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First, the machines have to understand you, then …..

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Computers will be able to learn psychologically plausible models of individuals simply by observing them, according to researchers from Aalto University, who have got computers to learn to explain the behaviour of individuals by tracking their glances and movements. “Despite significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, it has been notoriously hard for computers to understand why …

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Fable: How To Miss A Revolution

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60 years ago a company was founded to make small, but powerful, computers. In 1970 it sold 600,000 of them. The company became the second largest employer in the State of Massachusetts. One of the company’s engineering teams managed to get all the guts of a computer into a format the size of a TV. …

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Imagination starts dispute procedure with Apple

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Imagination says it has started a dispute resolution procedure with Apple after failing to achieve a negotiated settlement following Apple telling Imagination it will stop using Imagination’s GPU IP in 12-15 months’ time. Imagination believes that Apple will still need to keep using Imagination IP when Apple makes its GPUs in-house and wants Apple to continue …

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Imagination to sell MIPS

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Imagination is selling its MIPS and Ensigma units which together brought in £21 million or 29% of Imagination’s revenues last quarter. Imagination bought MIPS for £60 million in 2012. Imagination once saw MIPS it as a way into the mobile CPU market which is dominated by ARM. However, recently Imagination scaled back its ambitions for …

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What has a nuclear disaster and high-voltage got in common?

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The Cockcroft of the Cockcroft-Walton charge-pump voltage multiplier circuit is also the Cockcroft – Sir John Cockcroft – who un-popularly insisted that particle filters were fitted to the tops of the tall chimneys of two early British nuclear reactors built in Cumbria. Initially called Cockcroft’s Follies – they were visually difficult structures – one of …

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Researchers use Wi-Fi signals to make hologram of a room

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A holographic imaging process developed by scientists in Munich can generate three-dimensional images of a room by using the microwaves generated by a Wi-Fi transmitter. The result is objects can be tracked as they move through a room, office or factory. Typically optical holograms require elaborate laser technology, but the scientists at the Technical University …

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MIPS On The Block

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MIPS is back on the block again. The 33 year-old IP company which achieved success in networking, games console, STB and telecoms infrastructure slots has been put up for sale by Imagination. It’s an undignified fate for a company which began with a mission to revolutionise computing. In 1980 and 81, UC Berkeley and Stanford …

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