May 14, 2013, Uptime Institute Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Lawrence from 451 Research evaluated trends and drivers to consider which ones will be significant over the next 5-20 years. The difficulty is taking such a long-term focus is that the technologies can change very dramatically even within the lower-end of the range. To demonstrate this [...]
May 2, 2013, Neuro-Gaming Conference, San Francisco—Augmented and virtual reality technologies are entering games. A panel moderated by Jason Jerald from nextGen Interactions considered the issues related to game design and development. panel members were Walter Greenleaf from the Stanford Longevity Institute, Laurent Scallie from Atlantis Cyberspace, and Palmer Luckey from OculusVR. Scalie opened that [...]
April 3, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John D’Ambrosia from Dell and the Ethernet Alliance described the efforts to develop 400Gbps Ethernet. These efforts are the start of something that will lead to improvements for everyone. The industry is getting involved in early standards developments and research. The ecosystem of Ethernet will change to [...]
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—David Kasik and Christopher J Senesac from Boeing described the changing nature of computer graphics at their company. Boeing has had substantial influence on the fields of computer graphics, interactive techniques, and computational geometry since 1960. Boeing is involved in a wide range of technologies from basic [...]
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA— Mark Muench and Christopher Pond from ESPN described their development efforts that allows use of 4K video in telecasts. Some of the issues associated with this high resolution imagery include applying multiple GPU processing, theoretical vs. practical transfer rates, gpuDirect, bandwidth, bus speed, and playback, together [...]
March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch described how the supply chain is reacting to the rise of smart devices. The apparent conflict between big and cheap versus increasingly high-tech means that supply chain must evolve to meet both requirements. Smart devices are defined as connected, interactive, and [...]
December 10, 2012, International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco—Luc van den Hove from IMEC described the changes in device technologies that will be the core of a sustainable society. Electronics has and will continue to affect all aspects of living, and the ability to provide greater performance at ever lower costs will drive societal evolution. [...]
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—Bernard Amadei from Engineers Without Borders and the University of Colorado, Boulder proposed engineering innovation for all. He noted the need to design for the needs of the 5B poor people in the world. This other 90 percent of the world’s population has great [...]
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—Colin Dixon from the Diffusion Group moderated a panel on home networks. Panel members were Brett Wingo from Cisco, Kurt Hoppe form LG Electronics, Kevin Meagher from Lowe’s, and Jy McLellan from Home Automation. Dixon explained that in ’06, the favorite location for a Internet connection was the [...]
