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The Scene – It's only natural that San Jose, the self-proclaimed capital of Silicon Valley, would host conventions about such unsexy topics as embedded systems and disk storage. Those subjects are infinitely interesting, however, to the thousands of software programmers, electrical engineers and project managers who continually flock to the center's mostly high-tech trade shows. – – The Inside Story – Built in 1989, the 143,000-square-foot center includes 30 meeting rooms, a 22,000 square-foot ballroom and 116,000 square feet of pre-function space on the Concourse…