by Pallab Chatterjee April 16, 2010—San Francisco CA—In the midst of all of the comic books, costumes, collectibles and Jurassicaly preserved science fiction and TV stars, there was new technology being displayed at WonderCon in San Francisco. Some of the technology is in upcoming films, video games and “accessories”. One of the highest profile accessories…
By Tets Maniwa April 13, 2010—Las Vegas—in the ongoing series of iHollywood Forum events, a panel comprised of John Ruby from AEG Network Live represented content creators, Sandy Climan from 3ality proxied the equipment infrastructure, Bob Harris from Panasonic for displays, Tom Edwards from Digital TV at Fox Networks for carriers, and moderator Michael Stroud…
By Joseph Chatterjee At the 24th annual WonderCon in San Francisco, the show had its traditional coverage of new comic books, classic comics, video games, science fiction and animation. The crowd of almost 40,000 waited in long lines for previews and panels of the newest movies from Disney (The Prince of Persia, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and…
By Tets Maniwa April 9, 2010—Santa Clara, CA— On March 31st, 2010, iHollywood Forum sponsored a panel of 3-D dignitaries to look at the topic, “3-D Beyond The Hype”. This was a chance to discover the latest about the hottest new technology in entertainment. The evening focused on technology and market adoption. Clearly, 3-D has…
By Tets Maniwa April 1, 2010—SNUG Santa Clara, CA—A continuing review of a panel at the Synopys User Group (SNUG) discussing cloud computing and EDA. The panel participants were Hasmukh Ranjan of Synopsys who moderated the panel, Scott Clark, director of engineering for information technologies at Broadcom, Kishore Singal scientist and IT manager for Synopsys,…
The show was filled with 3D everywhere – even where it did not always belong. At the show we had a chance to visit with SezMi, Tektronics, Harris, Autodesk, Nvidia, Sony, 3Ality and Panasonic. Rigs and cameras were the big new news – while codec, interfaces, and data settled in with production for the standards…
By Tets Maniwa March 31, 2010—SNUG Santa Clara, CA—A panel at Synopys User Group (SNUG) looked at the issues associated with cloud computing and its implications for EDA. Hasmukh Ranjan of Synopsys moderated the panel whose members included: Scott Clark, director of engineering for information technologies at Broadcom, Kishore Singal scientist and IT manager for…
by Tets Maniwa March 24, 2010—ISQED, San Jose,CA—Ramanan Thiagarajah, senior director of product and test engineering at Inphi Corp. described the overall process Inphi uses to design and build very high performance memory solutions for server-class computer systems. He started by describing the transition from centralized mainframe computers to distributed arrays of smaller computers like…
By Tets Maniwa March 23, 2010—ISQED conference, San Jose, CA—Anton Domic, senior vice president and general manager at Synopsys presented “Test of the Future-Some Thoughts for the Next Decade” in a lunch talk. Since the ’70’s test equipment manufacturers have gotten between 2 and 4 percent of semiconductor sales for their testers. From just after…
October 2017 - Once again visiting the 2017 Mill Valley Film Festival, we move the focus to the directors and writers of the films. Lidia Paulinska holds several discussions on the process of film making ans story telling that went into the creation of some of the content at the festival. This episode of Bright Blue…