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President’s Report – May 2025

Innovate Chatham Accomplishments May 2024 to May 2025 With summer looming, it seems like a fine time to reflect a bit on our accomplishments over the past year.  Tych Cowdin suggested that I use AI to go through our newsletters and make a summary.  That made for a good start,

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Tinkering in Tech Wonderland

President’s Report – March 2025

Yipee!  Spring is in the air, finally.  We are having a good year at Innovate Chatham! I hope you are too! Chatham Tech Talk In February, after a postponement due to ice on the roads, Don Kallgren explained the technology behind GPS, and it was quite a ride from trilateration

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astronaut in the woods

President’s Report, December 10, 2024

Does anyone love the scenery here in December?  I’m not a fan of the gray trees and branches.  Our big oak is the last to dump its brown leaves like it’s making a brave stand against the cold.  I’m thankful my heat is working this month, and I live no

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"Laptops under the oak", Bing Image Creator, Burn-E.

President’s Report, November 19, 2024

I’m thankful this month that the political signs are not littering the gorgeous scenery of Chatham.  The trees are doing their best to entertain us, and it’s not so cold yet.  Sorry for being lazy in delaying the publication of this report, but we had a few slow months.  I

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Doing Thing with AI Tools

Professor Richard Marks of the School of Data Science and Society presented at 79°West this week. Prof Marks is one of the original engineers in the commercialization of computer vision products. In case you missed it, here is a link to his slides. One of the links mentioned is supertools.therundown.ai,

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President’s Report, August 13, 2024

“Laptops under the oak”, Bing Image Creator, Burn-E.  Today, I’m thankful for electricity and internet service.  Thanks to the storm, Debby, for reminding me.  It has been a wonderful summer of warm weather, flowers, green trees, and sunshine.  And, plenty of rain, sure…  But no drought!  And swimming with grandkids

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President’s Report, June 11, 2024

I hope you are enjoying the warm weather.  I couldn’t be more pleased with the weather this month.  It’s hard not to be happy. Chatham Tech Talk Erin Denniston gave an excellent short course on 3D modeling and printing in April.  If you would like to ‘attend’ the course, Jack Stevens

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Summer coming

President’s Report, May 14, 2024

Hey y’all!  I hope you are enjoying the excellent weather.  I’m really enjoying living in a green world after the winter of grey sticks.   And, as you will see, things are warming up in  Innovate Chatham. Chatham Tech Talk 3d Modeling On April 29, Erin Denniston gave an excellent short

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President’s Report April 2024

  Burney Waring, lazy president, here.   I have had a series of personal distractions consuming February and March, which is my lame explanation for not sending any reports for the past two months.  As always, I welcome your feedback and suggestions. Here is our latest news!  Chatham Tech Talk I

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Mark McNeilly

AI for Business: Notes from Today’s Presentation

This morning’s presentation at 79°West by Mark McNeilly, “AI in Business,” was excellent and thought-provoking.   Here are his slides:  ChatGPT & AI Preso – Innovate Carolina Handout – Prof Mark McNeilly I spent a few hours exploring only some of the things that I jotted down in my notes,

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