| First Seminar of Year 2012- 15 February Wed |
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| January 2012 | |
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Venue: Compucon House, 234 Bush Road, Albany Programme 3:45pm Reception 4:00pm Seminar 6:00pm Wine and Cheese Seminar Outline o The seminar will start from a generic level and become more technical as it progresses. The first session is a theme Outside the Square. We will talk about the International Space Station that has been in orbit above the Earth with scientists on board since year 2000. We can see the Station with naked eyes as it is as big as a football field. (15 min) o Professional leadership development is the 2nd theme of the day. We will talk about the 8 spokes of life, 4 quotients of people, and 2 sides of attitudes. We will point out that a modern society aims for a higher Maslow level of needs which seems very obvious. We will quote the views of Confucius on personal growth and how the first book of philosophy circa BC3000 was written on binary digits. No technical literacy is required, but mature professionals with plenty of life experience would appreciate the content more than young people. (15 min) o Digital technology update is the 3rd theme of the day. We will talk about 3 iterations of the PC industry and 2 eras of cloud computing. We will review plans for smart phone to replace cinema tickets, Windows 8 supporting ARM CPU both for desktop and server versions, a retail chain getting rid of IT assets and going to the clouds, and investigate how good the clouds are for scientific applications. We will introduce the latest technology for sensing human gesture movements and do a brief demonstration. Professionals will benefits more than technicians. (20 min) o A major digital technology application development will follow. Physical security is a parallel with cyber security, and physical systems are being digitized. We will explain how video works in conjunction with door access, how we address darkness with passive Infrared detectors and active Infrared illuminators, and explain how to obtain the best effect from a 180 degree indoor surveillance camera. Compucon has expertise in industrial grade physical security systems and the information has high practical values. (25 min) o The final module is a review of the fastest and latest desktop computing as in Intel X79 chipset, visualisation as in Nvidia Quadro and super-computing technologies as in Nvidia Tesla. We will focus at the system hardware level and will not go into software. We will explain how GPU speeds up application performance a few hundred times, and introduce a highly cost-effective scheme for industrial design and video creation applications. This level of disclosure is the first and possibly the only one in New Zealand and the information will be valuable to practising IT professionals. Non IT people will benefit from an appraisal angle. (30 min) END |