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Based on its physical teardown, iSuppli estimates the BOM of the low-end 16Gbyte, non-3G iPad at $250.60. When manufacturing expenses are added, the cost rises to $259.60.

Get the full story with specs at:

http://www.isuppli.com/News/Pages/User-Interface-Focused-iPad-Changes-the-Game-in-Electronic-Design-iSuppli-Teardown-Reveals.aspx

Title: Open for business: Building successful commerce around open source

Speaker: Mårten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus Systems

Date: Thursday, April 8th, 2010 4:00pm – 5:00pm

This event is free and open to the public; no registration required. All talks take place at George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC (www.parc.com/map). There is parking available on site and the venue is handicap accessible.

The Science and Engineering Libraries merged the active Computer Science collection from the Mathematical and Computer Science Library into the Engineering Library over Spring Break (March 22-26). The CS collection item location was changed by batch process to ENG and all items will be remarked. Computer Science reserve items are available in the Engineering Library for Spring Term.

The active Physics collection from the Physics and Applied Physics Library in the Varian Physics Building will merge into the new Engineering Library in June after graduation.

Title: Neato XV-11: Laser-based SLAM Robots Come Home
Speaker: Patrick De Neale, Neato Robotics Inc.
Date: Thursday, April 1st, 2010 4:00pm – 5:00pm

Location: George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC,
3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, California, USA

This event is free and open to the public; no registration required. All talks take place at George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC (www.parc.com/map). There is parking available on site and the venue is handicap accessible.

Learn About the New xSearch Tool and Enhanced Searching

Please bring your lunch and join us for our continuing series of workshops. Searching of multiple databases in related disciplines uncovers articles, books and reports critical to your research. Demos will include using ISI Web of Knowledge and the new Stanford Libraries' xSearch tool. E-mail alerts for subject, titles, and authors will also be covered.

All faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend.

Date: Tuesday 3/30 or Wednesday 3/31
Time: Noon to 1 pm
Where: Where: Yang and Yamazaki Environment & Engineering Building (Y2E2)
Conference Room 101 (first floor near the Coupa Café)

To sign-up, please register here: http://tinyurl.com/yetl97a

Cookies will be provided.

Title: Multi-tasking in the workplace: Tasks, information, and interaction contexts
Speaker: Dr. Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine
Date: Thursday, March 25th, 2010 4:00pm – 5:00pm

This event is free and open to the public; no registration required. All talks take place at George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC (www.parc.com/map). There is parking available on site and the venue is handicap accessible.

Looking for a way to gain specialized focus in your research on earthquake events?
Take a look at these databases!

Quakeline

Content: The database features varied publications including journal articles,
conference papers, proceedings, technical reports, standards, books, chapters,
CD-ROMs, slides, and videotapes. An effort has been made to EXCLUDE items that
are indexed by the NTIS, COMPENDEX, and GeoRef databases, so you won't get duplicates.

Subject areas: Everything on earthquakes, Engineering seismology, High wind hazards,
Natural hazards mitigation, Structural dynamics, Tsunamis, Volcanoes & volcanology,
Wind engineering, Disaster-resilient communities.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts

Content: Over 114,000 records (full citations and abstracts) from 1971 forward,
plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports, searchable by author,
title, keyword, and date.

Subject areas: Everything on earthquake engineering, Seismic engineering, Disaster
planning, Soil dynamics, Structural dynamics

Here is the information about the upcoming TUG conference, TUG 2010: TeX's 25th anniversary.
TeX, the typesetting language. is often used by various faculty, students, and/or staff in mathematics, computer
science, and physics departments, among others.

March 26, 2010 — early bird registration deadline

• June 28, 2010: LATEX workshop
• June 28–30: General conference
• Special appearance by Donald E. Knuth and other original Stanford TeX project members.

TUG2010 is scheduled to be held at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel (Union Square) in San
Francisco, California, USA, June 28-30, 2010.

Syllabus and Registration: http://tug.org/tug2010/workshops.html

Title: Telepresence and Cloud Intelligence
Speaker: Dr. Trevor Blackwell, Anybots

Date: Thursday, March 18th, 2010 4:00pm – 5:00pm

This event is free and open to the public; no registration required. All talks take place at George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC (www.parc.com/map). There is parking available on site and the venue is handicap accessible.

March 2010 News

Read the latest issue of Engineering Library News!

• Federal Research in Progress Database
• More Funding Sources
• Knovel Personalization Features
• New from Jane’s - Aircraft Upgrades
• SAH and DTDH now available in web-based PDF versions