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Research@Intel 2013: In his address to the attendees of Intel Labs’ signature event, Research@Intel, CTO Justin Rattner welcomes visitors to seek out four zones of innovation on the exhibit floor : The Data Society, Intelligent Everything, Enriching Lives, and Tech Essentials. He also provides an update on the growth of Intel Labs’ Intel Science and […]

Research@Intel 2013: The concept of adding “intelligence” to the things around us means having a world where sensors and compute devices make life easier. In this overview of the “Intelligent Everything Zone,” Divya Kolar, a Tech Evangelist with Intel Labs, guides us through demos showing how intelligent devices can capture data about how we live […]

Research@Intel 2013: Reading labels at the supermarket has become a major activity for many people who are trying to eat better or cut down on things like salt or sugar. In this demo, Tom Birch, Intel IT Program Manager, shows how a personalized shopping experience enabled by the cloud and a smartphone can give users […]

Research@Intel 2013: “The Data Society is about big data, and how we can apply big data to our personal lives,” says Senior Tech Evangelist Sean Koehl. The Data Society is one of four zones on the exhibit floor in this year’s Research@Intel event. One example of how big data can help people is a project […]

Research@Intel 2013: How can big data benefit people they way they live in their communities? By capturing the data important to their lives and distilling it into useful applications. In this demo, watch how allergy sufferers could essentially monitor pollen block by block in their neighborhood.

Research@Intel 2013: Using sensor technologies the cars of the future promise to do more than just monitor the vehicle but the driver, too. In this demo, Intel researchers show how computer technologies can watch a driver’s eyes or measure their brain activity to understand how well they’re doing behind the wheel.

Research@Intel 2013: Using hybrid rendering it’s possible to process images like the ones in this demo at 80,000 pixels x 40,000 pixels. Watch this incredible demo from Intel Labs’ scientists showing how big data — such as weather maps or abstract data representations of massive amounts of data – can be visualized.

Research@Intel 2013:What would it be like if the TV, the ambient lighting in the room, the audio, and the video images themselves helped to make it feel more real? Intel researchers have been investigating how technologies can re-create recorded experiences, such as this demo of daytime and evening at the beach.

IDF2012 – Intel Labs Media Day: Analysts, Science Fiction authors, Intel Researchers and Intel’s futurist Brian David Johnson will discuss their views and approaches of using science based/science fiction as a kind of tool to explore real world implications and uses of future technologies today. Watch all videos from IDF2012 – Intel Labs Media Day […]

IDF2012 – Intel Labs Media Day: Compute capabilities, made available in stores, could make the shopping experience truly interactive. Researchers at Intel are investigating how processors on retail shelves could provide interactive price tags, multiple languages, and social media capabilities, and would serve consumers, retailers and manufacturers. Watch all videos from IDF2012 – Intel Labs […]

IDF2012 – Intel Labs Media Day: What you feel when you see an image has something to do with how you interact socially over networks. Intel researchers have been studying tools that allow people to ascribe their sentiments to images. The implications go beyond mere tagging and reviews, and suggest that technology can foster new […]

IDF2012 – Intel Labs Media Day: What if your phone, laptop and other devices knew your context and could share that with family and friends. Your devices could suggest the best way to reach you. Intel Labs researchers have been investigating contextual awareness across devices so that our devices can help us interact better with […]

IDF2012 – Intel Labs Media Day: Imagine using any surface as a computer display. In this demo, Carl Marshall of Intel Labs provides a glimpse of what researchers are envisioning in the way we interact with computer technology. Watch all videos from IDF2012 – Intel Labs Media Day Visit the IDF2012 website for more details […]

Research@Intel 2012: Experience how Intel Labs researchers could transform shopping in the future with immersive shopping and the Magic Mirror.

Research@Intel 2012: See how Intel researchers are investigating several innovations that have the potential of both increasing wireless network capacity as well as delivering an improved experience for people streaming video.

Research@Intel 2012: As the rate and volume of data generation continues to increase, visual analytics is becoming increasingly important to industry, particularly as Big Data gets bigger. Discover how Intel Labs Europe is researching ways to apply interactive data visualizations to reveal important patterns and relationships, encourage data exploration and knowledge discovery and support decision […]

Research@Intel 2012: On Monday, the day before the public event of Research@Intel 2012, company employees who are not a part of Intel Labs got a sneak peak at the projects. Intel Labs’ Divya Kolar chatted with a few of them in this video.

Research@Intel 2012: Intel Labs puts user experiences first to make technology more enjoyable. See how researchers are working on improving technology to be simpler, easier and more realistic.

Research@Intel 2012: Intel Labs shows energy harvesting and low power circuits to keep mobile devices available, sensing and connected.

Research@Intel 2012: The car of tomorrow will be so smart it’ll even make the rain disappear.

Research@Intel 2012: Intel Labs is focused on the development of technologies and services that will give people more control over their energy usage at home and at work. These technologies will help enable intelligent devices that could autonomously control the operation of buildings and appliances in an optimal way, helping save energy. Research shown includes […]

Research@Intel 2012: Experience a couple of ways daily life could be in the future. With dynamic displays any surface in a home or workplace could turn into a screen to display on and interact with. Life Without Keys is a technology that enables experience designed to showcase how people’s lives can be enhanced through a […]

Research@Intel 2012: The car of tomorrow will be an active participant in a connected world, creating its own data stream and interpreting environments through ongoing interactions with people, services, infrastructures and other vehicles.

Research@Intel 2012: Intel Labs opened its doors today at the 10th Anniversary of Research at Intel, where Justin Rattner, Intel Corporation chief technology officer, unveiled a “Facets of Future Life” showcase that featured more than 20 innovative research projects underway that will help transform the future of technology. To further this transformation he also announced […]

Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF2011) – Disaster Management – Information Technology That Saves Lives – Part 2 of 2.

Intel has established the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The research will be focused around four pillars: Specialization, a practice that can create greater efficiencies such as lower energy usage and costs; Automation, such as the scheduling of compute tasks in the cloud; Big Data, […]

The Intel Science and Technology Center for Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will conduct research in four basic areas: Collaborative Perception which is essentially computer vision, Real-time Knowledge Discovery which includes machine learning, Robotics, and Embedded Systems Architecture. Embedded systems, used in automobiles, homes and many products, are already having a […]

Researchers are investigating how to build virtual environments in which hundreds or thousands of participants can log in and interact with each other. The applications go beyond gaming. Simulations are used for meetings, organizational operations and even product branding. Scientists are discovering how to meet the challenges of creating 3D spaces for many users to […]

Maps have benefited especially from the increasing power of computers. Still, researchers are striving to make significant improvements in the images maps display. Rendering planetary scale objects is challenging due to geometric complexity and the need for managing huge amounts (terabytes or higher) of data. One of the technologies aimed at using the power of […]

Justin Rattner, Intel’s CTO, kicks off Research@Intel, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, with an update of what’s been happening at Intel Labs and the research featured on the exhibit floor. He also talks about the new Intel Science and Technology Centers and announces the newest ISTC located at the University […]

Each year cloud computing, powered by massive datacenters, plays a larger role in our everyday lives. The cloud supports social media, provides us with new ways to shop, houses a wealth data, and provides the backend horsepower for many mobile apps. In the Cloud Zone, see examples of how Intel researchers are working to make […]

In the Visual Zone, see how Intel is adding a “visual” aspect to the daily life of the future with minimal costs and eco system changes. Research technologies developed at Intel and with university partners will improve daily user experiences ranging from shopping in a mall to the viewing experience of digital content on consumer […]

The Personal Energy Zone focuses on research into controlling and reducing energy consumption. Scientists are discovering ways to empower the individual or organization with tools and information needed to make intelligent energy choices and developing infrastructure components to help integrate systems to achieve greater energy improvements. In this zone see how Intel is making energy […]

The new Intel Science and Technology Center at the University of California, Berkeley will lead research into secure computing. Professor David Wagner will be the Director of the Center and he will serve as Co-Principal Investigator. Intel Senior Principal Engineer John Manferdelli will work with Dr. Wagner in the role of Co-Principal Investigator. The research […]

Advances in interactive molecular graphics enable not only creative research, but an increasingly collaborative and mobile research community to interact. In the “VIsualization Vault,” at the University of California, San Francisco, Professor Tom Ferrin and his team created Chimera, a visualization system for exploratory research. Ferrin, one of the pioneers of visualization, leads UCSF’s computer […]

While context-aware devices of the near future might recommend restaurants, monitor a user’s health, or screen phone calls, they may also save human lives by keeping drivers safe and aware of their surroundings. Future Lab spoke with researchers about the problem of drowsy or distracted driving, the ability of the human mind to process information […]

The world’s population is aging. It’s estimated that by the year 2050 more than half the people on Earth will be over the age of 50. But while people are living longer, they still have to live with the diseases that come with old age. The European community has been working with technology companies to […]

One of the next frontiers of computing is to create systems that understand the user. Context aware devices of the near future might recommend restaurants, monitor a user’s health, or screen phone calls—all based on information collected from device sensors and casual input data. Two of the most profound sensors are already on our devices: […]

The Intel Science Talent Search, held in conjunction with the Society for Science and the Public, is regarded as the country’s most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors. Of the 1,744 high school seniors who entered the Intel Science Talent Search 2011, 300 were announced as semifinalists in January. Of those, 40 were […]

Every year, finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search gather in Washington, DC, to share their research. This year, finalists Ryan Lee and Laurie Rumker, and winner Evan O’Dorney, spoke with Future Lab radio about their work, and what it could mean for the world. Ryan Lee is a student at the North Carolina School […]

Gaming fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of “cloud gaming,” with its promise of mobile, low-end devices running intense, realistic graphics at amazing speeds. Technological developments from leading scientists, combined with newsmaking marketplace competition (well-covered by Dean Takahashi), are bringing intense graphics and computationally demanding games to devices like Apple’s iPad. Games like “Assassin’s Creed […]

Researchers around the world are searching for ways to help seniors remain healthier and live independently in their homes for longer. Intel is working on new sensing devices that can feed data to a central hub that infers whether a person is getting enough sleep, taking their meds on time and feeding themselves properly. The […]