May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Kurt Petersen from KP_MEMS gave a historical perspective on MEMS. The ability to integrate complex functions into a chip has led to high volumes and lower costs. Starting in ’75, there were pressure sensors, strain gauges, and thermal print heads. Now, the range of applications using MEMS…
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Homan Yuen from Solar Junction described efforts in materials processing to engineer band gaps and achieve higher efficiencies. The technology of choice for this type of material is flat plate thin film. Concentrated solar comes in two flavors; thermal and PV. Concentrators work at light…
September 28, 2011, Unity Developers Conference, San Francisco–David Helgason, CEO of Unity Technologies opened the Unite 11 developer forum by noting the changing business models, infrastructure, and development efforts in the company. Unity is growing and now has world-wide presence. There are now over 200 games on Android and 2,000 on iOS using Unity technology….
August 20, 2010—Hot Chips Conference—Stanford, CA. Olav Lindtjorn from Schlumberger talked about “surviving the end of scaling of traditional computers in high-performance computing”. Current computer configurations have run into memory and power walls. An alternative to larger server farms for high-performance computing is to develop a data flow configuration within an FPGA as is outlined…
August 19, 2010, San Jose, CA – The Emerging Display Technologies Conference presented a panel focusing on touch panel technologies. Jennifer Colegrove from DisplaySearch moderated the panel which included Mark Mendenhall, president of ELO TouchSystems, Vincent John Vincent, president of GestureTek, Klony Lieberman, chief scientist at Lumio, Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel, and Larry Mozdzyn,…
Los Angeles— iHollywood Forum, an event partner, hosted a media event entitled “Future of 3-D for film, TV, video, games, mobile, and the Internet” on June 14, 2010. The third keynote speaker was Lenny Lipton, CEO, Oculus 3D. The history of planar imaging goes back many centuries. Now we have to look back at this…