May 7, 2019
Branding and Marketing a Blockchain Startup Engineering & Business Series
Pizza and Networking: 6:00 PM
Interactive Session: 6:30 PM
Though Leader: David Cho
Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2019-05-ent
Abstract
Giftz consolidates & tokenizes rewards
as micro consumptive value coins using the blockchain, allowing them to be
issued, tracked, exchanged or shared between companies, friends and family.
Companies like Amex and Hilton Honors allow their customers to redeem points
and miles through Amazon. When merchants use blockchain rewards, they offer
many new redemption options for their customers. Issuing liquid tokenized
points captures customer goodwill and can reduce the costs of redemption for
the merchant. Billions of dollars in stored value is being purchased, earned
and redeemed each day, but goodwill is only captured one-to-one. We share
each time a participating business "giftz" a member in our global
feed. This captures goodwill and increases brand awareness to all.
Thought Leader
David Cho wears many different hats including
being a Startup Engineer. He serves as a Lead Mission Planner and Senior
Systems and Software Engineer. In that capacity he directs Applications
Integration and Business Intelligence (AIBI) software development for the web
application development team at the Navy NAWCWD command and its employees
over NAS Mugu and China Lake. His expertise entails Software tools for Joint
Strike Fighter RWR, RADAR, EO/IR, RF/IR CM, & Fusion Reprogramming for
various foreign cases such as Israel, Japan, and S. Korea; Building support
tools for F-35 mission data reprogramming of electronic warfare equipment for
various Foreign Military Sales cases. David has deep domain knowledge: using
JAVA EE 8, Wildfly, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Angular, Nodejs, HTML5, CSS3,
Bootstrap, Javascript and R Programming.
I am centered on ideas of freedom and
liberty as those are fundamental qualities of a truly effective public market
for goods and services. My concern is that todays free markets can be better
served on providing a payment processing system wherein buyers and sellers
execute upon a mutually beneficial agreement. David Cho
David holds a Bachelor of Science in
Mathematics and Statistics from California State University Long Beach, is a
Certified Information Systems Security Professional, with a keen interest in
Decentralized Application & Blockchain Technology.
Location
Hub101
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
31416 Agoura Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361
(map)
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Entrepreneurship Group
May 8, 2019
A Novel Foraging Technique for Swarm Robots
Pizza and Networking:
6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Nick Stern
Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2019-05-cs
Abstract
Central place foraging is a problem
domain which consists of finding and delivering resources situated throughout
an unknown environment to a singular collection depot. This domain has
tremendous applications including harvesting, toxic waste clean up, and fuel
gathering for interplanetary missions. Foraging behaviors are the primary
benchmark application of swarm robotics, which is the study of the complex group
behavior that emerges from the local interactions of many simple individuals.
A common issue within central place foraging approaches is inter-robot
interference, a significant detractor from scalable group performance. To
address this problem we propose a novel technique for central place foraging,
the Multimodal approach. This technique separates a preliminary search phase
from collection behavior, locating all of the resources within the
environment before any are picked up, storing and sharing these locations
amongst all of the agents. This information is then used by the collecting
agents in order to select resources in areas in which there are no other
agents, mitigating the effect of interference. The application of this
approach to various simulated problem formulations resulted in a significant
performance increase as compared to a baseline approach. This lends to our
conclusion that a separation of search and collection can lead to the
incorporation of more advanced routing techniques that further improve the
performance of the foraging task.
About the Speaker
Nick Stern is a Lecturer for Computer Science and
Mechatronics at California State University Channel Islands. Nick currently
teaches Software Engineering as well as Data Structures and Algorithms for
Engineers, and also spends his time coaching more than a dozen senior
Capstone projects. He works in a range of programming archetypes and tools,
from high level frameworks for AWS and Android projects to low level Embedded
and C systems. Nick has a Master's and Bachelor's of Science from CSUCI.
Location
La Reina High School,
Library
106 West Janss Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(map)
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Computer Society Chapter
May 15, 2019
A Concept for a Future NASA/ESA Entry Probe Mission to the Ice Giants
Reception and
Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: David H. Atkins
Meetings are free and open to the public.
Abstract
The outer solar system comprises many
unexplored bodies within which evidence of the origin, formation, and
fundamental processes central to the evolution of the solar system can be
found. Filling the gap in size between the larger gas giants and the smaller
terrestrial planets including Earth, the planets Uranus and Neptune represent
the entire population of a largely unexplored class of planets known as the
Ice Giants.
Due to the physical limitations of
remote sensing and the lack of in situ measurements, many of the most
important physical and atmospheric properties of the ice giants are poorly
constrained and the ultimate role of the ice giants in the evolution of the
Solar System is currently impossible to ascertain. Only in situ exploration
by a single or multiple descent probes can reveal the secrets of the deep,
well-mixed atmosphere that contains pristine materials from the epoch and
location of ice giant formation. Of particular importance are the chemically
inert noble gases. With no detectable radio signature and therefore requiring
direct sampling, the noble gases reflect the processes of ice giant origin,
formation, and evolution. The primary goal of a ice giant atmospheric probe
would therefore be to measure the well-mixed abundances of the noble gases
He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe and their isotopes, the altitude profile of the heavier
elements C, N, S, and P, key isotope ratios 15N/14N, 13C/12C, 17O/16O and
18O/16O, and D/H, as well as key disequilibrium species such as CO and PH3.
The atmospheric probe would sample well into the cloud-forming regions of the
troposphere where many cosmogenically important and abundant species are
expected to be well-mixed, far below regions directly accessible to cloud top
remote sensing. In this talk I will present a mission concept for a possible
future flagship mission to one of the ice giants that includes a
NASA-provided spacecraft to carry and deliver a European probe to enter and
descend into the ice giant atmosphere.
About the Speaker
Dr. David H. Atkinson is a Senior Systems Engineer at the
Caltech/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. From 1989 to 2017, Dr.
Atkinson was a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Idaho. He was a Co-Investigator on the NASA/ESA (European Space Agency)
Cassini/Huygens Doppler Wind Experiment that successfully measured the winds
in the atmosphere of Titan in 2006,, Dr. Atkinson used the Galileo probe to
make the only measurements of giant planet deep atmospheric winds in 1995,
for which he received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award in
1997.
Dr. Atkinson has undergraduate degrees
from Whitman College (Astronomy/Physics) in 1977 and from Washington State
University (Electrical Engineering) in 1980, a Master's degree in Applied
Physics from Stanford University in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from Washington State University in 1989. From 1981 through 1986
Dr. Atkinson worked as a Systems Engineer on both the Galileo Jupiter probe
at NASA Ames Research Center and the Space Infrared Telescope Facility
(SIRTF, now Spitzer Space Telescope)
Location
Skyworks Solutions
649 Lawrence Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320
(Not the main building; please use map to arrow that
pinpoints building)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Microwave
Theory and Techniques Society Chapter
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