June 2014 – The 51st Design Automation Conference was held in San Francisco this year. While the exhibit floor was filled with light crowds and lots of open space that used to be filled with exhibitors, the sessions were full, lively and covering a large number of timely issues. The show, while moving to systems…
March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Zoufu Cheng from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne talked about making the audio as good as the video in games. The ability of the GPUs to process rays can be applied to acoustics as well as to the images to provide a more immersive game experience….
October 15, 2013, Imagination Developer Connection, San Francisco—Imagination Technologies described the flows and technologies involved in ray tracing for images. Wikipedia notes that in computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with…
May 12, 2011, smart power grid technology conference, Santa Clara, CA—Amit Narayan from Stanford University is looking to develop tools to model and simulate the increasing system-level complexity of the electrical grid. His current projects are focusing on interactions of the energy systems and economics. The electrical grid is adding new technologies in areas like…