March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Olivier Maury from Industrial Light and Magic described the use and modifications of their tools for generating pyrotechnics. Plume is a GPU-based tool that provides integrated fluid simulation and rendering. The tool transforms 6-7 k Plume effects for smoke, fire, dust, and other physical explosion effects. The…
February 10, 2014, ISSCC, San Francisco—Erik Heijne from CERN talked about how chips pave the road to the Higgs particle and the atto world beyond. Fundamental research on elementary constituents of matter need more sophisticated tools with greater performance and resolution. Researchers working in high energy physics are taking advantage of microelectronics trends for smaller,…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Charles Annis from NPD DisplaySearch moderated a panel on novel display technologies. Panelists were Bil Cowell from Amorphyx, Andrew Loxley from ClearInk Displays, Yao-Dong Ma from MacroDisplay, and Roger Hajjar from Prysm. Cowell noted that despite the drive to reduce costs through improved glass, the complexity…