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 [...]
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 [...]
September 13, 2012, Churchill Awards, Santa Clara, CA—The second annual Churchill Club awards presentations on are those people and companies who inspired others by highlighting excellence and innovation, collaboration, social benefit, and leadership. Geoffrey Moore, author, performed the duties of master of ceremonies. The Game Changer Award went to SpaceX for indispensable technology and business [...]
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 [...]
April 11, 2012, Flextech Alliance Workshop, San Jose, CA—Joshua Hagen from the US Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB described the programs and changing needs in their work. They need to instrument people as well as they do airplanes to match and track performance capabilities. Their facility tests prototypes and has an analysis testbed [...]
April 12, 2012, Mentor User2User Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Wally Rhines from Mentor Graphics opened the conference with a talk on ” doing what others don’t” in his keynote address. Hs was trying to counter the conventional wisdom that in the EDA industry, the big companies continue and the small companies innovate, then get acquired. Mentor [...]
January 2012, As result of the recent rise in advanced imaging and motion control with head and eye movement for the gaming and generalized computer use, we contacted the Co-Founder of iScan Corporation of Cambridge MA to get an update on the industry and their products. For those that are unfamiliar with iScan, they have [...]
November 18, 2011, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference, Mountain View, CA–Shankar Shastry from Cal opened the conference by noting that Silicon Valley is known for its innovations and many were initialized at Berkeley. UC studies the challenges and reviews the ideas that create new industries. One example of this type of research are [...]
November 18, 2011, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference, Mountain View, CA–Arun Sarin currently advising Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts and former CEO of Vodaphone talked about the transition from land lines (POTS: plain old telephone service) to wireless (PAN: personal area network). Although mobile phones were invented before this year, in ’84 the transition [...]
November 18, 2011, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference, Mountain View, CA–Paul Jacobs from Qualcomm suggested that mobile devices are the development platform for innovation. These devices are fertile grounds for new features and capabilities. Through long partnerships with Cal, they have done research into ubiquitous swarms, cloud, mobile access, and sensor swarms. All [...]
