April 3, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Jane Li from Huawei projected the possibilities for Ethernet in the next 40 years. She offered a range of possibilities and extrapolated from current prospects and possibilities. Some trends from the present will be factors in future evolution. When Ethernet was developed 40 years ago by Bob [...]
February 18, 2013, ISSCC, San Francisco—Yoshiyuki Miyabe from Panasonic suggested some smart life solutions from home to city in his plenary talk. He noted the directions of all electronics is moving towards more consumer-based functions, and the challenges for the industry to get to 2030. Energy is becoming an important limiter for growth in many [...]
December 6, 2012, Wireless Communication Alliance, Santa Clara, CA—The WCA held their year-end round-up meeting with a set of presentations from various industry participants. The meeting focus was on the technologies to enable the intelligent, connected home. Michael Palma from IDC offered a number of applications that the intelligent connected home could support. These apps [...]
October 24, 2012, Renesas DevCon, Anaheim, CA—We talked with Amrit Vivekanand and Brian Pluckebaum about automotive and infotainment products. The increases in internal and external communications is driving new functions in the automotive markets. The emerging vehicle-to-vehicle communications will impact the automotive functions greatly. The area still has a great need for standards, protocols, etc., [...]
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—Mike McConnell from Booz Allen Hamilton and former director of the NSA and former Director of National Intelligence talked about protecting state secrets in the cloud. As the drivers of technology and standards brings about changes, we have to add economics as another driver, because we need [...]
February 23, 2012, Berkeley, CA – At the Berkeley Engineering research conference (BEARS2012) there was a breakout session from the BWRC group on the advances and long term directions in wireless communications and networking. The breakout was led by Ken Lutz, the Director of the center followed by a presentation by Prof. Jan Rabaey which [...]
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 [...]
February 14,2011, RSA Conference, Cloud Security Alliance, San Francisco–Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com presented his thoughts on security in the cloud. Computers have been on a 10 year major revision cycle since the ’60′s. Mainframes gave way to minicomputers in the ’70′s, which in turn were eclipsed by client/server configurations in the ’80′s. The PC [...]
Andy Melder, VP at Gigle Networks talks about the evolution of power-line communications as an alternative to WiFi and Ethernet for home networking on an IP-based protocol. In the past, power line networking was restricted to simple command and control functions like turning on lights and small appliances. The difficulties were in the pervasive noise [...]
