The website ecofabulous.com is about style… and changing the world. The company’s manifesto says ecofabulous means “celebrating high style with low impact, being savvy and open for a bit of discovery,” and, “inspiring change.” As a journalist, having worked at [See the full post…]

Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF2011) – Disaster Management – Information Technology That Saves Lives – Part 2 of 2.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2011 “ On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum, scheduled for Sept. 13-15, Intel Corporation is showcasing the roles played by diverse types of computing in the field of disaster management. Moderated by Keri Carkeek, [See the full post…]

When President Obama outlined his jobs plan, small business figured prominently in the speech. An entrepreneurial spirit is a core element in a strong small business climate, but other factors have helped to keep small businesses viable. The practice of [See the full post…]

Intel has established the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The research will be focused around four pillars: Specialization, a practice that can create greater efficiencies such as lower energy usage [See the full post…]

The Intel Science and Technology Center for Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will conduct research in four basic areas: Collaborative Perception which is essentially computer vision, Real-time Knowledge Discovery which includes machine learning, Robotics, and Embedded [See the full post…]

Justin Rattner, Intel’s CTO, kicks off Research@Intel, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, with an update of what’s been happening at Intel Labs and the research featured on the exhibit floor. He also talks about the [See the full post…]

Each year cloud computing, powered by massive datacenters, plays a larger role in our everyday lives. The cloud supports social media, provides us with new ways to shop, houses a wealth data, and provides the backend horsepower for many mobile [See the full post…]

In the Visual Zone, see how Intel is adding a “visual” aspect to the daily life of the future with minimal costs and eco system changes. Research technologies developed at Intel and with university partners will improve daily user experiences [See the full post…]

The Personal Energy Zone focuses on research into controlling and reducing energy consumption. Scientists are discovering ways to empower the individual or organization with tools and information needed to make intelligent energy choices and developing infrastructure components to help integrate [See the full post…]

The new Intel Science and Technology Center at the University of California, Berkeley will lead research into secure computing. Professor David Wagner will be the Director of the Center and he will serve as Co-Principal Investigator. Intel Senior Principal Engineer [See the full post…]

An array of tools for collaboration has emerged just in the past decade – email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, video conferencing and social media – that we often take for granted. And hardware like laptops, smart phones, mids and tablets [See the full post…]

The buzz around the new Intel Xeon E7 10-core microprocessor, such as here and here shows that enterprise hardware still commands attention. In this video, meet the engineer who put the chip through its paces and and ran it, as [See the full post…]

The Intel Science Talent Search, held in conjunction with the Society for Science and the Public, is regarded as the country’s most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors. Of the 1,744 high school seniors who entered the Intel [See the full post…]

Every year, finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search gather in Washington, DC, to share their research. This year, finalists Ryan Lee and Laurie Rumker, and winner Evan O’Dorney, spoke with Future Lab radio about their work, and what it [See the full post…]

This is a raw audio clip from the Sundance Film Festival 2011. Mike Cahill, director of Another Earth, answers questions from the audience after the world premiere of the movie on January 24, 2011. In addition, Another Earth won the [See the full post…]

From the Sundance catalog: “Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. It’s clear the mainstream media objectifies women, but what most [See the full post…]

The 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family, just released this week around the world, is equipped with new visibly smart technologies that allow users to do things like convert video in seconds, watch movies and play games in HD, edit [See the full post…]

Television is far more complex than just the infrastructure that brings a signal to a TV set. It is the business of funding watchable programs in order to sell them to advertisers or audiences. It is a complex arrangement of [See the full post…]

Many digital tools are available to help photographers achieve better results. But those tools only augment the photographer’s ability to see. Computer vision researchers have been working on programs that allow computers to see. Subhabrata Bhattacharya, working with Intel Labs, [See the full post…]

A wide range of Intel Capital portfolio companies go to the stage, each for 90 seconds, to deliver their best shot. The aim is to let potential partners know who they are, what they do and what the opportunities are. [See the full post…]

Beethoven’s 14th String Quartet, a tangled seven movement masterpiece, has been regarded by some as the pinnacle of art music. It was never conceived to be played for an audience (few of his quartets were) but an orchestrated version helped [See the full post…]

Agriculture presents good opportunities for robotics and computer vision research. And practices, devices and algorithms developed by researchers may someday significantly benefit farmers and improve crops. Determining vineyard yields is one of Intel Labs’ computational agriculture projects. Total time – [See the full post…]

Brain trauma affects more than 2 million people in the U.S. each year because of accidents and participation in sports. But little is understood about the connections within the brain that can be broken but not detected. Using MRI scans, [See the full post…]

Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing (spearheaded by the companies HP, Intel and Yahoo, and including research partners such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois) recently announced its expansion. An Internet service such as Facebook [See the full post…]