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Researchers from the Intel lab in Pittsburgh have been working with physicians on a tool to assist them in diagnosing skin cancer. At IDF in San Francisco this week, they demonstrated the project. Once a digital photo of the skin … Continue reading →

Justin Rattner gave a pretty fascinating keynote at IDF today about what he thought the big advances would be by 2050. He included three demonstrations from some out-there research that is happening in some of intel’s “Lab-lets” in Seattle and … Continue reading →

Today at an intel developer forum press briefing, Intel Fellow Jim Held provided us with some insights into CVC, or Connected Visual Computing. He discussed what projects and technologies researchers at Intel are working on for enabling it. To me, … Continue reading →

Last week, the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) was held in Shanghai, China and one of the key messages was that Carry Small, Live Large (CSLL) is a vision held by Intel for future mobile computers. In a nutshell it is … Continue reading →

On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel held briefings for the press today talking about the latest mobility research effort, which internally is being called Carry Small, Live Large. As part of that briefing, we showed off a … Continue reading →

Imagine a day when a single device small enough to fit in your pocket has the power of a laptop and can deliver a rich computing, telephony, media, gaming, and Internet experience. Imagine a day when this device knows your … Continue reading →

Now we are already in a Multi-core era, dual-core has become mainstream, and some people even have Quad-core CPUs in their desktop PC. But some people still are are not clear if, in the future more cores will benefit them, … Continue reading →

Today, it’s a pleasure for me to report that Intel and Microsoft are joining forces to accelerate the mainstream adoption of highly parallel computing technology. Together, the two companies are pioneering the concept of industry-funded “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers” … Continue reading →

Wireless is cool. But nobody wants a slow wireless connection. However, fast wireless means large bandwidth and in today’s crowded spectrum bandwidth is a scarce resource. Recently, 60GHz radio (often referred to as mm-wave radio) has attracted the attention of … Continue reading →

One of the consequences of widespread use of wireless is that the spectrum is getting crowded. Radio standards must be designed to operate under this rather hostile environment with the presence of a lot of blocking signals in the channels … Continue reading →