Invitation to Tech Tune-Up: Innovative and Disruptive Technologies to be held June 2-4

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Luke Francl

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May 24, 2008, 3:03:17 PM5/24/08

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MinneBarcampers,

I got a heads up about an event that may be of interest. The University of Minnesota is hosting a short conference/seminar on major upcoming technology advances called Tech Tune-Up. It will be held June 2-4

For details, see this link: http://www.ece.umn.edu/events/workshops/tech_tune-up/2008/

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Luke

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Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota

You are invited to attend Tech Tune-Up: Innovative and Disruptive Technologies, a short course offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Minnesota.

June 2-4, 2008
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building

Room 3-180

200 Union Street S.E.

Minneapolis, MN 55455

This year Tech Tune-Up will expose professionals to breakthroughs and innovations coupled with insights and commentaries from internationally renowned researchers and practitioners. It will hone the competitive edge of participants and help them stay ahead of market and technology changes in today's competitive environment.

Lectures and panels will be given by experts from industry and from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, the Medical School and the Carlson School of Management. Topics that will be covered during the 3-day course include:

· Nanoelectronics

· Metamaterials

· Nanoimaging

· Quantum dots

· Low power design

· Renewable energy and energy storage

· Optical communications

· Next generation wireless networks

· Wireless sensor networks

· Data mining and machine learning

· RFID

· Energy harvesting

· Bioinformatics

· Informative brain decoding

· Implantable and wearable medical sensors

· Storage: materials, hardware, signal processing and management

· Biosensing

· MRI

· Ultrasound

· Wireless and network security

· CAD

· How to start and grow a technology company

· Multicore design and programming

· Software development

· Critical infrastructure security and protection

For more information and to register, please visit our Web site:
http://www.ece.umn.edu/events/workshops/tech_tune-up/2008/

Ahmed Tewfik
E. F. Johnson Professor of Electronic Communications, ECE Dept.
Tech Tune-Up Program Coordinator