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This Meetup group supports the SF Bay ACM Chapter. You can join the actual SF Bay Chapter by coming to a meeting - most meetings are free, and our membership is only $20/year !
The chapter has both educational and scientific purposes:
- the science, design, development, construction, languages, management and applications of modern computing.
- communication between persons interested in computing.
- cooperation with other professional groups
Our official bylaws will be available soon at the About Us page on our web site. See below for out Code of Conduct.
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Article IX: Code of Conduct - from the ACM Professional Chapter Code of Conduct
Harassment or hostile behavior is unwelcome, including speech that intimidates,creates discomfort, or interferes with a person’s participation or opportunity for participation, in a Chapter meeting or Chapter event.Harassment in any form, including but not limited to harassment based on alienage or citizenship, age, color, creed, disability, marital status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, childbirth- and pregnancy-related medical conditions, race, religion, sex, gender,veteran status, sexual orientation or any other status protected by laws in which the Chapter meeting or Chapter event is being held, will not be tolerated. Harassment includes the use of abusive or degrading language, intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording,inappropriate physical contact, sexual imagery and unwelcome sexualattention. A response that the participant was “just joking,” or “teasing,”or being “playful,” will not be accepted.2. Anyone witnessing or subject to unacceptable behavior should notify a chapter officer or ACM Headquarters.3. Individuals violating these standards may be sanctioned or excluded from further participation at the discretion of the Chapter officers or responsible committee members.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Digital Storage And Memory for the Earth and BeyondValley Research Park , Mountain View, CA
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
https://acm-org.zoom.us/
Join via YouTube:
https://youtube.com/live/
AGENDA6:30 Door opens, SFBAY ACM 68 anniversary Cake and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBay ACM 2025 Slate of board members and annual election, upcoming events.
7:15 IEEE SCVS Chair, Avery Lu: “IEEE in the valley with Tom Coughlin"
7:25 Dr. Tom Coughlin :"Digital storage & Memory on earth and beyond"
8:25- 8:40 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Abstract
More intense computing applications, including various AI training and inference, the Internet of Things as well as higher resolution rendered content for VR and AR applications are driving demand for digital storage and memory. To satisfy this increasing demand for storing data, new and traditional storage and memory technologies are developing to support emerging computing architectures and computing environments. These developments will improve the efficiency and reduce the energy consumption for computing operations from the data center to internal medical devices. At the same time, keeping more data for longer periods of time will create greater demand for curation and preservation of data and will require data storage wherever people live and work, including in outer space. This talk will explore these developments and how they enable a broad spectrum of storage and memory technologies that will create new economic opportunities and new ways of living and working.
Speaker Bio:
Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business/ technology consultant. He has over 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions. Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports and puts on digital storage and memory-oriented events. He is a regular contributor for forbes.com and M&E organization websites. He is an IEEE Fellow, 2025 IEEE Past President, Past-President IEEE-USA, Past Director IEEE Region 6 and Past Chair Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section, and is also active with SNIA and SMPTE. For more information on Tom Coughlin go to www.tomcoughlin.com.
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Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 30+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/ - In-Memory Computing SoC with Multi-level RRAM to Accelerate AI InferenceValley Research Park , Mountain View, CA
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
https://acm-org.zoom.us/
Join via YouTube:
https://youtube.com/live/
AGENDA6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Abstract
TetraMem will introduce its multi-level RRAM cell for in-memory computing. The talk will explain how TetraMem uses Multi-level RRAM to accelerate neural network inference applications. The speaker will demonstrate how TetraMem leverages its unique technology and expertise to increase precision, accuracy and energy efficiency of AI applications, including our methods to improve cell performance as recently published in Nature and Science.Bio
Wenbo Yin is the SVP of IC Design at TetraMem. He joined the company in 2019 and currently leads the chip design efforts at TetraMem including mixed-signal circuit design and NPU architecture.
https://tetramem.ai/
---Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/ - A Copilot for Social PromotionValley Research Park , Mountain View, CA
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A.- The zoom link:
- https://acm-org.zoom.us/
- Join via YouTube:
- https://youtube.com/live/
AGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&A
Join SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:Talk Description:
The Social Promotion Copilot (SPC) is designed to autonomously engage with users on social platforms, leveraging advanced NLP and action-oriented automation. This chapter delves into its architectural foundation, focusing on the integration of Theory of Mind to enhance SPC’s ability to interpret user emotions, predict reactions, and tailor responses dynamically. By modeling mental states, SPC can distinguish between different user intents, such as seeking support, expressing dissatisfaction, or driving discussions. This capability enables more context-aware and persuasive interactions, making SPC a more effective tool for both social engagement and marketing strategies.Beyond cognitive modeling, the chapter also examines the run-time execution framework, detailing how SPC processes textual tasks in real-time. The system selects optimal actions based on multi-modal inputs, including textual context, sentiment analysis, and platform-specific engagement patterns. Through a structured decision-making pipeline, SPC adapts its posting and response strategies to maximize visibility and interaction. By balancing automation with adaptive intelligence, SPC transforms from a simple content-promotion tool into an autonomous social agent, capable of managing long-term engagement and fostering meaningful digital interactions, which is confirmed by evaluation on social network sites.
Speaker Bio:
Prof. Boris Galitsky has contributed linguistic and machine learning technologies to Silicon Valley startups as well as companies like eBay and Oracle for over 25 years. His information extraction and sentiment
analysis techniques assisted several acquisitions, such as Xoopit by Yahoo, Uptake by Groupon, Loglogic by Tibco, and Zvents by eBay. His security-related technologies of document analysis contributed to the acquisition of Elastica by Semantec.As an architect of the Intelligent Bots project at Oracle, he developed a discourse analysis technique used for dialogue management and published in the book Developing Enterprise Chatbots. He also published a two-volume monograph, “AI for CRM”, based on his experience developing Oracle Digital Assistant. He is an Apache committer to OpenNLP, where he created OpenNLP. Similarity component, which is a basis for a semantically enriched search engine and chatbot development.
His exploration and formalization of human reasoning culminated in the book AQ1 Computational Autism broadly used by parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and rehabilitation personnel. His
focus on the medical domain led to another research monograph, “Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications and Management". He is a now a professor at Stavropol Agricultural University.https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-galitsky-342109204/
- Designing for Scale, Reliability, and Resiliency: Real-World LessonsValley Research Park , Mountain View, CA
Designing for Scale, Reliability, and Resiliency: Real-World Lessons from Building High-Throughput Systems
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
https://acm-org.zoom.us/
Join via YouTube:
https://youtube.com/live/AGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Talk Description:
As modern software systems grow in complexity and scale, the demand for architectures that are not just fast—but also reliable, resilient, observable, and auditable—has never been greater. In this talk, we'll dive into practical strategies and real-world patterns for designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Topics include:- Traffic segmentation and routing strategies across multi-cluster environments
- Patterns for achieving high availability and failover across global infrastructure
- Monitoring and observability at scale: what to measure, how to alert
- Auditing for compliance, trust, and debugging
- Common failure modes and how to build for graceful degradation
- Real examples from mission-critical production systems
Attendees will walk away with architectural insights, tools, and mental models to apply to their own systems, whether working in startups or enterprises.
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Speaker Bio:
I’m a Senior Software Engineer at DoorDash and previously led platform initiatives at Conviva, where I built scalable, fault-tolerant systems handling tens of millions of sessions daily for customers like Disney, HBO, and Sky. My work has spanned everything from routing frameworks and disaster recovery to monitoring pipelines and SLA enforcement. I’m passionate about making infrastructure reliable and maintainable, and I enjoy sharing lessons learned from real-world systems.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karanluniya---
Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
