IEEE Computer Society
Vancouver Chapter

Welcome to the Vancouver Chapter of The IEEE Computer Society.
The purpose of this page is to provide information about the Vancouver Chapter, and the activities we sponsor.  We serve the BC Mainland members of the IEEE Computer Society (numbering over 400) and other computing professionals, sponsoring various activities such as lectures and tutorials, workshops and tours.  

We welcome your interest in our Chapter, and look forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions.  Additional feedback, regarding both our Chapter operations, and this web site, is also welcome.

Please contact: 

Dr. Philippe Kruchten
Computer Society Chapter Chair
email:    pbk (at) ece.ubc.ca
phone:   (604) 827-5654

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Our upcoming meetings:

Our past meetings (2005-08):

Date	Click on topic to view full announcement.	Our Speaker:
April 15, 2009	A Unified Approach for Repairing Packet Loss and Accelerating Channel Changes in Multicast IPTV	Ali C. Begen CISCO
Nov. 19, 2008	Attacking Information Overload in Software Development	Gail Murphy UBC-CS
Oct. 27, 2008	Software best practices: Agile deconstructed Jointly with Agile Vancouver	Steven Fraser, CISCO Research
Sept 17, 2008	The Robotics Tsunami: do you hear the wave of the next computer revolution?: Jointly with the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics chapter (Ozge Uncu, chair)	Reuven Granot, Spark Integration Technologies Inc.
April 10, 2008	Dynamic Data Management in MANET	Sanjay Madria, UMR
March 6, 2008	Denial of Memory Service in Multi-Core Systems and Preventing it via Fair Memory Controllers	Onur Mutlu, Microsoft Res.
March 17, 2008	Human Aspects of Software Engineering: Social and Cognitive Perspectives	Orit Hazzan, Technion
February 18-22, 2008		See separate web site The Computer chapter was a co-sponsor of this 5-day international conference on software architecture. 171 participants!
Jan. 22 , 2008	IT Age	Eduard Babulak, FDU
Dec. 10, 2007	Integration of Wireless Technology in Consumer Electronic Devices	Sean Mercer, Microsoft
October 4th	What every developer should know about software performance on multicore processors	Alexandra Fedorova, SFU
October 4th	Using Modern Graphics Processors for Non-graphics Applications	Tor Aamodt, UBC
September 25th	The Benefits of Abstraction in Patterns	Linda Rising
Sept. 4th, 2007	Real-Time Java Predictable Performance for Java applications	Mike Fulton, IBM
Aug. 14, 2007	Medical Embedded Systems	Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA
February 5, 2007 5:30-8:30 Sheraton Wall Center 1088 Burrard	Software, ... when failure is not an option (details here). 2 presentations back to back: - J. Harauz: Safety and Security Considerations in Developing Software - John Walz: Software engineering standards for IT departments supporting Sarbanes-Oxley	John Harauz, SM IEEE John Walz, SM IEEE
Nov. 15-16 , 2006	2-day conference on Agile Software Development Processes. Your chapter is a coorganizer of this 2-day event at the Plaza 500 (Cambie and 12th). See separate conference site	Mary Poppendieck, Linda Rising, Scott Ambler, Ron Morsicato, Neil Harrison, Jennitta Andrea, Preston Smith, and many others
March 28 , 2006	Towards HardLANs: Building Network Intrusion Detections to 1 Gbps and Beyond	Nicholas Weaver, ICSI, Berkeley
Feb. 2006	Capturing Architectural Requirements	Peter Eeles, IBM UK
Feb. 2006	Software Architecture Decisions	Hans van Vliet , Frije U., Amsterdam
Jan. 12, 2006	Trustworthy Software for Today and Tomorrow	Larry Bernstein, FIEEE, New Jersey Inst. of Tech.
Nov. 22, 2006	Modular Testing of Core-Based System-on-Chip Integrated Circuits	Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke U.
Nov. 3 ,2006	Towards a Hanbook of Software Architecture	Grady Booch, IBM US
Oct. 2006	The Essence of Software Engineering	Pierre N Robillard, Université de Montréal .
Sep.20, 2006	The art and science of software release planning	Gunther Ruhe, U. of Calgary .

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Updated April 18, 2009 pbk