Tech Round Table Meeting 5/3/23

35 mm projector- Movie Night on screen.
35 mm projector- Movie Night on screen.

This was a “movie night” meeting. The Dial Comes to Town movie depicted how the Bell system prepared to convert a town to dial tone phones. The How Artificial Intelligence Works video was a humorous interlude on how AI might learn. The main feature was on the Cruise driver less car being field tested in San Francisco.

Other topics discussed included Google removing the lock icon on web addresses but retaining a warning on unsecured addresses, using brain waves to assist in selecting fragrance products, replacing Siri with ChatGPT, the financial impact of ChatGPT on an educational company, AI reading your mind, Apple introducing a lighter type of updated called the Rapid Security Response and the AAAA battery.

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By Lon Hosford

Internet and Mobile Development Educator and Consultant Independent software developer with practical engineering project experience for clients such as AT&T, Avis, Bristol Myers Squibb, Ortho BioTech, Chanel, Avaya, Green Birdie Video, Aztec Learning Systems and Verizon Wireless. Lon is well known for translating client needs into useful applications. An interesting aspect of Lon's consulting work was the creation of industry jobs that did not exist before. That lead to hiring and training college students who were taught dead technologies at a time academia was woefully behind on the paradigm shifts in personal computing, the internet and today the distributed device environment often called mobile. Lon has taught thousands of students internet web development, animation and programming topics over two decades both privately and academically. He developed Multimedia Associated Degree program and courses for Raritan Valley Community College in the 1990s at a time when Macromedia Authorware and Director were tools. He is the founder, developer and educator for Raritan Valley Community College Web Developer Certification program also having its roots in the 1990s at the dawn of the internet. He also was a key curriculum developer and instructor for one of the Nation's first Web Developer Certification program offered through New Jersey Institute of Technology. Lon was also a technology instructor at the University of Phoenix Online. Lon over the years has produced educational video for topics including Paradox, Cobol, Java, Jasmine, C, C++, Linux, Flash, Cocos 2d and HTML. These courses were distributed and taught in Universities internationally when global was an emerging term.