In the Press
Acclaimed artist Marta Thoma Hall is excited to introduce her newest solo exhibit Together, Us next month. The exhibition will be on display at contemporary art space Wonzimer Gallery from March 20 through April 17, 2026. The gallery is located at 341-B South Avenue 17 in Los Angeles. Read More
EIN PressWire
March 05, 2026
The Wizard Behind the Curtain: Why David Hall’s Return is a Masterclass in Engineering
Last week, when our columnist Jack Patterson broke the news on David Hall’s return to CES, I stopped scrolling. Like many in the deep-tech world, I have admired Hall’s trajectory for decades - from the audio labs of Velodyne Acoustics to the DARPA Grand Challenges that gave birth to the autonomous vehicle industry. Read More
BriefGlance
January 23, 2026
7 Must-See Museum Shows in San Francisco
San Francisco Art Week is underway, anchored by the 12th edition of FOG Design and Art (January 21–25), held on a historic former Army base by the bay. This year, however, it arrives during a time of flux for Northern California’s art scene, with several prominent galleries shuttering and two major art schools—the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of the Arts—closing recently. But there are also signs of new life, including two new fairs with free admission, Atrium and Skylight Above (both January 22–25). Read More
Artnet
January 21, 2026
Lidar King's Return: Hall Aims to Tame Drones and Clean Up Space - BriefGlance.com
David Hall, the visionary engineer whose invention of 3D lidar gave birth to the modern autonomous vehicle industry, has returned to the global technology stage at CES 2026 with a new, ambitious two-front mission: securing the skies from rogue drones and making access to space sustainable. Read More
BriefGlance
January 06, 2026
Counter-UAS Drone Defense: Capturing Drones with LiDAR, Nets, and Parachutes
Max Trescott talks with David Hall, founder and CEO of Velodyne Space, about a new approach to counter-UAS defense that focuses on capturing drones using LiDAR, nets, and parachutes instead of destroying them. Hall begins by explaining LiDAR—Light Detection and Ranging—and how it measures distance by timing how long it takes for pulses of light to travel out and return. Read More
Aviation News Talk Network
December 26, 2025
David S. Hall Unveils Cam-Lidar: Breakthrough In Drone Tech
David S. Hall, the inventor who changed the world of autonomous vehicles with lidar, is back with something big. PR News Wire published that his new company, Hall Lidar Inc. (HLi), has just introduced Cam-Lidar, a next-generation detection system designed to spot and track high-speed aerial objects with unmatched precision. Read More
Dronexl
November 12, 2025
David S. Hall Unveils Cam-Lidar Technology for Drone Defence - Aerospace Trends
David S. Hall, inventor and founder of Hall Lidar Inc., has announced the launch of Cam-Lidar, a new sensor system designed to detect and track high-speed aerial objects with high precision. The technology integrates lidar, high-performance optics, and artificial intelligence to provide real-time monitoring of small and fast-moving targets, including drones and other aerial threats. Read More
Aerospace Trends
November 11, 2025
‘Lidar for Cars’ Inventor Unveils Tech to Track Mach 1 Drones
David S. Hall, the mind behind lidar tech for autonomous vehicles, has set his sights on the defense sector with a new detection system that tracks high-speed airborne objects. His Cam-Lidar tech fuses lidar, modern camera optics, and AI to lock onto objects as small as a laptop traveling near Mach 1 (1,225 kilometers/761 miles per hour). It can track targets from over two kilometers (1.2 miles) away while generating real-time 3D maps of its surroundings. Read More
NextGen Defense
November 11, 2025
The crown jewel of this year’s Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week was the Museum of the African Diaspora’s Afropolitan Ball—a glittering, high-octane gala that raised more than $1 million for the institution’s programming. The black-tie fête once again drew a mix of power players from art, fashion, entertainment and philanthropy, all converging at the San Francisco Ferry Building to see and be seen while celebrating MoAD’s 20th anniversary. Read More
Observer
October 07, 2025
Bozeman Health is pleased to welcome Dr. Vincenzo Polsinelli to the Cardiology Clinic. Dr. Polsinelli comes to Bozeman Health from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and is fellowship trained in cardiovascular disease. He received his medical degree from the University at Buffalo and continued on to the University of Pittsburgh for Internal Medicine training. Dr. Polsinelli is now welcoming new patients. Read More
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
May 03, 2025
Bozeman Health is pleased to welcome Dr. Vincenzo Polsinelli to the Cardiology Clinic. Dr. Polsinelli comes to Bozeman Health from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and is fellowship trained in cardiovascular disease. He received his medical degree from the University at Buffalo and continued on to the University of Pittsburgh for Internal Medicine training. Dr. Polsinelli is now welcoming new patients. Read More
Automotive News
May 02, 2025
ArtSeen: To See with Eyes Closed by Marta Thoma Hall
In this expansive exhibition of recent mixed-media works, Marta Thoma Hall sets imaginative fire to fields of corn. The corn of which I speak resides in some of the outlandish materials that she employs, including convoluted driftwood, large seashells, and crass artificial fur, all abject if not outrightly despised. But as the saying goes, art is not about the materials that an artist uses. Read More
The Brooklyn Rail
April, 2025
Marta Thoma Hall To See with Eyes Closed
In the exhibition To See with Eyes Closed, Marta Thoma Hall employs sculpture, painting, collage, and textiles to transcribe her inner world and meditate on motherhood, grief, and the nature of existence. Her mixed media dreamscapes of animal and human hybrids, rupturing and merging, evoke the awe of nature and the mysterious complexities of life. Read More
Press Release
April 01, 2025
The Dadaists and Surrealists, responding to the trauma of world war, used automatic writing and drawing as a method of freeing the subconscious. They believed that creating with their eyes closed allowed the unconscious mind to tap into the deepest recesses of the human experience, inspiring both the name of the exhibit and Thoma Hall’s creative process. Read More
Press Release
March 04, 2025
David Hall, Founder of the Lidar Industry, Launches a New Company - Hall Lidar Inc. in Montana
David Hall continues to make his mark on the lidar industry as he launches Hall Lidar Inc., or HLi (www.halllidar.com) in Bozeman, Montana. Hall, the original inventor of the lidar technology for mapping and the autonomous vehicle industry, is eager to offer quality lidar for customers, as he sees growing demand. "When combined with recent AI advances, the technology has unlimited potential. Read More
Press Release
February 20, 2025
Can art on a barge inspire change on climate and social issues? This floating museum hopes so
The banal prefabricated home set atop a basic barge doesn’t hint at the treasures inside. But crossing the gangplank reveals a pool of art that aims to buoy the spirits of anyone with sinking feelings about the year ahead. Fifty one works by 37 artists fret, cry and hope over climate change, feminism, queer rights, immigration and more in “Rising Tides,” the inaugural exhibition for the Hall Art and Technology Foundation’s new Floating Museum on the Barge (previously known as Floating Art Museum). Read More
San Francisco Chronicle
January 23, 2025
Pomfret, Connecticut (December 19, 2024) - Students of Connecticut’s esteemed Pomfret School returning for their winter term are settling into their curriculum in a new state of the art science education and exploration building funded in part through a $1 million donation from worldrenowned technology innovator and Pomfret alum David Hall (class of 1970) and his wife, artist and philanthropist Marta Thoma Hall. Read More
Press Release
December 19, 2024
The Cambridge University Dictionary defines vista as “a view, especially a beautiful view from a high position” and “a possible future action or event that you can imagine.” At Pomfret, vista — or VISTA, the new Venue for Innovation, Science, Technology, and Academics, — means these things and more. For decades, a new science building was a topic of conversation on the Hilltop. Read More
Press Release
September 5, 2024
Ahoy! Alameda Floating Museum exhibits art by women, people of color
Among but not surpassing the more unusual gifts that artist and Alameda Floating Museum founder Marta Thoma Hall has received from husband and work partner David Hall is a tugboat. Read More
East Bay Times
December 11, 2024
On a floating museum, Berkeley art collector shows work by under-represented artists
It is rare to have a new museum open in our area. Rarer still to have one that is primarily focused on championing the art created by women and under-represented artists alongside international names. In June, Marta Thoma Hall and David Hall opened the Floating Art Museum on a barge in the tidal canal between Alameda and Oakland. Read More
Berkeley Side
October 14, 2024
Marta Thoma Hall and David Hall Launch a New Foundation with Rising Tides, an Art Exhibition
On June 8th, 2024, "Rising Tides," the new Hall Art and Technology Foundation is exhibiting its art collection, celebrated with festivities on June 8th at the Floating Museum in Alameda, CA. The viewing experience is uniquely situated on a river barge. The exhibition features contemporary paintings, sculpture, and installations from the HAT Foundation (Hall Art and Technology Foundation) on the theme of cycles of the changing times. Read More
Press Release
June 12, 2024
David Hall Honored as “2018 Inventor of the Year” by Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation Read More
Business Wire
December 12, 2018
David Hall Wows Industry with New Technology Solution for Space Exploration
David Hall Wows Industry with New Technology Solution for Space Exploration Read More
Business Wire
December 07, 2018
How A 34-Year-Old Audio Equipment Company Is Leading The Self-Driving Car Revolution
Seconds after David Hall punches in a code, the electronic gate to his waterfront residence swings open. It's a large compound but not the kind you'd expect from a tech entrepreneur who is as responsible as anyone for ushering in the self-driving-car revolution. Hall, 66, is CEO of Velodyne, the leading maker of LiDAR sensors, the "eyes" that allow autonomous vehicles to see what's around them. Read More
Forbes
August 08, 2017
Marta Hall and David Hall Explain LiDAR Technology
Marta Hall and David Hall founded Velodyne LiDAR over a decade ago. With ever changing innovation and developments, LiDAR can be an important tool for automated driving assistance systems in cars (ADAS,) enabling autonomous vehicles and robotics, identifying danger in advanced security systems, and mapping city roadways and civic infrastructure in three dimensions. Read More
OC NJ Daily
August 08, 2017