From: dme@cs.bu.edu (David Evans)
Newsgroups: ne.seminars
Subject: Boston Combined Schedule
Date: 9 Nov 92 03:19:36 GMT

Notices for meetings and lectures within the next 14 days
Events recently publicized are excluded.
We have no other information about these events; some, however,
have a phone number or address for additional details or confirmation.

  Mon  9 Nov  4:00 pm
Room 101, Aiken Computation Laboratory, between Harvard Law School and Peabody
Museum, off Oxford Street, Cambridge. (Tea at 3.30 in Aiken Basement Lobby)
Speaker: Rina Dechter, Information and Computer Science, University of
California, Irvine <dechter@ics.uci.edu>  "In Search of Tractable Islands"
Host: Harvard University CS Colloquium Series and Professor Victor J.
Milenkovic  For Info: Prof. Victor Milenkovic, or <menke@das.harvard.edu>

  Thu 12 Nov 10:30 am  Center for High Performance Computing, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, 293 Boston Post Road West, Marlborough, MA 01752
Speaker: Daniel A. Reed, Department of Computer Science, University of
Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
"Performance Environments for Scalable Parallel Systems"
Host: Center for High Performance Computing
For Info: Rick LaRowe (508) 624-7400 x610 <rlarowe@chpc.org>

  Fri 13 Nov 11:00 am  Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fuller Labs 320.
Speaker: Dr. Virginia Ogozalek, Professor of Computer Science, WPI
"Computer Technology and the Graying of America - A Human Factors Perspective"
Host: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science Colloquium.
For Info: roberta@sequoia.wpi.edu (Roberta Baker). Directions Available.

  Fri 13 Nov  3:00 pm  DEC CRL, One Kendall Square, Bldg. 700, Cambridge (at
Hampshire St. and Broadway, north of Technology Sq. and northwest of MIT and
the Kendall "T" stop)
Speaker: Steven P. Reiss, Department of Computer Science, Brown University
"Program Visualization - Where We Go From Here"
Host: Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge Research Lab  For Info: Michelle
Gillespie (617)-621-6601 <michelle@crl.dec.com>, Refreshments at 2.30

  Fri 13 Nov  3:15 pm
MIT Building NE43, Rm 308, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge (On Main Street
near intersection of Albany Street, @ Polaroid Building) Refreshments at 3.00.
Speaker: Jon Riecke, AT&T Bell Labs  "Delimiting the Scope of Effects"
Host: MIT Theory of Computation Seminar and Albert Meyer  For Info: Joanne
Talbot <joanne@theory.lcs.mit.edu>, Note unusual time and room location.

  Mon 16 Nov  4:00 pm
Room M227, Kingsbury Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Speaker: Candace Sidner, Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research Lab
"Modelling Collaboration and Negotiation for Human and Computer Interaction"
Host: University of New Hampshire Department of Computer Science, Computer
Science Colloquium Series  For Info: Pilar de la Torre, 603-862-2682
<pilar@yes.cs.unh.edu>. Refreshments at 3.30.

  Mon 16 Nov  4:00 pm
Room 101, Aiken Computation Laboratory, between Harvard Law School and Peabody
Museum, off Oxford Street, Cambridge. (Tea at 3.30 in Aiken Basement Lobby)
Speaker: Bonnie Dorr, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of
Maryland  "Parameterization of Syntax, Lexical Semantics, and Aspect in Machine
Translation"  Host: Harvard University CS Colloquium Series and Professor
Victor J. Milenkovic
For Info: Prof. Victor Milenkovic, or <menke@das.harvard.edu>

  Tue 17 Nov  3:00 pm  Longwood Medical Complex (Brigham and Womens Hospital,
Children's Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital)
"Tour of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) Cogeneration Facility"
Host: IEEE Power Engineering Society
For Info: Paul Konz 617-589-1166, Alberto Codero 617-589-2791

  Tue 17 Nov  6:00 pm  Holzman Auditorium, Bldg 1106, Hanscom AFB, Lexington
Speaker: Eugen Ngai, Hardy Harwell, Michael Brenner, ESSCO
"Antenna and Radome Technology Advancements"
Host: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society  For Info: Janet Werth 617-271-6214

  Tue 17 Nov  6:15 pm
Stone and Webster Auditorium, 14th fl., 245 Summer St., Boston
Speaker: Randall Thompson and Bill Washville, Westinghouse Electric Corp.
"Interfacing Programmable Logic Controllers to Electrical Distribution
Monitoring Systems"  Host: IEEE Power Engineering Society
For Info: Pietrina Capraro-Burbank 617-589-5515

  Tue 17 Nov  7:00 pm
Continental Resources / CTA Building 175 Middlesex Turnpike Bedford, MA
Speaker: Janet P. Silveira
"Where does IBM stand with the AD/Cycle Repository?"  Host: IEEE/CS ACM/SIGSOFT
For Info: Charles Martin (508) 371-7011 Jerry Sacks  (508) 275-1920

  Wed 18 Nov 12:15 pm  Sheraton-Wayfarer Inn, Bedford NH
"Bus Tour of Sandy Pond HVDC Converter Station"
Host: IEEE New Hampshire Power Engineering Society
For Info: BUS RESERVATION REQUIRED by Nov 13, call Lynne Breton 603-634-2251

  Wed 18 Nov  6:00 pm  NCO Club, Hanscom AFB, Lexington
Speaker: Michael L. Johnson, RELEX  "Technical Risk Analysis"
Host: IEEE Reliability Society  For Info: Jim Fahy 508-480-7118

  Wed 18 Nov  6:15 pm  Call the Contact
Speaker: Carl-Henry Piel, IBI Group, Inc.  "CMAC Neural Networks and Their
Applications to Gain Scheduling in Real-Time Tracking Filters"
Host: IEEE Control Systems / Aerospace and Electronic Systems
For Info: George Kovatch 617-494-2756

  Wed 18 Nov  7:00 pm  1100 Winter St. (North Entrance), Waltham
Speaker: Sol Aisenberg, International Technology Group and Cell Control Inc.
"Techniques and Information for New and Experienced Consultants"
Host: IEEE Consultant's Network  For Info: Ed Gordon 508-757-1462

  Thu 19 Nov  6:00 pm  Hewlett Packard, 29 Burlington Mall Rd., Burlington
Speaker: James C. Raultio, Sonnet Software, Inc.
"Experimental Validation of Microwave and Electromagnetic Software"
Host: IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques  For Info: Rick Webster 617-377-3683

  Thu 19 Nov  6:30 pm  Marcam auditorium, Marcam Corp., 95 Wells Ave, Newton
(call or email for directions)  Speaker: Stan Lapidus, Cytyk
"Engineers Starting High-Tech Companies"  Host: IEEE Computer Society
For Info: Harvey G. Reed 617-965-0220 <harvey@opl.com>

  Thu 19 Nov  7:00 pm  Minuteman Vocational Technical High School
Speaker: Donald E. Swanson, Consultant  "Sales Skills for Engineers"
Host: IEEE Pace / North Shore Subsection
For Info: Fausto Molinet 603-894-4139, Jim Brit 508-531-6116

  Thu 19 Nov  7:00 pm
Newman Auditorium, BBN, Inc., 70 Fawcett Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ted Demopoulos  "Distributed Services and the Open Software
Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment"
Host: Greater Boston Chapters of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society
For Info: Ken Baclawski (617) 437-4631