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2025 EVENTS

7. 2025-03-23: Hardware Workshop at Okanagan College
6. 2025-03-23: Cybersecurity Workshop
5. 2025-03-22: IEEE Thompson Okanagan Section Elevation Celebration & Annual General Meeting
4. 2025-03-22: Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Digital Resource Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Workshop
3. 2025-02-20: Digital Research Infrastructure Workshop: Research Data Management (RDM) and High Performance Computing (HPC) Resources for Researchers
2. 2025-01-24: Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s Digital Research Infrastructure Workshop
1. 2025-01-02: The First Open Meeting of the Thompson-Okanagan Section and Student Branches

2024 Events

- Okanagan Subsection Applying for Elevation to Section Status
7. 2024-10-25: Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch and Okanagan Subsection are hosting IEEEXtreme 18.0
6. 2024-10-09 :IEEE Day at Okanagan Subsection
- 2024-09-17. Call for Capstone Projects at Computer Science Department, Okanagan College.
5. 2024-08-09: Cybersecurity Workshop
4. 2024-07-29: Algorithmic Trading and Short-term Forecast for Financial Time Series with Machine Learning Models Implementation and Testing
3. 2024-07-20: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) for Small Industry in BC (a mini workshop — coming)
2. 2024-05-02&03: WCCCE 2024 Conference
-- Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (previous years)
1. 2024-01-30: Innovation to shape future: A.I. and Quantum leap
- “The Best Papers” awards at IEEE The 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Cybernetics Technology & Applications 2023

2023 Events

3. 2023-12-06: Quantum computing with superconducting qubits
2. 2023-11-08: IEEE Okanagan College Student Branch Annual General Meeting
2.1. Unleashing Potential: Harnessing Foundation Models (Large Language Models) in Business and Research (Slides)
1. 2023-10-24: Unleashing Potential: Harnessing Foundation Models (Large Language Models) in Business and Research

2022 Events

4. Creating Accurate Predictions in the Stock Market
4.1. Creating Accurate Predictions in the Stock Market Presentation Slides
3. An approach towards generating k-leaf powers for phylogenetic tree construction
2. Algorithmic Trading and Short-term Forecast for Financial Time Series with Machine Learning Models
1. The need for a Corporate Endpoint Security System

2021 Events

3. How technology megatrends affect the future of work
2. Data Warehousing Workshop II
1. Data Warehousing Workshop I

2020 Events

1. 03/16/2020: Presentation of IEEE Vancouver Life Member Affinity Group
3. 12/07/2020: DevOps for Mainframes
2. 10/21/2020: Tips for Entering the Industry as Computer Information Systems New Grad

2019 Events

5. 11/08/2019: Machine Learning and Neural Networks with R and Tensorflow Workshop
4. 10/25/2019: Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket: A Beginner’s Approach to SW Project Management
3. 10/22/2019: Getting Started with LaTeX Workshop
2. 10/09/2019: Towards Formal Methods and Software Engineering for Deep Learning: Security, Safety, and Productivity for DL Systems Development
1. (Coming) 80 Years of Research on Sum of Lognormal Random Variables: Recent Breakthroughs and Applications in Wireless Communications (coming soon)

2018 Events

3. 2018: International "Sensor and Measurements" Student Contest Award (2nd Position)
2. 03/29/2018: Artificial Intelligence, AlphaGo, and Computer Hex
1. 03/26/2018: Fundamental Limits and Coding for Additive Gaussian and non-Gaussian Channels

2017 Events

7. 06/08/2017: A New Cramér-Rao Bound for White Gaussian Noise
6. 06/01/2017: The Absolute Error Power Detectors
5. 06/05/2017: How to Write an IEEE Style Paper and Get it Published?
4. 03/20/2017: Automatic generation of 3D building models
3. 03/17/2017: Evolution of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Imaging for NDE Applications
2. 02/16/2017: Secure Context Detection in Smartphones
1. 02/02/2017: Machine Learning Workshop

2016 Events

News: Okanagan College's "unstumpable" team is 2nd top Canadian team in @ieeextreme prog competition!
12. 10/21/2016: IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition, 21 October 2016 at Okanagan College
11. 10/18/2016: Introduction to Microsoft Azure @ Okanagan College
10. 10/18/2016: Introduction to Microsoft Azure @ UBC Okanagan
9. 06/21/2016: Your First Wireless Product: Essential Things You Need to know
8. 04/27/2016: Jira: A Beginner’s Approach to Project Management
7. 04/25/2016: Learning to Use Git, SourceTree, and BitBucket
6. 04/06/2016: Getting Started with LaTeX Workshop
News: 03/24/2016: IEEE Okanagan subsection was recognized as the Outstanding Small Technical Chapter in 2016
5. 02/18/2016: DOCSIS 3.1 – 10 Gbps over Coaxial Cable - Overview and OFDM Profile Optimization
4. 01/29/2016: Global Game Jam, organized by Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch (supported by Computer Science Department, OC).
3. 01/27/2016: Rotations in 3D Graphics Programming and the Gimbal Lock.
--> Gimbal Lock Slides
2. 01/27/2016: There and Back Again: Life at Google.
1. 01/27/2016: Annual General Meeting: Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch.

2015 Events

11. 10/23/2015: IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition at Okanagan College
10. 08/19/2015 (UBC O): Reducing Access Latency in Erasure Coded Cloud Storage with Local Block
9. 07/16/2015: Towards a Secure Anti-Malware Framework for Smartphones
8. 07/14/2015 (UBCO): Evolution toward 5G cellular: Key challenges and enabling technologies.
7. 07/13/2015, OC: Evolution toward 5G cellular: Key challenges and enabling technologies.
6. 05/26/2015: iOS Interprocess Communication Security and the Universal Authentication Framework Protocol
5. 05/14/2015: Addressing Spectrum Scarcity through Optical Wireless Communications
4. 05/11/2015: Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges Sabbir Ahmad, Ph.D., P.Eng. Manager of Engineering, Transmission & Distribution Amec Foster Wheeler, Vancouver
3. 04/29/2015: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. Next Generation of Aviation Vehicles
2. 04/27/2015: Exact Positioning Systems using Ultrawideband Technology Exact Positioning Systems using Ultrawideband Technology: XCo has developed Gauge, the first performance wearable to precisely measure your location, speed and acceleration. Built for sport and healthcare applications, it is the first wearable to fully integrate precise movement metrics with other body sensor data such as heart rate monitors and concussion sensors.
1. 02/06/2015: Wearable technology devices - market opportunities in augmented reality applications Wearable technology devices - market opportunities in augmented reality applications

2014 Events

7. 12/08/2014: Bonding and Grounding - What, Why and how?
6. 12/05/2014: GPN-Perf: Investigating Performance of Game Private Networks
5. 11/19/2014: Agile project management techniques used at Disney Interactive
4. 11/05/2014: The Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, and Exploration of Future Topologies
3. 10/09/2014: Codec Enabled Audio Communications over IP/Mobile Internet Dr. Gaoyong Luo, Chair Department of Electronics Information, Guangzhou University, China
2. 08/25/2014: Scalable parallel programming: hardware, algorithms and applications
1. 08/11/2014: Chasing Channels- Adaptive Codebooks for Limited Feedback MIMO

2013 Events

11/26/2013: Clustered File Systems for High Performance Computing and Big Data
11/13/2013: An Introduction to Investing Outside the Box
11/14/2013: (Cancelled) The Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, and Exploration of Future Topologies
06/24/2013: New Transform Domain for Exact Analysis of Wireless Cooperative Networks
06/11/2013: Power Line Communications Reloaded
06/03/2013:Fundamentals of Holography, Fast Computation of Computer-Generated Holography and Super-Resolution in Digital Holography
05/28/2013: Improving the Spectral Efficiency of Communication via Relays
04/04/2013: Trends for Head-Up Displays in Automobiles
02/06/2013: Big Data, the Cloud, and Smart Mobile: Big Deal or Not?

2012 Events

11/28/2012: Fun with Interdisciplinary Nanoscience
11/21/2012: Alternative Energy: Today and Tomorrow
06/21/2012: Improving Your Presentation Skills
06/05/2012: Reducing Water Usage With Sensor Networks and Data Analysis
05/09/2012: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Technology: Theory and Application

2011 Events

11/16/2011: Matlab Object Oriented Programming
05/11/2011: Radio Frequency Power Amplifier Technology: Past, Present, and Future
02/25/2011, 03/14,11,18/2011: A Short Course on Analog Circuit Design

2010 Events

11/30/2010: Phased-Array Feeds for Future Radio Telescopes
10/14/2010: Digital Microfluidic Architectures for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
09/23/2010: Radio Telescopes: How they Work and the Technical Challenges of Building the Square Kilometre Array
07/13/2010: The Next Wave in Wireless Technology: Challenges and Solutions
06/16/2010: Commercializing an IP Based Wireless Product Line
05/31/2010: Negative Light Pressure on a Left-Handed Metamaterial

Archives

1. 2025-01-02: The First Open Meeting of the Thompson-Okanagan Section and Student Branches
okanagan@listserv.ieee.org (subscribe)
2. 2025-01-24: Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s Digital Research Infrastructure Workshop
3. 2025-02-20: Digital Research Infrastructure Workshop: Research Data Management (RDM) and High Performance Computing (HPC) Resources for Researchers
5. 2025-03-22: IEEE Thompson Okanagan Section Elevation Celebration & Annual General Meeting
4. 2025-03-22: Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Digital Resource Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Workshop
6. 2025-03-23: Cybersecurity Workshop
7. 2025-03-23: Hardware Workshop at Okanagan College
7. 2024-10-25: Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch and Okanagan Subsection are hosting IEEEXtreme 18.0
6. 2024-10-09 :IEEE Day at Okanagan Subsection
- 2024-09-17. Call for Capstone Projects at Computer Science Department, Okanagan College.
5. 2024-08-09: Cybersecurity Workshop
4. 2024-07-29: Algorithmic Trading and Short-term Forecast for Financial Time Series with Machine Learning Models Implementation and Testing
3. 2024-07-20: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) for Small Industry in BC (a mini workshop — coming)
2. 2024-05-02&03: WCCCE 2024 Conference
-- Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education (previous years)
1. 2024-01-30: Innovation to shape future: A.I. and Quantum leap
- “The Best Papers” awards at IEEE The 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Cybernetics Technology & Applications 2023
- Okanagan Subsection Applying for Elevation to Section Status
3. 2023-12-06: Quantum computing with superconducting qubits
2. 2023-11-08: IEEE Okanagan College Student Branch Annual General Meeting
2.1. Unleashing Potential: Harnessing Foundation Models (Large Language Models) in Business and Research (Slides)
1. 2023-10-24: Unleashing Potential: Harnessing Foundation Models (Large Language Models) in Business and Research
1. 03/16/2020: Presentation of IEEE Vancouver Life Member Affinity Group
11. 10/23/2015: IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition at Okanagan College
News: Okanagan College's "unstumpable" team is 2nd top Canadian team in @ieeextreme prog competition!
7. 06/08/2017: A New Cramér-Rao Bound for White Gaussian Noise
3. 2018: International "Sensor and Measurements" Student Contest Award (2nd Position)
5. 11/08/2019: Machine Learning and Neural Networks with R and Tensorflow Workshop
3. 12/07/2020: DevOps for Mainframes
2. 10/21/2020: Tips for Entering the Industry as Computer Information Systems New Grad
1. Data Warehousing Workshop I
2. Data Warehousing Workshop II
3. How technology megatrends affect the future of work
1. The need for a Corporate Endpoint Security System
IEEE.org Site
2. Algorithmic Trading and Short-term Forecast for Financial Time Series with Machine Learning Models
3. An approach towards generating k-leaf powers for phylogenetic tree construction
4. Creating Accurate Predictions in the Stock Market
4.1. Creating Accurate Predictions in the Stock Market Presentation Slides
10. 08/19/2015 (UBC O): Reducing Access Latency in Erasure Coded Cloud Storage with Local Block
4. 10/25/2019: Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket: A Beginner’s Approach to SW Project Management
2. 03/29/2018: Artificial Intelligence, AlphaGo, and Computer Hex
6. 06/01/2017: The Absolute Error Power Detectors
12. 10/21/2016: IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition, 21 October 2016 at Okanagan College
IEEE Canada Site
1. 03/26/2018: Fundamental Limits and Coding for Additive Gaussian and non-Gaussian Channels
IEEE Vancouver Site
11/28/2012: Fun with Interdisciplinary Nanoscience
5. 06/05/2017: How to Write an IEEE Style Paper and Get it Published?
3. 10/22/2019: Getting Started with LaTeX Workshop
9. 07/16/2015: Towards a Secure Anti-Malware Framework for Smartphones
11. 10/18/2016: Introduction to Microsoft Azure @ Okanagan College
IEEE UBC Okanagan Student Branch
4. 03/20/2017: Automatic generation of 3D building models
8. 07/14/2015 (UBCO): Evolution toward 5G cellular: Key challenges and enabling technologies.
2. 10/09/2019: Towards Formal Methods and Software Engineering for Deep Learning: Security, Safety, and Productivity for DL Systems Development
10. 10/18/2016: Introduction to Microsoft Azure @ UBC Okanagan
7. 07/13/2015, OC: Evolution toward 5G cellular: Key challenges and enabling technologies.
IEEE Okanagan College Student Branch
9. 06/21/2016: Your First Wireless Product: Essential Things You Need to know
1. (Coming) 80 Years of Research on Sum of Lognormal Random Variables: Recent Breakthroughs and Applications in Wireless Communications (coming soon)
3. 03/17/2017: Evolution of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Imaging for NDE Applications
8. 04/27/2016: Jira: A Beginner’s Approach to Project Management
2. 02/16/2017: Secure Context Detection in Smartphones
6. 05/26/2015: iOS Interprocess Communication Security and the Universal Authentication Framework Protocol
Twitter: IEEEOkanagan
7. 12/08/2014: Bonding and Grounding - What, Why and how?
1. 02/02/2017: Machine Learning Workshop
5. 05/14/2015: Addressing Spectrum Scarcity through Optical Wireless Communications
7. 04/25/2016: Learning to Use Git, SourceTree, and BitBucket
4. 05/11/2015: Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges
6. 04/06/2016: Getting Started with LaTeX Workshop
3. 04/29/2015: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. Next Generation of Aviation Vehicles
News: 03/24/2016: IEEE Okanagan subsection was recognized as the Outstanding Small Technical Chapter in 2016
5. 02/18/2016: DOCSIS 3.1 – 10 Gbps over Coaxial Cable - Overview and OFDM Profile Optimization
6. 12/05/2014: GPN-Perf: Investigating Performance of Game Private Networks
2. 04/27/2015: Exact Positioning Systems using Ultrawideband Technology
1. 02/06/2015: Wearable technology devices - market opportunities in augmented reality applications
4. 01/29/2016: Global Game Jam, organized by Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch (supported by Computer Science Department, OC).
3. 01/27/2016: Rotations in 3D Graphics Programming and the Gimbal Lock.
5. 11/19/2014: Agile project management techniques used at Disney Interactive
--> Gimbal Lock Slides
2. 01/27/2016: There and Back Again: Life at Google.
11/16/2011: Matlab Object Oriented Programming
1. 01/27/2016: Annual General Meeting: Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch.
11/30/2010: Phased-Array Feeds for Future Radio Telescopes
4. 11/05/2014: The Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, and Exploration of Future Topologies
3. 10/09/2014: Codec Enabled Audio Communications over IP/Mobile Internet
11/26/2013: Clustered File Systems for High Performance Computing and Big Data
11/13/2013: An Introduction to Investing Outside the Box
2. 08/25/2014: Scalable parallel programming: hardware, algorithms and applications
1. 08/11/2014: Chasing Channels- Adaptive Codebooks for Limited Feedback MIMO
10/14/2010: Digital Microfluidic Architectures for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
05/11/2011: Radio Frequency Power Amplifier Technology: Past, Present, and Future
11/21/2012: Alternative Energy: Today and Tomorrow
11/14/2013: (Cancelled) The Evolution of Telecommunications Networks, and Exploration of Future Topologies
09/23/2010: Radio Telescopes: How they Work and the Technical Challenges of Building the Square Kilometre Array
02/25/2011, 03/14,11,18/2011: A Short Course on Analog Circuit Design
06/21/2012: Improving Your Presentation Skills
06/05/2012: Reducing Water Usage With Sensor Networks and Data Analysis
06/24/2013: New Transform Domain for Exact Analysis of Wireless Cooperative Networks
07/13/2010: The Next Wave in Wireless Technology: Challenges and Solutions
05/09/2012: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Technology: Theory and Application
06/16/2010: Commercializing an IP Based Wireless Product Line
05/31/2010: Negative Light Pressure on a Left-Handed Metamaterial
06/11/2013: Power Line Communications Reloaded
06/03/2013:Fundamentals of Holography, Fast Computation of Computer-Generated Holography and Super-Resolution in Digital Holography
05/28/2013: Improving the Spectral Efficiency of Communication via Relays
04/04/2013: Trends for Head-Up Displays in Automobiles
02/06/2013: Big Data, the Cloud, and Smart Mobile: Big Deal or Not?

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