September 22, 2015, SNIA, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jorge Campello from HGST described the latest technologies for magnetic data storage. Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) is the latest incarnation of hard disc drive. The new technology puts data into zones of overlapped tracks to increase track and data density. Zones are independent, but sectors within…
September 22, 2015, SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Rudoff from Intel and the SNIA NVM programming TWG spoke about the coming changes in non-volatile memory programming models. The emergence of a new class of non-volatile memory will blur the definitions of memory and storage and bring about many changes in computer architectures. The…
August 2015 – During IDF, AMD was showing some of the systems with their new Carrizo class mobile, low power processor. The systems on display included laptops and all-in-ones from Lenovo and HP, that featured the new process built on the Excavator series processors, high density libraries and new architecture. The key in this new…
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Filipe Pedroso from Intel talked about developing apps in Windows for the RealSense camera family. The peripheral systems can add new functionality and enhanced capabilities to Windows operations. The RealSense technology is based on an RBG camera for basic imaging and an IP emitter and detector for depth…
August 18, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Fred Magnotta from Intel described the ongoing refinements in the tools and libraries for machine learning. The advent of big data and availability of large compute clusters has changed expectations for many data users. The combination of updated hardware platforms like the latest Xeon families, math kernel libraries…
April 8, 2014, NAB, Las vVegas—A panel moderated by composer Joel Goodson addressed the idea that music can make or break your program. Panelists incouded Joe Saba from Videohelper, Carl Peel from Killer Tracks, Randy Hart from Megatrax Music, Andrew Gross from Konsonant Music, and Trygge Toven from Descendant of Odin. One issue is how…
August 2, 2013, San Francisco Japanese Film Festival—The US premiere of Library Wars displayed the conflicts between free expression and objectionable materials. The film is based on the novel “Toshokan Senso” by Hiro Arikawa. Director Shinsuke Sato put together a solid adventure, love story in this movie adaption. The setting is in the near future…