How much do you know the impacts of Social Media brings to us today and future? What Big Data means to every IT professional? 

We will invite the experts in the fields to present their detail analysis and their first hand knowledge to NJCCPS members.

(View Chinese version here)

Dr. Nianjun (Joe) Zhou

Dr. Nianjun Zhou is a Research Staff Member of IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.  He served as the IBM Professional Interest Group Chair for Services Computing from 2010 to 2012.  He is selected as a member of 2013 Best of IBM.   His current research areas mainly focus on services sciences and service computing to achieve services optimization with information and analytic solutions.  Dr. Zhou has many papers and patents in ad hoc and sensor networks, content management, service-oriented architecture, project estimation, and risk assessment.  He is serving as Steering Community of IEEE Big Data Congress 2o13, and severed as program communities for IEEE Cloud,  ICWS and SCC for several years.  Dr. Zhou held Ph.D degree from RPI, and Master and Bachelor degrees from Peking University.

Title:  Social Media in Mobile Age – Today and Future

 

Improvement of social services and enhancement of economic efficiency requiring complete social sentiment and economic (such as customer geographic, preference and marketing) information, social media equipped with  mobile computing exactly provides such affordable solution with extremely low cost.  In this talk, we will present the latest development of social media from both technical and social aspects, and justify the critical role of mobile computing to enable the expansion and explosion of social media. We will discuss the latest trends both in academia and industry.  We position the analytics of social sentiment as the foundation of optimizing social services, and mobile computing as the major enablement tool to achieve this goal.   Finally, we will discuss various feasible opportunities in technology, analytics, and applications in front offices automation and optimization of modern enterprises.

 

Dr. Zhixiong Chen

Dr. Zhixiong Chen is a Professor and Director in Cybersecurity in the School of Liberal Arts at Mercy College, New York. His research interests are in information assurance and security within Services Computing including Cloud Computing. He has published more than 40 peer reviewed journal and conference papers, and served as program chairs, committee members in various IEEE conferences. He holds CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professionals), a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.  Dr. Chen had worked for over six years at IBM Research before joining Mercy College. He has PhD in Mathematics and Master in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and Master and Bachelor in Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Title: Big Data, what it really means to all of us?

Isn’t Big Data just another way of saying Analytics?   It is true that the Big Data, like Analytics, seeks to extract intelligence from data and translate that into business advantage to competitors. However, there are three key differences:  volume, velocity and variety.  With such 3 V, what new stories come out from here, for us, enterprise, government and society?   

 

Mr. David Lu

David is an AVP at AT&T and served in lead positions managing network management systems, NM standards, software technology, and network operations process in the past 25 years. Since joining AT&T Bell Labs in 1987, David has had various assignments in software development, platform architecture, systems engineering, business planning, network operations process engineering, and program management. He led and contributed to major AT&T network operation systems evolution, OSS development initiatives, software architecture modernization projects, operation process re-engineering and automation initiatives, customer care systems re-engineering projects, and major AT&T global network evolution initiatives including MPLS IP, VoIP, Ethernet, IPTV, UMTS/LTE networks. He served frequently as key note speaker and panelist in IEEE and other professional conferences and currently holds 16 US patents.

Title: Big Data - Opportunity and Challenge

The discussion will be focused on key challenges and strategic issues facing IT industry and CIOs in today’s environment. It will highlight changes brought by social revolution, business transformation, evolution of IT architecture, upgrade Cloud strategy, and as well as big data play leading to big vision and big opportunities. It will then focus on big data on its definition, key use cases, investment trend, ROI, impact to IT infrastructure/architecture, change in data integration and ownership, roles and skill gaps.

Registration has closed. If you have not yet registered, you are welcomed to come next year !

If you have registered, please note that the event will be held rain or shine unless inclement weather causing park closing, and bring your favorite sporting equipment to play in the park! 

BTW, we have 17 toddlers (< 5 yr) coming!

 
Your are cordially invited to the summer picnic organized by TsingHua Alumni Association of Greater New York (THAA-GNY) and New Jersey Chinese Computer Professionals Society (NJCCPS) on Saturday August 4, 2012 from 12:00 - 5:00PM at Veterans Park, located at 1855 Route 46 East, Parsippany, NJ 07054.
 
Registration with full payment in advance is required due to park rule of not taking payment on site. Due to the capacity of the picnic area, the registration will be close after first 100 registered with payment so please act early!
 
Adults: $15.00
Seniors (60 years or older): $8.00
Students (Full time): $8.00
Children (5-15 years old): $8.00
Infant/Toddler (<5 yeasr old): Free
  

Archived email from June 22:

 

Hi, all,
We have the following objectives for this term of the NJCCPS volunteers (June, 2012 - May, 2013):
1. Career Development
2. Seminar/Events
3. Networking (social media)
4. Teamwork
5. Corporate Membership
 
We need some lead positions to help focus on each objective. I am listing the VPs sorted by the area of focus.  All officers taking the following position will help to define the responsibilities of the role and put it in writing.  So if there is an area you like to help with or you just like to help in general, please volunteer yourself to join us.  We have a group of ~30 officers. Once you are on board, please talk to the VP and me and we can definitely find opportunities for you to contribute. 
 
VP - Career Development: Jeffery Chief will lead the focus on career development and is in charge of our LinkedIn group (Please join our group on LinkedIn).  He will come up with a process to build a mentor/mentee system. Jeff was our Timer for 5/20 seminar and posted his record on our Facebook page.
 
VP - Education: Chan Feng who was our seminar host for 5/20 seminar will lead this position.  It used to be called VP - Seminar.  Since each seminar will have its own Seminar Operating Manager(SOM), Chan can be responsible for educating our members through a few different channels while keeping the previous responsibility of seminar: email list, website, special interest group, social media, etc.
 
VP - Finance.  Amy Xie can continue on this position for the term.  This is the position for Treasurer. Amy was 38 weeks pregnant when she modified our contract for a bigger hotel conference room for our 5/20 seminar based on overwhelming registeration.  She delivered her second son end of May.  Congratulations, Amy!
 
VP - Membership: Tom Chen will lead this position.  Tom is our Facebook Admin (Please like us on Facebook) and will be focusing on expanding our free individual membership. Please help us to grow our free membership by inviting a friend to join us on the mailing list and like us on Facebook.
 
VP - Operation: Laurel Lou will take this position.  This role is responsible for maintaining the historical records of NJCCPS, recording and distributing meeting minutes for officer conference calls, and maintaining accurate, timely records of NJCCPS events. Laurel has been a VP for us for a while and did an excellent job translating all events news to Chinese. Laurel is also organizing the officer rotation for email list monitoring.
 
VP - Public Relationship: Grace Qu will lead this position.  Grace has helped on PR for a while.  We need to maintain and expand our Corporate Membership.  We will also raise public image of NJCCPS.  (Jenny Yang will help Grace as a PR officer.) Grace will keep us posted when there is new wins for PR.
 
Kam Yuen is leading a car donation program.  It used to be an income source for NJCCPS ~6 years ago but the IRS regulation changed it.  Kam is working to create a new process for members to donate cars to us.  If you are thinking about donating an old car, please consider NJCCPS and contact Kam.
 
Wenkui Yang is our Picnic Operating Manager for summer picnic.  He is also the treasurer for Tsinghua Univ. alumni and we (NJCCPS and THAA-GNY) are going to organize the picnic for members of both NJCCPS and THAA-GNY. Several other officers including David Jiang, Frank Shen, Chenzhong and Eric all volunteered to help organizing this picnic. We will follow Wenkui's lead.
 
Nelson is our web server admin.  He did an excellent job moving us to Google.
 
Thank you and have a great weekend!

Jessie

Archived email from June 14.

 

Dear all,
Many officers did the search for a picnic area for us and a lot of parks are already booked for the whole summer.  Wenkui Yang is our Picnic Operating Manager for 8/4/2012. He just got permit for us for a very nice park.  Please check out our facebook link to find out more information and mark your calendar.
 
www.facebook.com/NJCCPS
 
While you are there on Facebook, please check out NJCCPS history about how we were founded 19 years ago.  Our Facebook Administrator: Tom Chen, who is also our VP - Membership did an excellent job gathering the information from one of our founders Eric Wei and several past presidents.
 
Please like us on Facebook and invite your friends to like us on Facebook too. 
Thank you,
Jessie

Archived email from June 7th, modified for posting on web.

 

Dear all,
Great news: World Journal (世界日報), Global Chinese Times (新州周报) and Chinese News Weekly (新象周刊) published news announcement for our 5/20 seminar.  More than 100 members/friends joined us for the afternoon seminar. About 50 people gathered for dinner afterwards. We had 22 officers helped on the seminar preparation. They are listed here, sorted by first name: Allen Li, Amy Xie, Andy Lin, Bill Zhu, Chan Feng, Chenzhong Wang, Eddie Cheung, Eric Wei, Grace Qu, Jeffery Chien, Jessie Wang, Jimmy Yu, Joann Huang, Joseph Liu, Laurel Lou, Nelson Yeh, Steve Luo, Tom Chen, Tong Fang, Wenkui Yang, Yanbo Ding, and Yanming Xiao.
 
We are launching our Facebook page.  Our URL is www.facebook.com/NJCCPS
 
Please check out the photos and news link of World Journal, scan of Chinese News Weekly on our Facebook page and like us on Facebook. The scan of Global Chinese Times has been published on Facebook too.  The timer report of the seminar is also posted on Facebook.  You are welcome to post photos of last seminar there if you took any and tag names on Facebook. 
 
Our next event will be August picnic.  More details will be announced soon.  Hope to see you then.
 
All the best,
Jessie

Archived email from Eric Wei to all on June 1, 2012:

 

Dear NJCCPS Friends,

Archived email from Tony Fang to all on May 24, 2012:

 

Dear all members,