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Technology News Highlights 2002 p3 of 5:

• New imaging device assesses brain function
  MAY 24--The NASA-funded National Space Biomedical Research Institute (Houston, TX) has developed a lightweight imaging cap to assess brain function. The new imaging device may go where no MRI has gone before.
• Ultrasound technology shows 4-D images with real-time motion
  MAY 14--A new ultrasound system has been developed that shows clinical 4-D images in real-time motion, allowing physicians and patients a new perspective inside the human body.
• PCI-SIG Developers Conference provides information on PCI specifications
  MAY 9--The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) 2002 North American PCI-SIG Developers Conference (June 3-4 at McEnery Convention Center; San Jose, CA) will focus primarily on PCI Express (formerly 3GIO) and PCI-X 2.0.
• The MathWorks to host a Webinar
  APRIL 18--The MathWorks will be presenting a Webinar event--a seminar hosted via the Web. Participants can log on through the Web to join the presentation.
• Display Interfaces Symposium set for April 25--26
  APRIL 9--The Display Interfaces 2002 Symposium, a technical conference focused on the developments and future needs of display-interfaces standards, will be held April 25-26, 2002, at the Embassy Suites in Milpitas, CA.
• IEEE approves amendment to IEEE 1394 standard for high-speed serial buses
  APRIL 3--The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (Piscataway, NJ; www.standards.ieee.org) Standards Board has approved IEEE Standard 1394b, which amends the IEEE 1394-1995 and IEEE 1394a-2000 standards.
• Visionics and Wirehound provide real-time wireless facial recognition on mobile phones
  MARCH 27--Law-enforcement officials may one day use their mobile phones to help identify criminals, thanks to an application being demonstrated by Visionics Corporation (www.visionics.com) and Wirehound LLC (www.wirehound.com).
• PICMG publishes PICMG 1.2 Embedded PCI-X specification and an Engineering Change Notice to the PICMG 2.0 CompactPCI specification
  MARCH 21--The PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (Wakefield, MA) has published two new documents--the PICMG 1.2 Embedded PCI-X specification for standard form-factor PCI and an Engineering Change Notice, ECN 002, to the PICMG 2.0 CompactPCI form-factor core specification on the topic of self-describing slot geography.
• Machine-vision system helps classify fruit
  MARCH 6--At the Institute of Agricultural Engineering, The Volcani Center (Bet-Dagan, Israel), Victor Alchanatis and his colleagues have developed a machine-vision system to examine the external features of tomatoes.
• USB Implementers Forum licenses NI TestStand for USB 2.0 compliance testing
  MARCH 5--The USB Implementers Forum (Austin, TX) has entered into an agreement with National Instruments (Austin, TX; www.ni.com) that makes NI TestStand the standard test-management software for ensuring that computer peripherals comply with new USB 2.0 technology.

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