June 5, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—The AR infrastructure needs to move to standards and open platforms to become as recognized and used as USB. Christine Perey from Perey Consultants moderated a panel of people working on those standards. Panelists were Rob Manson from ARStandards.org, Neil Trevett from Khronos, and Martin Lechner from [...]
April 2, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—The opening of the summit looked at the emergence of software-defined networks (SDN) and the relationship to OpenFlow. Craig Matsumoto from Light Reading chaired the session. The emergence of SDN is a transforming force that is evolving to real use and investments. The overlay of OpenFlow offers [...]
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Sarah Tariq from Nvidia described the intersection of high-performance computing and gaming. At first glance, there appears to be no common areas between the two areas, but the reality is a lot of functional overlap. Parallel computers emerged as an alternative to higher clock speeds in the [...]
March 26, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—A group of lecturers from industry and academia talked about applications of AI in game development. The speakers were: Luke Dicken (University of Strathclyde), Dino Dini (NHTV University of Applied Sciences, Breda, Netherlands), Brian Schwab (Blizzard Entertainment), Steve Rabin (DigiPen Institute of Technology), Jeff Orkin (Independent), Daniel Brewer [...]
March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—Paul Gray from NPD DisplaySearch examined the forces at work that affect TVs, as mobile devices acquire television-like capabilities. The TV set manufacturers have been adding new features and functions like social media and Internet connectivity, but these efforts may be insufficient. The TV is no [...]
February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—Ben Bajarin from Creative Strategies looked at the state of tablets in the enterprise. The number of tablets appearing in the workplace is tracking the total sales of tablets. Some are company issued, and others are BYOD. Tablets are reshaping the face of computing in business, enterprises, and [...]
February 4, 2013, Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Thomas Bindre from Nik Software presented concepts for selective editing of images on touchscreen devices. The growth of smart mobile devices allows picture-taking capabilities anywhere, but the quality of most pictures is poor. Editing can be a global operation, where all pixels are changed with some parameter, or [...]
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 [...]
November 13, 2012, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders’ Conference, UC Berkeley—Carl Bass from Autodesk presented a view of engineering innovation by design. After a short video, he said that this is the best time to be an engineer. The potential for innovation now meets the access to markets, tools and money. There are three [...]
October 27, 2012, AES Convention, San Francisco—A panel looked at the technologies and capabilities of mind-controlled interactive music. These active input technologies enhance the contextual responsiveness and reality of a game. Adam Gazzaley from UCSF moderated the panel. Panel members included Nicolas Tomasino from IGN Entertainment, Al Gurlalei from UCSF, Kyle Machulis from Nonpolynomial Labs, [...]
