August 2015 – A recent Churchill Club event in Palo Alto focused on the current state of the Drone industry and the near term future of the marketplace. The panel consisted of Skydio, Dronebase, DJI, 3D Robotics and Skycatch and the discussion was moderated by Robin Murdoch of Accenture. The drone market is maturing and…
June 2, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Robert Li Kam Wa from Rice University talked about rethinking the imaging pipeline for energy-efficient, privacy-preserving continuous mobile vision. The always-on world has been adding more and higher resolution imaging capabilities, so the industry has to consider how to protect the information. The primary changes…
February 9, 2015, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Daniel Cernea from Technische University in Kaiserslautern discussed interaction-driven emotion visualization on multi-touch interfaces. The intent of the work is to create better user interfaces and incorporate other human factors to enhance collaboration. The detect user emotional states allows researchers to measure user affective states. In group settings,…
December 2014 – At the 60th IEDM conference in San Francisco, IMEC presented a talk on using traditional CMOS processing for enhancing imaging systems. The presentation focused on the the creation of an integrated hyperspectral and multispectral imager. Typical consumer imagers have a three color spectral pickup – Red, Green, and Blue. Many industrial, medical…
July 7, 2014, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Wilfred Vandervorst described the challenges and science of measurements, and noted the great differences between lab and fab use modes and requirements. The latest tools are enabling new insights into fundamental physics and in ramping yields on the next-generations processes. The labs tend to work on the nano-scale…
The first SALMED fair was organized in the 1970s. Since that time, the Poznan International Fair Grounds have become the biannual platform for exchanging knowledge and experience of healthcare professionals. These knowledge workers include healthcare managers, medical facility management staff, doctors, laboratory diagnosticians, physiotherapists, and paramedics. This year the expo drew the attention of 6000…
February 5, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Charles Bouman from Purdue discussed integrated imaging that takes advantage of the optimizations possible with different imaging techniques that integrate algorithms, computation, and sensors. Unlike current systems that just extract data from the sensors, an integrated design system could have better performance at lower power. Today’s sensors are…
March 23, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The annual Samsung System LSI group was once again focused on the mobile marketplace. The event featured discussion of the foundry services group and the roadmap for manufacturing technology down through the 14nm/13nm process node. Additional discussions were on the impact of mobile devices on display, memory,…
July 16, 2010, Semicon West, San Francisco. You may be most familiar with Olympus cameras, but Olympus is also a world leader in research and clinical microscopes. The company also created the first camera that lets doctors look inside the human body, and continues to introduce life-altering imaging technologies for healthcare professionals. Olympus combines its…