For hardware register allocation in GPUs, David Tarjan and Kevin Skadron have patented this technique before they published a more advanced technique in ISCA 2011. It is likely that the former technique is in use at the recent generations of GPUs.

Position Control in Lithographic Equipment [Applications of Control], by Hans Butler from ASML, in MCS Oct. 2011.

Stability Analysis of Networked Control Systems Using a Switched Linear Systems Approach , by Tijs Donkers, et al. from TU Eindhoven, in TAC Sept. 2011.

Directional Repetitive Control of a Metrological AFM , by Roel Merry, et al. from TU Eindhoven, in TCST Nov. 2011. Roel Merry’s PhD thesis is titled “Performance-driven control of nano-motion systems“.

The Impact of Control Technology: Overview, Success Stories, and Research Challenges, published by IEEE Control Systems Society in 2011.

LCDs’ Bright Future — Three separate advances are making TVs lighter and cheaper, in IEEE Spectrum. The author describes a recent landscape of display technologies. He predicts the LCD will maintain its dominance for the coming years, which is yet to be verified.

Removing Motion Blur With Space–Time Processing , in TIP Oct. 2011.

Computation of Fluid and Particle Motion From a Time-Sequenced Image Pair: A Global Outlier Identification Approach, for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), in TIP Oct. 2011.

A Case for Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Architectures , from Columbia University, to appear in Computer Architecture Letters.

Design & Test of Computers Sept.-Oct. 2011 is a special issue on asynchronous design. Some interesting papers:

• High-Performance Asynchronous Pipelines: An Overview , from Columbia University.
• Metastability and Synchronizers: A Tutorial
• Proteus: An ASIC Flow for GHz Asynchronous Designs
• An Evaluation of Asynchronous Stacks

Biomedical Visual Computing: Case Studies and Challenges , by Chris R. Johnson, to appear in MCSE. He has an profound remark on the challenges ahead, “We are data rich, but analysis poor”.

Application-Aware NoC Design for Efficient SDRAM Access , from KAIST, in TCAD Oct. 2011.

Some interesting papers in Transactions on Consumer Electronics Aug. 2011:

• Feature-based image registration algorithm for image stitching applications on mobile devices
• Three-dimensional image processing VLSI system with network-on-chip system and reconfigurable memory architecture
• Generic software framework for a line-buffer-based image processing pipeline

Carmakers Unveil New Types of Hybrids, which use compressed air or flywheels, like the KERS system in F1.

Off topic:
Survey: European Ph.D. Students Underfunded, Unaware of Rights. The PhDs in the Netherlands seem to be well funded.

Two interesting talks by Yi Ma:

• How to do Research
• Warning Signs of Bogus Research Progresses

Some papers from TU Munich on networked visual servo control:

• A switching control law for a networked visual servo control system , in ICRA 2010.
• Distributed computation and data scheduling for networked visual servo control systems , in IROS 2010.
• Performance-oriented networked visual servo control with sending rate scheduling , in ICRA 2011.

Some interesting articles in CACM Oct. 2011:

• Visual reconstruction: technical perspective, forwarding the main course below.
• Building Rome in a day, a longer version of the previous conference paper.
• Seeing is not enough, DARPA is funding visual intelligence.
• A better way to learn features: technical perspective, forwarding the main course below.
• Unsupervised learning of hierarchical representations with convolutional deep belief networks, from U Mich. and Stanford.
• Understanding sources of ineffciency in general-purpose chips, from Stanford.
• Power efficiency as the #1 design constraint: technical perspective, by Charles Moore from AMD.
• Abstraction in hardware system design
• Verification of safety-critical software, with examples of aviation software.
• The platform leader’s dilemma, from MIT Sloan.
• Testing: failing to succeed, on software testing, but also applies to hardware or any kind of testing.

3,000 raw ideas equals 1 commercial success!, in Research Technology Management May/June 1997. No idea what the number is in 2011.

Emerging knowledge is a private business, by Daniel Lemire.

Precision Motion Control — Design and Implementation, by Tan Kok Kiong, Lee Tong Heng and Huang Sunan.

INTEGRATION INSIGHTS – Into the Depths, from vision-systems.com. It explains why high-resolution image sensors have diminishing return on obtainable resolution. An earlier article from vision-systems.com, titled “Matching Lenses and Sensors“, has more explanation on the theory behind.

Low-Voltage, Low-Power, Organic Light-Emitting Transistors for Active Matrix Displays, in Science April 2011.

Off topic:
Netherlands pushes for innovation, but will use a different way.