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Throughout the world Intel Labs researchers are working at universities, in labs, and in the field to create technology to improve every facet of life from agriculture to manufacturing, microbiology, space exploration and beyond.
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 […]
“Science and technology have progressed to the point where what we build is only constrained by the limits of our own imaginations.” Justin Rattner – Intel Chief Technology Officer Analysts, Science Fiction authors, Intel Researchers and Intel’s futurist will discuss their views and approaches of using science based/science fiction as a kind of tool to […]
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 […]
Livestream from Research@Intel 2012, June 26 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Intel Labs will open its doors on Tuesday, June 26 for the 10th Anniversary of Research@Intel, where the various “Facets of Future Life” showcase will demonstrate innovative research projects underway that will help transform the future of technology. Key components of […]
Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF2011) – Disaster Management – Information Technology That Saves Lives – Part 2 of 2.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2011 “ On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum, scheduled for Sept. 13-15, Intel Corporation is showcasing the roles played by diverse types of computing in the field of disaster management. Moderated by Keri Carkeek, Intel’s eco-technology strategist, the panel session centers on the phases of disaster management. Joining Carkeek […]
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 […]
Intel’s new visual computing lab is researching how to create immersive experiences with computers. Parallel processing is opening the doors to the ability to synthesize images and audio which look and sound real. Here is Intel’s announcement of the new visual computing lab and the new Science and Technology Centers. Interviewees: Doug James, Associate Professor, […]
The technology to make a connected home probably exists. With diverse platforms and network configurations, as well as manufacturers’ unique characteristics built into computing gear, audio and video equipment and appliances, the task of getting them to work together usually requires more than getting the settings correct under a PC’s preferences menu. In this edition […]
Artists have often been proponents and leading users of technology. In computing, gaming has presented a challenge to hardware and software developers as artists create images that push the boundaries of compute performance. In this edition of Future Lab on digital art, an introductory investigation of the collaboration of art and science. Interviewees: Joel Slayton, […]
Television is far more complex than just the infrastructure that brings a signal to a TV set. It is the business of funding watchable programs in order to sell them to advertisers or audiences. It is a complex arrangement of creative and distribution legal agreements. It is what happens in front of and behind the […]
Many digital tools are available to help photographers achieve better results. But those tools only augment the photographer’s ability to see. Computer vision researchers have been working on programs that allow computers to see. Subhabrata Bhattacharya, working with Intel Labs, helped to develop algorithms that enable computers to analyze the aesthetic qualities of images. Total […]
A seamless and ubiquitous computing experience on the Internet also requires the user to take on a certain amount of risk that personal information would get into the wrong hands. Computer scientists are developing tools that protect a user’s privacy. In this Future Lab podcast, researchers discuss some of these tools as well as concepts […]
Researchers are developing technologies that will eventually allow users to control devices like computers, televisions and cell phones with their thoughts. Scientists have created Brain Computer Interface, also known as “BCI,” technology that allows computer programs to interpret human intentions by reading their brain waves. Researchers have used BCI to develop a system that enables […]
The 3D Internet is a rapidly converging set of technologies used for visualizing information on the web in game-like 3D environments. This convergence promises to allow future Internet users to interact with people and information in ways that are much more natural and intuitive than today’s Internet. The ScienceSim virtual world is a 3D Internet […]
Data network bandwidth requirements are currently shifting from 1Gb to 10Gb. But 100Gb is not far away – optical networking becomes essentially mandatory to carry large amounts of data. Researchers are investigating not only materials and equipment, but also novel signal formats. Interviewees: Karl Koch, General Co‑Chair, Frontiers in Optics 2010, The Optical Society; Researcher, […]
Agriculture presents good opportunities for robotics and computer vision research. And practices, devices and algorithms developed by researchers may someday significantly benefit farmers and improve crops. Determining vineyard yields is one of Intel Labs’ computational agriculture projects. Total time – 8:07 Interviewees: Karl D. Wente, Senior Vice President of Winemaking, Wente Vineyards Lily Mummert, Research […]
As computer and network use becomes more widespread, more people are faced with the problem of making meaning out of large data sets. Big data presents not just technical challenges but time and cost challenges as well. In this episode of Future Lab, we look at two innovative ways, BOINC and Dicer, researchers are developing […]
Brain trauma affects more than 2 million people in the U.S. each year because of accidents and participation in sports. But little is understood about the connections within the brain that can be broken but not detected. Using MRI scans, computer scientists are helping brain researchers to map the network of tracks–containing hundreds of thousands […]
Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing (spearheaded by the companies HP, Intel and Yahoo, and including research partners such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois) recently announced its expansion. An Internet service such as Facebook is one example of cloud computing which presents certain data management challenges. Large sets of […]
A coming major advance in computer technology is a form of context awareness known as Socially Enabled Services or SENS, which refers to mobile devices that can anticipate user needs, such as advising the best routes to take on the road or providing information to other people about the user’s availability. SENS technology is possible […]
We have Isaac Asimov to thank for thinking about robots as a science when he coined the term “robotics” in the 1940s. Originally, the term came from the word “robota” from Czech (possessing a similar meaning in other Slavic tongues) referring to hard labor. In an interesting twist, robots portrayed in movies are often nearly […]
When Intel Labs established its Interactions and Experience Research Lab, known as IXR, this past summer, it was a sign that the making of technology has profoundly changed. It is one thing to invent a machine or a process, it is another to make one that people want to use. And to do that, one […]
In ancient Greece, potters would never have believed the vases they created – donning a vast array of inscriptions about daily life – would fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. They also would have not guessed how much precious information about their (and our) civilization would be gleaned from this pottery. Today, millions […]
In 2009 the Irish rock band U2 experienced the realities of space communication when they connected in a live 2-way video conference between Bono on the concert stage in front of stadium audiences and astronauts in the International Space Station. There’s only about a half second delay from the surface of our planet to the […]
In this week’s show we explore computer vision and perception, and the research involved in advancing a computer’s ability to understand the real world. We talk with Intel senior researchers Rahul Sakthankar and Lily Mummert from the Intel research lab in Pittsburgh about practical applications like tracking honeybees in a hive, watching for signs of […]
The concept of “stemness” refers to the capacity within a stem cell to create different kinds of cells. It promises to revolutionize medicine. Isolated in the petri dish, stem cells exhibit interesting behaviors that scientists are just beginning to understand. With thousands of cells to monitor, computer vision technology is helping researchers analyze great numbers […]
Zero energy buildings, known as ZEB and also known as zero net energy buildings, promise to have a huge impact on energy consumption globally, especially since office and commercial buildings use nearly 40% of fossil based energy in the U.S. and Europe. Milan Milenkovic, who heads up the zero net energy project for Intel Labs, […]
What is possible if we could greatly reduce the bottlenecks in the transfer of data? Electrons and copper wire have taken us far, but only so far. What lies beyond is light speed. Silicon photonics is the transmission of data using light, which can go much faster and farther. It unleashes many new possibilities inside […]
Michael Payne directs the Interactive Experience Research Group, IXR, at Intel. In this video, he talks about new ways technology can enhance user experience at Research@Intel Day 2010, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Beverly Harrison, Senior Scientist within IXR, demonstrates interactive touch applications on plain countertops, and Wendy March, Senior […]
At Research@Intel Day 2010, scientists reveal compelling usages for gaming technology. Water Wars employs gaming technology to educate users about water consumption and encourages their participation in public policy. Intel Labs researchers anticipate the move from text-based interaction to a 3D world… and not just for gaming.
For researchers at Intel, energy conservation can mean finding ways to exploit even small opportunities to harvest or save energy. In these research projects scientists are examining ways that a home energy system can make a building intelligent: detecting electrical loads, such as a toaster, when turned on and off and adjusting usage. And researchers […]
Vu Nguyen, Technology Evangelist at Intel, talks about the Connected Car, at Research@Intel Day, held at the Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale, California. Nguyen demonstrates wireless connection to a smart electric car: smart charging, diagnostics, monitoring, security, as well as use of light sensor technology for safe distance driving.
Intel Labs researches a diverse range things, from nanotechnologies that push the development of new chip technologies to human behavior and interaction with technology. This video is an introduction to Intel Labs’ annual Research@Intel Day which is a showcase of many of the Labs’ best projects. The featured speakers are Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, and […]
Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer at Intel, talks about Research@Intel Day, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The event is a gathering of press and academia to meet the best and brightest minds in Intel’s varied areas of research. Intelligent energy management, optical data transfer, and user experience are among the […]
Earth Day – April 22: Here’s Intel IT‘s sustainability practice in a tour that zings from laptops to servers. At the heart of Intel IT’s strategy is the company’s own technology: the latest microprocessors that equip IT organizations to set policies, and manage hardware and software for high performance and energy savings. The techniques range […]
From the live webcast at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco on December 2, 2009, Intel CTO Justin Rattner delivers the opening remarks on the Single-Chip Cloud Computer, the latest Intel Labs milestone in the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research Program. See photos on Flickr
In this demo with Jonathan Ross, Software Architect, Microsoft: Bringing parallel programming to mainstream software developers is one of the main goals of Intel’s Tera-scale research program. Microsoft Visual Studio is a widely popular software development environment that can also be used for developing parallel applications to run on the SCC many-core platform. Visual Studio […]
In this demo with Rob F. Van der Wijngaart, Senior Software Engineer, Intel: The experimental chip was designed to operate from as high as 125W to as low as 25W by providing a variety of advanced capabilities to manage power consumption. Power use is largely determined by the cores’ clock speeds and operating voltages. The […]
In this demo with Adam Welc, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Intel: As Justin Rattner emphasized in his Supercomputing 2009 keynote in November, the Internet is poised to transition from flat, 2D experiences to more immersive 3D experiences. Bringing real world physics to 3D graphics is essential to making these emerging online interactions true-to-life. For instance, […]
Intel Labs has created an experimental Single-chip Cloud Computer, (SCC) a research microprocessor containing the most Intel Architecture cores ever integrated on a silicon CPU chip 48 cores. It incorporates technologies intended to scale multi-core processors to 100 cores and beyond, such as an on-chip network, advanced power management technologies and support for message-passing.