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Technology News Highlights 2002 p4 of 5:

• IBM creates fast SiGe integrated circuits
  FEBRUARY 28--IBM Microelectronics (www.chips.ibm.com) has created semiconductor circuits that can operate at speeds of greater than 110 GHz and process an electrical signal in 4.3 trillionths of a second
• Patented technology increases OLED microdisplay brightness
  FEBRUARY 21--eMagin Corp. (Hopewell Junction, NY; www.emagin.com) has been awarded US Patent No. 6,337,492 for technology that can enable production of higher-brightness OLED flat-panel displays with longer life for a given level of brightness and can be used in future mobile information products.
• New technology enables high-resolution digital still and video imaging at low cost
  FEBRUARY 20--Photon Vision Systems Inc. (PVS; Homer, NY; www.photon-vision.com) has announced its Imaging Solutions on Silicon (ISoS) technology platform.
• Xerox device could help pave way for next generation of displays
  FEBRUARY 15--Researchers at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada (Mississauga, Ontario) have invented an OLED display that can tolerate temperatures of 70°C to 100°C for 10,000 hours.
• Image processing analyzes ultrasound images
  FEBRUARY 7--Icon Technologies (Victoria Park, Western Australia) has developed an automated imaging system that improves the speed, precision, and objectivity of the analysis of videotapes containing ultrasound images that have captured changes in blood-vessel diameter.
• Microscopy-based imaging system speeds mineral analysis
  FEBRUARY 7--Frank Fueten, an associate professor in the department of earth sciences at Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada), has designed a fully automated polarizing stage for a petrographic microscope, which allows a thin section of rock to remain fixed while the polarizers are rotated.
• Hitachi and MIT cooperate on the development of new circuit concept
  FEBRUARY 4--Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; global.hitachi.com) and the Microsystems Technology Laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA) have jointly developed a new circuit concept for digital-signal processors that will help to realize minimum power processing for system LSIs, such as those used in personal digital assistants.
• New biometrics research center aims to transfer biometrics technologies to private/government sectors
  JANUARY 28--The Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR) based at West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV; www.csee.wvu.edu/citer ) is a new National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that draws upon the interdisciplinary faculty expertise of West Virginia, Marshall, Michigan State, and San Jose State Universities.
• Surgeon uses Zeus Robotic Surgical System
  JANUARY 25--American robotic surgery pioneer Celeste Hollands, M.D., of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (Shreveport, LA) made medical history last week by correcting a stomach blockage in a 19-day-old infant using a robotic system called ZEUS to perform the minimally invasive surgery.
• PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group re-energizes with next-generation telecommunications initiative
  JANUARY 24--The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG; Wakefield, MA; www.picmg.org), a consortium of computer-product vendors dedicated to the creation of open industry standards, has announced development of a new series of specifications, called AdvancedTCA, for next-generation telecommunications equipment, with a new form factor and based on switched fabric architectures.

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