"Smart TVs" and other CE innovations from the Intel Developer Forum.

Michael Demler has over 30 years of industry experience in both marketing and R&D.  He has held business development, strategic and product marketing positions at Synopsys, Nassda, Cadence Design Systems, Antrim.  He has been a manager and designer in GE- Datel, GE Corporate R&D, and Texas Instruments.

Michael specializes in semiconductors, electronic design automation, and mobile video.  Mike's MBA thesis “Television Broadcasting Strategies for the 21st Century”, was nominated for 2006 Outstanding Business Graduate Student Award, San Jose State University.

Michael has an MBA from San Jose State University, MSEE from Southern Methodist University, and BSEE from Sate University in Buffalo, New York.  Mike holds eight patents and has authored a book on high-speed analog to digital conversion, published by Academic Press. 

Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a widely respected storage analyst and consultant.  He has over 30 years in the data storage industry with multiple engineering and management positions at high profile companies. 

Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents to his credit.  Tom is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics:  The Essential Guide, which was published by Newnes Press. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis (including reports on several digital storage technologies and applications and a newsletter) as well as Data Storage Technical Consulting services.  Tom is publishes a Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics Report, a Media and Entertainment Storage Report, and a Capital Equipment and Technology Report for the Hard Disk Drive Industry.

Tom is active with SMPTE, SNIA, IDEMA, the IEEE Magnetics Society, IEEE CE Society, and other professional organizations.  Tom is the founder and organizer of the Annual Storage Visions Conference (www.storagevisions.com), a partner to the International Consumer Electronics Show, as well as the Creative Storage Conference held (www.creativestorage.org). He is also a Senior member of the IEEE, Leader in the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils of Advisors and a member of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV).  For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications. go to www.tomcoughlin.com.

Meetings start at 6:30pm with pizza & drinks. 
The talk starts at 7:00pm, and the meeting ends at 8:30pm. 

Admission Fee:  Open to all
IEEE CES members - free
IEEE Student members - free
IEEE members - $5
non-members - $10 You do not need to be an IEEE member to attend!

Description: this will be a review of consumer electronics innovations on display at the recent Intel Developer Forum - including Google-TV, new tablet PCs based on MeeGo and Windows-7, and a gesture-based UI that executes commands directly from hand movement.

Speaker: Mike Demler