Avatar in 3D. Starring: your new outfit!

Computing performance personalizes online fashion shopping experience The Textile and Fashion industries are the second largest industrial sector in the world, second only to the food industry. The fashion and textile industries have been moving gradually from completely a manual … Continue reading

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The Laser celebrates its 50th birthday with Silicon Lasers

Wow, 50 years ago one amazing piece of technology was born – the laser. Happy Birthday! This has to be one of the most amazing technology stories. Invented in a lab, and looking for a use. No early focus groups. … Continue reading

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DC – An idea whose time has come and gone?

To anyone who has a passing knowledge of the History of Electrical Engineering (yes there really is such a thing), the 1888 War of Currents figures as one of the most prominent events. It was Thomas Edison and DC vs. … Continue reading

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Light Peak makes appearance at European Ball

France just held its Cannes Film Festival. Paris, Milan and London have Fashion Week. But Brussels just had Intel’s inaugural Research@Intel day, and Light Peak was one of the celebrities making its appearance there. Light Peak was seen “wearing” a … Continue reading

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How Smart is Your TV?

“People want to connect their TV to the internet…they want Hulu and Netflix.” – CE Retail Sales Assistant Where did you buy your TV? If you’re like most people you bought it at a large consumer electronics store and if … Continue reading

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TV: The Future of Computing

Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with. –Isaac Asimov In January 1965 Asimov wrote an article, The World of 1990, for Diners’ Club Magazine where he … Continue reading

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Channeling the Data Flood

Check out this news article I just posted on “Channeling the Data Flood,” which covers a talk given this week by Intel Fellow Jim Held, Director of Tera-scale Computing Research. Jim talked about the massive amounts of data humans are … Continue reading

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