The Challenge to be Innovative
Chandra Clark, PhD, is an assistant professor at The University of Alabama. Her idea “The News Call” won third place in the inaugural competition of the NAB Pilot Innovation Challenge. She will be on the Futures Park Innovation Stage at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, April 25th. On August 30, [...]
5 Things to Know: NASA’s Live 4K Stream
On Wednesday, April 26 at NAB Show, NASA and Amazon Web Services will present the first ever live 4K stream from space. Astronaut Peggy Whitson will speak with AWS Elemental CEO and Co-founder Sam Blackman. Here's the 5 things you need to know. Register now
2017 Futures Park
Futures Park, powered by PILOT, is a section of the NAB Show exhibit floor reserved for presentation of media-related research and development projects from around the world. Exhibits there represent the current edge-of-the-art technologies, and are presented by commercial, government or academic R&D facilities and related organizations. The 2017 Futures Park exhibitor lineup is now [...]
2017 HAM Reception at NAB Show
CQ NAB! A highlight and tradition for many of us attending the NABShow is the Amateur Radio Operators Reception. I started in ham radio in 1975 (WN6BFL) and attended my first NABShow Ham Reception in 1986. Like past years, the Ham Reception will be held on Wednesday evening (April 26) beginning at 6 p.m. [...]
We Celebrate the launch of Next Gen TV at the Global UHD Conference
Next Generation Television is coming to a screen near you, but before it does, it will launch in South Korea. In actuality, it already has, and that fact was celebrated at the Global UHD Conference in Seoul, Korea on March 27-28. We at NAB were delighted to be there and to co-host the event along [...]
The Big Data Problem
We've been looking at some of the best papers from the Proceedings of the upcoming 2017 Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference (BEITC). In this post, Tariq Islam looks at Aaron Edell's paper: All Media and Entertainment Companies have a Big Data Problem. You can preorder the Proceedings now to get the full paper, along with 95 other papers [...]