Almost anyone involved in developing new products today wants those products to have an artificial intelligence (AI) component [for the purposes of this column we will take AI to embrace machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)]. The problem is that AI is still very new in the scheme of things—everyone has heard about it, almost everybody uses it, but relatively few people know how to … Read More → "One More Step on the Path to AIIE (AI-In-Everything)"
I have seen the future, and it’s going to be even more amazing than our wildest dreams. Do I have your attention? Good. Then I’ll begin…
Have you seen The Time Machine movie? Well, I should say “movies” because there was the classic Read More → "I See Holograms Everywhere"
The term “machine vision” refers to the technologies and processes by which machines extract, analyze, and interpret visual information from the physical world using sensors and computational algorithms. It enables machines to “see,” make decisions, and perform actions based on their visual inputs.
While 2D machine vision is great—I won’t hear a bad word said about 2D—it must be acknowledged … Read More → "Augmenting an Existing 2D CMOS Sensor to Provide 3D Depth Perception"
Ikutaro Kakehashi founded Roland Corporation in Osaka on April 18, 1972. He’d just resigned from his first company, Ace Electronic Industries, the previous month. Ace made electronic rhythm machines for electronic organs, and its largest customer was the Hammond Organ Company. When Roland opened for business, it had no products. Kakehashi quickly developed electronic drum or rhythm machines to start the revenue stream that would help him realize … Read More → "The Day of the Drum Machine"
