Upcoming Events
Mapping Texas Communities: An Introduction to GIS and Community Analysis Workshop (Oct. 6 or 7)
On either October 6 or 7 at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center at 8200 IH - 10 West STE 105 inSan Antonio,workshop participants will learn the fundamentals of using ArcGIS (ArcView 9.1), as well as how to extract and map current data from the Census of Population and Housing for community analysis. Participants will also learn to map addresses and conduct spatial analysis. This workshop is intended for government and non-profit employees, or any one that would like to learn to map demographic data for their local community. Mapping techniques transferable to all other communities. There is a $399 to attend. For more info and to register online, see www.urban-research.info or telephone at 877-241-6576
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Owens, Then And Now (Oct. 6)
The Metroplex Technology Business Council is presenting a luncheon with Mike Townsley, the president and CEO of Owens Country Sausage at 11:45am on Thursday, October 6 at the Radisson Hotel Richardson located at 1981 N. Central Expressway. There is a $30 charge for MTBC members and a $45 charge for non-members
Mike Townsley joined Owens Country Sausage as president and chief operating officer in 2003, following the retirement of Owens Country Sausage President and Chief Operating Officer Vinson Kirchner. Townsley’s most recent position was as senior vice president, sales and marketing, for Premium Standard Farms in Kansas City. Premium Standard Farms is the largest fully integrated pork company in the country, with annual sales of $700 million. His prior experience includes three years at Smithfield Packing Company of Smithfield, Va., and 11 years with IBP Inc. of Dakota City, Neb. Townsley is a native of Xenia, Ohio. He graduated with a bachelor's of science degree in agriculture from Ohio State University and has served on the board of directors of the National Pork Producers Council, as well as the Colorado Beef Board. He has also served on the Packer Processor Industry Council for the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and on the American Meat Institute Pork Committee. For more information, email RSVP@telecomcorridor.com
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The Contribution of the Italian Researchers in the World The Past- The Present- the Future (Oct. 9)
The Committee for Italians Abroad (Comites) in collaboration with the “ Committee Tricolor for the Italian in the World” ( CTIM) is hosting the conference on “Research by Italians: Past, Present and Future.” The objective of the conference is to promote and satisfy civil, cultural, and social development needs of the local Italian community.
The conference will take place on Sunday afternoon October, 2005 in Dallas in honor of Columbus Day. The location is yet to be determined.
The event will emphasize the role of Italians in the fields of science and technology. The conference will be organized to have both invited speakers as well as a poster session. The invited speakers will be selected from Italian or Italian-American researchers now residing in the State of Texas to talk on modern achievements in medicine, engineering and science. The poster session held after the oral presentations will showcase noteworthy research conducted by young Italian scientists and engineers from local universities and research organizations.
Students interested in participating in this event are encouraged to submit a 200 word abstract (one figure or one table is also advisable) to the organizing committee by September 9 th, 2005.
The abstracts and the posters should be written in English using a Microsoft Windows - compatible format. Abstracts should be sent as an attachment by e-mail to: italconference@hotmail.com and cc to arcobelli@comites-it.org . The authors of selected manuscripts will be notified via email by September 20 th, 2005.
The details concerning the poster’s requirements in term of dimensions and format will follow in later communications. For questions or concerns regarding this event please contact: italconference@hotmail.com and/or arcobelli@comites-it.org.
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IEEE Consultants Network Presents Being An Expert Witness (Oct. 10)
The IEEE Consultants Network is hosting a presentation by Paul Nichols of the Silicon Valley Expert Group called “Being an Expert Witness” at 6:15pm on October 10 at the Holiday Inn Select located at 1655 North Central Expressway in Richardson. There is a $5 charge for IEEE members and a $15 charge for non-members which covers a buffet. For more information, contact Maura Schreier-Fleming at 972-380-0200.
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IEEE Dallas Consumer Electronics Society Presents Home Networking for IP Video (Oct. 11)
The IEEE Dallas Consumer Electronics Society is hosting a presentation by Richard Nesin, president of HomePNA and vice president of marketing at Coppergate Communications at 11:30am on October 11 at the Texins Activity Center located inside TI North Campus. Home networking technology has become an integral part of the Residential Gateway boxes supplied by Service Providers. As TelCos and Satellite Providers introduce new services such as standard and high definition broadcast IP TV, VoIP and networked PVRs, the demands placed on the home network change significantly. As a result, service providers are looking to new high speed technology that operates reliably over existing in-home wiring to distribute the services. The session will discuss the requirements, features and performance of HomePNA3, currently being field trialed by major service providers for TelCo TV deployments in 2005, and compare it to other home networking technologies.
There is no cost, nor membership requirement to attend this meeting. For additional information, contact Will Lumpkins at 214-567-3333 xillia@ieee.org or Sam Broyles at 214-480-3232 sam.broyles@ti.com .
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Supply Chain Management, Master of Science Contration & Certificate Program Information Session (Oct. 13)
The Center for Intelligent Supply Networks in the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas is hosting an information session on the Supply Chain Management Master of Science and Professional Certificate Program Opportunities at 12noon on October 13 in the School of Management Room 1.502 on the UTD campus. For more information, call 972-883-4843.
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North Texas: From National Distribution Center to International Inland Port (Oct. 18)
Dallas City Councilman Bill Blaydes will be a featured participant in “DFW: From National Distribution Center to International Inland Port,” a one-day conference Oct. 18 sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) School of Management’s Foreign Trade Institute.
“The focus of the International Trade Conference is to bring attention to the unique strengths of the North Texas region’s infrastructure of rail, air and interstate highways that can support an international inland port,” said John Fowler, director of Professional Development Programs at the UTD School of Management
Dallas city officials, led by Blaydes, have begun talks with Port of Houston officials to help clear Houston’s crowded docks by creating an inland port in southern Dallas County.
The inland port plan involves shipping maritime container cargoes by express rail from docks in Houston to Dallas for inspection, sorting and distribution.
A newly opened Union Pacific intermodal terminal in Hutchins and Wilmer is designed to handle 365,000 containers a year. The 360-acre terminal allows containers to be transferred from trains to trucks quickly and cost efficiently.
Dallas officials expect the inland port concept to attract warehousing and related industries to the city’s southern districts. Councilman Blaydes and consultant David Dean have approached companies such as Target Corp. with the idea of opening distribution warehouses near the inland port. The Port of Houston already is home to a large Home Depot warehouse, and Wal-Mart is building a similar facility there.
“In addition, the region has the legal, financial, education and distribution support infrastructure to assist companies in taking advantage of the international inland port,” Fowler said.
“Hosting this conference is a way of launching our Foreign Trade Institute and will help in gaining sponsors and visibility for this type of enterprise among the businesses that can benefit most from such a port,” said Dr. David Springate, associate dean for Executive Education at the UTD School of Management.
The cost of attending the seminar is $225. For more information, please contact John Fowler at 972-883-4697 or jfowler@utdallas.edu
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Society of Women Engineers October Meeting (Oct. 18)
The Girl Scout Ambassadors from the Tejas Council will be the guest speakers atht eh October Meeting of the Society of Women Engineers to be held at 6:15pm on Tuesday, October 18 at Nesley’s Restaurant at 1801 North Plano Road. .” For more information contact Jennifer Ray at jray@ppoinc.net or 214-226-6967.
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Nano Impact Summit (Oct. 19)
The Nano Science and Technology Institute, in alignment with the US government initiatives in Nanotechnology, is presenting an exclusive one-day showcase of the top commercial and technology successes impacting business and society stemming from nanotechnology. The Summit will be held on October 19 at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town Hotel in Washington, D.C.
This ascendant snapshot of nanotechnology successes will decisively illustrate program benefits to participants in the emerging IP and venture communities, the National Nanotech Initiative, the numerous participating funding agencies, academia, Congress, and the Administration in general. Attendance and participation will include leaders from funding agencies, public and private corporate executives, venture capital, licensing executives and leading technology providers and users. For more information or to register, see http://www.nsti.org/NanoImpact2005/
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U. T. Dallas to Host Conference On ‘New Era’ of Commercialization (Oct. 19-20)
Commercialization, that sometimes bewildering but nevertheless vital process of moving promising ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace, will be scrutinized at a conference next month at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) that will feature speakers from the nation’s top universities, as well as venture capitalists and industry research leaders.
The conference, titled “University-Sourced Commercialization – What Works?,” will be held Oct. 19-20 on the UTD campus in Richardson. The event will be co-sponsored by The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
The purpose of the conference is to “bring together leaders from the corporate and university communities for the purpose of discussing important issues related to university-sourced commercialization, with a strong emphasis on technology-transfer successes,” said Dr. Don Hicks, conference chair and a professor in UTD’s School of Social Sciences, one of three of the university’s schools involved in staging the event. The others are the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Management.
“This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act, which the U.S. Congress passed to enable and encourage research universities to commercialize discoveries made in their laboratories,” Hicks said. “Now, after a quarter century, it is time to identify and evaluate the successes created by this legislation and look ahead to a new era of commercialization.”
The Bayh-Dole legislation, named after the United States senators who sponsored it, created the modern legal structure for university commercialization, licensing and patenting, according to Hicks.
The two-day event will be organized around a series of four panels. Participants on the panels will include officials from leading universities – including Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Southern California and The University of Texas System – as well as other key figures in the technology-transfer field from businesses, venture capital firms and government.
Opening remarks will be made by W. Clark McFadden, partner, Dewey-Ballantine, and member of the steering committee for Government -Industry Partnership for the Development of New Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences. Two keynote addresses are scheduled – one will be delivered by Dr. “Desh” Deshpande, chairman and co-founder of Sycamore Networks and founder of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, the other by Dr. Stan Williams, Senior Hewlett Packard Fellow and director of quantum science research at HP Labs.
The conference is open to members of the public. The cost to attend is $100 per person for those who register before Sept. 30 and $150 after that date. For additional information, visit the conference web site at http://www.ecs.utdallas.edu/usc/, or contact UTD’s Theresa Dolan at 972-883-4315 or theresa.dolan@utdallas.edu. Conference attendance will be limited to 250 people.
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The Brain: An Owner's Guide – Insights into Memory Glitches (Oct. 25)
Dr. John Hart, Jr. is giving the third in the The Brain: An Owner’s Guide series at 7:00pm on October 25 at the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas’ Fogelson Auditorium located at 8200 Walnut Hill Lane, in Dallas. There is $25 charge to attend. Do you wonder why you forget the name of something at a critical time and hope that it will "pop" into your mind before embarrassment arises? These "memory glitches" occur due to asynchrony in the brain cells that retrieve the stored information for objects such as features, categories, emotions and labels. When the brain synchronizes the stored information, you feel the name of what you were trying to remember "pop back in", hopefully just in the nick of time. For further information or to reserve a seat, contact Jennifer Zientz at 214-905-3007 or online at www.centerforbrainhealth.org. The presentation is sponsored by Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas & the Neuroscience Center at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas.
