November 11, 2015, ARM Techcon, Santa Clara, CA—Simon Segars from ARM described the changes in mindset and products that will be necessary for trust and security in a connected world. The advances in technology enable more devices to share data magnifying the conflict between privacy and the use of shared data. The new world needs…
September 22, 2015, SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Rudoff from Intel and the SNIA NVM programming TWG spoke about the coming changes in non-volatile memory programming models. The emergence of a new class of non-volatile memory will blur the definitions of memory and storage and bring about many changes in computer architectures. The…
September 22, 2015, SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jim Handy from Objective Analysis talked about the future of solid state storage and the changing nature of both memory and storage. new technologies will enable architectures better suited for the data needs of he future. In the early days of computers, the industry established a…
September 22, 2015, SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Bev Crair from Intel Storage Group described the drivers and motivations for changing your ideas about storage. The next generation of storage will be a function of innovation, disruption, and trailing-edge technologies. The primary drivers are: information growth, with data size doubling every two years through…
June 3, 2015, Santa Clara, CA—John Volkmann from QD Vision talked about the company’s ability to enable new displays through the use of quantum dot phosphors. The underlying technology absorbs light at a specific frequency and re-emits light at other colors. The main products are built as LED edge light bars for use in various…
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Omid Tahemia from Ikanos Communications talked about the challenges related to in-home connectivity. The growing complexity in apps and technology is causing the platforms to stutter. The diversity of apps makes the installation and integration of new devices and their controlling apps somewhat less than simple plug and…
May 21, 2015, Imagination Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Eran Eshed from Altair presented talking points about cellular infrastructure for the IoT. The greatest challenges are in overcoming the perceptions that LTE is a high-power, high-performance data transport technology that is very expensive. New technology developments and the latest revision to the LTE standards enable the cellular…
May 7 2015, Neurogaming Converence, San Francisco—Dan Tynan from Yahoo moderated a panel on using advances in neuroscience and gaming technologies to accelerate learning. Panelists were Alan Gershenfeldrshenfeld from e-line media, Amy Kruse from Intific, Peter Hartzbeckrtzbeck from imotions, and Dhiraj Jeyanandarajan from Qneuro. Define the terms for neurogaming for education? Jeyanandariajan suggested software that…
April 21, 2015, RSA Conference, San Francisco—The Paul Kocher from Cryptography Research moderated the annual cryptographers’ panel. Panelists included Whitfield Diffie from Cryptomatic, Ron Rivest from MIT, Adi Shamir from the Weizman Institute of Science in Israel, and Ed Georgio from Ponte Technologies. Interests over the last year? Rivest is searching for metaphors to provide…
April 20 , 2015, Cloud Security Alliance, San Francisco—Mark Goodman, an author, described the ongoing and increasing challenges for security and our other infrastructure. Many threats are already here and the potential for serious damage is increasing. Goodman started out as a police officer and noted many trends of crime over time. Criminals were early…