinity University
The Embedded Systems Portability (ESP) project investigates how to acquaint Trinty Engineering students with several important modern trends and practices in embedded system design - those of modular programming and functional portability - while minimizing prerequisite knowledge. Since Spring 2007, Genesi and Trinity have been collaborating on utilizing the EFIKA 5200B evaluation board, based on the Freescale MPC5200B Power Architecture (TM) System-on-a-Chip, in design and research projects. This collaboration evolved into the ESP project, where PCI-based boards for Altera CPLD development are fitted into an EFIKA running Linux. Mr. Sealey and Dr. Nickels will describe the control architectures and hardware developed in this project, as well as the course content that we hope to develop. Our presenter has graciously granted us
permission to place a copy of his slides on our web site. The
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January 20, 2009“Software Performance Engineering in a Distributed Computer System"Ganesh Kamat, Sr., Research Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
Performance issues related to enterprise wide distributed computer system are not considered early on. It becomes very critical at the time of deployment and customer acceptance which in turn leads to delayed deliveries, customer dissatisfaction and costly rework. With the popularity of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services in the enterprise there is a need to determine when the server could be overloaded, how the network latency affects the performance, what is the throughput of the system etc. In this talk, I will give an overview of some of the aspects of Performance Engineering and provide insights into how we went to solve a typical problem at SwRI.
November 18, 2008“Arduino Controllers”By Thomas Weeks, Rackspace Hosting
October 21, 20081st Presentation “High-Definition TV Conversion”By Jerry Paonessa, Assistant Director of Technology, KENS-TV/DT Jerry Paonessa presented the details of the upcoming High-Definition TV Conversion. He discussed the various technical aspects of the conversion. 2nd Presentation Control of UAVs with Application to AirshipsDr. Michael T. Frye, Ph.D. The University of the Incarnate Word Dept of Engineering San Antonio, TX
The purpose of this talk is to introduce the audience to the problem of autonomous control theory and its direct application to autonomous control of airship Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) by illustrating some recent results developed at UIW and UTSA. Intelligent UAVs represent a major area of engineering research and their importance is continually shown in the daily news. As the role of the UAV expands, it is envisioned that the future UAV will be required to perform a multi-role mission. An area of renewed interest is the application of controls to the study of autonomous airships. With the technology advancement in composite materials, lighter longer lasting batteries, and faster computers, airships can be adapted for a variety of new and challenging tasks. Airships have several obvious advantages over both rotorcraft and fixed wing aircraft due to their larger payloads and long loiter times when coupled with advanced control techniques. In fact, an airship’s loiter time is only limited by the endurance of its crew, remove the crew and an airship’s endurance is limited simply to maintaining its helium supply. This fact can allow airships to be deployed as a temporary cellular telephone and radio antenna during major disasters. The military can use airships to remain over a target for extended surveillance with no risk to a crew’s life. Currently, there are studies in place to develop heavy-lift airships for use in carrying bulky payloads such as lumber and heavy construction equipment. Furthermore, there has been renewed interest in high altitude and low Earth orbit airships. The primary mission of high altitude airships is for strategic surveillance and monitoring. A nature extension of this surveillance mission is for weather tracking and prediction. September 16, 2008Cognitive Agents for Social Environments"Assistant Professor, Trinity University
In social environments, people interact with each other and form different societies. Previous research in modeling theory of agents and society has taken singly a point of view of society or agent. While the single societal view mainly concentrates on the centralist, static approach to organizational design and this limits system dynamics, on the other hand, the single agent view typically uses the traditional decision theory which relies on assumptions of rationality that people constantly violate. In this talk, I will introduce CASE (Cognitive Agents for Social Environments), a multi-agent architecture for simulating human social behaviors. CASE is designed to achieve two goals. First, it aims to model the "meso-view" of multi-agent interaction by capturing both the "societal view", i.e. an agent's decisions are influenced by the choices made by others, and the "agent view", i.e. an agent is an autonomous entity and has its own goals and beliefs in the environment. Second, CASE provides a computational decision model of the highly cognitive process wherein an individual agent's decision-making that sometimes follows intuition and bounded rationality. A serial of experiments were conducted to evaluate the concept, the model and their impacts on the evolution of the social systems. April 29, 2008Student Night
Various Students from the local Universities
This meeting was held at UTSA and all of the student presentations were excellent. February 21, 2008Evolving Role of Computers in Satellite Systems
Michael McLelland
The presenter, Michael McLelland gave an excellent presentation of the evolving role of computers in satellite systems. In addition he brought a variety of actual computers used and being used in satellite sytemes. January 17, 2008DepthX – An Autonomous Submarine Used To Develop Search-for-life Algorithms That May Be Used In Future Missions To Europa
Ernest Franke SwRI Project Manager
Some of you may have noticed that the September 2007 Spectrum had an article on DepthX – an autonomous submarine used to develop search-for-life algorithms that may be used in future missions to Europa. SwRI was responsible for the science payload of DepthX and Ernest Franke was the SwRI project manager. We finished the project recently with several field expeditions to Zacaton, a deep cenote near Tampico, Mexico. Ernest has a lot of pictures of the robot, the expedition, Mexico and a general presentation on the technical details. The Spectrum article can be reviewed at http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/5491 . There is also a short article on the Southwest Research Institute Web site http://www.swri.org/3pubs/ttoday/Spring07/technics.htm November 15, 2007The State of Parallel Processing: Past, Present, and Outlook into the Future
Djaffer Ibaroudene, Ph.D. Professor and Graduate Program Director Department of Engineering, St. Mary's University
Parallel processing went through multiple phases starting from the early pessimism expressed by Amdhal’s law, to the proliferation of parallel systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s, followed the collapse of the parallel computing industry soon after, and finally to its recent resuscitation with the advances in multi-core architectures and networks of multi-computers. This talk will identify critical challenges in parallel processing, discuss the factors that affected its development, and offer an outlook to the future.
October 18, 2007State of the Linux Desktop,and Common Windows/Linux Equivalent Desktop ApplicationsThomas Weeks Rackspace Managed Hosting
September 20, 2007Beyond “The System Shall . . .” - A Journey from Good to Great RequirementsMike Alexander Seilevel This presentation takes attendees through a unique approach to incorporating tools and models to capture requirements with the goal of providing the best possible opportunity to complete a project on time, with the fewest defects, and with the highest possible end-user adoption. Our presenter has graciously granted us permission to place a copy of his slides on our web site. The slides are in Adobe Acrobat format and are available by clicking the file name SACS__IEEE_Sep2007_Alexander.pdf , (458 Kb)
March 22, 2007Tour of Dr Ayon's MEMS Labat UTSA
February 15, 2007Software Engineering: A Function of Timeby Steven Teleki
Software engineers have a love/hate relationship with time. Have you ever wondered why is it that when they have it, they often let it fly away, even though they always want to have more of it? Sometimes though, they don't even notice that time is flying by, because they are so drawn into what they are doing: they are "in the zone." You'll get new insight into what are the things that we do with our time, and learn new ways to use this highly perishable resource more effectively.
January 18, 2007About FaceKey™ Corp. When company was founded and what we are trying to achieve - Why Biometrics, Evolution of Securityby Yevgeny B. Levitov, PhD President and Co-Founder
About FaceKey™ Corp. When company was founded and what we are trying to achieve.
Questions.
November 16, 2006Practical Digital Multimedia Security SystemsAn Overview of Research and
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by Various Student Groups
This was the Annual Student Presentation's Night where the students are given the opportunity to present their design projects.
by Sean Darwish
Chief Scientific Officer for BroadRamp
BroadRamp of San Antonio has developed an innovative new content delivery platform that is currently being utilized to deliver e-learning capabilities never before imaginable, BroadRamp Content Delivery System™ (CDS) and Zero-Wait Push Technology™. CDS™ can allow multimedia courseware to be delivered over the Internet to a student’s PC with an immediate launch of the desired section of training, with no wait time, typical buffering or downloading of content to a media player. Moreover, utilizing CDS™, the student is able to navigate throughout the video stream while it is streaming, moving back to review content, or skip forward if they are already proficient in certain sections of the courseware. An indexing system allows a student to jump immediately to any chapter and sub-section of the courseware streaming video, even if the video file consists of 100GB+ of content, previously only deliverable in physical DVDs. The CDS™ platform also supports back-end database connectivity for integration with a wide-range of Learning Management Systems, to include SCORM 2004 conformant Learning Management Systems. Highly interactive online assessment modules can now return the student to the specific section of the video lecture to review the objective content without interfering with the learning process, a problem plaguing today’s training applications. Finally, the ME-Book™ (multi-media electronic book) can replace traditional text-based materials with fully integrated multimedia-rich content, incorporating built-in searchability, narrations, multi-lingual capabilities, book-marking, highlighting, and annotations. Together, these capabilities enable an incomparable integrated e-learning environment.
This revolutionary technology has awed audiences and drawn crowds of representatives from various national and international agencies at many conferences including: 2005 ASTD International Conference, 2005 TETC Conference, 2005 I/ITSEC Conference, 2005 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition, Demo 2006 Conference and many others.
www.BroadRamp.com, BroadRamp, Inc., 40 NE Loop 410, Suite 400, San Antonio, TX 78216
Pamela K. Fink, Ph.D.
St. Mary’s
University
Department of
Computer Science
The development of a new drug today is not as easy as it was 20 years ago. The diseases targeted for treatment are much more complex and multivariate than the ones that have successful treatments available. For example, we have antibiotics available to treat a wide range of bacterial infections and vaccines to help prevent many deadly virus infections. The primary focus of drug development today is on complex diseases often associated with aging. These diseases have no specific cause, and can manifest themselves in a variety of ways. In order to be successful in such efforts, the biology of the process must be understood in detail down to the chemical and even genetic level. This, in turn, requires novel approaches to the knowledge acquisition, documentation, and communication process. Medical research has traditionally been very hands-on, with much time given over to lab work where experiments are run to observe outcomes. The computer has been used in this process primarily for data collection and analysis. This presentation will present and discuss a number of "deep" biological models that have been developed over the past decade to support drug development. Once developed, these "in silico" platforms can be used to run countless experiments quickly and inexpensively to explore the implications of modifying the biological system under study. Such tools are capable of generating massive amounts of data for analysis and can be used to directly complement "in vitro" experiments.
Increasing knowledge work and knowledge worker productivity are factors that propel people, teams, and companies to leadership position in the 21st century. For software professionals, understanding productivity starts with understanding what a professional thinks and does to create software.
Steve Teleki challenged your basic assumptions about how software work is done today and leaves you with specific ideas that you can implement in your own work. You will leave feeling compelled to take action to stand out from the crowd and become a leader in today's software business.
You may contact Steve at teleki@computer.org
Centralized systems have many disadvantages that make them unsuitable for large-scale integration, including high reliance on centralized communication, high complexity, lack of scalability, and high costs of integration. The use of distributed intelligent system technologies avoids these shortcomings. By distributing implementation details of the logistical and integration requirements, it is possible to achieve greatly improved robustness, reliability, scalability, and security.
Key to achieving these benefits is the use of holonic and multi-agent system technologies. This presentation provides an overview of the technologies of distributed intelligent systems that have been developed by the presenter, his students, and his colleagues, in cooperation with the Holonic Manufacturing Systems Consortium, a major international project of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Program, and members of the Distributed Intelligent Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Distributed intelligent systems are based on the use of cooperative agents, organized in hardware or software components, that each independently handle a small set of specialized tasks and cooperate to achieve system-level goals and achieve a high degree of flexibility. Some recent applications of distributed intelligent systems will be described, including manufacturing scheduling, robotic finishing, wireless monitoring, and energy resource management.
Carol Luckhardt Redfield,
Ph.D.
Associate
Professor, St. Mary’s University
Computers have been in fictional stories for a long time, and have appeared as intelligent agents or even characters in fiction since at least the mid-1900s. This presentation will review some science fiction movies and novels with smart computers either as a tool or as a character in the stories such as HAL from the movie 2001, Data in the Star Trek TV series and movies, and C3PO in the Star Wars movies. Each story will be compared to the current capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence.
Many of today's biomedical research projects studying the molecular basis for cancer and other diseases focus on the understanding of dynamic interactions among molecules implicated in the disease process. Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) offers an array of powerful techniques to study such interactions. AUC is a rigorous hydrodynamic technique and essential tool for the biophysical characterization of solution properties of biological and synthetic macromolecules. This technique makes it possible to observe macromolecules and macromolecular assemblies in solution, i.e., in a physiological environment unconstrained by a crystal structure or an electron microscope grid. Data from such experiments provide insight into the dynamic interactions among macromolecules involved in the processes of the living cell, and allow their study in the solution state which most closely resembles the physiological conditions in the cell.
Modern instrumentation for these biophysical techniques are producing copious amounts of data, which need to be analyzed and managed, posing challenging computational problems. The physical processes underlying the transport of solutes in the ultracentrifuge cell can be accurately modelled only with complicated differential equations, which can only be solved by numerical methods, such as the finite element method. Global analysis of multiple experiments enhances the information content, but also places high demands on optimization methods, memory and processing speed. We have addressed these questions by implementing stochastic methods as well as parallel distributed processing.
GlobalScape, located in San Antonio and founded in April 1996, develops and distributes file management software that enables companies and individuals to securely send data over the Internet. The company is best known for its file transfer program, CuteFTP, which accounted for 51% of its revenue in the second quarter. Several other software products are also offered primarily to corporate clients. Recent financial results are very positive with profits, revenue, and share prices substantially up from those of the prior year. GlobalScape currently has 39 employees.
The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents interact with each other. The agents are considered to be autonomous entities, such as software programs or robots. Their interactions can be either cooperative or selfish. That is, the agents can share a common goal (e.g. an ant colony), or they can pursue their own interests (as in the free market economy).
In the future humans are expected to interact with complex software agents who each have their own goals and who themselves interact with one another. In pure agent systems, agents cooperate with each other by inferring others' actions implicitly or explicitly, based on established norms for behavior or on knowledge about the preferences or interests of others. Integrating humans into agent systems poses additional challenges in areas such as human-agent teamwork, human supervision of agent tasking and coordination, adjustable autonomy, interface or proxy agents, human-agent interaction, personalized agents, and human-robot interaction.
This research is the initial effort towards human-agent mixed systems. We developed Proactive Communication, which helps to produce realistic behavior and interactions for multi-agent teamwork. We emphasize that multi-agent teamwork is governed by the same principles that underlie human cooperation. Psychological studies of human teamwork have shown that members of an effective team often anticipate the needs of other members and choose to assist them proactively. Human team members are also naturally capable of observing the environment and others so they can establish certain parameters for performing actions without communicating with others. Proactive Communication endows agents with proactivity and observability. These enable agents to track others' mental states automatically and provide cooperations actively.
Dr. Zhang has provided this link to her presentation:
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~yzhang/research/talk/MASHumanToAgent.ppt .
She may be contacted at (210) 999-7399 or
yzhang@cs.trinity.edu .
Dr. Ayon gave an excellent presentation on MEMS Devices and the new MEMS Laboratory at UTSA, where he is a Research Professor.
Multi-paradigm programming is programming applying different styles of programming, such as object-oriented programming and generic programming, where they are most appropriate. This talk presents simple example of individual styles in ISO Standard C++ and examples where these styles are used in combination to produce cleaner, more maintainable code than could have been done using a single style only. I'll also make a few remarks about the likely directions for the C++0x ISO standard effort.
Bjarne Stroustrup can be contacted through
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/
In the military world, ATLAS has long been used for coding
automated test and measurement programs. As legacy computer hardware and test
equipment becomes obsolete, and as ATLAS programmers become more rare, there is
a need to migrate to the latest platforms.
This talk gave a brief overview of ATLAS, details some of the problems with the
maintenance of the older ATLAS systems, and gives one solution for migrating to
a modern test language.
While the world's data transmission capacities are growing at an enormous
rate, relatively few users have broadband access to them. Wired
solutions, including fiber, cable modems, and digital subscriber
lines, have limitations that prevent ubiquitous deployment. Broadband
wireless access (BWA) is an alternative that offers quick build-out at a low
cost. A key issue for the success of these systems is global
standardization. Within the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee, the
802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access, with hundreds of
participants worldwide, has recently completed the WirelessMAN air interface
standard for fixed wireless metropolitan area networks. With this work
completed, supporting industry groups, such as the WiMAX Forum, have
blossomed, and 802.16 has been chartered to extend its standard to address
mobile terminals as well. This talk provides an overview of the 802.16
technology, which is based on a QoS-oriented point-to-multipoint medium
access control layer and both single-carrier and OFDM physical layers.
Integrating Application-Level Security into the Software Development Process Due to the rise in popularity of Internet-facing custom web software applications application-level security is a growing area of focus in both the application development and information security fields. The variety of deployment options for custom applications (Internet, Extranet, Intranet, etc) requires that organizations extend their defense-in-depth strategies to the application level. Moving beyond the infrastructure focus of traditional information security practices, application level security involves auditing the code and databases used in custom-developed applications to ensure they behave as expected and provide appropriate controls so that applications continue to function and are safe from disclosing or altering information in an unauthorized manner regardless of attempts to subvert the application logic.
The presentation first provides an overview of application-level security and explores the differences between application level security and traditional information security. By analyzing the cultural differences between application development and security organizations, the presentation spotlights issues bound to surface when information security concerns are applied to software development processes. Given this background, the presentation then steps through a traditional waterfall software development process and examines changes and additions that can be made to more fully integrate application-level security concerns into the development process.
Although application-level security is a highly technical discipline, this presentation covers the technological aspects only to the degree needed to provide sufficient background. The true focus is on the organizational and process issues software development organizations are likely to face when coming to grips with the implications of the burgeoning area of application security.
You can contact Dan Cornell, Partner Denim Group, at http://www.denimgroup.com .
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Dr. Nickels reviewed why better hand-eye calibration of Robanaut is needed. The underlying challenge is finding the end of the Robot arm. The calibration tools and procedures are reviewed. Four experiments were performed to verify the calibration process. Through the experiments Dr. Nickels verified that visual feedback during manipulation can increase accuracy.
Dr. Nickels can be contacted at knickels@engr.trinity.edu .
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Ever since Marconi invented the wireless telegraph in 1896, radio communication has depended on humans. Today’s mobile communication paradigm, focused on person-to-person communication is but the tip of the wireless communications iceberg. Invisible mobile, things that think, pervasive computing and machine-to-machine computing is the disruptive technology driving changes into legacy networks that control much of the nations critical infrastructure. Machine-to-machine (M2M) computing and communications is not new, however, the legacy networks and devices are plagued with proprietary application software, operating systems and API. On top of legacy architectures, these networks are not encrypted and they are easily compromised. By 2006, M2M architectures will link hundreds of billions of new network endpoints driving network traffic, data volume and security needs.
Jim explored emerging technology and trends within the established video game industry with a focus on how video games are connected to national defense, homeland security, education and 21st century science. The LEARNING G@MES presentation is based on "Gaming a Technology Forecast" which may be downloaded free on the Web.
“It turns out that gaming is window into the future of media, entertainment,
work and learning,” says Jim Brazell, VentureRAMP principal. “In the next 10
years, we will see our concept of cyberspace transformed from web pages and
bookmarks to network worlds and new forms of human communication, work and
collaboration.” Gaming: A Technology Forecast delves into these ideas and
illustrates how gaming is linked to 21st Century Science, National Defense
and an emerging academic revolution called transdisciplinarity.
The Tigernauts have taken on the challenge set forth by the Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) of designing a manned rover for the Mars surface. Four major areas were addressed in this project, including Communication & Navigation, Power, Computation & Imagery, and Structure & Mobility. Design concepts will be presented along with current progress on the RC prototype being fabricated to further analyze the suspension and video systems.
This is a Senior Design Project at Trinity University. This meeting was a joint meeting with the San Antonio Chapter of ASME.
Project EPSIM involved the development of software to simulate gel
electrophoresis for analysis of biological processes. Part of the software
simulates the process of digesting strands of DNA with restriction enzymes
using the fast string-matching Boyer-Moore algorithm. A second part sorts
the resulting DNA fragments by molecular weight in a “virtual” gel.
Heuristic equations allow a very quick and accurate representation of gel
electrophoresis and a graphical interface displays the results in an easily
comprehended fashion. This project was developed under the
specifications of the TLU Biology Department and with support from the
Gillson Longenbaugh Foundation and the Budwine Foundation.
The Tigernauts have taken on the challenge set forth by the Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) of designing a manned rover for the Mars surface. Four major areas were addressed in this project, including Communication & Navigation, Power, Computation & Imagery, and Structure & Mobility. Design concepts will be presented along with current progress on the RC prototype being fabricated to further analyze the suspension and video systems.
This is a Senior Design Project at Trinity University. This meeting was a joint meeting with the San Antonio Chapter of ASME.
Dr. Mori gave a very interesting presentation on developing sub 100 nanometer semiconductors.
A primary aim of human genetics research is the localization and identification of genes influencing common complex diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Gene discovery involves the use of statistical methods to sift through large quantities of genetic data in search of correlations between that data and the biological traits of interest. Addressing the computational burden entailed by statistical genetic analysis is a critical requirement for finding genes that contribute to human disease.
Lisa Brown, an experienced US Air Force civilian intelligence analyst, presented detailed hacker, terrorist, and nation-state threats to our networked information systems world-wide.
The briefing gave examples of on-going attacks to Air Force networks that highlight key security issues and concerns for our nation.
Dr. Goldsmith discussed the features of SATAI's new programs for growing technology companies.
Mr. Yockey discussed the software application his company developed for automating wet sinks in 6" wafer fabs. He will also presented a background in semiconductor processing, and how engineering analysis can be applied to improve process efficiency. This software is of importance because older 6" semiconductor fabs are close to the technology "cliff", but are still essential production facilities. Because of the downturn, investment in building new 12" facilities is slow, and 6" facilities are being kept open longer. This leads to significant value in making older facilities more efficient to help companies "ride out the storm".
You can contact Michael Yockey, President & Founder, iSky Factory Automation, at http://www.iskynetworks.com .
Prepare to leave some of your long-held assumptions about software process behind when you listen to Steven Teleki present "The Art & Science of Software Process." He talked about ideas and practical tips that you can use to gain deeper insight into your or your team's software development performance. He presented two important reasons why you should care about the process that you and your team use to create software, and learn about the obstacles that hinder your team's process improvement. Steve presented 12 high performance software development tips that you can incorporate into your daily development routine, and learn how to refocus your development priorities to be more competitive in the post dot com economy.
You can contact Steven Teleki, Vice President, Software Engineering, SiberLink, Inc., http://www.SiberLink.com/, 2720 Bee Caves Road, Austin TX 78746, teleki@siberlink.com or teleki@computer.org. For a comprehensive software development reading list please visit: http://pseng.net/
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Ever wondered about being a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas?
What is PE licensing?
Why should I be licensed?
How do recent changes in the law affect me if I am already licensed or if I'm not licensed yet?
What about people who aren't licensed?
Ms. Hsu answered these questions and more as she described the changes in the Texas law related to Professional Engineers that will be taking effect this coming January.
In this presentation David Kuykendall showed how the requirement for physical security has changed from the simple task of building access control to the current threat of Bio-terrorism, so have the requirements on the systems providing the solution. The age of isolated single function systems has passed. Distributed, networked, and intelligent systems are required to self heal in the event of a attack and respond in the best manner possible. Network and computer security are now joined by the addition of the largest community on the planet; the community of embedded devices.
David summarized his presentation after showing samples of some of the current products, along with comments on some of the near term changes.
You may contact David R. Kuykendall at David.Kuykendall@SecureOrbit.net .
(A review of the state-of-the-art in robots)
In this presentation, Dr. Nickels reviewed and gave examples of the current forefront of robotics technologies, both in the commercial and research sectors. There are several main types of robots, as we normally use the phrase. Certainly, entertainment robots have captured the imagination of the public, and humanoid robots have always intrigued people. But there have also been significant advances in mobile robotics, as exemplified by the Mars Pathfinder, and less spectacular advances in industrial robotics used in industry. Dr. Nickels reviewed all of these, and also presented examples of some of the robots that he has worked on at the University of Illinois, the Johnson Space Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and of course here at Trinity University.
You may contact Dr. Kevin M. Nickels at knickels@engr.trinity.edu, or http://www.trinity.edu .
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Dr. Bruce Mather started the presentation with an overview of various embedded systems that OnBoard Software has worked on. Some of these systems are: Multiplexor/Processor, Print Out Unit (POU), Common Aircraft Signal Test System, and Data Trending Recorder. During his discussion of these systems Dr. Mather highlighted some of the interesting aspects of each of these systems.
The second part of Dr. Mather's presentation started with him giving some examples where we knew where the hardware ended and the software began. He quickly followed this with explaining how chips such as DSPs and FPGAs could be programmable systems-on-a-chip. And how a new configuration could be downloaded and you just created a new machine with all new functionality.
As hardware becomes faster and faster, many hardware functions will move to software implementations. Some examples where this has already happened are software modems replacing hardware, software sounds cards, and video encoding and decoding.
Dr. Mather highlighted that embedded system developers:
Must understand hardware
Must understand timing
Must have a basic understanding of electronics
In order to be efficient developers
You may contact Dr. Bruce Mather at (210) 932-1683, bmather@onboard-software.com, or http://www.onboard-software.com .
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David Rohret started the presentation with an overview of Cyber-terrorism.
Shane Wright then went over tool development and common exploits. And Jason Cochetti wrapped up the presentation by presenting malicious logic. He covered logic bombs, trojans, viruses and worms.
You may contact David Rohret at rohret@direcpc.com or (210) 325-0935.
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The internet security software market is expected to reach $28 Billion in the next 4 years. The products serving this market include traditional IP Firewalls, VPNs, Access Control Devices, authentication devices, encryption and real-time intrusion detection systems. Collectively, these technologies provide a fairly effective perimeter control capability which is dramatically improving enterprise level information security. However, the traditional voice network has for years provided the "last big back door" into the data network via unauthorized user connected modems and poorly secured authorized modem connections. Lack of security on the phone network negates all efforts to secure the internet connection. The solution to this intractable problem lies in the emerging technology base known as Telecom Firewalls.
Telecom Firewall technology is the most revolutionary security technology to hit the market in 20 years. With the right architecture, Telecom Firewall technology promises to solve numerous security problems on the phone network by supporting several new, revolutionary security technologies to include: circuit switched VPNs, Telecom IDS, Secure VoIP Gateways, Secure SCADA systems and others. SecureLogix is the first company to place such an architecture and product set on the commercial market. Lee Sutterfield discussed the nature of the security issues at the phone and data network interface and presented the SecureLogix product roadmap designed to address these issues. He will also discuss the implications of this emerging technology base on the ultimate convergence of the voice and data network at the enterprise level as well as the implications for the telecommunications service provider's plans for the provision of next generation voice over packet services.
You may contact Lee Sutterfield and SecureLogix at 210-402-9669 or 1-800-817-4837 and get more information at http://www.securelogix.com/ .
David Rohret presented an overview of the the Unified Modeling Language (UML) along with some suggestions on how and when to use it for projects. He also presented a case study of an actual implementation of UML.
David reviewed several of the current tools available to use UML. One of the books on the subject, UML Toolkit, by Hans-Erik Erisson and Magnus Penker and published by Wiley contains a limited capability copy of Rational Rose, which is beneficial to learn UML.
You may contact David Rohret at rohret@direcpc.com or (210) 325-0935.
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