Join engineers, scientists, educators, and exhibitors from all over the world in celebrating the 30th anniversary of National Instruments as well as the 20th anniversary of the award-winning NI LabVIEW graphical development platform. NIWeek 2006 features three full days of interactive technical sessions, exhibitions, and workshops on the latest developments for automation, manufacturing, design, and test. More Information on NIWeek 06 Didn't receive the Day 2 newsletter? Didn't receive the Day 1 newsletter? View the NIWeek 06 Conferece Program Contents Baseball, Cars Highlight Hardware Demos Robot Solves Rubik’s Cubes PXI Express Gaining Momentum in Virtual Instrumentation FPGAs, Laser Help Prevent Blindness National Instruments rolls out software toolkit for Legos Sony, NI Simplify Camera Setup NI celebrates LabVIEW’s 20th with version 8.20 European space program sets safe path Dean Kamen will examine engineering education Altera partners with TI on FPGA board Industry, universities to collaborate on Lego-based education
				Baseball, Cars Highlight Hardware Demos The software may be the instrument, but at NIWeek, the hardware is the entertainer. Full Story
				Robot solves Rubik’s Cubes The Rubik’s Cube is a challenge for humans, but it’s even more of a challenge for a vision guided robot. Full Story
		PXI Express Gaining Momentum in Virtual Instrumentation Declaring that virtual instrumentation has reached a stage where greater bandwidth is needed, engineers from National Instruments this week announced a slew of high-speed products based on the PXI Express bus architecture. Full Story
		FPGAs, Laser help Prevent Blindness Using LabVIEW and NI hardware Optimedica, a Santa Clara, CA, company developed a system that uses an FPGA to shorten the laser pulses that kill sections of the eye. Full Story
				National Instruments rolls out software toolkit for Legos Responding to a demand among adult Lego customers, National Instruments this week said it is rolling out the NI Labview Toolkit for Lego Mindstorms NXT. Full Story
		Sony, NI Simplify Camera Setup In a move aimed to simplify setup of complex systems, Sony Electronics and National Instruments teamed up to link the Sony XCI-SX1 Smart Camera and NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) software. Full story
		NI celebrates LabVIEW’s 20th with version 8.20 NIWeek kicked off its 30th birthday celebration with a more mature attitude than past gatherings of its zealous user community, focusing on new technologies and their benefits to users. Full Story
				European space program sets safe path The European space effort is moving into another phase, with the launch of the first Vega rocket scheduled for late next year. Full Story
				Dean Kamen will examine engineering education Lego robots aren’t the only educational tools being highlighted at NIWeek. Dean Kamen, who founded the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), will discuss this international contest for high school students in the closing keynote address Thursday. Full Story
		Altera Partners with TI on FPGA Board Partnerships and FPGAs are a big part of the NI story. Altera Corp. is taking both paths with a product being demonstrated on the NIWeek show floor. Full Story
				Industry, universities to collaborate on Lego-based education Toymaker Lego said today it is entering into a collaboration that could bring robotics education to children in elementary schools. Full Story