Santa Clara Valley Section

The Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Section promotes the aims and objectives of the IEEE as stated in the IEEE Constitution and Bylaws. The Section covers geographically all the peninsula cities south of Highway 92, plus the counties of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz. IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section inspires Silicon Valley professionals and students to stay connected and to collaborate by creating and providing leadership programs to educate and to stimulate technological innovation, and engineering excellence.

The SCV is one of the largest IEEE Section in the world in terms of membership and together with the San Francisco and Oakland East Bay sections we form the  San Francisco Bay Area Council (SFBAC). Several of our chapters are joint across the Bay Area.  If you want to know more contact us or join any of our events see Event Calendar or subscribe to the eGRID newsletter. Join IEEE and be part of our SFBA community of engineers!

IEEE Spectrum Your Laptop Isn’t Ready for LLMs. That’s About to Change

Odds are the PC in your office today isn’t ready to run AI large language models (LLMs). Today, most users interact with LLMs via an online, browser-based interface. The more technically inclined might use an application programming interface or command line interface. In either case, the queries are sent to a data center, where the model is hosted and run. It works well, until it doesn’t; a data-center outage can take a model offline for hours. Plus, some users might be unwilling to send personal data to an anonymous entity.