SFBAC Officer Training 2025 Lunch Break
Santa Clara Valley Section
The Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Section promotes the aims and objectives of IEEE as stated in the IEEE Constitution and Bylaws. The Section covers geographically all the peninsula south of Highway 92, plus the counties of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz. IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section inspires San Francisco Bay Area 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 Santa Clara Section together with the San Francisco and Oakland East Bay Sections form the San Francisco Bay Area Council (SFBAC). Several of our chapters are joint chapters across the three sections. The SFBAC is the largest amount of IEEE members world-wide. 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 San Francisco Bat Area community of engineers!
IEEE SCV Supports County Science Fairs
For over forty years, the IEEE Silicon Valley Section has championed local science fairs by providing expert judges and awarding prizes to promising young innovators. This year, our judges visited four county fairs—Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito—where they reviewed more than 650 technical exhibits.
Beyond awarding $3,000 in prizes, our volunteers spent meaningful time mentoring student exhibitors from grades 4 through 12, discussing their projects and encouraging their passion for STEM. In addition to project judging, we also hosted a popular hands-on circuit-building activity at the San Benito STEAM Fair.
Our 2025 Judging Team
A special thank you to this year’s dedicated volunteers:
Ken Doniger, Keith Gudger, Carolyn Koenig, Edward Miller, Charlie Neuhauser, Ron Nicholson, John Reagan, Srinivas Vennapureddy, Scott Wakefield, Emma Pan, Larry Lewis, Jerry Huck, George Rossman, Bob Wedig, Don Draper, Catherine Fang, Nat Collins, and Ivan Dobrovolsky.
Support & Sponsorship
Award funds were generously provided by the IEEE Silicon Valley Section and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee for Microprocessors and Microcomputers.
Want to get involved? If you are interested in joining our judging team next year, please contact Charlie Neuhauser.
Congratulations to all of our 2025 winners!
IEEE Spectrum – Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
When it comes to AI models, size matters. As models grow in size, their capabilities increase. But so do the energy demands and the time it takes to run the models, which increases their carbon footprint. To mitigate these issues, people have turned to smaller, less capable models and using lower-precision numbers whenever possible for the model parameters. But there is another path that may retain a staggeringly large model’s high performance while reducing the time it takes to run an energy footprint. This approach involves befriending the zeros inside large AI models.
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