May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A set of speakers discussed content creation for AR. Among the challenges are lack of standard platforms and encoding formats. Menno Ouweneel from Connectar described their offerings of content libraries and their business model. They charge a small fee for library access, and a fee for each…
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Tom Edsall from Cisco talked about the ongoing changes in design requirements for datacenters. The changes are due to new architectures and use cases for data access. Most datacenters are build to address north-south traffic, from access, to aggregator, to core. The challenge is that much of…
April 6, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—Various managers from Autodesk talked about their products and visions for the future. The company is in the process of changing their business practices in the midst of fairly large technological turmoil. Chris Bradshaw described the context for some trends in their business. Some of the animation tools like Maya…
March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Olivier Maury from Industrial Light and Magic described the use and modifications of their tools for generating pyrotechnics. Plume is a GPU-based tool that provides integrated fluid simulation and rendering. The tool transforms 6-7 k Plume effects for smoke, fire, dust, and other physical explosion effects. The…
February 25, 2014, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Dwayne Melancon from Tripwire presented the concept of games as the framework for security. Many of the user interfaces can use Diablo as the pattern for the UI. Game players depend upon various de facto standards for game interfaces. The games have methods and models that provide the elements…
February 24, 2014, RSA Conference, Trusted Computing Group, San Francisco—A panel considered the challenges in implementing TPM. Paul Roberts from The Security Ledger moderated the panel. Panelists were Monty Wiseman from Intel, Dustin Ingalls from Microsoft, and Gal Shpantzer from SANS. The industry has reached an inflection point in the technology, moving towards greater adoption…
February 24, 2014, RSA Conference, Trusted Computing Group, San Francisco—Jon Oltsik from the Enterprise Strategy Group moderated a panel focused on compliance and automation implementations. Panel members were Steve Whitlock from Boeing, Dan Griffin from JW Secure, and David Waltermire from NIST. In this time of security skill shortages and increased attack vectors, can standards…
February 3, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Pak Chung Wong from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory talked about the need for new visualization tools for cyber security work. These tools differ from other visualization tools due to the requirements for rapid response and minimization of false positives and negatives. To identify a requirements for cyber…
November 13, 2013, AMD Developer Summit, San Jose, CA—Jerry Mahbub from Gen Audio Sound has evolved from monophonic, to stereo, to various surround, mostly now at 5.1 audio channels. Some new experimental systems are going to 11.1, 13.1, and even 22.3, and use very complex mixing tools and hardware to get to their spatial sound…
October 15, 2013, Imagination Developer Connection, San Francisco—Imagination Technologies held one in a series of conferences to address the information needs for their developers. Topics included hardware architectures, explain their ray tracing technologies, development tools, and a market analysis to justify the efforts from developers. Imagination has a number of processors, graphics engines, and software…