IEEE SFBA Consumer Technology Chapter

Co-sponsored by Signal Processing Society (SPS) and Computer Society (CS) Title: Khronos Standards for Neural Network Acceleration and Deployment Abstract: Khronos Group is a not for profit, member-funded consortium to create royalty-free open standards for hardware acceleration. OpenVX is an API for computer vision and neural network acceleration, especially important in real-time and safety-critical use cases.... Read more →

Nanotechnology Companies' Origin Stories - Exploring Entrepreneurship Co-sponsored with SFBA Nanotechnology Council - Lightning Talks - What is an Origin Story?  “Teenager is bitten by a mutant spider.  Gains super powers!”  – Spiderman’s Origin Story What is an Origin Story for a Nanotechnology company? Come hear Nanotechnology company Origin Stories told by the people who lived the... Read more →

Title:  “Vision and the Deep Learning Explosion” by Dr. Chris Rowen, CEO, Cognite Ventures and Stanford University Co-sponsored with Solid State Circuits Society Thursday September 21, 2017, 6:00-8:00PM Location: Texas Instruments Silicon Valley Auditorium 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Building E, Santa Clara, CA Abstract: Everyone sees the excitement about artificial intelligence, but what’s real?  Everyone gets pumped up about smart... Read more →

Co-sponsored by Power Electronics Society (PELS) Title: Emerging Wireless Technologies for IoT Abstract: With wide-scale IoT solutions being implemented, we are seeing an emerging set of new wireless technologies being developed. The focus of much IoT innovation is on low power protocols that support remote battery-operated devices which send small amounts of data for a duration... Read more →