Please join us for our March meeting, which will bring in (virtually from Finland) a distinguished lecturer for the Robotics & Automation Society. We’ll have a local group at Trinity University, or you can join us via zoom from the comfort of your office or home. Virtual Information will be available closer to the event. Speaker(s): Steven LaValle Agenda: 11:30: In person at Trinity (gather and get pizza) 11:30 - 11:50: Zoom room will open for virtual attendees and presenter 11:55: Opening remarks and introduction 12:00: Presentation (followed by questions) 1:00: Dismissal Room: 205, Bldg: Center for Sciences and Innovation, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78212, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/543527

Join us for a professional talk by Casey Silvius, an engineer at Samsung Austin Semiconductor. Casey will provide an overview of chip manufacturing at Samsung and share his personal career journey. He will also offer advice to our senior engineers on how to stand out and differentiate themselves in the industry. Raising Cane’s will be provided for those who sign up. This event is free of charge! Room: 553, Bldg: Center of Sciecnes and Innovation , 1 Trinity Pl, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78212

At our EMBS + CS Chapter Orange County Kickoff Session and Social Mixer, Chair Gora Datta will explore the rapidly expanding global digital health landscape and the career pathways emerging across this high-impact sector. As healthcare systems adopt AI-enabled tools, interoperable standards such as HL7, and scalable digital infrastructure, demand is growing for professionals in clinical informatics, health data engineering, cybersecurity, implementation science, product innovation, and public health analytics. This session will provide insight into the skills, research directions, and cross-sector opportunities shaping the future workforce—helping attendees position themselves for meaningful, future-ready careers in digital health. Warm regards, Pradyumna Kodgi - Vice Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) – Orange County Chapter - Secretary, IEEE Computer Society Orange County Chapter - Senior Member, IEEE Speaker(s): Gora Datta, Agenda: High-Level Agenda 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Meet & Greet + Networking Reception - Informal networking - Introduction to EMBS Orange County Committee - Introduction of New Office Bearers - Overview of 2026 Programs & Initiatives 5:00 – 6:00 PM | Featured Session Gora Dutta – Global Digital Health Landscape: Emerging Workforce Pathways & Research Frontiers - Career pathways in digital health - Standards & interoperability (HL7, AI governance) - Research and innovation trends - Q&A session 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Community Dinner & Collaboration Hour - Dinner - Themed networking (industry, academia, students, entrepreneurs) - Sign-up for committees, volunteer roles, and upcoming events 5270 California Ave , Irvine, California, United States, 92617, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/544192

The IEEE Computer Society Seattle Section and the IEEE UW Bothell Student Chapter invite you to an evening of engaging session featuring two expert speakers sharing insights on cutting-edge advancements in Artificial Intelligence and large-scale data systems. As part of the program, Madhvi Sharma, Senior Engineering Manager at Oracle Health Data Intelligence, will present “Transforming Healthcare with AI”. Isaac Dasari, Data Engineer specializing in large-scale data and analytics systems, will present “Designing Petabyte-Scale Data Systems for Modern Analytics and AI”. Why Attend? - - Gain insights from industry experts - Discover real-world applications of AI and data engineering - Network with peers and professionals - Stay ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape Hosted by: IEEE Computer Society Seattle Section & IEEE UW Bothell Student Chapter Audience: Software engineers, system architects, cloud engineers, IoT developers, and students interested in scalable system design We look forward to seeing you there! Speaker(s): Madhvi Sharma, Isaac Dasari Agenda: 05:30 PM Welcome and refreshments 05:45 PM Transforming Healthcare with AI 06:30 PM 15-min break 06:45 PM Designing Petabyte-Scale Data Systems for Modern Analytics and AI 07:30 PM Networking + Wrap up Room: DISC-061, Bldg: DISC, 1122 NE 180th St, Bothell, Washington, United States, 98011, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/550555

3rd Lecture of IEEE CS San Diego's 2026 Invited Seminar Series (Virtual) Co-sponsored by: Media Partner: Open Research Institute (ORI) Speaker(s): Amit Kumar Agenda: - Invited talk from Amit Kumar Padhy - Q/A Session Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/546413

Monthly Lone Star Section Executive Committee Meeting Agenda: Room: CR 1.102, Bldg: 168, Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78238, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/524436

Synopsis: Please feel free to check out the work and thoughts of Prof. Ethem Alpaydın, Ph.D., https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/ethem-alpaydn-10375/ on Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lXYKgiYAAAAJ&hl=tr and generally on the Internet. Then, please feel free to submit your questions to Prof. Ethem Alpaydın - via Twitter by using the hashtag #ProfAlpaydinAMA and tagging @vishnupendyala - emailing vspendyala(at)hotmail(dot)com with #ProfAlpaydinAMA in the subject Selected questions will be answered by Prof. Alpaydin during the session. The audience may be able to ask follow-up questions during the session, using the Chat feature. --------------------------------------------------------------- By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU Speaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, Prof. Alpaydın Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/537179

A reception for Texas State Legislators in the Lone Star Section. Come and visit with your Texas State Senator or Representative at lunchtime on Wednesday, 22 April 2026. Our event will be held at the Education Center of the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology (SAMSAT), and will be devoted to discussing such items as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) issues, as well as those for technology infrastructure in the greater San Antonio area. Speaker(s): Dr. Cliff Zintgraff, Mr. Walt Downing Agenda: 11:00 am Legislators arrive and welcomed 11:10 am Welcome by San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology (SAMSAT) CEO and Lone Star Section leadership 11:30 am Introductions and comments by legislators 12:00 pm Lunch and breakout for discussions with appropriate legislators 12:30 pm Tour of Area 21 at SAMSAT 1:00 pm Adjourn SAMSAT Education Center, 5035 SW 36th St, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM 7:00 PM, Thursday, 23 April 2026 MIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva) and online via Zoom Complexity of the Internet—An AI Observation Science Perspective Jeremy Kepner, MIT Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/9017687585696/WN_lEhsXZTkQKW1X7pwRgHiOg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.Indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend in person. This will help us determine whether the room is close to reaching capacity. We plan to serve light refreshments (probably pizza) before the talk starting at around 6:30 pm. Letting us know you will come in person will help us determine how much pizza to order. We may make some auxiliary material such as slides and access to the recording available after the seminar to people who have registered. Abstract: What does “normal” look like in a system that grows, adapts, and scales at extraordinary speed? How do its underlying patterns shift as the network expands from its early days to a billion-fold increase in scale? In this seminar, Dr. Kepner will explore how advances in high-performance, privacy-preserving AI graph analysis tools open new windows into the Internet’s behavior. His work sheds light on emergence, structure, and stability within this constantly changing global system. Dr. Kepner will explain the deep connections between graphs and matrices and more general mathematical concepts of semirings and associative (token) arrays that are the foundations of modern large language model (LLM) agentic AI systems. These mathematical concepts form the basis of the high performance GraphBLAS sparse matrix standard and the D4M (Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Model) associative array library that can analyze the largest networks in the world while preserving privacy. Bio: Dr. Jeremy Kepner is an MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow. He founded the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center and pioneered the establishment of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center. He has developed novel big data and parallel computing software used by thousands of scientists and engineers worldwide. He has led several embedded computing efforts, which earned him a 2011 R&D 100 Award. Kepner has chaired the SIAM Data Mining conference, the IEEE Big Data conference, and the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing conference. Kepner is the author of two bestselling books, Parallel MATLAB for Multicore and Multinode Computers, and Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra. His peer-reviewed publications include works on abstract algebra, astronomy, astrophysics, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data mining, databases, graph algorithms, health sciences, plasma physics, signal processing, and 3D visualization. In 2014, he received Lincoln Laboratory's Technical Excellence Award. You can learn more about his work here: https://www.mit.edu/~kepner/ Kepner holds a BA degree in astrophysics from Pomona College and a PhD degree in astrophysics from Princeton University. He is a fellow of the Society of Industrial Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and is a faculty advisor to the MIT SIAM student group. Directions to 32-G449 - MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA: Please use the main entrance to the Stata Center at 32 Vassar Street (the entrance closest to Main street) as those doors will be unlocked. Upon entering, proceed to the elevators which will be on the right after passing a large set of stairs and a MITAC kiosk. Take the elevator to the 4th floor and turn right, following the hall to an open area; 32-G449 will be on the left. (https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32) This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM will be hybrid (in person and online). Up-to-date information about this and other talks is available online at https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this talk and informational emails about future talks at https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs, our self-administered mailing list. Co-sponsored by: gbc/acm Speaker(s): Jeremy Kepner, Room: 32-G449 (Kiva), Bldg: MIT building 32, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/533802

Robotics, AI, and the Quest for Human-Centered Autonomous Systems This presentation is by IEEE Fellow and RAS Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Lydia E. Kavraki. The meeting, on the UTSA University campus, is open to everyone and IEEE student members from all San Antonio universities are especially invited to attend. A dinner will be provided at no cost. (Parking Details) Park at the Bauerle Road Garage (BRG) across the Main Building, and we will offer parking validation. Speaker(s): Dr. Lydia Kavraki Agenda: 6:45pm - Doors open and buffet is available 7:00pm - Welcome and announcements LSS Robotics and Automation Chapter University of San Antonio RAS Student Branch 7:10pm - Introduction of Dr. Lydia E. Kavraki Presentation: "Robotics, AI, and the Quest for Human-Centered Autonomous Systems" 8:00pm - Questions and Discussion 8:15pm - Adjourn Room: Denman Ballroom, Bldg: Main Buiilding, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78249, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/539029