Events for April 27, 2026

[]You've been using Claude like a search engine with manners. It's time to use it like an operating system. Agents. MCPs. Skills. Claude Code. This is where one-person companies start — and where entire industries <a href="http://shift.Most" target="_blank" title="shift.Most">shift.Most people discover Claude through the chat interface. They ask questions. They get answers. They think: "Nice. It's like a smarter Google." Then they close the tab and move <a href="http://on.They" target="_blank" title="on.They">on.They never find out that Claude can autonomously browse the web, write and execute code, manage files, connect to any app or database on the planet, coordinate multi-step workflows across tools, and operate for hours without a single human <a href="http://keystroke.They" target="_blank" title="keystroke.They">keystroke.They never find out about Claude Code — a CLI agent that can build entire products from a description. Or MCPs — a universal protocol that plugs Claude into Slack, GitHub, Notion, Figma, PostgreSQL, and thousands more. Or Skills — reusable, markdown-based "playbooks" that teach Claude any repeatable workflow you can <a href="http://describe."Claude" target="_blank" title="describe."Claude">describe."Claude Code is, with hindsight, poorly named. It's not purely a coding tool: it's a tool for general computer automation. Anything you can achieve by typing commands into a computer can now be <a href="http://automated."—" target="_blank" title="automated."—">automated."— Simon Willison, software engineer & researcherThis course gives you the full picture — from the concepts down to the commands. By the end, you will see Claude not as a chatbot, but as a platform for building the future of <a href="http://work.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="work.Speaker(s):">work.Speaker(s): Younes, Agenda: Module 01Claude Is Not a ChatbotReframe everything you know. Understand the architecture: Claude as a reasoning engine, an action-taker, and an autonomous agent — not a Q&A machine. The mental model that unlocks everything <a href="http://else.Virtual:" target="_blank" title="else.Virtual:">else.Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/553617

Multifunctional Filtering AntennasJawad Y. SiddiquiUniversity of Calcutta, Queen's University and Royal Military College of CanadaSummary:Modern RF systems often require multiple antennas to support various frequency bands. Reconfigurable antennas address this need by providing frequency agility, compact size, and reduced hardware complexity. The proposed antenna achieves this through electrical reconfiguration enabled by the embedded SRRs and PIN <a href="http://diodes.The" target="_blank" title="diodes.The">diodes.The techniques proposed in this work have been implemented on two types of UWB antennas, a printed monopole antenna and a printed antipodal tapered slot antenna (ATSA) to validate the concept on radiators with distinct radiation characteristics: omnidirectional and directional, respectively. In both cases, split ring resonators (SRRs), magnetically coupled to the CPW feed line, function as band-stop filters, introducing a frequency notch in the UWB response around their resonance. When a set of PIN diodes embedded in the feed line are forward biased (ON), the antenna transforms into a narrowband band-pass filter centered at the same resonance frequency, thereby realizing complementary frequency responses from a single antenna <a href="http://structure.A" target="_blank" title="structure.A">structure.A key feature of the design is that it preserves the original radiator geometry. The work demonstrates a compact, versatile, and effective approach to achieving multifunctionality in UWB antennas. The integration of reconfigurable filtering into the feedline enables real-time switching between wideband and narrowband operation, making the design especially suitable for cognitive radio, multi-standard wireless systems, and MIMO <a href="http://applications.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="applications.Speaker(s):">applications.Speaker(s): Dr. JawadRoom: EIT-3151, Bldg: EIT, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/553628