Speaker: Dr. Jahan Ghofraniha
Date/Time: Saturday, 9/25/2010, 3:00-4:00PM
Location: Room C in the NPU Administration Building
Introduction to the speaker:
* Ph.D. EE. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1997
* M.A.Sc, EE The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1990
* B.S. Eng, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1985
Digital Signal Processing Theory, Data Compression, Communication systems, Wireless systems, Digital Filtering, Adaptive Filtering, Intelligent systems, fixed and floating point DSP's and FPGA's.
Dr. Ghofraniha has had over ten years of professional experience in the computer industry. His technical expertise includes digital signal processing with algorithmic implementation. as well as system engineering.
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Topic: The Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services
Speaker: Dr. Manuel Gaspay
Date/Time: Saturday, 9/18/2010, 3:00-4:00PM
Location: Room C in the NPU Administration Building
Abstract:
As environmental resources become congested and the quality of their services degraded, the need to invest in ecosystem restoration projects is sparking renewed interest in methods of valuation of the economic benefits of these services. The most controversial valuation problems posed involve so-called non-use values where markets can not provide little clue as to these values. Picture the problem of deciding how much to charge BP for all those wildlife killed from the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, the contingency valuation method becomes a method of last resort, thus, leading to serious academic inquiries on the nuances of its methodology. This brief presentation reviews the methods used in the valuation of eco-system services and their strengths and weaknesses.
Introduction to the speaker:
Ph.D. Economic Development, Stanford University, CA, 1993
M.A. Economics, Stanford University, CA, 1988
M.E. IE, University of the Philippines, Q.C., Philippines, 1980
B.S. Geodetic Engineering, University of the Philippines, Q.C., Philippines, 1972
Economics, project evaluation and management, quantitative analysis, public policy analysis.
In his early professional career, Dr. Gaspay worked on farm systems development projects in the Philippines. Later he was in charge of projects having economical impacts in Southeast Asia including Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Philippines. Since 2001, Dr. Gaspay has focused his effort in teaching while serving as management consultant at the Community Child Care Council in San Jose.
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Topic: Introduction to Personality and Professional Development
Speaker: Dr. George Hsieh
Date/Time: Saturday, 9/11/2010, 3:00-4:00PM
Location: Room C in the NPU Administration Building
Introduction to the speaker:
Dr. George Hsieh, president of Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU), has been dedicated to the fields of science, technology, and management for more than three decades. His human resource management techniques and effective teaching methodologies, coupled with the object-oriented educational model of student learning, have successfully transformed thousands of individuals into successful professionals. Under the leadership of Dr. Hsieh, NPU has rapidly become one of the outstanding institutions in Silicon Valley. For over 23 years, NPU has been serving the students from over 20 countries as well as local community and helped thousands of people to explore their potentials, help them to take the challenge and achieve their goals.
Dr. Hsieh also has been very active in supporting the advancement of higher education in the international communities, particularly in Asian countries. In the past twenty years, he has visited more than 200 institutions of higher learning and many high tech districts/parks in China, Taiwan, HK, Japan, Korea etc. and more than 100,000 attendees have attended and benefited from hundreds of speeches, presentations and lectures given by him.
In addition, Dr. Hsieh has exerted great efforts and made great contributions in promoting east and west cross cultural understanding as well as in cultivating business cooperation between Asian companies and corporations in Silicon Valley. Dr. Hsieh has been serving as Commissioner, Economic Development Commission, City of Fremont for years, he also is the Director, Board of Director of UNA-USA. In 2005, Dr. Hsieh was awarded the Outstanding Alumni by the Alumni Association of National Cheng Kung University to honor his achievements.
In a great vision of “boundless campus”, Dr. Hsieh initiated Global Education Consortium (GEC) in March 2006 to promote the cooperation and resource sharing among the higher education organizations around the world, and as a result, make the learning opportunity available to more and more students in different countries. Now over 80 member colleges and universities from Taiwan, China, Korea, Philippine, Chile and Vietnam participate in GEC.
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Topic: Job Search Strategies in a Tight Job Market
Speaker: Dr. Mariam Ghazvini
Date/Time: Saturday, 8/7/2010, 2:00-3:00PM
Location: Room C in the NPU Administration Building
Abstract:
Finding a job is a job by itself even in the best of times! Now, with the economy in a recovery state, the only way most people will secure a job is by being creative. Come find out how you can use Linked-in, Networking, Volunteering, and other ways to tap into the hidden job market. Additionally, we will discuss a few "Dos" and "Don'ts" of your resume to make it impactful.
Introduction to the speaker:
Dr. Ghazvini is an organizational development, career, and educational planning professional. She has over 20 years of experience in retail, high-tech manufacturing, corporate training, and non-profit program development and delivery. She specializes in leadership development and career planning. In addition, Dr. Ghazvini career coached for Right Management Consultants as well as teaching at Mission and San Jose City Colleges. Dr. Ghazvini previously served on the Board of Directors of the HP Alumni Association and Springboard Forward, as well as the MBA Advisory Board for Notre Dame de Namur University.
Ed.D., Education Leadership, University of Southern California, CA 1997
M.A., Counseling, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 2009
M.A., Administration Higher Education, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 1994
B.A., Sociology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 1983
Human Resources Management; Professional Development
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Free Software: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System - Free Software in Ethics and in Practice
Topic: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System - Free Software in Ethics and in PracticeSpeaker: Dr. Richard M. Stallman, Free Software Foundation
Date/Time: Saturday, 7/31/2010, 2:00-4:30PM
Location: Room 312, NPU South Building
47655-B Warm Springs Blvd., Fremont, CA 94539
Abstract:
The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used together with the kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible.
Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.
Introduction to the speaker:
Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.
Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Richard pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
Richard graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project.
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