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03 Jan 2015

IEEE Rising Stars Conference - Day 3

This are some notes from the third day of the 2014 IEEE Rising Stars Conference.

Notes

Dolby

  • 24 Frames per second
    • Standard - slowest that could be called “motion”
  • TV Max
    • 120 Nits Max
    • Current TV’s 300-900 Nits
  • Viewer Visual Preferences Test Setup
    • Focused projector into 27 inch LCD screen
    • Maximum luminance (projector limit) - 20,000 nits
    • Minimum luminance (0.1 nits)
    • Diffused white (300 nits)
    • Viewer preference results:
      • Black level (0.005 nits)
      • Diffuse white (4k nits)
      • Highlights (20k nits)
    • The current max of 100 nits is not enough!
  • Today’s standards
    • Brightness (100 - 500 nits)
    • Contrast (1000:1)
    • Viewers want 200x brightness
    • Viewers want 4000x more contrast
  • Today’s big squeeze
    • More tools to change the industry standard
  • Upcoming year
    • High dynamic range
    • Lots of tools coming out
  • The future is here
    • Industry is going through a disruptive change
    • Not only in distribution, but also in cinema
    • SMPTE (Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers)
    • Perceptual Quantizer (model based on how the human eye sees)
    • High Dynamic Range Mastering Display
    • Dynamic Metadata for Color Transforms of HDR and Wide Color Gamut Images (in process)
  • Take Aways
    • Whole bunch of cool things that are coming out from the sound industry
    • Entertainment technology is in a revolution that will redefine a great consumer experience
    • Next generation entertainment will be a mix of more, faster, and better pixels
    • It’s a great time to be a engineer in entertainment technology
    • SMPTE.org
  • Questions
    • How will the next generation of technologies affect power consumption?
      • Current screens are very inefficient
      • Technology will help to reduce power consumption
      • Quantum dot technology
    • How do the new technologies affect motion?
      • New HDR technologies affect motion
      • More dynamic range means motion defects are more visible.
      • Needs to be a re-think of the 24fps standard for movies

Confronting Global Energy Challenges

Title: Confronting Global Energy Challenges Nathan Johnson Assistant Professor, The Polytechnic School Arizona State University

  • Power
    • CO2 - Drive Down
    • Cost - Drive Down
    • Reliability - Drive Up
  • There are many pieces to the solution
    • Energy systems are dynamic
    • Energy Systems Modeling and Optimization
  • What the ASU do?
    • Design Tools
      • Energy Systems Design Environment (EDSE)
    • Distributed Renewables Integration
      • Duck Curve
    • Power goes up when people go home at night
    • Power goes down when people leave during the day
    • This power profile should show itself in the next 20 years or so
    • Monitoring and controlling distributed systems
      • What is happening to solar energy as things happen?
      • Dust storms, cloud, etc.
    • Forecasting for adaptive energy management
    • Load <-> Stored Energy <-> PC Power
    • Building Energy Systems
      • Smart controls of campus electrical and cooling systems
      • Cost of electricity is more during the day than at night
      • Have 25 mW of solar installed
    • Developing capability for household energy management
      • How can we make the technologies usiable for households
      • Embedded controls
      • ASU Solar Decathalon
    • Using reduced metal oxides in concentrating solar power
      • Fine grains of metal
      • Thermochemical process
      • Remove oxygen during the day
      • Oxygenate at night to generate high temperatures
    • Hydrogen production for biofuels
    • A pathway to rural electrification
      • Battery charging stations
    • Modeling battery cycling and degredation
    • Solar Brayton cycle micro-grid platforms
    • Measuring the effects of energy on air quality
      • Use off grid sensors
      • Monitor particulates in the air
      • Move to map this as an overlay on google maps
    • Alternative energy education
  • Thanks
    • Nathan Johnson
    • NathanJohnson@asu.edu

The internet of things

  • “The next S-Curve”
  • Elements of the internet of things
    • The industry is hyping the Internet of Things
    • What is the application?
    • How does it connect to the world?
    • What is the intelligence controlling the world?
    • Can we trust it?
  • Example: health/fitness devices
  • Example: fashion
  • 15.03 million households connected
  • How will these applications connect
    • Wide area connections through phone
    • Combination of Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi direct will replace USB
  • Where is the intelligence
    • Microcontroller revolution: moving intelligence from system to our hands
    • Direct intelligence
    • Cloud intelligence as well
    • Big question: do you trust that intelligence
  • Wellness: compelling application
    • Wearable devices that measuring things like a person’s skin trans-conduction can estimate a person’s emotional state
    • Example benefits:
      • Calm people eat better
      • Calm people make better decisions
  • Recommendations
    • Unless you have the ability to standardize everything, use something with wide existing connectivity
    • Bluetooth smart (low power)
    • Wi-Fi direct (high data rate devices)

Notes afterwards

  • Exciting areas
    • Response from Dolby Guy
      • Silicon valley, entertainment; netflix sucks up a lot of bandwidth
      • Internet is reshaping our lives
      • Companies in that space: Google, Amazon, Apple
    • Nate
      • Anything is storage
      • Storage can be translated towards any energy
      • Companies in that space:
  • What helped you in your career
    • Internet of things
      • Network, you’ll cross paths with a lot of people
      • Pay attention to marketing and support it
      • Too many choices
    • Dolby
      • Networking is important
      • Never knew what you will end up liking
      • People that you run into
      • The people that you run into give you opportunity
      • The people you see on the way up, you also see on the way down
      • Integrity
    • Nate
      • Grad school
      • Helps you get exposed to a lot
      • Same thing as a post-doc
      • Get experience in a couple of different areas
  • What would you change differently in your career?
    • Dolby
      • Went to school in boston, should have went to stanford
      • Life is what you make it, but there are better places you can live
    • IoT
      • Sometimes got into trouble because of organizational chaos
      • Management group changed
      • Sometimes it’s time to get out of a bad situation; hard to know it
      • Been laid off 3 times in career
      • Most of the time lead to something that much better
    • Nate
      • If you love what you do
      • Persue opportunities
      • You might not have as much satisfaction on what you’re doing
      • Engineers are very risk adverse - this is the time to experiment
      • Find what you’re good at, and find out what you love. Sometimes they’re the same.
      • Be willing to take a risk if it’s in and area that you love
      • Regret not doing a startup when younger
      • Took the safe path

Closing notes

Presenter: Mike

  • 2016 conference at [couldn’t hear location], similar conference to rising stars
    • If you’d like to be a part of the conference, let Mike know
  • We hope that some answers some questions
    • Provide you with the crystal ball: what kind of impact will you make?
    • What is next? What should I know that ?
  • Goals for rising stars
    • Technical innovation and professional development
    • Explore the possibilities
    • Provide some new resources
    • Engage you in the exploration process
    • Non-linear career path
  • Your challenge: create a personal action plan
  • Be bold: see the invisible, believe the incredible, achieve the impossible
  • Have you undergone an image transformation
    • Can you pitch the brand
    • How you changed any of your attributes to highlight
    • What does your marquis or billboard look like?
  • It’s all about you!
  • Let mike know about comments, or let everyone else know