June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Tish Shute from Syntertainment and augmentedreality.org elucidated the nature of the AR industry. The ability to change thoughts into some form of reality is likely to change the nature of human interactions. The technology cycles continue to accelerate to the point where a nominal 10-year cycle for [...]
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Amber Case from ESRI presented “The Future of Wearable Computing”. The drivers and conditions for adoption are changing as the technologies improve. Among the issues the AR community has to address are constraint, context, and location information. We are still waiting for a realistic wearable display and [...]
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Bruce Sterling, author and futurist described the emerging technologies and directions for the augmented society. The nature of people is changing, and the rate of change in various technologies is accelerating those changes in the society. The technology industries are getting more involved in augmented functions. Google’s [...]
March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—A panel from industry looked at the issues in flat panel development and product feature specification. Paul Gagnon from NPD DisplaySearch moderated the panel. Panel members were Jim Sandusky from Sharp, Tim Alessi from LG Electronics, Ken Lowe from Vizio, Henry Hauser from Panasonic, Dan Schinasi [...]
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the requirements for security in networks, critical infrastructure, and in environments with BYOD. Phil Schacter from Gartner moderated the panel. Panel members included Steve Venema from Boeing, Dave Waltermire from NIST, and Phyllis Lee from NSA. Venema introduced himself as involved with government and user [...]
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the implications of advanced persistent threats (APT) with respect to the NIST 800-147 and -155 standards. Paul Roberts from The Security Ledger moderated the panel. Members were; Frank Molsberry from Dell, Stacy Cannady from Digital Management, Sunil Gottumukka from Microsoft, and Robert Thibadeau from Wave [...]
February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—A conversational encounter between Michael Singer from TabTime, Adam Stein from SAP, and Saranya Babu from Dell covered the issues with BYOD. These solutions apply to all end points and operating systems. Stein noted that BYOD requires companies to see the issues and determine how to deal with [...]
February 18, 2013, ISSCC, San Francisco—Session 6 demonstrated emerging medical and sensor technologies. Contributors included KAIST in Korea, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in UAE, National Chiao Tung Universtiy and China Medical University and ASE in Taiwan, University of Tokyo in Japan, EDA-LITEN in France, Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, ST Microelectroincs [...]
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 2012 – San Francisco, CA – This year the International Electron Device Meeting kicked off with a short course on Circuit and Technology Interaction. Historically, this was held as several sessions in the conference focusing on the new devices for memories, logic and analog operation. With the overall shift to FDSOI and FinFET style [...]
