To all IPC/DC members,
I have arranged for a couple of other group photos at PCB West. All
IPC/DC members going to PCB West, meet at the Premier Technology
Training booth (No. 628) during the Opening Night Reception. Anyone
interested in being in IPC/DC Rogue's Gallery photo, gather at the booth
at 5:45. I will post the results on the Premier website, and provide a
hi-res image for FTP download for those who want a copy.
Cheers,
Bruce
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Premier Technology Training, Inc.
5201 Great America Parkway, Suite 320
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Main:408.850.7217
Direct:831.688.6530
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Ringle, Cyrus wrote:
>Jack,
>
>Great Idea here is a "Looks like this" for me!
>
>Say Hi and I hope to see you there as I will be there Tuesday thru Friday
>http://dcchapters.ipc.org/phoenix/gpdc/officers.html
>
>Cyrus Ringle CID +
>IPC Advanced Certified Interconnect Designer
>
>CAD Engineer
>Inter-Tel, Inc. http://www.inter-tel.com <http://www.inter-tel.com>
>7300 W. Boston St.
>Chandler, AZ 85226
>(480) 961-2263
>mailto:[log in to unmask]
>
>President of the Greater Phoenix Designers Council
>http://dcchapters.ipc.org/phoenix/ <http://dcchapters.ipc.org/phoenix/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jack C. Olson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:11 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [DC] PCBWest 2004
>
>
>So I hope to be seeing you at PCBWest next week.
>
>If you notice someone that looks like this:
>
>http://www.jaxpage.net/Jack/JaxHead.htm
>
>Say hello, ok?
>
>Jack
>
>
>-=-=-=-
>
>p.s. Here's what I remember from last year:
>
>PCBWest Design Conference 2003 (Jax Remix)
>
>It seemed that some of the familiar faces were missing at the PCB Design
>Conference this year. If you were one of the unfortunates who wanted to go
>but couldn't make it, I thought you might enjoy hearing my memory of it.
>
>We were at the Fairmont this year. The convention center was a block or two
>away, but with perfect 'sunny n cool' weather the daily walk was a pleasure
>(and its not like I don't need the exercise, right?). My only complaint
>about the location was the cost; Is a room service continental breakfast
>worth $13.50 + $3.00 + 19% ??? Maybe I just don't get out that much, but
>GEEZ that seems like a lot of money for a donut.
>But Uncle Pete took good care of us over at the convention center, pastries
>and juice and damn good coffee every morning for FREE! and can you beat
>free sushi at the Jam? (thanks Intercept!) and free beer and wine and food
>on the showfloor? I was in seventh heaven (now that I think about it, isn't
>gluttony one of the seven deadly sins? Okay, let's move on...)
>
>Did I learn anything? Yeah, I learned that a clothes iron is a great
>substitute for a bagel toaster, but haven't I talked enough about food
>already?
>
>Well, one thing I learned is that lately I have gotten way out of touch. I
>just found out Gary Ferrari has moved away from IPC and is starting a new
>project with Rick Hartley. Best wishes, Gary! And I also learned that
>Copper Connection is closing! Boy, things just never stay the same, ya
>know? I never got a chance to see Mary Sugden this whole week but I hope
>she's keeping her great positive attitude and sense of adventure.
>And in case you were wondering where the PC Design magazine centerfold
>went, rumor has it that one of our fellow designers threatened national
>security by ALMOST publishing a photo of a top-secret design. Way to go,
>Steve!
>
>Anyway, When I go to the Design Conference I always try to attend
>everything that will NOT be found in the proceedings; the Keynote Address,
>any panel discussions, informal gatherings, etc.
>The first discussion I went to had the impossible goal of trying to predict
>what we would be doing 100 years from now. I would have been more
>interested to know what will be happening FIVE years from now, and 45
>minutes is just barely enough time to START an interactive-imagination, but
>it was still a lot of fun. Joe Felstad imagines a supercomputer the size of
>a marble that will simultaneously solve all of the world's computing
>problems (and we thought the answer was 42!), Happy Holden obviously reads
>a lot of science fiction, believes photons are passe and is looking at
>bio-packs, and Phil Zarrow (a.k.a. "anonymous") is still sniffin'
>conductive glue. (just kiddin' ya, Phil!). That reminds me of a factoid I
>heard from Phil that I can't get out of my mind. He told a story of a study
>in which a highly qualified inspector was shown the same batch of board
>assemblies twenty times, looking for solder defects. Wanna know how often
>he agreed with himself? 43%. Dontcha think 43% is pathetic? So much for
>visual inspection... What is YOUR company doing?
>
>One of the most unique presentations I've ever seen was given by Ken Gilleo
>on "The 100 Year History of the Circuit Board". It was really interesting
>to see slides of original patents and innovative thinking that was going on
>back then, and the problems they were trying to solve. If you're a geek
>like me and have an interest in how we started, you can probably get most
>of the material from an article that appeared in PCFab, but you won't get
>Ken's fast-paced humorous enthusiasm. Great job, Ken!
>
>The Keynote Address was by Nicholas Brathwaite, chief technology officer of
>Flextronics. He started out with an interesting look at the growth of EMS
>over OEMs lately, and for me it was a rare glimpse of the big picture,
>since usually I am sitting in a little cubicle in Nowhere, Illinois. Even
>though one of his main points was collaboration, at the same time he was
>talking I was missing my panel discussion on design collaboration (who
>scheduled it that way, anyway?) so I bailed on the Keynote and sprinted
>over,
>got there just in time to hear a comment on the difficulty (or should I say
>impossibility) of creating a common data format, even though so much effort
>has been put into ODB+ and GenCAM (and now they are combining?) but the
>Mentor rep said they are working on their own, and the Cadence rep said
>they could never support anything but their own (a speed issue?). As it
>turned out, they are of the opinion that the issue is developing a common
>DESIGN DATABASE format, where I thought the goal was simply a common DATA
>OUTPUT format for vendors and downstream. You know, like many different
>software packages can create an MP3 file for music, but ALL players can use
>them. In my opinion the world could really benefit from just the output
>format, but maybe I'm missing the big picture. What do you think? In any
>case, it doesn't seem like the "big boys" of the industry are doing much
>for us in this regard, I'm disappointed to report.
>
>The Top Gun contest was thrilling as usual, I saw some of the highest
>scores and best designs ever since I've been a grader. Brendan of ODA and
>Gil of RockSolid are our newest Top Guns, CONGRATULATIONS to all who
>survived those three grueling days, you have more courage than I do!
>As a side note we got Uncle Pete to take the written test this year, so as
>a note of encouragement as long as you guys get at least a 63 on the test
>you got HIM beat! Thanks for being a good sport, Pete!
>
>The Blues Jam was moved to Thursday night this time, and was it me or did
>that one extra night of practice really make the difference? I thought they
>were superb this year. Kudos to Ronda for being the lone fine-line (unless
>you count Kelly, haha) and I gotta say Pork Chop's rendition of a car and
>train playing chicken (harmonica) was his best ever. The shirts were a
>pretty cool design this year, I got one for being the first on the dance
>floor. Thanks Debbie and Terri and Anna and Jean for the dances! Yeah, I
>had a good time.
>
>I could probably say more, but this is already one of the longest posts
>I've ever written in this forum.
>
>So, I'm off to iron a bagel. Hope to see you at the next one (or at least
>hope to HEAR about it if I can't make it).
>
>Jack
>
>http://www.pcbwest.com
>
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