posted by Esther Andrews on October 28, 2008
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 lab demonstrated this interface with a head-to-head Tetris-style game, where the players use whole body gestures to control the motion of their pieces. Unlike typical approaches to gesture detection that employ props, special clothing/markers (motion capture systems) or a controlled environment such as a blue screen), the Intel approach is designed to work in everyday environments and does not require users to be segmented from the background. Although the technique is computationally expensive, the researchers have achieved interactive speeds by parallelizing the vision algorithm across a cluster of machines in a manner that minimizes latency.
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posted by Cheryl Miller on October 28, 2008
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 using clustered resources that are accessed over the web. This is the basic model that is referred to as Cloud Computing. Researchers at Intel’s lab in Pittsburgh have two initiatives that support this cloud computing paradigm - OpenCirrus and Tashi.
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posted by Cheryl Miller on October 17, 2008
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 presented for more than 45 years and “calls attention to an individual whose accomplishments rise above the norm.”
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posted by Guest Blogger on October 06, 2008
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. This is a very difficult technical challenge since networking speeds are excessively high (10-100 Gbps), whereas cryptographic algorithms consume millions of processor cycles to execute. Intel® is researching solutions toward realizing this vision that can accelerate secure Internet transactions by orders of magnitude. First, the latest Core™ micro-architecture (Nehalem) re-introduces the feature of Simultaneous Multi-threading Technology, SMT into the CPU. SMT is ideal for hiding the cycles of compute-intensive public key encryption software under the stall times of network application memory lookups. Following Nehalem, Westmere adds new instructions for potentially speeding up symmetric encryption by a factor of 3-4X. These instructions not only provide better performance but also protect applications against an important type of threats known as side channel attacks. Last, Intel® has developed superior Integer arithmetic software that can speed key exchange and establishment procedures by a factor of 2X.
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posted by Justin Rattner on October 02, 2008
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 be recharged very often. This fact has motivated scientists and engineers to explore whether physical principles exist that could enable wireless powering of these kinds of devices.
At the recent Intel Developer Forum (IDF), I demonstrated a technology developed at our research lab in Seattle that relies on strongly coupled resonators to wirelessly transmit power for several feet with great efficiency.
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posted by Cheryl Miller on October 01, 2008
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 as well as we hope they would. The Trustworthy Wireless project at Intel Research Seattle is aimed at developing new protocols to protect privacy and developing new technologies that can help users understand what information about them is being exposed and to whom.
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