International Solid-State Circuits Conference: I should be there!

I just received an e-mail from a tech reporter who is at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Fran right now. Besides the medical applications, I'm curious about the nextgen in digital photography sensors, which is why he's there.

This also would give me a chance to understand innovations such as Intel's new 2 billion transistor Tukwila chip: