May 2016 – One of the big issues for the Smart Home was addressed at the Parks Associates Connections Conference. What does interoperability mean for the smart home, and how will it enter the market? The panel discussion consisted of software, cloud, hardware and device providers focusing on a number of issues. One of the…
August 11, 2015, Siggraph, Los Angeles– Sebastian Sylwan from Felix & Paul Studios moderated this panel with panelists including Michael Whipple from Sony Pictures Entertainment, Alex Fry, compositing and color pipeline supervisor (“The Lego Movie”, “The Great Gatsby”), Chris Davies, technical director, Skylab (“Chappie”, “Elysium”), Marie Fetiveau from Rodeo FX . The main issue is…
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Tony King-Smith of Imagination moderated a panel looking at various aspects of IoT platforms for future developments. Panelists included Curt Moore from TI, Omid Tahemia from Ikanos, and Eren Eshed from Altair. Segments and applicable platforms? Moore noted that developers need rules and should only change real functions….
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Omid Tahemia from Ikanos Communications talked about the challenges related to in-home connectivity. The growing complexity in apps and technology is causing the platforms to stutter. The diversity of apps makes the installation and integration of new devices and their controlling apps somewhat less than simple plug and…
October 11, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—The Open Control Architecture Alliance is releasing a new open source specification to allow greater control interoperability in digital audio systems. Three years in the making, the new standard follows the move of A-V workflows from analog to digital and an IT infrastructure. The other work on…
October 10, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—A panel looked at the ongoing transition from analog to digital and the infrastructure changes needed to move to a fully digital workflow. Marty Sacks from the Telos Alliance moderated the panel and the panelists were Rich Zweibel from dsc, Terry Holton from Yamaha, and Stephen Lederbergen…
April 23, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Wayne Adams and David Dale from the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) provided an update on the association’s latest activities. The organization continues to provide leadership and guidance to the storage industry. Among their latest achievements are a cloud interoperability conformance test program to complement the…
April 5, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—A panel of content owners looked at the use of interoperability standards in their work. Howard Lukk from Disney moderated the panel, while panelists were Annie Chung from Disney, Arjun Ramamurthy from 20th Century Fox, and Bill Baggelaar from Sony. The interoperability mastering format is a new and improved implementation…
January 2012, Las Vegas NV – At CES the WISA was demonstrating an overview of their interoperability system for self configuration of wireless surround sound. The system uses the 5GHz U-NII band at low power to broadcast both configuration information and audio data. At this time, the 7.1 surround system that is supported can broadcast up…
January 2012, Las Vegas NV – At CES the WISA (http://www.wisaassociation.org/) was demonstrating an overview of their interoperability system for self configuration of wireless surround sound. The system uses the 5GHz U-NII band at low power to broadcast both configuration information and audio data. At this time, the 7.1 surround system that is supported can…