In just a few weeks, pioneering citizens across the United States will blaze new trails for social innovation in an event of unprecedented scope. Nearly one hundred teams across the country, supported by more than 20 government agencies, will come … Read more
Far too many people have had the unfortunate experience – for a friend, relative, or themselves – of a medical diagnosis that comes too late. It is difficult to stay on top of everything that could go wrong with the … Read more
Imagine you are an urban runner with severe allergies. It’s springtime and windy. What if you could share fitness and sensor data with others, combine that with open data from your city, and through Big Data style analytics chart a … Read more
A few years ago I was guinea pig for an Intel Labs study. I attached three sensors to my body for a week: a pedometer on my belt, a heart rate monitor strapped around my chest, and a galvanic skin … Read more
The third eye (also known as the ugly eye) is a mystical and esoteric concept referring to a speculative invisible eye which provides perception beyond ordinary sight in certain dharmic spiritual traditions such as Hinduism. In simple English it gives … Read more
This week’s announcement by Intel that it’s expanding the availability of the Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop* software to the US market is seriously exciting for the employees of this semiconductor giant, especially researchers like me. Why? Why would I … Read more
As more and more aspects of life become digital, humankind is evolving into a data society where information is king. Technology trends including social media, e-commerce, e-science, Big Data and Exascale Computing are driving a need to dramatically increase computational … Read more
Big Data. Big. Data. We hear the term frequently used to describe data of unusual size or generated at spectacular velocity, like the amount of social data that Facebook has amassed on us (30 PB in one cluster) or the … Read more
Satellite photography enables earth-mapping applications such as Google Earth to pull together vast amounts of imagery to provide high resolution views of the planet for a spectrum of personal, business, and government applications. However, satellites have two fundamental limitations: they … Read more
It was just announced at the awards session at SC12 that Intel has won “best paper” for research into more efficient processing for a fundamental calculation in high performance computing, entitled “A Framework for Low-Communication 1-D FFT.” Numerous wave applications (e.g. … Read more
