May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Robert Scoble from Rackspace talked about the confluence of many diverse trends that will enable the age of context. The growing availability of accessible content for mobile, servers, and other data sources presages a future of personalization, but these have to also consider privacy. As a waypoint…
May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A series of speakers talked about implementing or adding AR to art projects. The people had to overcome both technical and artistic challenges to achieve their desired responses. BC Biermann and Ean Mering from City Visions are artists who do large outdoors projects around the world. Their…
May 2014, Internet of Things Conference, Santa Clara, CA—We talked with Uday Mudoi from Vitesse about the company and their products. They are falling back on their years of experience in Ethernet products to change the company focus. The drivers are in the growing acceptance of FbE in enterprise networks. Although the internals of the…
May 8, 2014, Neurogaming Conference, san Francisco—David Duncan from The Atlantic moderated a panel on consumer-level products that address wellness issues. Panelists were Nicole Lazzaro from XEO Design, Ariel Garten from InterAxon, Isabela Granic from the Playnice Institute, and Tommy Sagroun from Cognifit. Is this area of neural-based games for wellness real? Granic noted that…
May 8, 2014, NeuroGaming Conference, San Francisco—A panel moderated by Zack Lynch discussed the newer technologies being applied to gaming platforms. Panelists included Amy Kruse from Intific, Joe Hardy from Lumosity, James Thompson from Evoke, and Reidar Wesenius from BRIIM. Increasing engagement and effectiveness? Hardy offered that games need engagement to unlock the brain plasticity,…
May 8, 2014, Neurogaming Conference, San Francisco—Casey Lynch from NeuroInsights moderated a panel on games that are impacting therapeutic developments and changing the games. Panel members were Eddie Martucci from Akili Interactive, Sheryl Flynn from Blue Marble Game Company, Corey McCann from Pear Therapeutics, and Tej Tadi from MindMaze. Convergence of all devices and software?…
April 24, 2014, Data Storage Innovations Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Gideon Senderov from NEC described an architecture for PB/hr backup and long term archive. The needs for very high volume backup will continue to increase as more sources and mobile devices generate data. A trend in data is towards more data being non-context dependent, and now…
April 22, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Mark McKinnon from Grand River Conservation Authority in Canada described the changes in their systems to address the data backup issues of TB-sized volumes. Fortunately, the systems change was coincident with a network upgrade. The Grand River Conservation Authority is responsible for flood control, recreation, nature…
April 22, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—David Chapa from E Vault talked about some of the challenges facing IT managers with multiple data sites and configurations. Protection and recovery can be administered as a single entity independent of the data locations. One issue is how to define a cloud infrastructure. As virtualization…
By Peter McGuinness, Imagination Technologies The concept of ray tracing has been bandied about for more than a generation – since 1968, it has been viewed as a promising technology, especially for visual arts disciplines, and in particular, the entertainment industry. Why? Because the ray tracing algorithm as developed into its recursive form can closely…