October 29. 2013, GamesBeat Conference, Redwood City, CA—Christina Farr from VentureBeat had a fireside chat with Robin Hunicke from Funomena about developing feeling first games. Focusing on feelings helps inform game design, builds teams, and attracts new audiences. Feelings in games start with rules that engage the players. The creative dynamics leads to feelings. The…
July 27, 2013, San Francisco Japanese Film Festival, San Francisco—Director Miwa Nishikawa director and screenwriter for “Dreams for Sale” talked about this latest film. Previous feature-length films include Sway (2006), Ten Nights of Dream (2006) [SHORT], and Dear Doctor (2009). Dreams for Sale (Japan: Yume uru futari), 2012 was written and directed by Nishikawa, and…
August 2, 2013, San Francisco Japanese Film Festival—Shinsuke Sato, director of the film “Library Wars” talked about his film and the inspiration for this work. Censorship is becoming a world-wide issue, and the ongoing challenge is to balance freedom and public interests. This film looks at the possible responses and intents in both parts of…
November 8, 2011, ICCAD, San Jose, CA–Chris Malachowsky from nVidia talked bout the drivers for the next generation of designs. The trends, opportunities, and challenges for the next designs are changing as the definition of the needs and capabilities changes. Everyone is looking at the next generation. College graduates are trying to decide if they…
July 11, 2011, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Serge Biesemans, vice president of process technology at IMEC described dream devices and processes. The next generation devices will not look like today’s CMOS. For a number of years, the industry has been processing semiconductors at ever smaller dimensions, below the wavelength of the exposing light. To make…
November 16, 2010, Santa Clara, CA—the SFBA Nanotechnology Council symposium at the National Semiconductor conference center continued with Nick Kepler, vice president for corporate program management at Global Foundries discussed “Design and Technology Co-optimization: Collaborating to Overcome the Challenges of 28 nm and Beyond”. The key technology enablers are lithography, materials, and 3-D packaging. To…