Pittsburgh SPIN Meeting
This meeting is open to the community*

Date: March 14th 6:30-8:30

· 6:30 - 7:00 Meet & Greet
7:00 – 8:00 Presentation

Location: Software Engineering Institute Jordan Auditorium
Featured Speaker: Grace Lewis (SEI)
Presentation: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been touted as a solution to meet the challenge of rapid change in today's commercial, government, and military software environments. This SPIN session will focus on introducing

* SOA basic concepts
* common misconceptions about SOA
* fundamentals for successfully implementing SOA-based systems
* potential issues in leveraging legacy investments as services
* a technique for analyzing the potential of reusing legacy assets as services
*SEI work in the area of SOA

*Please RSVP to Shane McGraw at spin@sei.cmu.edu or 412-268-2358
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Indira Nair wrote:
> Broadband and the Arts
>
> Tom Smart, Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection,
> and Malcolm Stanley, technology strategist, will discuss the new
> electronic presence being developed for the McMichael, one of Canada's
> premier art collections.
>
> The presentation - part of an ongoing restructuring of the McMichael
> Canadian Art Collection's electronic presence - surveys awareness on the
> Internet of the works in the McMichael collection, and links these to
> the emergent social networking behaviors exhibited by Internet users
> today. Taking a systems approach, the goal of the new electronic
> presence is to lever these social networking behaviors to create
> relationships with targeted potential patrons and customers of the
> museum - and in doing so ultimately increase attendance, reduce time
> between visits, and reduce the average age of visitors to the
> Collection.
>
> Case studies of similar activities will be discussed, and some practical
> implementation activities will be outlined.
>
> The presentation will be on March 1, 4-6PM, in Porter Hall 126A.
>