November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Jeff Miles from NXP talked about NFC creating a new dimension in the digital reality. NFC is becoming a trusted, smart, and secure platform for many consumer contacts. NFC has been in development for the past ten years. We are now at the stage in it’s evolution where…
November 13, 2012, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders’ Conference, UC Berkeley—Dean Shankar Sastry of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering moderated a panel on engineering innovation by design. The panel members were Bernard Amadei from Engineers without Borders, Ana Claudia Arias from UCB, Carl Bass from AutoDesk, and Dale Dougherty from Maker Media. How…
October 11, 2012, TV Next Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Greg Ireland from IDC moderated this panel on OTT opportunities and strategies. Panel members were Jim Louderback from Revision3, Alex Vikati from Tribune Media Services, Tracy Geist from Digitalsmiths, David Anderson from Shine America, and Wayne Purboo from Quickplay Media. Apps can start as any function for…
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—Dean Kamen, inventor, entrepreneur, and director of the F.I.R.S.T ( For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) presented the need for a louder voice to influence change in non-technical areas. Currently, less than half of all high school students in the US graduate. We have a major…
September 18, 2012, Memcon, Santa Clara, CA—A panel moderated by Jjim Handy from Objective Analysis considered the potential of next-generation memories and technologies. The panel consisted of Christophe Chevallier from Rambus, Jim Lipman from Sidense, Michael Miller from Mosys, and Bill Gervasi from Discobulus Designs. Handy opened the panel by noting that memories have hit…
September 6, 2012—We talked with Xilinx about the release of some new reference designs directed towards the broadcast industry. These new designs cover the entire range of content processing, from capture to delivery. The broadcast landscape is becoming more complex, as facility technologies move to the consumer. The transition to digital puts a premium on…
August 20, 2012, Churchill Club, Palo Alto, CA—A diverse panel of technocrats participated in a panel discussion on the future of speech in interfacing with technology. Quentin Hardy from the New York Times moderated the panel. Panelists included Sheryl Connelly from Ford Motor Company, Ron Kaplan from Nuance, Dan Miler from Opus Research, and Steve…
August 8, 2012, Siggraph, Los Angeles—A panel of experts and James Cameron contributing off-line looked at the requirements and results of shooting and viewing at frame rates greater than 24 frames per second. A change like this would reduce the impact of technology in impeding the art. The change to high frame rates (HFR) would…
July 11, 2012, FlexTech Alliance, San Francisco—David Barnes from Bizwitz talked about the various technologies and the challenges associated with them as new materials and use patterns come into being. At the same time, he cautioned that very little is actually new. Displays depend on the characteristics of the front plane and the drive electronics….
May 15, 2012, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Jen-Hsun Huang founder and CEO of NVIDIA opened the conference with updates on GPUs and Cuda, and announcements on technologies and partners. Cuda is continuing to grow since its introduction in 2008, when they had 150k downloads, 1 symposium, 4k papers, and 60 universities taught the language….