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Rambus to Present at the 2014 Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging Meeting

COSI, Kohala Coast, HI – June 23, 2014

Who: Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS)
Where: Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) 2014
The Fairmont Orchid
Kohala Coast, HI
When: June 24, 2014

Rambus inventors will lead three sessions at the Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) Conference taking place in Kohala Coast, Hawaii on June 24, 2014. Drs. David Stork and Patrick Gill will discuss ultra-miniature diffractive computational sensing and imaging, specifically touching on the Rambus Lensless Smart Sensor technology. The conference, which focuses on the latest advances in the fields of imaging and sensing for medical, defense, homeland security, inspection and testing applications, explores both theoretical and experimental progress in computational optical sensing and imaging research. For additional details, visit: rambus.com.

Rambus Presentations

Title: Joint Optics/signal Processing Co-design for Diffractive Computational Sensing and Imaging
Presenter: David G. Stork, Rambus
Time: 2:30 p.m. HST
Location: Plaza Ballroom I & II

Title: Hardware Verification of an Ultra-miniature Computational Diffractive Imager
Presenters: Patrick R. Gill, David G. Stork, Rambus
Time: 3:15 p.m. HST
Location: Plaza Ballroom I & II

Title: Reading QR Code Symbols with an Ultra-miniature Computational Diffractive Imager
Presenters: David G. Stork, Patrick R. Gill, Rambus
Time: 3:30 p.m. HST
Location: Plaza Ballroom I & II

About Rambus Inc.

Rambus brings invention to market. Our customizable IP cores, architecture licenses, tools, services, and training improve the competitive advantage of our customer’s products while accelerating their time-to-market. Rambus products and innovations capture, secure and move data. For more information, visit rambus.com.

Rambus A19 Lamp Wins Energy Technology ACE Award

Revolutionary lamp, utilizing MicroLens® technology, demonstrates superior energy-efficient innovation for lighting solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — April 07, 2014 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) today announced its revolutionary A19 lamp, first introduced in 2013, has been named as winner in the Energy Technology category of the EE Times and EDN 2014 UBM Tech ACE Awards. This lamp, which utilizes Rambus’ patented MicroLens® optical technology, delivers the light output of a traditional incandescent lamp with the energy efficiency, durability and reliability of advanced LED technology. The Rambus MicroLens technology is also utilized in the WaveStream™ line of LED lighting solutions provided byEaton’s Cooper Lighting Division.

“We are honored to be recognized and included among some of the top innovators in the industry,” said Jerome Nadel, chief marketing officer at Rambus. “Winning the ACE Award in the energy technology category is a testament to the dedication of our inventors, engineers and scientists, and showcases our continued drive to develop lighting products and technology that help reduce energy consumption.”

“We are continually amazed at the level of creativity in the design, innovation and technology exemplified by these award winners,” said Patrick Mannion, vice president and brand director at UBM Tech Electronics. “The ACE Awards celebrate the highest achievements in innovation and creativity in electronics design, and selecting one organization or individual that stands out above the rest is incredibly challenging. We are pleased to be able to celebrate their achievements.”

The Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards celebrate the creators of technology who demonstrate leadership and innovation in the global industry and shape the world we live in. EE Times and EDN ACE Awards were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of industry experts, comprised of the leading voices of academia, industry executives and content experts. The winners were announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 1 in San Jose as part of the UBM Tech EE Live! 2014 event.

The Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards celebrate the creators of technology who demonstrate leadership and innovation in the global industry and shape the world we live in. EE Times and EDN ACE Awards are judged by a blue-ribbon panel of industry experts, comprised of the leading voices of academia, industry executives and content experts. The ACE Awards winners will be unveiled during a ceremony on April 1, 2014, as part of UBM Tech’s EE Live! Conference.

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About Rambus

Rambus brings invention to market. Our customizable IP cores, architecture licenses, tools, services, and training improve the competitive advantage of our customer’s products while accelerating their time-to-market. Rambus products and innovations capture, secure and move data. For more information, visit rambus.com.

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UBM Tech is a global media business that brings together the world’s technology communities through live events, online properties and custom services. UBM Tech’s community-focused approach provides its users and clients with expertly curated research, education, training, community advocacy, user-generated content and peer-to-peer engagement opportunities that serve the Electronics, Security, Enterprise IT and Communications, Network Infrastructure and Applications, Game and App Developers, and Tech Marketing communities. UBM Tech’s brands include Black Hat, DesignCon, EE Times, Enterprise Connect, Game Developers Conference (GDC), HDI, InformationWeek, and Interop. Create, a UBM Tech full range marketing services division, includes custom events, content marketing solutions, community development and demand generation programs based on its content and technology market expertise. UBM Tech is a part of UBM (UBM.L), a global provider of media and information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. For more information, go to tech.ubm.com.

Rambus Engineers and Inventors to Present at the 2013 Computational Sensing and Imaging Meeting

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES and ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, – 06/25/2013

Who: Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS)
Where: Computational Sensing and Imaging 2013
Renaissance Arlington Capital View
Arlington, VA, USA
When: June 23-27, 2013

Rambus inventors will present at the 2013 Computation Sensing and Imaging meeting. Presentations include exploring the theoretical and experimental progress in Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging research. These talks span the fundamental physics, hardware implementation, and the numerical and analytical techniques that are leading to significant improvements in imaging and sensing across various fields, such as medicine, defense, and homeland security, as well as in industrial inspection and testing.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Title: “Lensless Ultra-Miniature Imagers Using Odd-Symmetry Spiral Phase Gratings”
6:20 p.m.
Patrick R. Gill, David G. Stork, Rambus

Drs. Gill and Stork introduce a new type of diffractive element based on odd-symmetry phase gratings. Spiral arrangements of these gratings over photo sensors constitute a new class of unprecedentedly small computational camera.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Title: “Transmissive Structured Illumination Reveals Target Depth and Cast Shadow Details Obscured by Scattering Media”
9:20 a.m.
Avinash Kumar, Patrick R. Gill, Thomas Vogelsang, David G. Stork, Rambus

During this presentation, Rambus engineers will describe novel methods of computing sharp shadows and depth estimates of objects immersed in highly scattering media using multi-scale structured transmissive illumination, such as modified Hadamard tiles.

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market. Unleashing the intellectual power of our world-class engineers and scientists in a collaborative and synergistic way, Rambus invents, licenses and develops solutions that challenge and enable our customers to create the future. While best known for creating unsurpassed semiconductor memory architectures, Rambus is also developing world-changing products and services in security, advanced LED lighting and displays, and immersive mobile media.

Dr. David G. Stork Elected International Society for Optics and Photonics Fellow

Distinguished Rambus research scientist acknowledged for work in pattern recognition, computer vision, joint design of optics and image processing

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 01/24/2012 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, announced today that Dr. David G. Stork has been named a 2012 Fellow of SPIE – the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

“Throughout the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate to conduct research in a wide range of disciplines, including optics, image processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, human visual perception and even art history. SPIE has a long history of providing a welcoming environment and resource for such work,” said Dr. David G. Stork. “I’m honored to be recognized by SPIE and look forward to sharing future research on computational imaging through this important organization.”

SPIE Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, and to SPIE in general. More than 950 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society’s inception in 1955.

Dr. Stork is a renowned expert in optics and the development of algorithms that enable novel sensing, imaging and image analysis techniques. He has published eight books or proceeding volumes on topics such as optics and pattern recognition. In 2011, Dr. Stork joined Rambus as part of Rambus Labs to lead the company’s long-term research in new classes of imaging systems.

Dr. Stork will be recognized and receive a certificate at the Electronics Imaging conference to be held on January 22 – 26 in Burlingame, California. At the conference, Dr. Stork will teach a short course on new methods in computational imaging. In addition, Dr. Stork and colleagues will present a paper on computer vision. To see the full list of 2012 SPIE Fellows visit http://spie.org/x32.xml.

About Rambus Inc.

Founded in 1990, Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. As a company of inventors, Rambus focuses on the development of technologies that enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. Its breakthrough innovations and solutions help industry-leading companies bring superior products to market. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio, as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard solutions. Rambus has offices in California, North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

About SPIE

The international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 180,000 constituents from 168 countries, the Society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, and supports scholarships, grants, and other education programs around the world. See www.SPIE.org for information.

Imaging and Optics Expert Dr. David G. Stork Joins Rambus

Industry luminary to lead Rambus Labs initiative in Computational Sensing and Imaging

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 08/04/2011 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, today announced the appointment of David G. Stork, Ph.D., to Rambus Labs where he’ll spearhead the development of the company’s computational sensing and imaging initiative. Dr. Stork is a renowned industry expert in optics and the development of algorithms that enable novel sensing, imaging and image analysis techniques. His honors include being named a Fellow from the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

“With a strong heritage in innovation, Rambus continually strives to develop compelling solutions to important problems,” said Dr. Gary Bronner, vice president of Rambus Labs. “Dr. Stork’s expertise in optics and computational sensing, imaging and pattern recognition makes him an ideal leader for our long term research efforts in imaging systems.”

Over the course of his career, Dr. Stork has held many corporate research and academic positions, resulting in 40 patented inventions and numerous books, journal papers, invited papers and plenary talks in leading journals and conferences. Dr. Stork has also held faculty positions as well as visiting professor and lecturer positions at Boston University, Clark University, Stanford University and Swarthmore College.

Dr. Stork holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a senior member of the IEEE.

About Rambus Inc.

Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. As a company of inventors, Rambus focuses on the development of technologies that enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. Its breakthrough innovations and solutions in semiconductors, lighting and display, and security help industry-leading companies bring superior products to market. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio, as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard solutions. Founded in 1990, Rambus has offices in California, North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.