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Technology News Highlights 2002 p1 of 5:

• Duke University Medical Center achieves benchmark in medical imaging
  NOVEMBER 26--Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC; www.gemedical.com) is the first medical institution to complete 15,000 scans on a positron-emission-tomography (PET) scanner, an imaging technology that allows physicians and technologists to detect and treat some of the most serious health problems in oncology, neurology, and cardiology.
• VESA releases flat display mounting interface standard
  NOVEMBER 13--The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA; Milpitas, CA), leader in video-display standards development, has announced the release of the Flat Display Mounting Interface standard.
• Gait-recognition technology could identify humans at a distance
  OCTOBER 14--Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA; www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/hid/index.html and elsewhere are developing technologies to recognize a person's walk, or gait.
• Hamamatsu Photonics Technology to offer seminars
  OCTOBER 8--Learn from experts the latest advancements, basic fundamentals, and how to choose the right detector for your job at a seminar offered by Hamamatsu Photonics Technology.
• Actuality Systems Perspecta spatial display aids University of Toronto research
  OCTOBER 8--Actuality Systems Inc. (Burlington, MA) has installed its Perspecta spatial visualization platform at the University of Toronto Computer Science Department.
• FireWire compliance workshop featured full range of new products and systems
  OCTOBER 8--Computer and consumer industry leaders meeting at the recent 1394 Trade Association (TA; www.1394ta.org) quarterly Compliance and Interoperability Workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, successfully networked a total of 63 devices equipped with the 1394/FireWire standard--along with live streaming video--in what TA leaders called the most successful event yet.
• Convention in Rochester draws top names in the field
  SEPTEMBER 25--About 1000 of the world's top imaging scientists gathered in Rochester, NY, for the ninth annual International Conference on Image Processing, the largest and most prestigious meeting of its kind.
• Researchers discover better way to embed, remove hidden data in digital images
  SEPTEMBER 24--Scientists from the University of Rochester and Xerox Corporation (both Rochester, NY; www.rochester.edu and www.xerox.com/) have invented a new way to hide information within an ordinary digital image and to extract it again without distorting the original or losing any information.
• Scientists achieve vision-guidance breakthrough
  SEPTEMBER 24--An innovative multicamera, 3-D technology for developing next-generation vision-guided robotic applications for industry and government is now available from Braintech Inc. (North Vancouver, BC, Canada; www.braintech.com).
• DisplaySearch and Meko announce Display Conference
  AUGUST 29--DisplaySearch (Austin, TX; www.displaysearch.com), a leader in flat-panel-display market research and consulting, and Meko, a European display market research firm (www.meko.co.uk), have announced a new display conference in Europe on December 11 and 12, 2002.

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