DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY & COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR

Developing DNA Sequencing Technology:
from an idea to the clinic

by

Dr. Gregory Porecca
TCNJ Biology/Computer Science
Class of 2002
Vice President of Research and Technology
Good Start Genetics
Cambridge, MA

Thursday, March 27th
11:30 am
SC-P101

BERT NAVARRETE
GM and Managing Partner
Tigerlabs

December 5, 2013
Education Building Rm. 113 11:30am – 12:30pm
Refreshments to follow the presentation

Building a Startup Community

Abstract: Build it and they will come, so goes the old adage. But building and fostering a startup community isn’t easy nor is it something that can be “built” in the traditional sense. This lecture breaks down what it takes, how it’s currently being done down the road in Princeton, NJ, and how you can be involved.

Speaker Bio: Bert Navarrete is an experienced investor and Co-Founder of Tigerlabs. Prior to Tigerlabs, Bert was a Co-Founder at a startup that built interactive sports applications for Connected TVs and second screen devices. Previously, Bert was responsible for M&A and venture investments at Internet Capital Group (ICG). Bert has made investments in early stage companies across a variety of technology sectors and has had broad operational and investment management responsibilities. Prior to ICG, Bert was an Investment Partner at Mitsui & Co., where he led Mitsui’s New York Technology Investment Group. While at Mitsui, Bert was responsible for managing and executing venture and private equity investments and oversaw the group’s overall investment strategy. Previously, Bert was VP of Technology Strategy and Business Development at Merrill Lynch Technology and also managed a strategic venture fund consisting of investments in the internet, media, and mobile sectors.

The Department of Computer Science presents
Scott Smedresman, Esq.
SorinRand, LLP
East Brunswick, NJ

November 7, 2013
Education Building Rm. 113
11:30am – 12:30pm
Refreshments to follow the presentation

Startup Speed Meets Legal Logjam
Navigating the Landscape of Online Privacy and Data Security Law

Technology has democratized industry. Lowering once high barriers to entry, an app and fresh business can now be built in a matter of days. User bases can hockey stick overnight. While the speed of industry has changed, the speed of the law has not. With many laws impacting technology ventures being written decades ago, legislators and enforcement agencies have raced to catch up, creating a challenging patchwork of privacy and data security laws for startups to navigate. The laws out there – from security and breach notification rules, to Do Not Track, from privacy policies to behavioral advertising regulations – can seem overwhelming. However, with timely guidance and careful planning up front, the landscape can be successfully navigated.

Biography:

Scott Smedresman is an associate at SorinRand LLP. He concentrates his practice in corporate technology transactions and intellectual property-related agreements, including license, development, collaboration, distribution, service, and maintenance agreements, as well as trademark and copyright strategy, prosecution, enforcement, and infringement. He also advises clients on website and mobile application terms of use, privacy policies and end user licenses.
He recently was recognized as being among New Jersey’s 2013 Rising Stars of the legal profession, an honor that recognized the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state.

The Department of Computer Science presents
Dr. Hock M. Ng
Technical Staff Member
Bell Labs
Alcatel-Lucent

April 2, 2013
Education Building Rm. 113 (tentative)
11:30am – 12:30pm
Refreshments to follow the presentation

iRoom: Experiments with an Intelligent Room

In this talk, I will describe our iRoom research project which shares the vision of smart environments responding to human presence and activity. The goal of iRoom is to make the room environment itself become the human computer interface. For example, the iRoom can determine the identity, location, and visit duration of a person entering the room using inputs from a variety of networked sensors and cameras. We use sensor fusion to determine context from sensor inputs and produce actions responding to the identity and/or activity of the visitor in the room. The iRoom generates in real-time several abstractions of contextual messages that developers can subscribe to in order to build third-party applications. I will describe the architecture, sensors, messaging protocols, algorithms, and potential applications of the iRoom.

Biography:

Dr. Hock M. Ng is a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, NJ. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 1994, 1997, and 2000, respectively. Currently, his research interests are in the area of sensor fusion, computer vision, data visualization and pervasive computing. Prior to 2008, his research contributions were in the field of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) of wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices, with a focus on GaN and ZnO. His work was recognized by the Electrochemical Society with the 2006 Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award and by the North American MBE conference with the inaugural 2006 Young Investigator Award. He is also an alumnus of the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (2004). He is a senior member of the IEEE. In his spare time, he likes to tinker with robotics and 3D-printers.