IEEE-CS-SCV Meeting - April 13, 2010 - Android: A 9,000-foot Overview

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presents

Android: A 9,000-foot Overview

A special night with Android supporting vendor tables

Speakers:      Michael Demler   (ecosystem overview, 15 min)
                       Marko Gargenta  (technical presentation, 45 min)

Sponsors with Tables:
                       Mentor Graphics
                       Texas Instruments


Location:       Microsoft Research           (parking all around
Building 6, but use the Pear Ave. door)
                       1288 Pear Ave.
                       Mountain View, CA

When:           April 13:    6:00pm Special 1 hour networking with
sponsoring vendors
                                      7:00pm Presentations

Registration:  Free
                       Limited Seating - Register Now:
                       http://ieeecs2010apr13.eventbrite.com/

Abstracts:
Mike Demler will give a 15 minute overview of the Android ecosystem.

Marko Gargenta will give a 45 minute technical talk.  Android is based
on Linux, but quite different. You write Java, but don't run Java.
Learn how Android packs some of the most successful open technologies
in a novel way to create the best possible user experience. This talk
will give you a high-level understanding of the entire Android stack
and its main building blocks. You will know what it takes to build an
Android app and how it all works.

Bios:
Mike Demler has more than thirty years of experience in hi-tech
industries spanning semiconductors, software, digital media and
wireless technology. Along with an MBA from San Jose State University,
he earned his MSEE at Southern Methodist University, and a  BSEE
degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Mike's current role is Senior Strategic Analyst with DIGDIA. Mike
focuses on the impact of disruptive technologies throughout the
wireless industry ecosystem. His recently published reports include
The Emerging 4G Wireless Landscape in the U.S. and The Android
Invasion, New Devices & Technology.

His career began as an IC designer with Texas Instruments, followed by
the GE Corporate R&D Labs, Datel and Micro Networks -  where he
authored the book High Speed Analog to Digital Conversion. He then
moved on to the EDA industry, where he has held business development,
strategic and product marketing positions at Synopsys, Nassda,
Cadence, and Antrim Design Systems. Mike is also an inventor with
eight U.S. patents.

Marko Gargenta founded Marakana back in 2001 to help underprivileged
youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get
ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of helping people get
better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software
training.

Marko is the developer of Marakana Android Training series. He has
taught Android for companies such as Sony-Ericsson, Qualcomm, Ericsson
Canada, and many others. Marko is a co-founder of San Francisco
Android Users Group and regularly teaches Android Bootcamp at Marakana.

In 2006 Marko Gargenta published "PHP and MySQL By Example", a
collection on PHP examples. The book was published by Prentice Hall,
world's largest technology publisher and has been also translated to
Spanish.

Marko Gargenta obtained his Bachelor of Mathematics Degree from
University of Waterloo (Canada's MIT) and has been developing in Java
since 1996. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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