September 22, 2011, 3-D User Experience Technical Summit, Hollywood–Koichi Imai and Kiyoto Kanda described the efforts in Japan to produce and distribute safety guidelines for 3-D safety. The expansion of devices and content is the driver for safety standards. For the past 11 years, they have been developing guidelines addressing 3-D safety issues. The guidelines…
May 12, 2011, Smart Power Grid Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Edward Cazalet, CEO of TeMix talked about the need to support and create infrastructure with emphasis on renewable energy in light of increased variability in demand. He suggested a new set of standards and protocols for energy transactions to address these new needs. Cazalet is…
February 14, 2011 RSA Conference, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco–Vivek Kundra, CIO at the White House described the federal cloud computing strategy in his keynote talk. The challenges and directions for computing in the various government departments have been under review for quite a while. You can see summaries of all the reports at…
August 17, 2010, San Jose, CA, the Digital Signage Conference looked at commercial use displays to the eyes of the flat-panel display and information technology industries. The panel was moderated by Paul Semenza, senior vice president of Display Search, and comprised of Rick Albert, vice president for flat panel displays at Panasonic solutions company, Jeff…
August 3, 2010, Culver City, CA Creative Storage Conference hosted a panel on the use of digital storage in entertainment and media. Marty Shindler, CEO of Ocilus3D moderated the panel, which moved quickly into questions and answers. Panel members included Paul Chapman, senior vice president of technology at Fotokem, Katie Fellion, founder, vp business development,…
Andy Melder, VP at Gigle Networks talks about the evolution of power-line communications as an alternative to WiFi and Ethernet for home networking on an IP-based protocol. In the past, power line networking was restricted to simple command and control functions like turning on lights and small appliances. The difficulties were in the pervasive noise…