April 2013 – In the content creation world, the transmedia market is now opening up the development to professionals working on projects that are sharing both files and completed content assets. One of these areas of convergent is the gaming and broadcast industry. We had the opportunity to meet with Content Creation Specialty VAR ALT [...]
Most of us in the Entertainment business are well-aware of the need to secure our personal information and intellectual property. It may not be as fun as trip to the mountains or a new guitar, but we recognize the value of security technologies to our work, our financial and our personal lives… but we don’t [...]
Six years in a row, in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, the Grammy for “Record of the Year” went to recordings performed by members of “The Wrecking Crew”. This was a nickname coined by its drummer Hal Blaine, who is also a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Some of the [...]
December 4, 2012, Churchill Club, Menlo Park, CA—Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics and former editor at Wired talked with Carl Bass from AutoDesk about 3-D printing and the new industrial revolution. This exchange was obviously a continuation of a long-standing and ongoing conversation between kindred souls. The first industrial revolution made it possible to manufacture [...]
On Saturday, September 1,2012, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren was recognized for an award by the IEEE-USA for her distinguished Public Service. The event was hosting at Marvell Semiconductor Headquarters in Santa Clara. Zoe Lofgren has been a dedicated supporter of technology and Innovation, a tireless champion for engineers and high-tech professionals for almost twenty years. As [...]
October 30, San Francisco –The CEA Industry Forum, which alternates between San Francisco and Los Angeles, this year, it took place in the SF Bay area. October, when the event was held, is Innovation month for that city as declared by its Mayor Ed Lee. The CEA and CE Industry are all about innovation. The [...]
October, 23, 2012 – Collaboration…Your Way, Monterey, CA Stuart Monks, Vice President of Group Solutions, Technology and Architecture, at Polycom was the keynote speaker at a video conferencing summit. He sees the future of videoconferencing as the core of industries such as distance learning, telemedicine, manufacturing & operations, customer service and business continuity. These areas [...]
September 2012 – The Churchill Club continued their innovation series with the event themed on “Changing the Game”. The diverse program focused on the nature of change, if it is by design or by accident and how to drive change for the future. One of the more controversial discussion was from Rich Karlgaard of Forbes [...]
In 1983, a long time before Hollywood audiences fell in love with Computer Generating Imagery, also commonly known as “CGI”, the first experiment in a commercial motion picture film that combined live action and archival footage took place. This happened in Woody Allen’s groundbreaking film, “Zelig”, which he wrote, directed and starred in. Allen was [...]
August 20, 2012, Churchill Club, Palo Alto, CA—A diverse panel of technocrats participated in a panel discussion on the future of speech in interfacing with technology. Quentin Hardy from the New York Times moderated the panel. Panelists included Sheryl Connelly from Ford Motor Company, Ron Kaplan from Nuance, Dan Miler from Opus Research, and Steve [...]
