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Research@Intel Day: A Feast for the Senses

Jason Lopez — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:10:55 +0000

Intel’s invitation-only event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., showed off the company’s diverse research projects in areas like visual computing, health, life sciences, green-friendly technologies, and wireless, to name a few. “Intel scientists can propose research on any topic they envision a solution for,” said Manny Vara, Intel’s technology marketing director at Intel’s R&D Labs. “It can start when a scientist comes across a problem, even outside of work, and says, ‘Hey, I could do something about that.’” Intel scientists have engaged in diverse research projects from digital money to mobile antennas that provide access to cell phone services in developing regions of the world. This year’s Research@Intel Day featured more than 70 projects.

Tags: Intel, visual computing, Manny Vara, digital money, mobile antennas, Research@Intel Day, Research@Intel

Intel Research Day: Showcase for Creativity

Paul Lancour — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:27:31 +0000

When Intel’s research teams think about the future of computing - from mobile devices with near-limitless functionality to technology for the developing world to virtual worlds and advanced robotics, they are literally mapping our future (a future that could include, for example, a cafe table with networking ability). In this podcast preview of the 2008 Research@Intel Day, to be held at the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, we hear from some of Intel’s key players when it comes to the next generations of technology. Hear what Intel Research is focusing on now from Andrew Chien, vice president, corporate technology group and director of Intel Research; Intel Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Corporate Technology Group Justin Rattner; and Eric Brewer, director, Intel Research Berkeley.

Research Day is a chance to check in Intel on the future impacts that its advanced chip technologies will have on human health, mobility, innovation and, of course, computing - from Terascale architecture, software and programming issues to visual computing challenges.

You can hear more from Andrew Chien, here talking about essential computing, “the vision that drives Intel Research.” Justin Rattner shares some thoughts on virtual words as a precursor to the 3D Internet, and Eric Brewer, also a professor of comptuer science at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about how research from his Berkeley lab could lead to better technologies for the developing world.

Past coverage of Research@Intel Day

Tags: virtual worlds, Research@Intel Day, Silicon Valley, Intel, Andrew Chien, Justin Rattner, Eric Brewer, mobility, Terascale, essential computing

Silicon Valley Turns Out to Honor Top Technologists

Aron Pruiett — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:26:47 +0000

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris Chang, John Hennessy, David A. Patterson and Charles Thacker.

Morris Chang helped create the fabless chip industry. And in doing so, he created a massive innovation platform by enabling small bands of chip designers to buy production time as they needed it. Chip companies no longer needed to own and maintain hugely expensive chip fabs.

John Hennessy helped develop the RISC microprocessor, whose features are found in all modern microprocessors. As president of Stanford University, he has made huge contributions to education, and the creation of a student body that has gone on to found many of Silicon Valley’s largest companies. And his work has helped generate huge licensing revenue for the university.

David Patterson made important contributions to microprocessor design and RAID data storage technologies. As head of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, he has helped educate generations of computer engineers.

Charles Thacker helped create the personal computer. His work at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center led to the Alto, the machine that inspired Apple Computer and featured a windows graphical user interface. He co-developed Ethernet and also the laser printer.

Tags: Morris Chang, John Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Charles Thacker, John Hennessy, David Patterson, Charles Thacker

Behind the scenes at the Computer History Museum

editor — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:58:30 +0000

The Computer History Museum is a fascinating visit for anyone interested in the history of computing and Silicon Valley. But there’s more there than meets the eye. Literally. Hidden from public view is a huge back storeroom with hundreds of artifacts, including a prototype tablet computer called the Apple “Cadillac,” an AT&T picture phone, Apple Lisas and the Altair 8800, a popular kit computer, which a young company called Micro-Soft wrote programming tools for. Also get a peek at a rare Canon Cat PC, designed by Jef Raskin of Apple fame, as well as wooden wheels from the famous Wagon Wheel bar, a Silicon Valley institution.

Tags: Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley, Apple Lisas, Altair 8800

Google Gears part II

Aron Pruiett — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:45:57 +0000

From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes part II of a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.

Is the need for versioning Web applications now solved with an autoupdate? Will language inhibit where and how these open source applications become compatible across platforms and correct translations?

Tags: Computer History Museum, MashUp CampIV, Unconference, Uncomputer, Aaron Boodman

Google Gears

Aron Pruiett — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:05:14 +0000

From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.

Is running applications from within the browser and retrieving data offline creating new efficiency standards for developers?

Tags: Computer History Museum, MashUp CampIV, Unconference, Uncomputer, Aaron Boodman, Google Gears

Art in Social Networking

Aron Pruiett — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:02:24 +0000

Gregory Cypes and Kevin Lawver from AOL hosted an open discussion from MashUp Camp IV and the Computer History Museum. Art in Social Networking is the basis for success across several social Websites. Cypes and Lawver open the floor to what works in the social networking arena. When sites fail to maintain their social status, where do members go?

Tags: Gregory Cypes, Kevin Lawver, AOL, MashUp Camp IV, Social Networking

Has Plaxo created a new FaceBook? Report from MashUp Camp

Tom Foremski — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:27:48 +0000

At MashUp Camp 4 at the Computer History Museum, Plaxo showed its Pulse application, which looks very much like FaceBook, with similar features. Are we heading into a mashup world where everything shares addresses, photos, movies, etc? Does FaceBook hold pole position?

Tags: MashUp Camp, Plaxo, FaceBook

Microprocessors Fueling Formula One

editor — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:58:31 +0000

Formula One racing is the most technology intensive form of racing with a long history of innovations driven by microprocessor technology. Shortly after Intel invented the first commercial processor in 1971 called the 4004, engineers at Goodyear tire were using them to understand the dynamics of the car on the track. Karl Kempf was one of those engineers to first use computer processors in racing cars. He’s now an Intel Fellow and Director of Decision Technology. In this video he gives a personal account of those exciting days. Intel sponsors the BMW Sauber F1 team.

For more information:
www.intel.com/museum/online/hist_micro/hof/

www.gpracing.net192.com/cars.cfm

www.f1-grandprix.com/history6.html

Intel Gives Gamers Max Power at CES

Intel Working With BMW to Bring Hands-On F1 Experience to People

Tags: Formula One, racing, Intel, Goodyear, Karl Kempf, BMW, Sauber

LunchMeet: The Internet Identity Workshop

Eddie Codel — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:35:19 +0000

User-centric identity is about working relationships and services between individuals and retailers, employers, membership bodies and organizations of any kind. To learn more about user-centric identity, I stopped by the Internet Identity Workshop being held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. I sat town with two of the organizers, Kaliya Hamlin and Phil Windley, who describe the issues around online identity and what is being disucssed at the workshop.

Tags: Computer History Museum, Kaliya Hamlin, Phil Windley

Meeting iCybie’s inventor

Robert Scoble — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:46:48 +0000

While we were at the Computer History Museum, we met Andrew Filo, the inventor of the famous robot dog, iCybie (which Hasbro marketed for several years) and had a chat about what Andrew is working on now.

Tags: Computer History Museum, Andrew Filo, iCybie, Hasbro

Editor’s Choice: highlights of Mark Richards’ photography

Robert Scoble — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:51:55 +0000

Mark Richards is an accomplished photographer who just completed a really great coffee table book full of photographs he made over two years at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. Here’s just the highlights of our interview with Mark.

Tags: Mark Richards, Silicon Valley, Computer History Museum

Getting Photographic at Computer History Museum

Robert Scoble — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:39:20 +0000

Mark Richards is an accomplished photographer who just completed a really great coffee table book full of photographs he made over two years at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum. We interview him inside the museum and get a look at his book and some of the images he made.

Tags: Mark Richards, Silicon Valley, Computer History Museum

Intel’s Craig Barrett on the U.N. and Silicon Valley

Jason Lopez — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:01:55 +0000

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

Silicon Valley to Host Historic Meeting

Jason Lopez — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:04:58 +0000

The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

The podcast was made possible by Intel.

Intel Invests in Wireless-enabled Amazon… River That Is

Jason Lopez — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:15:47 +0000

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel has chosen to help develop the the IT infrastructure of the Amazon — not the online seller but a portion of the actual river. The initiative is a part of Intel’s World Ahead Program, which the company established in May and pledged more than $1 billion over the next 5 years, to bring Internet coverage to various regions around the world. This week Intel Chairman Craig Barrett will promote wireless broadband PC access in Parantins, a remote Brazilian city of about 100,000 on the Amazon River. He says the company’s aim is to introduce components of a comprehensive strategy that includes hardware and wireless capability. (more…)

Tags: Intel, World Ahead Program, Craig Barrett, Parantins

Sounds of Mashup Silicon Valley part 1

John Furrier — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:43:07 +0000

MashupCamp is a loosely joined open space event for mashing APIs and Open Source. The PodTech Podcasting team is here to cover it. Here is the first podcast.

Tags: MashupCamp, John Furrier, PodTech, Computer History Museum

Dan Farber has a great post and pictures. David Berlind and Doug Gold have done an exceptional job putting this together.

The story is developing on the tech.memeorandum.com