Wishing your a good mornig from my hotel room in San Francisco. Basically the International Solid-State Circuit Conference is ready to start ! Over 95 % of the presenters arrived already and had yesterday, Saturday, a long rehearsing day. Today the plenary speakers will rehearse in the big ballroom, while in parallel the educational activities will start. On Sunday we will have 9 tutorial sessions (each 1.5 hour) running in two parallel tracks. That allows those who are interested to attend maximum 2 or 3 tutorials. Attending a tutorial is a very nice way of getting familiar with certain topics in new fields. Also on Sunday the first 2 forums are organized. A forum is a full-day event focusing on one particular topic with for instance about 7 invited top experts in their field. In one of two today’s forums (“Silicon 3D Integration Technology and Systems” and “Reconfigurable RD and Data Converters” , Jean-Luc Jaffard of ST Microelectronics will talk about TSV for imaging modules. I do hope that I can attend Jean-Luc’s presentation, I can not follow the complete program due to other obligations. As there are the plenary rehearsals that I have to chair.
This evening a first evening session is organized (“Beyond CMOS – Emerging Technologies”) in parallell to the Student Research Preview. The latter gives MSc and PhD students the opportunity to present their work during a flash presentation and by means of a poster.
Starting from tomorrow, Monday, the paper presentations will start. I do hope to give you a short update on a daily basis of what is/was important for the imaging community. I hope you will like it.
Albert, 07-02-2010
Hello Dr. Theuwissen,
I look forward to your updates this week.
If you had a free evening I would take you out to dinner, but it sounds like you have a full schedule this week.
Have fun at the show and in San Francisco.
Pat Keenan
Albert and friends,
Hope the ISSCC goes well. I am sorry I cannot make it. The benefit/cost ratio is too low for us semi-retired types. Tell those guys in charge that they charge way too much to attend. It is sort of ridiculous, but I guess they charge what the market will bear. Most companies can ill-afford to not send their people. Well, thanks for letting me vent this on your blog. I am glad I can participate vicariously, although be careful, they may consider your blog “unauthorized press coverage” and want to charge you extra for it!
-Eric