(From left to right) Xiaoning Qi, board director of the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association (CASPA), CASPA director Charlie Chao, NeuroSky Inc CEO Stanley Yang, CASPA Chairman and President Jerry Chen, and CASPA Vice President Peng Liang pose for a photo after introducing the 2012 Spring Symposium on March 8 in Santa Clara, CA, the United States.

The symposium, Novel Human Interface Technologies for the Future, will be held on March 17. The scheduled speakers are famed experts in the area including Stanley Yang, Stanford University Professor Zhenan Bao , Dr. Bhowmik, director of Intel Corp, and Vernon Slack, director of Aopen Inc. CASPA, which has more than 4,000 members, is the largest semiconductor professional organization in North America.[Qidong Zhang/China Daily]