The Boston Area Computer User's Calendar

Updated 03/10/2001 -- '01 #51
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Resources:
User group email Notices for March '01,   April '01, or for All Notices
Directory of User Groups, also at directory mirror site.
Do your own search: one window or multi-window -- previous calendars -- Our Story
Bostonusergroups.com: "General User Group Calendar"
User Group events:

March 10, 2001
VIBUG, "WGBH Media Access Group", 1:00-4:00PM, Natl Braille Press, Boston

March 12, 2001
Seacoast Linux Users monthly meeting, 7:00, @NHCTC
Worcester Computer Society, "Scanners", 6:45, @The EcoTarium (NESC)

March 13, 2001
SIGCHI Chapter, "Storytelling at a Distance", 7:00, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Network Users (BNUG), "Lotus Notes", 6:30, @Novell, Wellesley
NE M Users (MUMPS), "Computers and Patient Safety", 7:00, @MSFT Waltham
Voice Users, "Dictation: New Devel, Future Challenges", 7:30, @MIT, Room 2-143

March 14, 2001
SAS Users, "Advanced Macro Workshop" ($), 8:30AM to 4PM, Ramada Inn, Woburn
SW Quality Group, "Meaningful Metrics", 6:15, @Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Worcester Linux, "Home Networking", 7pm  Salisbury Labs 115, WPI
MS .Net User Group, "Common Language Runtime-Attributes", 6-8:30 MSFT, Waltham
Access Client/Server monthly meeting, 5:30, Danl Webster Coll Hall, Rm DW104, Nashua NH
Boston Mac Users, "Speech Recognition on the Mac", 7:00, @MIT Bldg E51
digitaleve Workshop: "state of creative jobs in Boston" 6:30, Aquent, Boston  $
Notes & Domino "Domino and Linux" & "Remote Server", 6:30,  IBM, Waltham

March 15, 2001
NE Java Users, "Real-Time Java", 6:00, @Sun Campus, Burlington
ASQ Boston "Management's Role in Achieving Predictable Software Development", Burlington Marriott
IEEE-Boston/,GBC/ACM, "Java & the Web: Servlets, JSP and XSL/XML", 7:00, @MIT, room 4-231

March 16, 2001
No Shore Comp Soc Computer Clinic, 7:00, Peabody Municipal Light

March 19, 2001
Delphi Developers, "Oracle and XML", 7:00, Allaire Corp, Newton
VB Learning Group, "Intro to Data Access through MDAC", 7:00, @MSFT Waltham

March 20, 2001
PC Users of RI monthly meeting, 7:00, @NE Tech, Warwick RI
FrontPage Users, "All Things Sub Web", 6:30, @MSFT Waltham
Boston SPIN, "Four R's of Software Process Improvement", 6:30, @Genl Dynamics, Needham

March 21, 2001
Boston Linux and Unix, "Linux Soup IV", 7:00, @MIT Building 4-370
SneNUG "SMS 2.0 & its features" 7:00, @NE Tech, Warwick RI
DataCAD Boston (DBUG), "Stephen Blatt Architects at the BSA", 6:00, 52 Broad St, Boston
MS Access Users, "Access Day", 9:30AM-8:00PM, @MSFT Waltham

March 22, 2001
AITP-SNE, "Project Management", $, 6:00, Radisson Airport Hotel, Warwick RI

March 27, 2001
SwANH SEQ SIG, "Web Load Test Tool Bakeoff", 6:30, @Conduciv Inc, Nashua NH
MIMC Digital Forum, 6:30, Apple Market Ctr, 28 State St, Boston
Ind Computer Consultants, "Ethics and the Consultant", 6pm, 200 Fifth Ave, Waltham $
MS Developers, "Visual Basic .NET", 6:30, @UCI Corp, Woburn

March 29, 2001
NE Palm Users, topic TBA, 6:30, @MIT NW17-218

April 2, 2001
Windows Technical Forum, "Veritas & Compaq products", 6:30 to 9:00PM, at Microsoft Waltham, MA

April 3, 2001
NESQAF, "Estim & Metrics for Automated Testing Proj", 6:30, @Lotus, Cambridge
AIP-495 Chapter  "Details to be announced"
Digital Comm Soc, "Watermarking and Bluespike" $, Noon-2PM, Downtown Harvard Club of Boston

April 4, 2001
MIMC Cyberbrew, 6:30, The Big Easy, One Boylston Pl, Boston
Windows 2000/NT Server User Group "Microsoft.NET Part-2" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham, MA

April 11, 2001
SW Quality Group, "Johanna Rothman", 6:15, @Sun Microsystems, Burlington
.Net User Group of Greater Boston, "New Visual Studio.NET", 6-8:30 MSFT, Waltham

April 12, 2001
Computer Measurement Group, "Managing Storage", 9AM, @Lombardo's, Randolph

April 18, 2001
Boston Linux and Unix, "John Terpstra talks about Samba", 7:00, @MIT Building 4-370
SneNUG, "Novell Groupwise 6", 7:00, @NE Tech, Warwick RI

April 19, 2001
NE Java Users, "Web Services (SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL)", 6:00, @Sun Campus, Burlington
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) "TBA" 7pm  Salisbury Labs 115, WPI
GBC/ACM, "Software Agent Technologies", 6:30, @IBM SPC, Waltham

April 23, 2001
Delphi Developers Group Monthly Meeting "TBA" 7-9pm, Allaire Corporation, Newton, MA

April 24, 2001
MIMC Digital Forum, 6:30, Apple Market Ctr, 28 State St, Boston
Independent Computer Consultants Ass'n "TBA" 6pm, 200 Fifth Ave, Waltham $
MS Developers, "Move from VB to Visual Basic .NET", 6:30, @UCI Corp, Woburn
SwANH SEQ SIG, "RapidSQA: Web Testing", 6:30, Location TBA
PC Users of RI monthly meeting, 7:00, @NE Tech, Warwick RI

May 1, 2001
NE Software Quality Assurance Forum, "Virtual Test Management", 6:30, @Lotus, Cambridge
AIP-495 Chapter  "Details to be announced"

May 2, 2001
MIMC Cyberbrew, 6:30, The Big Easy, One Boylston Pl, Boston
Windows 2000/NT Server User Group "Off-site meeting and tour of USDataCenters new datacenter-5."

May 7, 2001
Windows Technical Forum  "TBA"  6:30,  Microsoft, Waltham

May 9, 2001
SW Quality Group, "Best Testing Practices", 6:15, @Sun Microsystems, Burlington
MS .Net User Group, "Porting DNA to .NET", 6-8:30 MSFT, Waltham

May 15, 2001
PC Users of RI monthly meeting, 7:00, @NE Tech, Warwick RI
NE M Users (MUMPS) meeting, 7:00, @MSFT Waltham

May 16, 2001
Boston Linux and Unix,"Brad Snow: Wearable Computing", 7:00, @MIT Building 4-370
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) "TBA" 7pm  Salisbury Labs 115, WPI
SneNUG, "Disk Fragmentation", 7:00, @NE Tech, Warwick RI

May 17, 2001
NE Java Users, "JINI in Practice", 6:00, @Sun Campus, Burlington

May 21, 2001
Delphi Developers Group Monthly Meeting "TBA" 7-9pm, Allaire Corporation, Newton, MA

May 22, 2001
Independent Computer Consultants Ass'n "TBA" 6pm, 200 Fifth Ave, Waltham $

May 29, 2001
MIMC Digital Forum, 6:30, Apple Market Ctr, 28 State St, Boston
SwANH SEQ SIG, "PalmOS Application Development", 6:30, Location TBA
MS Developers, "C# (C Sharp) Overview", 6:30, @UCI Corp, Woburn

June 4, 2001
Windows Technical Forum  "TBA"  6:30,  Microsoft, Waltham

June 5, 2001
NE Software Quality Assurance Forum, "TBD", 6:30, @Lotus, Cambridge
AIP-495 Chapter  "Details to be announced"

June 6, 2001
MIMC Cyberbrew, 6:30, The Big Easy, One Boylston Pl, Boston
Windows 2000/NT Server "drive management, large scale storage, virtual partitioning" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham, MA

June 18, 2001
Delphi Developers Group Monthly Meeting "TBA" 7-9pm, Allaire Corporation, Newton, MA

June 20, 2001
DataCAD Boston (DBUG), 6:00, 9 Vernon St, Framingham
SneNUG, "Microsoft Topic", 7:00, @NE Tech, Warwick RI

June 21, 2001
NE Java Users, "JavaOne 2001 Review", 6:00, @Sun Campus, Burlington

June 26, 2001
MIMC Digital Forum, 6:30, Apple Market Ctr, 28 State St, Boston
Independent Computer Consultants Ass'n "TBA" 6pm, 200 Fifth Ave, Waltham $

June 28, 2001
Ass'n of Internet Professionals "Life in the Fast Lane: the broadband revolution", 6:30 at MIT

July 11, 2001
SW Quality Group, "Hot Topics Night", 6:15, @Sun Microsystems, Burlington

July 18, 2001
DataCAD Boston (DBUG), "CADvantage at the BSA", 6:00, 52 Broad St, Boston
SneNUG, "Caldera and Linux", 7:00, @NE Tech, Warwick RI


Selected Commercial Events:

March 15, 2001
BOSCON 2001: Boston Quality Conference, The Marriott, Burlington MA

March 27-29, 2001
Enterprise Architectures Conference, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston

May 6-9, 2001
Intelligent Network 2001 Workshops, Marriott Copley Place Hotel

May 20-23, 2001
PharmaSUG 2001 SAS Users Conference, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston

June 20-22, 2001
Customer Relationship Management Conference and Expo, Hynes Convention Center, Boston


Computer Education and Training:

March 12, 2001
Software Project Management, Natick

March 16, 2001
ASQ Boston "S/W Development for Medical Device Manufacturers", Burlington Marriott

March 24, 2001
Software Verification & Validation, Lexington Sheraton

April 2-6, 2001
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Seminars, @Optimum Technology, Waltham

April 9-12, 2001
AppDev XML/XSLT Seminars, @Optimum Technology, Waltham

April 9-11, 2001
Strategies & Tools for Successful Data Warehouses, Sheraton Commander, Cambridge

April 12-13, 2001
Meta Data Implementation, Sheraton Commander, Cambridge

April 24-27, 2001
Building Web Applications - from 101 to Java Application Servers, Sheraton Commander, Cambridge

May 7-11, 2001
Microsoft Access Applic Devel Seminars, location TBA


Ongoing:

MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science events open to the public

The IEEE Boston Section posts local courses at
http://www.ieee-boston.org/

Cambridge Center for Adult Education  Call (617) 547-6789
or check the courses available at http://www.ccae.org

WorldTRAIN Online Classes http://www.worldtrain.com/courses

UCI Training offers special events on a regular basis. These sessions are open to the public
and are usually free of charge.  Check http://www.ucitraining.com/events.asp

Westlake Internet Training Classes, Federal St, Boston. http://www.westlake.com/

Future Media Concepts provides training in all areas of digital media

Apple seminars   New England (free)  These sites may load very slowly.

Microsoft Technology Center Training  $$

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