IEEE Computer Society - Silicon Valley Chapter Event February 9th

IEEE Computer Society - Silicon Valley Chapter is re-launching.
The IEEE CS Chapter is the first technical meeting, Feb. 9.

This new chapter offers monthly technical meetings on relevant computing topic areas, typically the second Tuesday of each month.

WiT members are also invited and welcome!

For additional information please access the website at: http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/computer/

February 9th Event info:

Title: Cloud Computing meets IBM's Smarter Planet Initiative
Speaker: Lennart Frantzell

Location: Biltmore Hotel, Saratoga Ballroom - Salon III,
2151 Laurelwood Rd.,
Santa Clara

Date/Time: February 9, 2010, 6:30pm Networking, 7:00pm Presentation

Registration: Free

Limited Seating - Register Now: http://ieeecs20100209feb.eventbrite.com

Abstract:
As the world becomes more and more global, integrated and "flat", it is also facing an array of problems: a financial crisis, climate disruption, energy geopolitics, food supply hazards etc. This is coinciding with technological innovations such as the following developments that can assist in resolving these problems:

-The world is becoming instrumented. There are a billion transistors per human, each one costing one ten millionth of a cent.
- The world is becoming interconnected. With a trillion networked things cars, roadways, pipelines, appliances, pharmaceuticals and even livestock the amount of information created by those interactions grows exponentially.
- Cloud computing and mobile computing are changing how software is deployed and used throughout the world.
- All things are becoming intelligent. Algorithms and powerful systems turn those mountains of data into decisions and actions that can make the world work better. Smarter.
- As the world's leading globally integrated IT company, IBM is attempting to use modern IT technology to tackle many of the world's problems. In this presentation, Lennart Frantzell will talk about IBM's global smarter planet initiative in its quest to make the world a smarter place.

Bio:
Lennart Frantzell, PhD, is a technical consultant at the IBM Innovation Center, San Mateo. He works with IBM Business Partners and startup companies in the IBM smarter planet initiative. The IBM Innovation Centers is a world-wide network of IBM business partner centers that provide business- and technical support to help companies get started and deploy applications in the IBM smarter planet space.

Lennart Frantzell has expertise in Cloud Computing, IBM Industry Frameworks, IBM Tivoli systems management, WebSphere and other IBM middleware products. He has worked in artificial intelligence, object-oriented programming and computer games. His goal is to replace mankind with computers.