Innovation Challenge
Hailey Murdock, center of Applied Engineering Technology, talks about Los Alamos's RaveGrid technology during a presentation Thursday as part of Technology Transfer Division's Innovation Challenge. Next to Murdock is Brandon Stone of Health Physics Operations. Using RaveGrid, the student teams had 30 minutes to develop a commercialization proposal and 5 minutes to present it to a panel of technology transfer commercialization experts. The panelists asked questions about the student proposals and also provided a critique of their presentation. RaveGrid is a software that converts a digital image represented by pixels to a "vector" image represented by polygons. RaveGrid enables image scaling to the pixel resolution of a particular digital display or Web-page layout; image compression to reduce image-storage or bandwidth requirements; encryption of vectorized images in text files; image searches in large databases or on the Internet; and automatic analysis of reconnaissance or surveillance images. Read more about RaveGrid in the week of July 16 Los Alamos NewsLetter.
