June 11, 2019
at
Holiday Inn Tewksbury-Andover, Tewksbury, MA
Featuring
“Bletchley Park: Enigma, Ultra, and the Making of Colossus”
The Development of the First Digital Computing Systems
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Summary: In the late 1930s, a small team of “codebreakers” focused on the German Enigma Code being used for diplomatic and military purposes. They occupied a Victorian family estate in Bletchley Park, outside London and that fledgling organization had an enormous impact on the outcome of World War II. This presentation will outline the breaking of the German Enigma code producing top-secret “Ultra” information about German military plans, locations of ships, submarines and battle groups, and how the first mechanized codebreaking machines now called “Turing machines” were devised. Further, as the volume of data became simply overwhelming, an engineer working for the British Post Office designed and built the first calculating and counting machine dubbed “Colossus”, now credited in the computing world as the first digital computing machine.
Speaker: Dave Saums earned BS and MBA degrees from Clarkson University (NY), has taken post-graduate classes at Union College (NY), and was named a Fellow of the Society by IMAPS in 2010. He founded DS&A LLC in 2003 to focus on new product development strategies, thermal characterization and test for companies developing new advanced thermal materials for mil/aerospace and commercial electronic systems. He has worked in the area of electronics thermal management for forty-one years, traveling globally on behalf of thermal materials and thermal components companies. Dave has, for 19 years, been General Chair of the IMAPS Advanced Technology Workshop on Thermal Management, has served as General Chair for the IEEE Semitherm Conference and Co-Chaired four thermal management power electronics workshops in Germany and the Netherlands. He also serves on the organizing committees for the annual IMAPS France Micropackaging and Thermal Workshop. For the last two years, Dave has been Technical Program Co-Chair of the iMAPS New England Symposium. Oh, in his spare time, Dave is the editor of a railroad historical society magazine |
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SCHEDULE (times approximate): |
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| 5:30 PM | Registration, Socializing, Networking & Cash Bar |
| 6:30 PM | Dinner |
| 7:15 PM | The Chapter Nominating Committee presents the following slate of Officer Candidates for the 2019-2020 Term: President - Dmitry Marchenko, BAE Vice-President - Matt Bracy, MSD Treasurer - Michael Toro, Ametek |
| 7:30 PM | Technical Presentation - Dave Saums “Bletchley Park: Enigma, Ultra, and the Making of Colossus” |
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You may attend the presentation without eating dinner. Pre-Registration deadline is Wednesday, June 5..!!! After that, or for Walk-Ins At-Door, the fee is an additional $5.00 [Limited Availability]. Cancellations must be received by 3:00 p.m. Monday June 10… or The Chapter will bill you for the registration fee. Options: To cancel a registration or register by e-mail, contact Matt Bracy: matt@msdsales.com . |