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This event is focused on electronics assembly reliability and the influence of cleaning and coating on the production of reliable hardware.

“How clean is clean?” is even more challenging to answer: conductors and circuit traces are growing narrower and what is acceptably clean for one industry segment may be unacceptable in others.

There are two basic models of media and entertainment companies using mobile web apps built on HMTL5. One model is to create a whole new experience using web technologies. This could be re-packaging existing content, giving new life to archives, or just experimenting with a new format or media product. In my experience, some music labels to this really well The other model is to take the entire media property and create a single, multi-use app where the website, the mobile app, and the tablet app are all one entity. Here, there are some great examples from the news media. The talk will examine case studies of both of these approaches and provide the pros and cons. But the main takeaway is that with HTML5, mobile website and mobile apps can be one-and-the-same.

Splash is Vator’s once-a-quarter evening event, celebrating entrepreneurship with seasoned entrepreneurs sharing lessons and advice, and 10 promising startups pitching onstage. The top 10 are chosen through an online competition. The event draws some 350 to 400 attendees in the entrepreneur community, from seasoned to emerging entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and media.

53rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2012)

A one-day workshop on "Building Meaningful Customer Experiences" by the design expert, Nathan Shedroff, author of multiple books including Making Meaning, Experience Design 1.1, Design is the Problem, Experience Design 1 Cards, and, Dictionary of Sustainable Management.

Tech Startup from the Ground Up: Advice from a non-Technical Founder. This workshop will cover the following topics:

• Day Job to Dream Job: Quit and Commit
• Execute! Learn from the Honey Badger
• Structuring & Hiring: Startup Oxygen
• Fundraising: Kickstart, Crowd-source, Accelerate, and Call in the Angels
• Growing Your Business: If Plan A Fails, there are 25 more Letters
• Recommended Resources, Questions from Viewers

3rd Annual Green Initiatives Conference Sustainability Strategies that are GOOD for the ENVIRONMENT & GREAT for your BOTTOM-LINE

Watch the webcast for free. FailCon is a one-day conference for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their own and others' failures and prepare for success.

Probabilistic Topic Models; Representation Learning; Mirror Descent and Saddle Point First Order Algorithms

The purpose of the tutorial is to promote an appreciation of the need for rigorous and objective evaluation and an understanding of the available alternatives along with their assumptions, constraints and context of application. Machine learning researchers and practitioners alike will all benefit from the contents of the tutorial, which discusses the need for sound evaluation strategies, practical approaches and tools for evaluation, going well beyond those described in existing machine learning and data mining textbooks, so far.