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Alan, who is the chair of the history,
committee. Let's listen.
Thank you all very much for coming. I'm very impressed
with this excellent turnout considering the small room.
First, I would like to tell you a little bit about
the goals and objectives of our committee.
This being the first meeting of IEEE Silicon Valley Technology
history. The committee was actually formed
on a hike - the idea came on a hike between
with myself and Ted Hoff
who is best known as co-inventor of the microprocessor.
He played many other important roles at Intel.
And we decided that we
really need more emphasis on
Silicon Valley developed technology. Whereas, the Computer History Museum
will cover many areas of IT, but globally
we want to zero in on the technologies that were created
that were progressed, advanced
here and in the greater Santa Clara County, so
our plan is to cover all such technologies;
computers, storage, semiconductors,
defense electronics, aerospace
industrial process controls, et cetera. Our goal is to hold
one meeting every two months that's sponsored by
our committee and we are
in the process of getting funding to do exactly that and, in addition, we want to hold
joint meetings
with other nonprofits. Those nonprofits could be
the IEEE societies, like IEEE Computer, IEEE Communications Society
It could be the
Computer History Museum, it could be
the tech museum or any other non-profit organization
that had in interest in Silicon Valley technology history.
This is our our first meeting
organized by Tom Coughlin. I want to thank him
and Tom Gardner for making this possible. They did
a super-human job of
getting the venue, doing the logistics
and getting the panel members
for this session. Our next planned meeting will be in the first quarter
of 2014. We haven't set a date yet. It is all dependent on
the venue and it will be on Local Area Networks.
And this may be the first of a two-parter
for sure it will be covering Ethernet,
Token Ring and we hope Data Points Arcnet.
And if anyone is interested in volunteering to participate in the committee,
please see me, as we do have an operational website.
We do have an internal
email group. We're hoping to get an external
email group as well to get the public involved. So, it's easy to remember
if you can; Allan.weissberger@ieee.org