Title: OSμS: An Open-Source Microservice Prototyping Platform with Applications to Microservice Resource Allocation

Mid-Hudson Section of IEEE Computer Society

Spiders can hear sound using their web

Dr. Ronald Miles

Binghamton University

Friday, April 1, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Resnick Engineering Hall 109
State University of New York – New Paltz https://www.newpaltz.edu/map/

Also, via Webex https://newpaltz.webex.com/newpaltz/j.php?MTID=md5352a6f255e5cb08e38ec46ff858c63

Abstract

The majority of animals that hear sound do so by detecting the minute fluctuations in the velocity of the medium. They do this by sensing the deflection of thin hairs that are driven by viscous forces in the acoustic medium. In this talk, we show that even spiders are able to hear sound through the acoustic flow-induced vibrations of their web. The ability to hear the flow of air in a sound field differs from the detection of sound pressure with an eardrum, as is used in some animals, including humans. The ubiquity of acoustic flow-sensing in nature suggests that the use of similar design principles could lead to new technologies for sensing sound.

Biography

R. N. Miles is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Binghamton University. He has served as the Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Chair, and served for two terms as Department Chair. He has also served as Associate Dean for Research in the Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science. He has served two terms as Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.

Dr. Miles has published over one hundred scholarly articles and presented over seventy invited lectures. He holds over two dozen United States and international patents. His research team has included over 80 doctoral, masters and baccalaureate students with research funding over $17M from federal, state, corporate and charitable organizations.

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Speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Iwai

Abstract:
Recent smart society has been conducted by the progress of semiconductor technologies, especially by that of CMOS miniaturization, and demand for further high-performance CMOS development is increasing. However, the gate length of MOSFETs is approaching its limit of 10 nm caused by the leakage current increase, and no more significant performance increase is expected at the level of a single MOSFET. Still the demand of the society is strong, and thus, the industry is squeezing the performance by increasing the MOSFET density per unit area by decreasing interconnect pitch with EUV and stacking the MOSFETs to vertical directions such as nano-sheets. These efforts are expected to continue for another 10 years depending on the cost and market requirements. In addition, new technology development for semiconductor memory, communication, and power devices are being conducted very aggressively. In any case, the importance of semiconductor device will increase significantly in next 30 years.

In this talk, the recent development of CMOS towards its limit is explained and the future electronic device engineering combined with bio technology for the latter half of 21st century is discussed.

Biography:

Short bio:
Prof. Hiroshi Iwai is a Vice Dean and a Distinguished Chair Professor of International College of Semiconductor Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and a Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan He is a semiconductor device engineer who received BE and Ph.D degrees from Univ. of Tokyo. He worked at Toshiba for 26 years from 1973 and at Tokyo Institute of Technology for 22 years from 1999. He engaged in the development of high-density memories and logic/RF/photovoltaic/power devices.

Especially, he has contributed to the miniaturization of MOSLSI devices. Also, he has been concentrated to the development of Si IGBT and GaN power device technologies for these 10 years. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, an awarded life member and a Fellow of ECS, and a Fellow of JSAP, ICICE and IEEJ. He served as an IEEE EDS President and a Division I Director, and contributed to education as an IEEE EDS Distinguished lecturer for 25 years since 1994. He was appointed to the first IEEE EDS Eminent lecturer in 2020.

Event is free but requires registration:

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 iMAPS New England Chapter Virtual Meeting

Together with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the IEEE Electron Devices Society, IBM Research is hosting the 3rd AI Compute Symposium virtually.

Mid-Hudson Section of IEEE Computer Society

Course title: SAS for Data Science

Lecturer: Engy Fouda (efoda@ieee.org)

Abstract

Do you wish to create data analysis reports without writing a line of code?

This course introduces SAS Studio, a free data science web browser-based product for

educational and non-commercial purposes. The power of SAS Studio comes from its

visual point-and-click user interface that generates SAS code. It is easier to learn SAS

Studio than to learn R and Python to accomplish data cleaning, statistics, and

visualization tasks. You will learn, step-by-step, how to do visualizations, including maps.

In most cases, you will not need a line of code as you work with the SAS Studio graphical

user interface. Moreover, the course includes explanations of the code that SAS Studio

generates automatically. The course introduces you to multiple SAS products as well such

as SAS Viya, SAS Analytics, and SAS Visual Statistics. The course includes a case study

of analyzing voters’ data required for the presidential elections in the state of Maine for

years of 2016 and 2020. In addition to the presidential elections, the course provides

real-life examples, including analyzing stocks, oil and gold prices, crime, marketing, and

healthcare. You will see data science in action and how easy it is to perform complicated

tasks and visualizations in SAS Studio.

What You Will Learn

• Become familiar with SAS Studio IDE

• Understand essential visualizations

• Write programs in SAS

• Get introduced to SAS-Viya, which is more potent than SAS studio

At the successful completion of this course, participants can request 0.8 Continuing Education Credit

Course contents:

October 17: Data Science in Action

• Where to start?

• Data Science Process

• Maine Presidential Elections 2016, 2020

• Modeling

• Visualization

• Kaggle Zillow Competition

• Research points: Big Data in Healthcare Applications

• Additional Resources

October 24: Getting Started

• Installation

• What is SAS?

• Tour

o Libraries

o Reports

o Graphs

o Bar chart

o How to sort a bar chart?

• Snippets

• Tasks

• Main components of the SAS program

o Data Step

o Proc Step

October 31: Data Visualization

• Scatter Plot

o Scatterplot Code

o Scatterplot Relationships

o Plotting More Than One Scatterplot in the Same Image

• Histogram

• Series Plot

• Bar Chart

o How to Sort a Bar Chart?

o Create a Histogram using a Bar Chart

• Bubble Chart

• Maps

• Bubble Map

November 7: SAS Viya

• SAS VISUAL STATISTICS - VIYA About SAS Studio, SAS Visual

• Statistics, SAS Visual Analytics, and SAS Viya

• SAS Viya Tour

• Counties' Map

• SAS Visual Statistics – First Report

• Histogram

• Word Cloud

• Bar Chart

• Butterfly Chart

Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Lecturer’s Biography:

Engy Fouda is an author, freelance engineer, and journalist. Currently, she teaches

SAS, Docker Fundamentals, Docker for Enterprise Developers, Docker for Enterprise

Operations, and Kubernetes at several venues as a freelance instructor. She is an

Apress and Packt Publishing author. She works as a freelance journalist and

publishes her work at various media outlets. She holds two master’s degrees, one

in journalism from Harvard University, Extension School, and another in computer

engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. Moreover, she earned the Data Science

Professional Graduate Certificate from Harvard University, Extension School. She

has taught academically as a teacher assistant at the German University in Cairo

and the American University in Cairo. She volunteers as the team lead for Momken

Group (Engineering for the Blind), Egypt Scholars Inc. The team designs and

manufactures devices and develops Arabic applications for the visually impaired

people in the Middle East and North Africa region. Also, she volunteers as a

member-at-large and the newsletter editor of the IEEE Mid-Hudson Section. She

has published several books that made Amazon’s best-seller charts for Arabic

books.

Email: efoda@ieee.org

Hosts: IEEE Mid-Hudson, Baback Izadi (SUNY New Paltz) and Rasit Topaloglu

(rasit@us.ibm.com)

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 A four-day summit of talks, Q/A and panel discussions

First Thursday of the month, Sept. through Dec. 12–1 p.m. (live via Zoom) This webinar is for the business community, policymakers, attorneys, healthcare providers and other members of the public interested in learning about AI. Each topic will be followed by Q&A opportunities. 

Moderator: Ali Abedi, Assistant Vice President for Research, UMaine and IEEE R1 Northeastern Area Chair.

Registration opens August 1, 2020: ai.umaine.edu/webinars/

Sept. 3, 2020: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

• Rebecca Hwa, National Science Foundation, Program Director
• Kaushik Chowdhury, Associate Director of the Institute for the Wireless
  Internet of Things, Northeastern University
• Fawzi Behmann, North American Director of IEEE Communications Society

Oct. 1, 2020: Applications of AI in Business, Industry, Government, Healthcare and Environment

• Mohamad Musavi, Associate Dean of Engineering, UMaine
• Owen McCarthy, President and Co-founder of MedRhythms Inc.
• Somayeh Khosroazad, Software Architect at Activas Diagnostics

Nov. 5, 2020: Education and Workforce Development

• Yifeng Zhu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMaine
• Torsten Hahmann, Associate Professor of Computing and Information Science, UMaine
• Walter Rawle, Chair IEEE Maine Section

Dec. 3, 2020: Social, Ethical, Policy, and Legal Considerations

• Manuel Woersdoerfer, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Science, UMaine
• Leigh Saufley, Dean of the University of Maine School of Law
• Jim Isaak, Past President of IEEE Computer Society, IEEE NH Section Chair