November 19, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – The Korean Scientist & Engineers Association of Silicon Valley (www.ksea-siv.org) hosted the North West Regional Conference in Santa Clara this year. The event was attended by over 100 members, guests and speakers from the bay area, Southern CA, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland and other chapters in the NW [...]
Nov 3, 2011, Monterey,CA – This year’s MEMS Executive Congress was well attended by close to 200 hundred people representing the 130+ MIG members. The group over the past 10 years has expanded to include the full extent of the MEMS ecosystem and supply chain. These include device manufacturers, equipment suppliers, foundries, end users, product [...]
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Eric Wesoff from Greentech Media introduced the topic and made some comments before leaving for a meeting. Pallab Chatterjee acted as back-up moderator for the panel. The panel members included Don Danh from East-West Bank, Kevin Gao from CA Solar, and Sandeep Sharma from Sandview [...]
October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–A panel considered the issues of the multi-platform universe. Jeremy Toeman from Dijit Media moderated the panel. Panel members included John Clancy from Azuki Systems, Sherry Brennan from Fox Networks, Kurt Hoppe from LG Electronics, and Richard Bullwinkle from Rovi Corp. Bullwinkle stated that perspective changes for the multi-screen [...]
September 22, 2011, 3-D User Experience Technical Summit, Hollywood–A panel discussed the needs and types of data that will most help the content creation community. The transition to 3-D is showing a large gap in the understanding of 3-D effects production and their affects on viewers. Phil Lelyveld from the Entertainment Technology Center at USC [...]
Oct 20, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – At the IDEMA’s Diskcon event, there were two main topic for the presentation – the technology behind increasing areal density for rotating media (HDDs) and the consumption appetite of the cloud and media content as the new the driver of the marketplace. With storage and compute in [...]
October 5, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The Linley Processor conference recently focused on new architectures and trends for network data processing. As video and multimedia have become more pervasive in all aspects of networking – wireless, content delivery, cloud storage & processing, and data center core applications. The larger data sized of this [...]
October 4-5, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The TV Next conference is a new event that superceeds the Set Top Box (STB) conference that was held for several years. The shift in the name, is also reflective of the shifts in the industry. The next generation TV experience is a combinations of fixed time [...]
October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–Steven Reynolds from Comcast talked about the future of video service devices in a multi-platform universe. The next generation of services will be delivered via the customer’s on-premise equipment. The service providers consider this new set of services to be in the future. Video over IP is going to [...]
September 22, 2011, user experience technical Summit, Hollywood—Sin Lin Wu from Arizona State University and Jorge Caviedes from Intel described the effects of post processing on stereo quality. All of the techniques that have been used and researched for years for 2-D are not all applicable to 3-D post production. Usually, post production just works [...]
