Imec Caps 2025 With Major Advances in AI Datacenter Modeling and Semiconductor Research
Imec closed out 2025 with significant announcements that underscore its growing influence in semiconductor R&D and AI systems design. Between a high-profile debut at Super Computing 2025 and a strong showing at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), the Belgium-based research center marked the end of the year with momentum across multiple technology fronts. In November at Super Computing 2025, one of the world’s largest gatherings for high-performance computing, imec unveiled imec.kelis, an analytical performance...
15th Anniversary of “Heavy Rain” – Art of Gaming
Guillaume de Fondaumiere is the Co-CEO of the Quantic Dream Studio based in France, which developed games such as, "Fahrenheit" (2005), "Heavy Rain" (2010), and in collaboration with Sony Computer Entertainment, the PS3 exclusive title, "Beyond: Two Souls", starring actors Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe (2013). Today, on the 15th anniversary of “Heavy Rain,” he finds himself reminiscing: “In the mid-2000s when we started production on “Heavy Rain” I was executive producer on the project. I was also responsible for managing...
Discerning Real Music in the AI Era
Artificial intelligence is impacting the music industry at a rapid pace, offering tools for impromptu creation, production, and even performance. Along with text, images, and videos, generative AI can also produce music, assist with songwriting and production, and even replicate voices in a matter of seconds. Deep learning is based through its training data, which through its underlying patterns and structures is used to produce new data based on the input, which often comes in the form of natural language prompts. There...
How Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory Health Will Transform Human Life
Medicine—once reactive, treating disease only after symptoms appear—is rapidly evolving into something new. In 2014American biologist and biotech pioneer Dr. Leroy Hood has offered the clearest vision of tomorrow’s healthcare. He describes the future as 4P Medicine: Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, Participatory. This vision is no longer on the horizon—it has arrived. This shift, driven by biotechnology and digital innovation, marks one of the greatest transformations in the history of healthcare. For generations, people...
