May 14, 2023 – SIG-Computing: The Origins of Silicon Valley: Why and How It Happened; SIG-Linux: Handbrake

Sharan Kalwani, president of SEMCO, will start the meeting and make general announcements.

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When: Sunday, Mary 14, 2023, at 1:15 P.M.
Where: Meetings will be on line until further notice.

SIG Computing Topic: The Origins of Silicon Valley: Why and How It Happened

Documentary Movie Presented by Sharan Kalwani

Why did Silicon Valley come into being? In this talk, Paul Wesling brings you back to early Stanford engineers, campus faculty kids around 1915, local Hams (amateur radio operators) trying to break RCA’s tube patents, the sinking of the Titanic, angel investments, Fred Terman and Stanford University, local invention of high-power tubes (gammatron, klystron), WWII and radar, new approaches to running companies, and the San Francisco Bay Area infrastructure. These factors led to the semiconductor and integrated circuit industries being located here, and earned it the designation as “Silicon Valley.” In this exciting history of device technology development and innovation from 1909 through 1960, you will “meet” some of the colorful characters—Cyril Elwell, Leonard Fuller, Lee DeForest, Bill Eitel, Charles Litton, Russell Varian, Fred Terman, David Packard, Bill Hewlett and others—who set leadership patterns for the worldwide electronics industries through their collaboration, inventions, process development, and allied management techniques.  Here is where geeks now gather to start new companies that invent the future. This edited lecture was given in Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford University, on April 19, 2017.

Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation.

When: Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 1:30 P.M.

Where: Meetings will be on line until further notice. Click on link shown above.

SIG-Linux Topic: Handbrake

Presented by Sharan Kalwani

Handbrake is an open-source video media converter. In the past we have done video editors (such as OpenShot/ShotCut etc.) but did not touch upon the topic of media conversion.

There are currently two very popular media players and converters – the other being VLC. We will focus on handbrake, Basics will be covered such installing handbrake, selecting video source, destination target formats, etc.

Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation.

Where: Meetings will be on line until further notice. Click on link shown above.

When: Sunday, May 14, 2023, at 3:00 P.M.