Intel’s Pittsburgh Research Lab opened its doors this week for a tour of the fascinating exploratory research they’re doing on future technologies including a natural gesture interface for games built as a novel application of SLIPstream parallelization techniques. The Pittsburgh … Continue reading →

Big data sets require big compute power. Machine translation, speech recognition and video processing are some examples of these big data sets. Since they are so large, these big data sets usually require parallel processing and parallel storage systems, often … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Intel Fellow Dr. Mario Paniccia, director of Intel’s Photonics Technology Lab, who on October 16th at an award ceremony in Chicago, was named R&D Magazine’s “2008 Scientist of the Year.” The Scientist of the Year Award has been … Continue reading →

Imagine a world where the Internet is entirely secure and attackers have no place to hide. A major step toward realizing this vision of world-wide security is making sure that all the traffic exchanged between servers and clients is encrypted. … Continue reading →

In the past few years, we have experienced a dramatic revolution in the number of electronic devices–cell phones, digital cameras, laptops, etc.–that we use in our everyday lives. Currently, most of these devices are powered by batteries, which need to … Continue reading →

It should be no surprise to anybody that the use of wireless devices is becoming increasingly pervasive. At the same time, however, the best security practices – firewalls, virtual private networks, WAP and WPA encryption – don’t protect our privacy … Continue reading →