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Technology News Highlights 2003 p2 of 3:

• High-resolution stereo digital projection system displayed
  MAY 19--Fakespace Systems (Marshalltown, IA; www.fakespace.com) claims to have developed the first ultrahigh-resolution, digital, active stereoscopic projection system.
• Imaging system to roam Mars
  MAY 14--Equinox Interscience Inc. (Golden, CO; eisci.com/mica) has received a $1.3 million contract from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a mineral identification and composition analyzer for use on future Mars missions.
• VESA releases coordinated video timings standard
  MAY 8--The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA; Milpitas, CA; www.veas.com) has released its CVT Standard--a method for generating a consistent and coordinated set of standard formats, display refresh rates, and timing specifications for computer display products.
• Alaska to produce statewide digital basemap
  MAY 5--Research Systems Inc. (Boulder, CO; www.RSInc.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co., reports that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources is purchasing its ENVI-on-the Net technology to create a new statewide digital basemap for use in multiple mapping applications.
• Texas Instruments DSP blazes at 1 GHz
  MAY 5--In a technology demonstration, Texas Instruments (Houston, TX; www.ti.com/1ghzdspp) reached the 1-GHz speed threshold for digital signal processors (DSPs).
• Fingers, faces, and eyes become "passwords"
  APRIL 25--OpticsReport (Tucson, AZ; www.opticsreport.com), published by Breault Research Organization (www.breault.com), explains the types of biometric technologies and how these technologies use human anatomical and behavioral characteristics as passwords.
• European FireWire support group formed
  APRIL 21--The 1394 Automation Group, which recently gained official legal status as a European foundation, is defining a platform that will allow different controllers to communicate using the same FireWire bus.
• Compliance Workshop in Tokyo checks FireWire-equipped products
  APRIL 15--The 1394 Trade Association (TA; Grapevine, TX; www.1394ta.org) expects that several new consumer and computer systems will earn the group's Compliance Logo once results are compiled.
• Trade group to develop IEEE 1394-Gigabit Ethernet links
  APRIL 1--Leaders of the 1394 Trade Association (Grapevine, TX: www.1394ta.org), working in conjunction with the IEEE, have established a new study group to investigate methods of building IEEE 1394b (FireWire) links over up to 100 m of Category 5 wiring using existing Gigabit Ethernet (1000base T) physical-layer technology.
• Advanced imaging technology targets nondestructive testing
  MARCH 31--PerkinElmer Optoelectronics (Fremont, CA; www.perkinelmer.com) has introduced a new photodiode array that converts x-rays into visible light to produce high-quality, accurate images without affecting the integrity of the object being viewed.

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