@Huibo Hou

2016/7/15：Photography 101

Time: 2016/7/15, 12pm-1:30pm
Topic:
– What is photography

– Basics and a brief introduction on how to take portrait photos, landscape photos

– Post processing & how to improve your techniques

演讲者简介：

侯慧波是手机半导体芯片设计行业的工程师，对摄影的兴趣是从1999年有了第一台佳 能胶片单反开始的，2004年转为数字摄影。慧波的摄影兴趣比较集中在风光，自然光人像和街拍，尤其钟爱黑白片。一张适合黑白的照片洗去了色彩的铅华，可以让人更专注于线条，形式，质感和氛围的魅力。一张好的黑白片不是光线不理想时的第二选择，而应该是对场景仔细斟酌过后有意识有目的的前期决定，这也是她用来鞭策自己的理念。关于黑白片的后期，她以前在暗房里洗过一阵子胶片，这段经历让她在黑白后期处理时比较得心应手，同时更加能体会到现在后期软件的博大精深。黑白后期的理念和流程慧波一直比较认同摄影师Guy Tal写的Creative B&W Processing Techniques。 慧波觉得摄影师最重要的能力是要有眼光从貌似杂乱无序的现实中去粗取精，提取艺术美感。

慧波目前有13张作品在1X上发表，她目前有两幅作品在San Diego Natural History Museum 2016 San Diego Best of Nature Photography Exhibition中展出。她在SmugMug上还有个比较完整的个人网页。希望能与各位摄友在这些平台上继续交流：
http://huibohou.smugmug.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/huibohou
https://1x.com/member/huibohou

PPT animations are not available here. If you want to see the original presentation with animations, please directly contact Huibo Hou (huibohou@yahoo.com)。 All images’ copyright is owned by Huibo Hou unless otherwise mentioned in the slides. Permission must be obtained from Huibo Hou if anyone want to use any images.

季节：夏季无疑是最理想的海滩露营季节，天气不错，可以冲浪玩沙。5-11月份我们都尝试过，个人感觉九月份的时候天气最好，海边的雾气没有6-7月的时候重，海水温度较高，可以下水。

地点：加 州的State Park营地都可以在www.reserveamerica.com上预约。营地预约会在提前六个月的一号开放。比如你想9月15日去野营的话，3月1日 的早上8点钟就可以预约了。一般来说，靠海的营地都是需要抢的！最好的营地都是秒gone的！所以，按时准备好的你电脑，看准营地，准时冲锋，祝你好运！ （还有一些私人的营地可供选择，比如San Diego的Campland on the Bay，只是价格略微高一点。）

这里还有两个小 tip, 一个是虽然营地都预约满了，但可以一大早去排waiting list，运气好的时候有人取消了就可以从容的入住。第二个是reserveamerica.com上可以设置email alert，如果有人取消了会发email给你，就可以再次抢了！

以下这些营地都可以搭帐篷或者停RV，一般都是有水没电，卫生间的设施都不错，大多都是有冲水马桶和投币热水淋浴。

• San Elijo State Beach，距离圣地亚哥最近的海滩露营State Park，地方比较大，选营地的时候要看好是不是靠海的
• South Carlsbad State Beach，海边悬崖上细细的一长条营地，一半朝海，有阶梯通往沙滩
• San Clemente State Beach，在Orange County，从营地可以沿海一路走到栈桥，风景很美。
• Catalina Island, 我们在没娃的时候住过两个海边营地，一个叫Two Harbors，一个叫Little Harbor，都是很野的营地，可以租Kayak到营地，不过不太适合小娃，因为所有的装备都要坐船背过去。
• Crystal Cove State Park，这里最有名的是海景小木屋，基本上属于最难预约到的。

装备：

• 帐篷，给家庭野营使用的帐篷最好是按照多出1-2人的大小买。我们是早些年买的Coleman六人帐篷Evanston Screened Tent，像下图这样的，睡四个人正合适。
  这个帐篷最好的地方就是有一个前厅一样的地方，可以放鞋子和其他东西，娃也非常喜欢这种设计，下面这张图可能更能看清楚这个结构。而近几年又流行起来instant tent （像下图这样），好处就是打起来方便快捷，缺点是略微重一些。
• 气垫床／行军床，我们准备的是Costco可以买到的自充气床垫，不需要充气，也不需要补窟窿。近两年又流行行军床可以用来野营。不过要注意，行军床一般比较大，6个人的帐篷可能只能装下3张床，要量好尺寸。娃小的时候我们还会带上travel crib。
• 睡袋，南加州夏天气温很适宜，晚上平均60度左右，不需要特殊的睡袋。给娃可以买小孩子用的睡袋。
• 燃气炉和烧烤炉，在营地做饭的时候需要准备的炉子，我家的是下图这样的，好处是气罐通用，几乎在所有的Walmart都能买到。也可以带那种火锅炉。 
• 灯／头灯／手电筒／荧光棒，小朋友们在晚上会很喜欢发光的东西
• 野营椅，自行车，滑板车，沙滩椅，沙滩娱乐，冲浪板，玩沙铲子小桶，泳衣，游泳尿布，浴巾，防晒霜，帽子等

作者介绍

@yuaner

Yuaner，坐拥两枚萌宝的妈妈。户外达人，旅游达人，足迹遍及全世界六大洲。从事大数据相关工作，在普林斯顿大学取得物理博士学位。科学松鼠会成员，《时尚育儿》等杂志作者，业余时间参与《新十万个为什么》等科普书籍编写。欢迎关注@yuaner的公众号：加州娃行天下

@Mr. George Chu

2016/4/22：时间管理

Time: 2016/4/22, 12pm-1:30pm

Topic:

– Factors that affect the way we spend our time

– How to improve efficiency

– Q&A

演讲者简介：

朱正中：美国化学和工商管理双硕士，美國芝加哥 Lake Forest 大學 EMBA，前中国可口可乐副总裁兼总经理，曾任上市公司董事、香港友信行總裁及 MPI 廣告公司集團首席營運總裁、美國諮詢公司 Thomas Group 的中國區總經理、 上海永樂家電公司,恆安國際，蒙牛乳業的獨立董事。中美食品协会会长、美国华人创业协会的主席。在上海期间，曾两度获上海市市长白玉兰奖。早在1989年，朱老师的名字被载入了美国主管人士名人录。是锐成企业管理公司创始人，现任国际华人企业家协会董事长。

朱老师在工业型及迅速发展的消费品行业中已有30多 年的实际操作经验，所涉及的工作包括战略性规划、生产、销售、市场营销、采购供應鏈等方面。為中國多家民營、國營、外企訂定策略、組織與培訓。以美國及中國的豐富工作經驗，最早把許多先進的國外管理觀念藉演講及培訓引進到國內，協助許多中國大中型企業的管理和重整。同时，朱老师对在中国经营的管理、革新和转换也颇有经验。曾为多家知名的企业进行过许多管理方面的专题研讨会，公开课程及公司内部培训。企业包括可口可乐公司、阿里巴巴，西門子，斯奈德，花王，安利，IBM雀巢公司、施乐公司、力邦漆公司、福特汽车公司及强生公司等。

讲座总结：

1. Ask yourself a few questions:

• Do you feel constantly not having enough time?
• If you have more time, where or what would you spend your extra time?
• What is the biggest barrier to improve your time management?
• When you don’t have enough time, what would you decide to sacrifice?

2. Time management is not about managing time at all. It’s about managing factors that can affect the way you spend your time.

• People relationship

It is extremely important. It takes time to cultivate the relationship that you will need at critical times. If you don’t spend time nurturing good people relationship, it’ll end up costing you more time.

• The right attitude towards time

Understand that time is so precious that once gone it’ll never come back. It’s the most precious thing that you could ever possess.

• Build consensus with your family members
  • If you need to work extra hours for 3 months to complete a project, you need to build consensus with your family members (partners/children): What I’ll need from you for the 3 months and what I offer after the 3 months are over. Build that consensus with your family members can help you achieve your goal without driving everyone crazy.
  • Run family meetings and involve your children. Let them know what’s going on with the family and communicate to them as if they were adults. This allows them to participate and give inputs and train them to behave that way when they grow up.
  • Make them part of the consensus process. It makes them feel involved and committed. In order for people to commit to do something, you need to make them feel like they are part of the decision making process. This applies to people management too.

• Self-discipline
  • Highly successful people are usually highly self-disciplined.
  • Sunday evenings are usually reserved to quiet down and get ready for important meetings on Monday.

• Clear goal
  • Clearly define your goal in everything you do. What’s your purpose?
  • Depending on whether your goal is to build relationship, to learn more about your client, or to make a deal, you would need to come up with completely different strategies and ways of doing things.

• Your capability/efficiency
  • Learn to be organized.
  • Tips on how to take notes during meetings: one column for details/notes; one column for action items.

• Your body and health condition.
  • Learn how to work with your energy level, not against it.
  • 70% of people are morning person. If you are not one of them, people might perceive you as sloppy/not efficient.
  • Exercise in the morning is a good idea to make you feel cheerful and ready to fight. It gives you enough energy throughout the day.

3. Differentiate between high-payoff jobs vs. low-payoff jobs

• As a manager, don’t get too deep. Don’t micromanage.
• Learn how to delegate. Focus on strategic work.

4. Improve efficiency: BEDS

• Establish Boundaries

• Clearly define who does what.
• For what purpose and why.
• Define role and process before doing anything.

• Manage Expectations

• Build high level confidence and gracefully accept challenges. Learn how to fight back and prove yourself in a peaceful, graceful and humorous manner.
• Language is the worst excuse. You can do things to improve it.
• Believe in yourself. Learn how to manage other people and your own expectation of yourself.

• Delegate appropriately

• Getting too deep results in self-satisfaction, and illusion of job security as you are busy all the time.

• Encourage mutually Serving

• Engineers might feel it’s a sign of incapability to ask for help. In reality, as a manager, asking for help from engineers can make them feel empowered and motivate them to do better job.

5. Presentation skills is way more important than Technical skills

• Don’t hold on to technical skills as it’ll get old.

6.How to break through from technical to business

• Go on customer visits with sales people.
• Initiate new ideas.
• Use every opportunity to expand your area and create opportunities
• Observe/summarize/push ideas/add value.
• Push yourself, because no one else will.

7.Final message

• Spend time on things that are important to you.
• Important but not urgent things are usually the things we neglect. Don’t procrastinate on things that are important but not urgent, such as exercise to keep a healthy body, cultivating people relationship, and etc.

@Dr. Yinyin Liu

Dr. Yinyin Liu has over ten years of experience in developing neural models and learning algorithms, applying machine learning and computational neuroscience to areas including image recognition, reinforcement learning and robotics. She worked on computer vision, neuromorphic computing, deep learning, and robotic systems at Qualcomm Research. She recently worked on deep learning platforms and data science at Nervana Systems.

@Chaoxiong You

Chaoxiong You is a technical consultant by day and leadership coach by night. As a consultant, Chaoxiong advises Fortune 500 retailers such as Apple, Target, Nordstrom on system transformation strategy, helps the business teams define requirements and guides the product development team to design and implement them. As a coach, Chaoxiong helps professionals from various industries and career levels to navigate people challenges, career exploration and personal growth. Chaoxiong You adopts a unique solution-based coaching approach that is bilingual, culturally sensitive and highly customized. She is an ACC certified coach by the International Coaching Federation. Chaoxiong You has graduated from Amherst College (MA) and is now pursuing an MS in Adult Learning & Organizational Change in Northwestern University.

@Dr. Mingxi Fan

VP of Engineering at Qualcomm Corporate R&D

Dr. Mingxi Fan is currently Vice President of Engineering in Qualcomm Research System Department. He joined the division in 2002 as a system engineer on cdma 2000 EV-DO project. He has worked on key initiatives on C2K, UMTS, and LTE driving technology innovation and product enhancements, going through the entire invention and development cycle including system architecture and algorithm design, prototype implementation, standardization, technology positioning and evangelization, as well as commercial product development and verification. He also helped company to found Qualcomm Research China operation established 2008 in Beijing. He is presently leading the R&D initiative for taking LTE to unlicensed bands. Mingxi holds over 20 U.S. patents and has received top contributor awards in Qualcomm Research in 2004 and 2011. Mingxi received his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1999 and 2002, respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where he also received the Ernst A. Guillemin EE Master’s thesis award from MIT in June, 1999.

@Ms. Chen

陈老师 是一位在言语治疗师，现于美国洛杉矶执业，专注于儿童言语治疗工作。 通晓粤语及普通话的优势令她更易于为华人家庭服务，客户来自两岸三地，以至东南亚各国。 在工作过程中，她从小朋友以至家长身上得到许多宝贵的临床经验，现希望透过网络抛磗引玉，冀望各界仁人君子，不吝指教。

过去有很多研究指出，良好的语言基础对孩子日后的阅读能力有着深远的影响。皆因此两种能力是相辅相成的。同时，孩子的语言能力也塑造他们的社交技巧。我碰过不同类型的学生，通常语言程度高的学生在学习和社交场合上表现优秀，反观语言能力欠佳的学生在学习上面对很多困难，而且不善与朋辈老师沟通。 因此，家长必需要了解正常孩子的语言发展过程。

学生如能灵活地运用语言，这不仅有助于他们与人分享自己的心思意念，更能与老师朋辈深入地交流讨论。 试想想:一个年满2岁的孩子若仍不懂说话，试问他/她怎能跟托儿所的老师表达自己想去上厕所的需求呢? 或想象:一个只会说简单短句的一年级学生，他/她心理上又怎能预备好自己即将要在课堂上写复合句子呢? 正因为此，家长理应时刻检查自己的子女是否有语言发展迟缓的征兆。 若是家长能够及早发现问题，为子女尽早安排求诊，他们语言障碍的程度是能够减至最低的。

孩子的语言理解和表达能力在幼儿时期迅速发展，所使用的词汇与文法，会随着年龄的增长而更加广泛和复杂。 (详情请参考以下的0-5岁华语儿童语言发展参考图表)

要是你们的孩子有以下状况，建议作为家长的你们应早日寻找专家诊断，并订定教育计划。

1. 婴儿阶段，他们对声音缺乏反应，如:当身旁的对象倒地时，他们不会转过头来寻找声音的来源。
2. 1岁后，孩子还是不能执行简单的指令(如:”拍拍手”等)，甚至常央求成人帮助及给予提示。
3. 1岁后，孩子仍不会使用或只能用少数手势及肢体语言表达自己，如:孩子不会用手指指向对象，不会挥手打招呼等。
4. 1岁半后，孩子仍未出现任何词汇，并对家长的说话没有反应。
5. 2岁以后，孩子只说单词，仍需依靠手势和身体动作表达意愿。
6. 3岁后，孩子说话中仍无任何语句和句子出现。
7. 5岁以后，孩子说话的句子中常有错误、省略、替代的现象。
8. 孩子上学时与朋辈的说话交流不足，当尝试跟朋辈玩耍时谈话出现困难。
9. 孩子年龄越大，说话时所运用的词汇数量仍没有增加，甚至出现不爱说话或语言表达力退步之表现。

值得一提的，语言发展迟缓的原因有很多(如下)。 在我执业(言语义治疗师)的生涯里，我发现最常见的原因往往并非如家长所猜测一样。 在人云亦云下，有很多家长不是怀疑自己的子女患上自闭症，便是忧心他们是过度活跃症儿童(过动身儿)。 在此我建议家长先不要着急及胡思乱想，要是你们早已心存顾虑，应及早向医生和专家查询，不要胡乱猜测。 家长必须明白及相信，毕竟，只有心理学家和医生才可以为下列病理(病因)作专业判断。

1)听觉障碍: 先天性耳聋，或后天失聪，如:处理不当的中耳炎所引致的失聪。

2)智能不足: 先天染色体异常(如:唐氏综合症、胎儿酒精症候群、X染色体易裂症)，或后天引起的问题，如若婴儿在分娩和生产时发生缺氧等问题，他们可能会因脑部受损害而造成发展障碍。

3)情绪障碍: 包括自闭症、情绪障碍、过度活跃、专注力不足等。

4)环境剥夺: 比方说，幼儿缺乏跟成人和朋辈互动的机会，或没有听取和学习透过语言表达的机会等。

最后，我盼望家长能够透过阅读此文章，会更深认识到语言发展迟缓的特征和原因，然后能尽早为自己的子女对症下药，寻求医治。

0-5 岁华语儿童语言发展参考图表

为了令读者得到更全面的信息，本治疗师根据美国言语听力学会和其他研究华语孩子的文献，撰写了以下的图表。 家长必须注意，引述的文献只研究家里单说中文的孩子。 因此，在双语或多语环境下成长的孩子，其(语言)发展各有些许差异。 另外，每个儿童均独一无二， 发育程度因人而异。 本图表列出的能力代表相关年龄大部份儿童的平均水平。 一般发展的儿童，通常在达到某特定的年龄层或是在达到此年龄层的上限时，自然而然具有所有能力。 若您的孩子不具备其中的某项能力，并不代表他/她具有身心障碍。 。 但是如果您对相关年龄组列出的大部份项目作出否定回答的话， 请向注册或合资格的言语治疗师或听力学家查询。

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@Dr. Yuanyuan Zhou

Dr. Yuanyuan Zhou Co-Founder of Pattern Insight and Whova
Dr. Zhou (周源源）is a Qualcomm Chair Professor in Mobile Computing at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since 2009. Prior to UCSD, she was a tenured professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her area of expertise include data centers, computer systems, data analytics and mobile systems. She has so far graduated 18 Ph.D students, most of whom are now either successful entrepreneurs or tenured/tenure-track professors at top universities including University of Chicago, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Ohio State University, etc. In parallel to her academic career, she has also co-founded three companies, with the first two successfully exited to public companies. As the President in her second startup, Pattern Insight, she led the company to become profitable since 2010 and was acquired by VmWare in July 2012, providing good returns for investors and shareholders. Currently she is busy with her third startup, Whova. It has gained substantial customer traction worldwide and has successfully raised substantial investment a few months ago. She obtained her BS in computer science from Peking University, and her MS and Ph.D from Princeton University. She is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, Sloan Research Fellow (2007) and the winner of ACM Mark Weiser award (2015).