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Welcome to the home page of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the First Society In Computing. We invite you to participate in our monthly meetings and Professional Development Seminars.

News and Upcoming Events

• DM SIG - July 08, Wednesday: A Practical Algorithm for Optimal Segmentation Analysis of Event Data to be presented by Jeffrey D. Scargle, Ph.D., NASA Ames Research Center



• July 15, Wednesday: GIMP to be presented by Akkana Peck, author and freelance programmert



• DM SIG - August 12, Wednesday: Growing Trees in Clouds with PLANET: Massively Parallel Learning of Tree Ensembles with MapReduce to be presented by Josh Herbach, Google



• August 19, Wednesday: The Facebook Era to be presented by Clara Shih, CEO of CrowdContext

Recent Events

• June 17, Wednesday: The Architecture of Mashups presented by Klaus Roder, IBM Silicon Valley Labs



• DM SIG - June 10, Wednesday: Interaction Detection With TreeNet Boosted Tree Ensembles presented by Dan Steinberg, Ph.D., President and Founder of Salford Systems



• PDS - June 06, Saturday: Cloud Computing - From Getting Started and Tools, to Large Scale Architecture Design presented by Dave Nielsen of Platform D and Hadoop presented by Chris Wensel of Scale Unlimited



• May 20, Wednesday: OpenStreetMap presented by Steve Coast/Sarah Manely, CloudMade



• DM SIG - May 13, Wednesday: Using Neural Nets to Enhance Rule-Based Trading Systems in Quantitative Finance presented by Michael Bowles, Independent Consultant



• April 15, Wednesday: Empowering Internet Users: Two Ideas to Reshape Broadband Policy presented by Derek Slater, Google



• DM SIG - April 08, Wednesday: Using Supervised and Unsupervised Learning to Detect and Isolate Faults in Rocket Engines presented by Mark Schwabacher, NASA Ames Research Center



• March 18, Wednesday: Microsoft Dryad presented by Yuan Yu, Microsoft Research



• DM SIG - March 11, Wednesday: Embedded Automatic Model Training and Forecasting in an Enterprise Software Application presented by Greg Makowski, Principal Consultant of Golden Data Mining



• February 18: Speech UIs for mobile applications presented by Bill Byrne, Google and Stanford University

Acknowledgements

• Please take a moment to look at the various companies that have donated products and materials to the chapter

Logistics:

• Monthly Meetings:
  Dates: Third Wednesday of every month (except July, August and December)
  Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and Networking; 7:00pm Meeting
  Location: Oak Room at Hewlett Packard, Cupertino

• Data Mining SIG:
  Note: There will be no meeting for January 2009.
  Dates: Second Wednesday of the month
  Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and Networking; 7:00pm Meeting
  Location: SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA (Google Maps | Yahoo! Maps | Mapquest)

Meetings are free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $20/year
Contact us via email at humphrey@sfbayacm.org (Why Humphrey?)