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— Jules Urbach from OTOY and LightStage described some tools that can be used for both cinema and game asset creation. The converging workflows and cloud-based rendering solutions enable designers to take advantage of the increased performance available in the latest hardware. Cloud services are changing the…
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA— Shailendra Mathur from Avid described a new toolset that allows editors to smoothly transition their monoscopic storytelling skills to the stereoscopic format. The tools enable users to take advantage of existing assets and workflows. One goal was to preserve editing and data management functions, operational speed,…
February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Srikanth Nadhamuni with the universal ID project in India described the efforts and challenges associated with providing unique and secure IDs to 1B people. India has many government forms and identification methods, with lots of leakage and duplications. Much of the existing ID forms exist only on paper, or…
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the need for protecting content from unauthorized users. Eric Ogren from the Ogren Group moderated the panel. The panel was comprised of Hussein Syed from Barnabas Health, Clain Anderson from Lenovo, and Michael Willett from Samsung. Syed opened with comments about Barnabas. They are an…
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—Robert Pittman, chief, information security office, Los Angeles County described their efforts in establishing trusted computing in the county. Some statistics for the county include 102,000 employees, of which 90 percent are union, and 34 departments structured into 5 clusters. The clusters are health, child services, operations, legal,…
February 18, 2013, ISSCC, San Francisco—The session 2 on ultra-high speed transceivers and equalizers looked at the need for lower power, higher frequency devices that can get the data rates above 20 Gb/s. A number of talks described ongoing work from companies and other organizations including Fujitsu, UC Berkeley, Broadcom, UCLA, and Rambus. Samir Parikh…
February 14, 2013, EECS, University of California, Berkeley—The annual EECS status update focused on cloud and computer-based functions, and David Patterson showed how modern data management and analytic tools can help in the fight against cancer. His talk ” Cancer Tumor Genomics: Fighting the Big C with the Big D” opened the potential for better…
January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Garret Swart from Oracle identified the potential benefits for applications with the new storage architectures. The different memory structures and performance levels calls for new programming styles. With the advent of DRAM-compatible NVM technologies, the choices for NVM, connectivity, and form factors allows for greater diversity…
January 9, 2013, Variety Entertainment Summit, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the evolution and challenges of delivering content to audiences watching across many type of screens. Guy Finley from M.E.S.A. moderated the panel. Panelists were Andy Hendrickson from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Chris Cookson from Sony Pictures TV, Darcy Antonellis from Warner Brothers, Lincoln Wallen…