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Free Talks on Mobile Computing in Cupertino and Mountain View
Open-to-the-public presentations will focus on how to develop mobile applications without learning new programming languages.
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, has two upcoming free events in Silicon Valley.
The first one, "HTML5 & JavaScript Uses for Cross-Platform Native Mobile App Development" will take place in Hewlett-Packard's Cupertino campus in the Oak Room of Building 48 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The event is free and open to the public, and also provides a social networking time with complimentary food and beverage from 6:30-7 p.m. After that, Joe Monastiero, vice president of business development at appMobi, and Andrew Smith, an expert in cross-platform HTML5/JavaScript native app development, will give presentations starting 7 p.m.
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The presentations will focus on alternatives to using device-specific software development kits (SDKs) for developing native mobile applications.
Conventionally, operating system (OS) fragmentation is what developers must face in mobile development. They need to decide which OS to choose. They must consider whether they should learn multiple SDKs themselves or sub-contract development. But now there are new tools available that can eliminate the reliance on OS SDKs. They allow developers, at least Web developers, to create complex and compelling native mobile applications without learning any new programming languages.
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Following the discussion on the future of mobile applications, the ACM San Francisco Bay Area professional chapter will host another free presentation, "On Diversity, Complexity and Regularization in Ensemble Models," at Linkedin, 2025 Stierlin Ct., in Mountain View on Monday, starting at 6:30 p.m. The speaker is Giovanni Seni, a senior scientist with Elder Research Inc., who directs ERI’s Western office.
ACM encourages computer engineers to participate in its events and sign up for the $20 membership. For contact information, e-mail humphrey@sfbayacm.org.
