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Special note: Since we started this webpage in 1996, we have included MapBlast maps on meeting notice pages. Mapblast has changed their format and URL structure so all old pages will no longer display their maps correctly. We are sorry for any inconvience. Update: Mapblast has now been aquired by Microsoft -- http://mappoint.msn.com/.

Recent meeting notices include some maps from Mapquest and Yahoo maps, but we have found them to be less accurate overall.

Past meetings:

8 Dec 2009: “How Cable Works” [@ KMVT, Mtn View]

24 Nov 2009: “10 Gigabit Cable for Audio and Video Applications” [@ KMVT, Mtn View]

27 Oct 2009: “Intellectual Property: What Engineers Need to Know about Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, and Agreements” [@ KMVT, Mtn View]

25 Aug 2009: “What makes television unwatchable and drives away viewers?” [@ KMVT, Mtn View]

29 Jul 2009: “Maximizing HD Cable Performance — Especially 1080p/60” [@ Harry's Hofbrau RWC]

28 May 2009: “The Technology of Current TV: A Unique Business/Engineering Model” [@ Current TV]

29 Apr 2008: “Who's Your Daddy? Television Engineering's Past, Present, and Where We're Heading as Career Engineers” [@ Coco's, Sunnyvale]

29 Jan 2009: “A Brief History of the Second” [@ Blue Pheasant Restaurant , Cupertino]

11 Dec 2008: “Bending (And Yanking And Pulling) Cable -- What We (Think We) Know Can Hurt Us!” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

19 Nov 2008: “Archiving Digital Media -- What’s An Archive (And Do I Need One)?” [@NetApp, Sunnyvale]

30 Oct 2008: “Old Models Die Hard: Moving Media To The Web” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

25 Sept 2008: “Stereoscopic 3D Cinema: A Fad Or The Future?” [@ Sony]

21 Aug 2008: “Big Screen, Big Sound: Dialnorm, Loudness, Metadata, Proper Monitoring for Multi-Channel 5.1 TV Audio” [@ Wohler & webcast]

28 Jul 2008: “Video Imaging in Automated Law Enforcement” [@ Orban/CRL Systems & webcast]

06 Dec 2007: “Making the High-Definition Connection with HDMI and Triax” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

01 Nov 2007: “Compression 2007: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” [@HP & webcast]

30 Aug 2007: “An Evening at Dolby Laboratories” [@ Dolby]

18 Jul 2007: “Current TV Facility Tour” [@ Current TV]

14 Jun 2007: “Video Systems in an IT Environment” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

17 May 2007: “Lasers -- The Future of Video Displays” [@Novalux]

05 May 2007: “‘A Taste of NAB 2007’ Road Show” [@NVC]

16 Nov 2006: “Digital Wireless Intercoms — Just In Time For “2009”” [@Clear-Com]

14 June 2006: “Media Systems Workflow at Lucasfilm's New Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC)” [@the Presidio of San Francisco]

13 May, 2006: “‘A Taste of NAB 2006’Road Show” [@NVC]

02 Mar, 2006: “SMPTE NO-HOST “NPP” MEETING” [@ Harry's Hofbrau]

27 Oct, 2005: “The D-ENG Transition: Migrating ENG From Analog to Digital” [@ KCSM]

20 Jul, 2005: “Opticodec-PC the Webcaster's encoding product” [@ Orban]

28 Jun, 2005: “PSIP and MPEG Compliance in Practice” [@ KGO]

19 May, 2005: “How Do They Do That?: The Yellow 1st Down Line and Other Virtual Graphics Effects For Live Sports Broadcasts” [@ Sportvision]

17 Mar, 2005: “An Overview of the HDV format from Adobe and JVC” [@ Adobe]

23 Feb, 2005: “Digital Cinema at Dolby in San Francisco” [@ Dolby Labs]

17 Nov, 2004: “Using Category 5, 5e, and 6 for Audio and Video Applications” [@ Digidesign/Avid]

21 July, 2004: “The State Of Storage In the World Of Digital Media” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

23 June, 2004: “Production Automation - Studio Design Considerations” [@ KRON]

18 May, 2004: “Managing Multichannel Audio on the Digital Frontier” [@ KQED]

1 May, 2004: “Where Am I?— Locating Your Position On Earth” [@NVC]

24 Mar, 2004: “Media Files and Delivery Formats” [@ Digidesign/Avid]

25 Feb, 2004: “Loudness” in Broadcasting and Film” [@ Dolby Labs]

29 Jan, 2004: “TV Town Hall” [@ Digidesign/Avid]

23 Oct, 2003: “A New SMPTE Standard?: Microsoft Windows Media® Video 9 Codec” [@ MS campus]

25 Sept, 2003: “AAF, MXF, and the New Generation of Broadcast Technologies” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

24 July, 2003: “TV on Wheels” [@ KTVU ]

19 June, 2003: “Optimizing Analog Signals For the Smooth Transition to DTV” [@ Tech TV]

15 May, 2003: “The Art and Science of Pixels” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

26 Apr, 2003: “The Changing Faces of System Integration and Program Production” [@ NVC]

25 Mar, 2003: “MXF - The Material Exchange Format Demystified” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

26 Feb, 2003: “Video/Audio As Data? Open Standards and Media Servers” [@ KCSM]

30 Jan, 2003: “24P” [@ Digidesign/Avid]

14 Nov, 2002: “2002: An Electronic-Television Anniversary” [@ University of San Francisco]

17 Oct, 2002: “Spec versus Screenplay, Engineering the Story” [@ Round Table, Menlo Park]

26 Sept, 2002: “Wired and Wireless: Making the Connections” [@ KPIX]

25 Jul, 2002: “Hot off the press! MPEG-4  It's Finally Here -- Just In Time Or Too Late? [@ Envivio]

22 Jun, 2002: “Sutro Tower Transmitter Tour” [@ Sutro Tower]

23 May, 2002: “Infrastructure: It's Not Just For Urban Planners Any More"  [@Round Table, Menlo Park]

27 Apr, 2002: “TV's Future, + NAB Wrap-Up + SMPTE Student Chapter 11 NVC Tour [@NVC]

28 Mar, 2002: “DTV ‘Datacasting’-- Hey, It's Working!” [@Round Table, Menlo Park]

21 Feb, 2002: “The Pixar Pipeline” [@ Pixar]

16 Jan, 2002: “Media Interchange In the Digital World” [@ KTVU]

15 Nov, 2001: “Electronic Imaging For Digital Cinema” [@Sony]

25 Oct, 2001: “Networked Media Servers in a Wide Area Network Digital Broadcast Environment” [@Round Table, Menlo Park]

25 Sept., 2001: “Television News Production Automation + The Future of Terrestrial Broadcasting” [@KQED]

23 Aug, 2001: “High-Quality Disparate-Network Video Transmission: A Solution to a Bandwidth Crisis” [@ Innovacom]

26 Jul, 2001: “360º Immersive Video: ‘You Are There!’&8221; [@ SGI]

28 Jun, 2001: “Asset Management, or: ‘The Program We Think We Want May Be Somewhere in That Pile; But Where?'” [@ Thompson]

Mar 29, 2001: “MPEG4: State of the Art” [@ SGI]

30 Jan, 2001: “DTV Multichannel Audio: Overview of Production, Distribution & Emission” [@ Dolby Labs]

24 Oct, 2000: “Bay Area Video Trends -- From IVC to DV Formats” [@ Harry's Hofbrau]

21 Sep, 2000: “From Digital Cinema to Home Theater...the next hundred years of SMPTE” [@ SGI]

3 Aug, 2000: “Datacasting: the Real Future of DTV?” [@ SGI]

18 May, 2000 “Local Career Training in New Media and A/V Production and Engineering” [@ Ex'pression]

27 Apr , 2000: “(H)DTV: So Far, So Good?” [@ KPIX]

24 Feb, 2000: “Conference Awards & High Lights” [@ SGI]

20 Jan, 2000: “Imaging in the Age of DTV and Multiple Video Standards” [@ SGI]

16 Dec, 1999: “Film is Alive and Well!” [@ Monaco Labs]

11 Nov , 1999: “Digital Video's Pursuit of Motion Picture Film” [@ Sony]

30 Sept, 1999: “High-Quality Video Over The Internet” [@ SGI]

26 Aug, 1999: “The Future of Home Digital Recording” [@ SGI]

30 June, 1999: “Real-time MPEG Encoding” [@ DiviCom]

27 May, 1999: “NAB Wrap-Up” [@ SGI]

15 May, 1999: “SMPTE Student Chapter 11 NVC Tour + Tek PQA200 Demo” [@ NVC]

Mar,1999: “DV, 1394, and Desktop Digital Editing: The Promise Delivered” [@ SGI]

Feb, 1999: “Merging DTV and DVD: Bridging the Great Divide Between the Streams” [@ SGI]

Jan.1999: “Bay Area Broadcast DTV and HDTV: Are We There Yet?” [@ KPIX]

Nov.1998: “HDTV Graphics and Distributed Servers” [@ SGI]

Sept.1998: “Big TV Screens: Display Technologies For The HDTV Era” [@HT Electronics]

Aug.1998: “Film Sound and Better Film Sound: The Dolby Experience.” [@ Dolby Labs]

July 1998: “An Alternative Approach to the Marriage of Film and Video” [@ Sony}

June 1998: “1080i? 720p? 480p? 480i? Pick One! Understanding the New Digital TV‘Standards'” [@ Embassy Suites Hotel at the Gateway Center]

May,1998: “SMPTE Student Chapter 11 NVC Tour + Tek PQA200 Demo” [@ NVC]

Apr, 1998: “DTV, HDTV, and SDTV: the DVT Wars” [@ Cal State Hayward]

Mar, 1998: “DVD: What Current and Future Standards Mean for the Video Industry” [@ SGI]

Feb, 1998: “Film Sound and Better Film Sound: The Dolby Experience.” [@ Dolby Labs]

Jan, 1998: “The JVC Digital-S Format: A Serious Contender in the Digital VTR Race” [@ SGI]

Dec, 1997: “KDTV-TV ? Channel 14 ? SPN TOUR A GREAT NEW DIGITAL-BASED TV STATION” & discussion of Unshielded Twisted Pair for video [@ KDTV]

Nov, 1997: “Satellite DTV Broadcasting into the Next Century” [@ Sony]

Oct, 1997: “MPEG-2 and the Future of DVD plus DVD Authoring/Encoding Equipment Demos” [@ NUKO Information Systems]

Sept, 1997: “Servers, Storage, and “Now-Shock": DTV Reality for Major-Market TV Stations” [@ KGO-TV]

Aug, 1997: “Low Bit-rate Video over Bonded T-1s” and “Edit MPEG!” [@ FutureTel, Inc.]

July, 1997: “Ramping Up to DTV: Dilemmas & Decisions” + a KPIX studio tour [@ KPIX]

June, 1997: “Cameras in the uncharted Land of DTV: 4x3, 16x9, and High Definition” [@ SGI]

May, 1997: “Video File Servers -- State of the art, on the air now!” [@ SGI]

Apr, 1997: “NAB and Website” [@ SGI]

Mar, 1997: “IMAX Theater” [@ Great America's Imax Theater]

Feb, 1997: “Dolby AC-3” [@ Dolby Labs]

Jan, 1997: “Firewire and DV", with DPS, Inc. and Adaptec, Inc. and DV [@ (former) “Ampex” cafeteria]

Dec, 1996: “Elements of Digital Video Compression and the New Digital-S Video Tape Recording Technology” [@ KRON]

Nov, 1996: “Virtual Sets” with Accom and SGI [@ SGI]

Oct, 1996: “Real Time Non Linear on the Desktop” at Scitex [@ Scitex]

Sept, 1996: “Compression, MPEG-2 and BetaCam SX” [@ KTVU Studio A]