October, 23, 2012 – Collaboration…Your Way, Monterey, CA Stuart Monks, Vice President of Group Solutions, Technology and Architecture, at Polycom was the keynote speaker at a video conferencing summit. He sees the future of videoconferencing as the core of industries such as distance learning, telemedicine, manufacturing & operations, customer service and business continuity. These areas…
September 2012 – The Churchill Club continued their innovation series with the event themed on “Changing the Game”. The diverse program focused on the nature of change, if it is by design or by accident and how to drive change for the future. One of the more controversial discussion was from Rich Karlgaard of Forbes…
In 1983, a long time before Hollywood audiences fell in love with Computer Generating Imagery, also commonly known as “CGI”, the first experiment in a commercial motion picture film that combined live action and archival footage took place. This happened in Woody Allen’s groundbreaking film, “Zelig”, which he wrote, directed and starred in. Allen was…
August 20, 2012, Churchill Club, Palo Alto, CA—A diverse panel of technocrats participated in a panel discussion on the future of speech in interfacing with technology. Quentin Hardy from the New York Times moderated the panel. Panelists included Sheryl Connelly from Ford Motor Company, Ron Kaplan from Nuance, Dan Miler from Opus Research, and Steve…
August 7, 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—The conference had the theme of "I am Art, I am Science" and included many interesting presentations and work descriptions. The mobile and production sessions highlighted the growing complexity and efforts needed to create graphics and images via a computer. It also illustrated the increasing levels of interactive techniques in…
August 29, 2012, SES conference and expo, San Francisco – A short tutirial from Bruce Clay Inc. Global Internet Marketing Solutions, presented by the founder, Bruce Clay gave a lot of hints how to make and approach options for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The objective of SEO is to increase a Web site’s traffic counts,…
August 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles –If you wonder if San Francisco can be Spain, China or Cuba watch the new HBO production “Hemingway and Gellhorn” that was first aired on HBO on May 28, 2012. The film that utilized the archive footage from domestic war in Spain, Japanese invasion in China and finally Hemingways home…
July 2012 – At this years Comic-Con, one of the most anticipated features was the “Dark Knight Rises” the thhird episode in the Christopher Nolan story telling of the Batman world. With anticipation for the film driving the event, all things batman were on display. One of the keys of the character is the tech…
July 2012 – The 42nd annual Comic-Con event in San Diego continues to be the anchor point for geekdom’s ruling of the entertainment world was bigger than ever. The show has shifted the past few years from traditional graphic novels & art to film and now is dominated by the small screen & smaller mobile…