The Seattle Signal Processing Society (SeaSiPS) would like to welcome you to our inaugural event, where we will be honoring 2018 Flanagan Award recipient Mari Ostendorf for her outstanding contributions to speech signal processing research. Mari will then honor us with a talk on current research in the field, in particular some work that she is doing on context-aware language models and prosody detection.   With the market booming with NLP (Natural Language Processing) applications, speech signal processing is a very exciting field to be in right now. One obvious example is the ongoing competition for the best in-home personal assistant among the big four: Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. These giants are flooding job searches with ads for engineers with a background in speech and machine learning. Even if audio signal processing is not your area, now is an excellent time to familiarize yourself with the field to stay current with industry trends. This event is free for all to attend. We would like to track member participation however, so please don't forget to sign-in at the door. Speaker(s): Prof. Mari Ostendorf, Agenda: 5:30 pm  Reception  Networking and socializing for the first hour. Food and drink provided. Wine, cheese, hors d'oeuvres, soda.  6:30 pm-6:45pm  Brief chapter announcements and introduction 6:45pm-8:00 pm   Lecture by Mari Ostendorf, Q&A/Discussion Location: Room: 303 Bldg: Electrical Engineering Building (EEB) 185 W Stevens Way NE Seattle, Washington

Co-sponsored by: CAS04 “IEEE PES has developed 2030-series Smart Grid standards. There is a task group 2030.10, focused on low voltage DC microgrids. The customers are people who do not have access to AC power, or for who need a renewable/off grid alternative. The task group is wrestling with market needs, safety standards, and finding the right level of DC power to fit that market. It is likely that the work will result in a two part standard: “sDC” = standard existing low voltage DC practice (e.g. IEEE Smart Village); “mDC” = managed DC for power and communications. For mDC a power source communicates in-band with the load, which negotiates voltage and current. Some students are prototyping mDC systems: 12-48volts; up to 10A current, with in-band communications using CoAP.” Speaker(s): Joe Decuir, Agenda: “IEEE PES has developed 2030-series Smart Grid standards. There is a task group 2030.10, focused on low voltage DC microgrids. The customers are people who do not have access to AC power, or for who need a renewable/off grid alternative. The task group is wrestling with market needs, safety standards, and finding the right level of DC power to fit that market. It is likely that the work will result in a two part standard: “sDC” = standard existing low voltage DC practice (e.g. IEEE Smart Village); “mDC” = managed DC for power and communications. For mDC a power source communicates in-band with the load, which negotiates voltage and current. Some students are prototyping mDC systems: 12-48volts; up to 10A current, with in-band communications using CoAP.” Location: Room: 1919 Bldg: 99 14820 NE 36th St Redmond, Washington 98052

Co-sponsored by: CAS04 “IEEE PES has developed 2030-series Smart Grid standards. There is a task group 2030.10, focused on low voltage DC microgrids. The customers are people who do not have access to AC power, or for who need a renewable/off grid alternative. The task group is wrestling with market needs, safety standards, and finding the right level of DC power to fit that market. It is likely that the work will result in a two part standard: “sDC” = standard existing low voltage DC practice (e.g. IEEE Smart Village); “mDC” = managed DC for power and communications. For mDC a power source communicates in-band with the load, which negotiates voltage and current. Some students are prototyping mDC systems: 12-48volts; up to 10A current, with in-band communications using CoAP.” Speaker(s): Joe Decuir, Agenda: “IEEE PES has developed 2030-series Smart Grid standards. There is a task group 2030.10, focused on low voltage DC microgrids. The customers are people who do not have access to AC power, or for who need a renewable/off grid alternative. The task group is wrestling with market needs, safety standards, and finding the right level of DC power to fit that market. It is likely that the work will result in a two part standard: “sDC” = standard existing low voltage DC practice (e.g. IEEE Smart Village); “mDC” = managed DC for power and communications. For mDC a power source communicates in-band with the load, which negotiates voltage and current. Some students are prototyping mDC systems: 12-48volts; up to 10A current, with in-band communications using CoAP.” Location: Room: 1919 Bldg: 99 14820 NE 36th St Redmond, Washington 98052

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