April 8, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Doug Ferguson from Hitachi Data Systems talked about the prospects and requirements for long-term storage on optical media. In government work, the requirements are growing to keep more data for longer periods of time, necessitating more long-term storage capacity. Data preservation in the form of archives…
March 2014, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—In one session, the focus was on unique characteristics of a game, “High School Story”, a dating sim where you create a dream high school, choose your click (nerd, jock, etc.), throw parties, go on dates, and dress up in costumes. Some characteristics include: > 1000 unique quests, and…
March 2014, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—The gaming industry is going through changes and is seeing more pressure to measure and show results. Some of the issues are cost of loyal users, competition and limited markets, too many games being the same, and targeting isn’t accurate enough. As a result, it is important to optimize…