3-D Printing Fireside Chat
December 4, 2012, Churchill Club, Menlo Park, CA—Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics and former editor at Wired talked with Carl Bass from AutoDesk about 3-D printing and the new industrial revolution....
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July 23, 2013, Siggraph, Anaheim, CA—The production of "OZ, the Great and Powerful" involved a lot of visual effects work to merge the live and CG characters. Visual effects supervisor, Scott Stokdyk...
View ArticleBig Data Retention
September 18, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Sam Fineberg from HP and Simona Rabinovici-Cohen from IBM talked about combining cloud, tape, and container format technologies for...
View ArticleImagination Incorporates Ray Tracing
October 15, 2013, Imagination Developer Connection, San Francisco—Imagination Technologies described the flows and technologies involved in ray tracing for images. Wikipedia notes that in computer...
View ArticleAES 4k-8k Audio Panel
October 10. 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—A panel of experts from standards organizations and industry considered the issues of matching audio with the emerging 4k and 8k...
View ArticleMPEG-H Audio: Next Generation System for Interactive and Immersive Sound
October 10, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—Fraunhofer IIS and their partners techicolor and Qualcomm have released the latest specification and standard for sound. The standard...
View ArticleThe Palomar Transient Factory
February 9 2015, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Peter Nugent from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory described the efforts in incorporating big data techniques to detecting and...
View ArticleProceduralism and Automation
March 3, 2015, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco—Luiz Kruel from Certain Affinity talked about changing development pipelines to address the growing needs of al games. The games are getting more...
View ArticleScene Understanding from RGB-D
June 2, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Jitenda Malik from UC Berkeley presented details on current work in information extraction from color plus depth images. The...
View ArticleNext Generation APIs
August 11, 2015, Siggraph, Los Angeles—Tim Foley from Nvidia provided an overview of the latest generation of APIs for graphics work on various platforms. These new APIs are emerging as systems become...
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