May 1, 2013, Neurogaming Conference, San Francisco—The new and emerging sensors are enabling new game interfaces. A panel moderated by Jim Gatto from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP reviewed the possibilities and considered future applications. The panel members were Stanley Yang from Neurosky, Anders Grunnet-Jepsen from Intel, and Ali Israr from Disney Research. Yang opened [...]
May 1, 2013, Neuro-Gaming Conference, San Francisco—Closing the loop from monitoring to feedback can be used to track, understand, and boost attention and cognitive performance of players. A panel moderated by Zack Lynch from the Neurotech Industry Organization looked at opening up new avenues for experience development. The panel members were Mike Oxley form Foc.us, [...]
April 29, 2013, Open source Business Conference, San Francisco—Jim Whitehurst from Red Hat talked about open source going into the mainstream and losing its niche status. The trends and drivers in the industry are coming from a newfound respect for the values of open source software. The shifts start with technology and innovation. As a [...]
April 9, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Ian Valentine from Tektronix about their latest releases. Tek has been around the broadcast industry for a long time, so their announcements tend to be important technology statements. The evolving industry standards for interfaces and file formats need tool for checking infrastructure. At the [...]
March 27, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with IncrediBuild about their acceleration platform for software developers. They have the technology to improve Make and Build cycles through sharing of CPU cycles in game development and other vertical markets. By using the Net and parallelism, they emulate a high performance compute network. Most of [...]
March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—A panel from industry looked at the issues in flat panel manufacturing. Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch moderated the panel. Panelists were Si Kyoung Kim from Applied Materials, Robert O’Brien from Corning, Art Lathrop from 3M, and Darrell Benke from AMS. Applied is working on flat [...]
February 14, 2013 EECS, University of California, Berkeley—The annual EECS status update focused on cloud and computer-based functions, and a number of grad-students presented elevator-pitch information on some of the specific activities in those research centers. Matei Zaharai from the AMP (Algorithms, Machines, and People) Lab noted that big data needs more types of analysis, [...]
February 6, 2012, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA—After their keynote presentations, the presenters sat in a panel session to elaborate on some of the topics that arose in their speeches. Michael Cadigan and Gary Patton from IBM, Kwang Hyun Kim from Samsung, and Mike Noonan from Global Foundries answered questions from the press. [...]
December 13, 2012, Churchill Club, Palo Alto, CA—The Churchill Club held their annual gadgets program to review what’s hot and not in consumer technologies. The presenters are people who get to play with new technologies as a part of their day jobs. This year’s presenters were: Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal, Kara Swisher [...]
December 6, 2012, Printed Electronics USA, Santa Clara, CA—Toshihide Kamata from the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology updated the efforts on printed electronics in Japan. The organization is a research consortium of the big companies involved in printing, chemicals, and electronics. The focus is on large-area devices, using an ink-based, low-temperature process. Some [...]
