June 18, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—A panel considered the trends and implications for broadcast as over the top and cable change the shape of network TV. Jim Burger from Thompson Coburn LLP moderated the panel, with panel members Mark Aiken form Sinclair Broadcast, Michael Bergman from the Consumer…
June 17, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—A panel of Web mavens talked about he newest tools and methodologies for making new-age media. Jan Skoglund moderated the panel and panel members were Renganathan Ramamoorthy from Google Chrome, Martin Wahl from Microsoft, Doug Stallard and Anil Kokaram from YouTube. Ramamoorthy described…
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 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 7, 2014, Internet of Things Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Peter McGuinness from Imagination Technologies talked about scaling processors in heterogeneous platforms to the app and performance requirements. This approach to systems development allows for more flexibility and more optimal power, performance, and cost structures. Developing devices for the IoT must address the high likelihood…
May 7, 2014, Internet of Things Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Tareq Bustami from Freescale Semiconductor described the convergence of networking technologies for IoT. The changes in architectures and technologies will allow data to move across many platforms and communications networks with minimal friction. The IoT can be shown to be associated with many network concepts from…
April 2, 2014, EE Live Conference, San Jose, CA—Andrew “Bunnie” Huang talked about the changes in the industry and the growing openness of consumer systems. Embedded systems are benefiting from the increasing commoditization of the underlying hardware. In the earlier days of consumer electronics, in the 1930’s, products came with schematics, tuning specifications, and other…
November 12, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Nandini Ramani from the Java group at Oracle described the role of Java in the world of mixed computing. The original premise of Java to write once, use anywhere fits into the paradigm of heterogeneous computing. Java has evolved into a secure, mature platform with millions of…
October 5, 2013, IEEE Communications Society and Consumer Electronics Society, Santa Clara, CA—Jeff Gilbert from Silicon Image talked about moving more content to the bigger displays without using wires. This change simplifies installation and makes decorating the room easier. The movement to smart phones from simple feature phones is enabling more gaming platforms and can…
September 11, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Vijay Char from Promise Technology demonstrated some early technology platforms to meet the needs for faster links to and from storage. The emergence of Thunderbolt 2 technology will double link speeds to 20Gbps. Promise is a 25-year old company that has been focusing on SATA and RAID systems…