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Oral Presentation - 15th March 2010 The Topic I have chosen to talk about is Quantum Computers, I will be uploading my Presentation and Notes after making my final copy.

My First Presentation My Notes

References: Pictures http://www.fastcursor.com/computers/images/quantum-computer-photo-gallery.jpg; http://www.fastcursor.com/computers/images/d-wave-quantum-computer-photo.jpg; http://www.techpark.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/quantum_dot2_inside.jpg;

Information http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2010/jan/quantum_computing.html; http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/01/quantum-computing-against-and-in.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems; http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-commercial-quantum-computer; http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/02/dwave-quantum-computer-is-cooling-its.html; http://computer.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=quantum-computer.htm&url= http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume4/hogg96a-html/node6.html; http://computer.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer; http://google.com/; http://youtube.com/;

Oral Presentation - 10th May 2010 I have chosen to do my presentation on OLED's (**Organic light-emitting diodes**)

My Second Presentation My Notes Inside Powerpoint

References Pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OLED_schematic.svg http://www.oled-info.com/files/images/OLLA_15cmx15cm_Prototype.jpg http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/oled-4.jpg http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/04/19/toled_500x500.jpg http://www.oled-info.com/files/images/RIOE-transparent-oled-window.preview.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/5feb10o2b354.jpg

Websites http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/oled.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-oled.htm http://www.oled-info.com/oled-technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_LED http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound http://www.untwistedvortex.com/2009/09/19/future-computer-tv-monitors-oled/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active-matrix_OLED

Conference Name: Improve Network Performance with Traffic Shaping Company Name: Exinda

Location: Webinar (Internet)

Target Audience: Small-Large Companies and Organizations

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Introduction Exinda recently hosted a webinar to showcase an Improved Traffic Shaping system. Whilst traffic shaping has been around for quite awhile Exinda hoped to win companies over with their all in one filter which utilized there software on separate external hardware.

Costing of the hardware was closely guarded and any question that hinted towards it was quickly dismissed or never acknowledged. Which made a bit of sense in the fact that if anyone wanted to know, they would have to ring up and talk to a skilled employee who would stop at nothing to sell you their product.

Presentation After a small delay in the starting of the webinar it soon began. Immediately they dived into what traffic sharing is and the benefits that one can achieve from owning such hardware. After several minutes they started using Lose of Productivity, Wasting Time Costs and causing Frustration for everyone as a basis of why everyone should own their product. This powerful message helped sting people along for the ride as they show cased amazing (if true) results that companies got after investing in there hardware.

Apparently Exinda took on a challenge to help maximize Cincinnati Public schools bandwidth and after successful implementation of traffic shaping they managed to reclaim 40% of the schools bandwidth.

Product After forty odd minutes Exinda showcased 4 different models of there hardware which ranged from the Small Branch Office to the Headquarters /Data centers. None of the four however had scales to see just how much room one would occupy which was possible an oversight.

Not once during the presentation however was specifications of the hardware shown (I would assume gigbit ports). Statistics like how much it impacted on a network (if any) was also never mentioned. So while we found out what the product did we never found out what techniques they used which makes them better then competitors, which is what I was most looking forward to. Final Thoughts Overall the presentation did do a good job of making one feel that they NEEDED this product, however due to the little if at times no information or hard specifications throughout, this presentation defiantly was aimed at non tech savvy people.

Recommendation Whilst the presentation was well thought-out the use of physiological techniques was sneaky, if there product was just as good and did everything they stated, then any diversions that the used would not have be necessary. So that is 8.5/10 for Presentation and 1/10 for little to no Specifications (Technical).