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SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics, Announces Its 2021 Society Awards

The Awards Committee of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, today announced the recipients of its prestigious annual awards.

13 Jan 2021

Teledyne Photometrics’ New Technical Note Explores Key Factors of Scientific Imaging Quality

Teledyne Photometrics, a Teledyne Technologies company, and designer and manufacturer of high-performance scientific cameras that support demanding quantitative life science research are pleased to announce the availability of a new technical note defining and explaining the significant key factors of image quality in scientific-grade cameras.

From Teledyne Photometrics 12 Jan 2021

New Photonic Processor Could Revolutionize Artificial Intelligence

An international team of researchers, including Professor Roberto Morandotti of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), just introduced a new photonic processor that could revolutionize artificial intelligence, as reported by the prestigious journal Nature.

12 Jan 2021

Optical Computing Core Prototype can Accelerate Neural Networks Used in AI

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are already an integral part of our everyday lives online. For example, search engines such as Google use intelligent ranking algorithms and video streaming services such as Netflix use machine learning to personalize movie recommendations.

12 Jan 2021

Ambarella Introduces CV5 High Performance AI Vision Processor for Single 8K and Multi-Imager AI Cameras

Ambarella, Inc., an AI vision silicon company, today unveiled CV5, an artificial intelligence (AI) vision processor capable of recording 8K video or four 4K video streams. The new system on chip (SoC) will enable the development of intelligent automotive camera systems, consumer cameras (drone, action, and 360°), and robotic cameras.

From Ambarella International LP 12 Jan 2021

World-Class Lidar Crowd Analytics Partnership to Transform Smart Spaces

The Indoor Lab partners with Cepton to deliver state-of-the-art space and crowd analytics, with unparalleled social distancing and cleaning metrics.

11 Jan 2021

BitFlow Reaches for the Stars Helping Mount Wilson Observatory Capture Celestial Images

Located on Mount Wilson, California, Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy array (CHARA) is the world's largest optical interferometer and has delivered landmark sub-milliarcsecond results in the areas of stellar imaging, binaries, and stellar diameters.

11 Jan 2021

World’s Fastest Optical Neuromorphic Processor for Artificial Intelligence

Headed by the Swinburne University of Technology, an international research team has now revealed the world’s fastest and most robust optical neuromorphic processor meant for artificial intelligence (AI).

8 Jan 2021

Researchers Use 'Damaged' Part of Optical Fiber to Develop a Magnetic Field Sensor

The invention of optical fibers has revolutionized not only telecommunications but also sensing technology. Optical fiber sensors can measure strain, temperature, pressure, and many other physical parameters along the fibers, but they are currently immune to electromagnetic noise -- interference from other external electric or magnetic interactions.

8 Jan 2021

NTT to Exhibit Online at CES 2021, the World’s Most Influential Tech Event

NTT Corporation (NTT) will exhibit at CES 2021, the world’s most influential tech event, which will be held online from Monday, January 11 to Thursday, January 14, 2021(EST). This is the second attendance at the CES for NTT following last year. Through presentations and videos, NTT will showcase as follows:

8 Jan 2021

DELO Introduces Compact and More Efficient Control Units for LED Spot Lamps

DELO has launched two new devices for controlling and powering LED curing lamps. The DELOLUX pilot S4i and S4T models allow the use of more powerful lamp heads in an extremely compact design.

From DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA 7 Jan 2021

Fugro to Provide First Topographic Lidar Base Map for Island Nation of Palau

Fugro has been awarded a contract by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to perform high-resolution topographic lidar base mapping for the Republic of Palau. Located in the western Pacific Ocean and comprising 340 islands, Palau is recognised by the UN as a small developing island state (SIDS) whose remote location, low-lying landmasses and heavily populated coastlines make it especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

From Fugro 7 Jan 2021

Photonic Processors Speed Up Tasks in the Field of Machine Learning

The exponential growth of data traffic in our digital age poses some real challenges on processing power. And with the advent of machine learning and AI in, for example, self-driving vehicles and speech recognition, the upward trend is set to continue. All this places a heavy burden on the ability of current computer processors to keep up with demand.

7 Jan 2021

$Speciality Prisms for Cryogenic Measurements of Refractive Index for ESO ELT’s Spectrograph - HARMONI$

Speciality Prisms for Cryogenic Measurements of Refractive Index for ESO ELT’s Spectrograph - HARMONI

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 7 Jan 2021

Researchers Develop a Light-Sensitive 3D-Printed Smart Gel

Inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids, Rutgers engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that changes shape when exposed to light, becomes "artificial muscle" and may lead to new military camouflage, soft robotics and flexible displays.

6 Jan 2021