May

NEXT MEETINGPERSONAL DATA

SECURITY

WednesdayMay 21, 20144:00-5:30 PM

Havasupai RoomChaparral Center

GCC GENERAL MEETINGTBD

WednesdayOctober 1, 20141:00-3:00 PM

Aqua Fria RoomCimarron Center

COFFEE CHATCLUB OVERVIEW

ThursdayOctober 9, 20148:30-10:00 AM

Hopi RoomChaparral Center

Who is “Techie” of the

month?

NEW TE

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LOGI

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Russia Aborts Rocket Engine Sales, GPS Cooperation With

U.S.

AT&T in talks to buy DirecTV for nearly $50 billion: sources

Apple’s Pursuit of Beats May Foretell a Shift

Robot hand and arm gets official approval

'Killer robots' debated at UN

TECH NEWS

http://www.c

http://www.reuters.co

Google must delete search results on request, rules EU

court

http://www.b

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/1

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Forget carjacking, the next big threat is car-HACKING

Outlook.com introduces the most sophisticated rules in

webmail

How To Create An Image Of Your USB Drive

TECH TIPS

Your smart TV could listen to your private conversations

http://www.m

7 Ways To Improve Battery Life on Windows 8 Tablets &

Laptops

3 Better Ways To Store Your Files Than On The Desktop

http://www.

http://www.d

http://blogs.o

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Parrot Bebop Drone targets competitors with full-HD

video

Big-screen smartphone shipments soar, account for

one-third of market

$399 Xbox One without Kinect coming June 9

GADGETS

5 Reasons to Love 'Mad Men's' New Star: The IBM 360

Don't Worry About Screen Cleaning Solutions: Water Is

All You Need

http://www.cnet.com/products/parrot-bebop-

http://lifehac

http://www.la

http://www.n

Toe-Tickling Shoes Let You Navigate The City By Touch

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NEW

TECHNOLOGIESMay 2014

Techie of the MonthClaude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".[1][2]Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948. However, he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship.[3] Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his basic work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.For two months early in 1943, Shannon came into contact with the leading British cryptanalyst and mathematician Alan Turing. Turing had been posted to Washington to share with the U.S. Navy's cryptanalytic service the methods used by the British Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park to break the ciphers used by the Kriegsmarine U-boats in the North Atlantic Ocean.[14] He was also interested in the encipherment of speech and to this end spent time at Bell Labs. Shannon and Turing met at teatime in the cafeteria.[14] Turing showed Shannon his 1936 paper that defined what is now known as the "Universal Turing machine";[15][16] this impressed Shannon, as many of its ideas complemented his own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/

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