[plug] Reminder - SAGE-WA November Meeting.

[Tom Hallam]

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                       SAGE-WA November Meeting

               System Administrators Guild of Australia
                          WA Regional Group
                      http://www.sage-au.org.au/

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Date:       Wednesday 1st November 
Time:       Pre Meeting drinks at back of pub	6:00pm
            Meeting starts in Raine Room  	6:30pm

Location:   The Moon and Sixpence
            300 Murray St Perth

            The meeting will be in Raine Room

            ***    NOTE CHANGE IN ROOM    ***

            GO to the right as you come in the
            main doors of the moon and sixpence.
            
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Meeting Topic:

	Silicon Valley 2000 it's culture and technology

	Gene E. Trivett 
	Senior Lecturer 
	Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering 
	The University of Western Australia 

California is home to one in eight Americans and has a gross state 
product of a trillion dollars (Note: real dollars). At the heart of 
this phenomenal enterprise is Silicon Valley (SV). It has a culture, 
work ethic, and creative ability like no other in the world (some 
say thank goodness). Often referred to as embedded on planet 
California, this talk covers several cultural and technological 
aspects of this SV juggernaught. Several key technologies that are 
driving SV's growth as well as SV's failures are discussed. Time 
will be provided for questions, answers, and debates.

After UCLA, Gene spent over 20 years in Silicon Valley.  He worked 30 
years at IBM doing a wide range of projects which included: Building 
Nuclear weapons at Los Alamos, Automating control of electricity 
power grids, putting the man on the moon project, developing 
transaction based banking systems including the ATM, and building AI 
products. His largest project was the working for the president of 
IBM performing technical responsibility (to 15,000 people) for the 
Enterprise System Complex , which remains the basis of IBM's product 
line today; . He has four world wide patents including the ATM, 
Networking switching, distributed data sharing; he has published and 
lectured widely. After IBM he developed his own company (with the 
assist of vulture capitalists) in Silicon Valley which successfully 
built an early 64 bit SPARC server bought out by Hatachi. Lectured at 
the University level for three years and now consults.

On a personal level, Gene is a triathlete (Ironman), Surf Club 
bronze medallion holder, Mt. Bike and cross-country ski racer. He 
permanently resides at the ski area in Lake Tahoe Nevada with his 
wife Lynn. He is a permanent Aussie resident.

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After the meeting:
       Some light food will be available after the meeting.  
       Stay around, have a drink and get to know your fellow
       system administrators

If you are interested in SAGE or just curious then please come along
to the meeting.  If you are a SAGE member then please bring a friend
or associate.

If you wish to have some input into the future of SAGE-WA or wish to
know more about future meetings and are not able to attend this
meeting then please contact me.

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Tom Hallam                                     ph: (08) 9380 1634
Information Systems Manager.                  fax: (08) 9380 1065
Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering. mobile: 0410 453 630
University of Western Australia                           rm: G72
http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~thallam    mailto:thallam at ee.uwa.edu.au
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