[ETS/PARC List] CrossPost: Trenton Computer Festival 2017

[Drew Moore]

****THE 42nd TCF COMPUTER FESTIVAL****  TCF-NJ.ORG

The 42nd Trenton Computer Festival is Saturday, March 18th at The College of
New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.  Enjoy an exciting day of talks, workshops,
exhibits & shopping opportunities. Special this year is a full-day forum on
Self Driving Cars.  The schedule of events is available at www.tcf-nj.org,
along with directions, parking, and registration information.  The Flea
Market/Vendor Fair is all indoors. 
Regular festival events occur between 9 am and 5 pm.  The Banquet with
Astronaut/entrepreneur Greg Olsen starts at 6 pm.

See TCF poster and talk+speaker grid (attached).

Admission is only $12 in advance and $15 at the door.  Purchase admission
and Banquet tickets, and make vendor reservations at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tcf-42-tickets-30820048595.

The Keynote presentation is "The Autonomous Cadillac and the future of Self
Driving Cars" by Raj Rajkumar, the George Westinghouse Professor of
Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie
Mellon University. He was team leader of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Fist
Place Car.

* Featured tech talks/workshops:
---- A Tale of Two Teslas - Greg Olsen, GHO Ventures
---- Amazon Echo and Bluetooth Beacons - Barry Burd
---- Home Automation - Neil Cherry
---- Lessons for Start Ups - Mike Krupit
---- 3D Printing - Tim Zebo
---- Hands-on Arduino Workshop for Beginners - Katalin Frolio
---- Windows 10 - David Soll
---- All Day Robotics Pavilion
* Autonomous Vehicles Forum
* One day hands on Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (OOP
University)
* Tours of the Sarnoff Museum of Technology, located at TCNJ
* A full day of presentations on IT professional topics, continuing from
ITPC, Friday March 17th
* Get an Amateur Radio License in a day - Ham Cram & Testing by David
Sarnoff Radio Club.
* Vintage Computer Exhibit (by Vintage Computer Federation - VCF), Digital
Photo Display.
* AI, Quadcopters, and Poster Demonstrations.
* Talks on STEM and education [also see ISEC http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/stem/
on March 11th].
* 50+ talks and workshops, special exhibits/demonstrations and more!

For more info on TCF-ITPC see http://princetonacm.acm.org/tcfpro/.
For the complete Program and more info on all the conferences and activities
see www.tcf-nj.org (also can contact TCF2017 Chair at alkatz at tcnj.edu or
609-771-2666).

Don't miss this extraordinary event!

The TCF2017 Committee