More on the DARPA robot car contest, currently underway, from Scott Ettinger. Read his previous blog for more info. Today Junior (Stanford’s robotic vehicle) faced the dreaded merge testing at track A. As I described earlier, this test involves dense … Continue reading →

This blog comes to you from Scott Ettinger of our Applications Research Lab. Scott is on-site at the DARPA Urban Challenge, working with the Stanford team to try and win a unique automobile race where there are no drivers. Photos … Continue reading →

Intel Research Pittsburgh Lab opened doors today to academia, press and just about anyone in the general Pittsburgh public who wanted to stop by. The open house buzzed with enthusiasm from an estimated nearly 200 attendees about the advancements the … Continue reading →

In this post, I share with you an interview with Jeff Ravencraft who is a technology strategist in Intel’s Communication Technology Lab, where he leads Intel’s effort in USB and Wireless USB. Jeff is also the Chairman and President of … Continue reading →

After our first ray-tracing article, we received numerous comments from consumers and graphics experts alike. One of these mavens (who happens to be an Intel employee from another group, and also an active SIGGRAPH participant) surprised us with an interesting … Continue reading →

Hundreds of GigaFLOPs are available in your PC today….in fact, you might even have a TeraFLOP in there. As someone who cut his teeth on a Cray C90 (15 GFLOPS max), this is an intriguing opportunity to dabble; for the … Continue reading →

Security and privacy are hot topics to consider when designing pervasive computing systems. Hot is the operative word, because if you compromise security or privacy, you’ll likely upset a lot of people, and a heated discussion will ensue. I doubt … Continue reading →

Let’s take this opportunity to talk about wireless co-existence, an issue that begins to draw broad attention in the mobile communication industry, an issue that will help shape the system and architecture design of mobile device and infrastructure for years … Continue reading →

The title seems rather provocative, but PC Perspective seems to think that this is a definite possibility. But is it…? I’d like to explore the current state-of-the-art in real time ray-tracing, based on what has been shown at last months … Continue reading →

I have been pleased by the attention my blog on choice overload has received. I must admit, I overstated things a bit just to get people talking … and on that count, I clearly succeeded. In my present blog, I’d … Continue reading →