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Technologies New
Special Interest Group V11N06 Grand Computers Club
June 2019
This “Page Zero” is a place to present information related to the most current activities of the Grand Computers Club (GCC) and the New Technologies Special Interest Group (NT/SIG) in particular.
Due to some schedule conflicts, this month’s meeting is on Thursday, June 6 at 3:30pm in the Computer Club Classroom. The topic is “Survival Tech—When the SHTF”. We will look at basic survival practices, preparations, and how technology can play a role in assisting your planning.
The NT/SIG will continue to hold monthly meetings and support other club activities including Tech Help throughout the year. Topics for the our meetings through September 2019 are posted in the Open Use room and a printable brochure can be found on the NT/SIG web page.
We are currently planning activities and facilities for 2020. If you have any thoughts or questions regarding the New Technologies Special Interest Group, please contact me at the email address below.
As always, I encourage your ideas for topics and projects. I will try to make the presentations interesting and topical. If you would like to make a presentation at one of the meetings, please contact me at [email protected]
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Technologies New
P3 / TECH NEWS
The latest technology news
from around the world.
P4/ TECH TIPS
How to get the most out of
your tech experiences.
P5 / GADGETS
Find the newest devices,
features, and products.
P6 / TECHIES IN HISTORY
Discover stories of people who
have changed the tech world.
Special Interest Group V11N06
NEXT SIG MEETING
“Survival Tech—When the SHTF”
Thursday
June 6, 2019
3:30-5:00 PM
GCC Computer Classroom
Chaparral Center
GCC GENERAL MEETING
“To Be Determined”
Wednesday
October 2, 2019
2:00-3:30pm
Agua Fria Room
Cimarron Center
Grand Computers Club
June 2019
COFFEE CHAT
“To Be Determined”
Thursday
October 10, 2019
8:30-10:00am
Hopi Room
Chaparral Center
Who is the
“techie” of the
month?
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NT SIG NEW TECHNOLOGIES SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP Meets the 3rd Thursday of every month 3:30-5:00 PM Computer Club Classroom
Grand Computers
(Click for Home Page)
Mission: The Grand Computers Club is run by Sun City Grand volunteer residents to support, train, and enhance the use of personal computers, devices, and related technologies by all interested residents. We are here to help a beginner get started and an experienced user to advance their abilities.
New Technologies Special Interest
Group
(Click for NT SIG Page)
The mission of the Sun City Grand Computers Club New Technologies Special Interest Group is to provide the club members with a forum for the open discussion of technologically advanced ideas and experiences.
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NEXT MEETING:
Thursday, June 6, 2019
TOPIC: Survival Tech—When the SHTF
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A CCE S S A B IL IT Y
Popular fast food restaurants targeted in new data breach
Amazon shareholders vote to continue selling facial recognition
tech to police
What is Huawei? China crown jewel now in US crosshairs
Google is facing an imminent antitrust investigation from the US Justice Department
107 Years Later, The Titanic Sinking Helps Train Problem-
Solving AI
WWDC 2019 preview: Everything coming to the iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch
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Don't let your smartphone track you
How to tell Alexa to delete what you say
What's new in Windows 10 -- should you even update?
How to send a confidential message on Gmail
Tornado outbreaks reminder to make smartphones disaster
Boost Your Cybersecurity Savvy
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A CCE S S A B IL IT Y
RECALL: These USB charging cables cause shock and fire
Technology that helped find lost hiker may one day rescue
you
Check your router! This brand needs a major security patch
and update!
You might soon have to choose between local channels and
cheaper TV prices
Oculus Quest: Download these five video games for the new
virtual reality headset
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Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016)
AI Pioneer Researcher
Cognitive Scientist
Co-Founder MIT AI Laboratory
Marvin Lee Minsky was an American cognitive scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.
He was on the MIT faculty from 1958 to his death. He joined the staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1958, and a year later he and John McCarthy initiated what is known now as the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and professor of electrical engineering and computer science. He developed, with Seymour Papert, the first Logo "turtle". Minsky also built, in 1951, the first randomly wired neural network learning machine, SNARC.
Minsky was an adviser on Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey; one of the movie's characters, Victor Kaminski, was named in Minsky's honor. Minsky himself is explicitly mentioned in Arthur C. Clarke's derivative novel of the same name, where he is portrayed as achieving a crucial break-through in artificial intelligence in the then-future 1980s, paving the way for HAL 9000 in the early 21st century.
Minsky won the Turing Award (the greatest distinction in computer science) in 1969, the Japan Prize in 1990, the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence for 1991, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute for 2001. In 2006, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum.