A seamless and ubiquitous computing experience on the Internet also requires the user to take on a certain amount of risk that personal information would get into the wrong hands. Computer scientists are developing tools that protect a user’s privacy. [See the full post…]

Researchers are developing technologies that will eventually allow users to control devices like computers, televisions and cell phones with their thoughts. Scientists have created Brain Computer Interface, also known as “BCI,” technology that allows computer programs to interpret human intentions [See the full post…]

The 3D Internet is a rapidly converging set of technologies used for visualizing information on the web in game-like 3D environments. This convergence promises to allow future Internet users to interact with people and information in ways that are much [See the full post…]

Data network bandwidth requirements are currently shifting from 1Gb to 10Gb. But 100Gb is not far away – optical networking becomes essentially mandatory to carry large amounts of data. Researchers are investigating not only materials and equipment, but also novel [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.

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As computer and network use becomes more widespread, more people are faced with the problem of making meaning out of large data sets. Big data presents not just technical challenges but time and cost challenges as well. In this episode [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 [See the full post…]

A coming major advance in computer technology is a form of context awareness known as Socially Enabled Services or SENS, which refers to mobile devices that can anticipate user needs, such as advising the best routes to take on [See the full post…]

We have Isaac Asimov to thank for thinking about robots as a science when he coined the term “robotics” in the 1940s. Originally, the term came from the word “robota” from Czech (possessing a similar meaning in other [See the full post…]

When Intel Labs established its Interactions and Experience Research Lab, known as IXR, this past summer, it was a sign that the making of technology has profoundly changed. It is one thing to invent a machine or a process, it [See the full post…]

In ancient Greece, potters would never have believed the vases they created – donning a vast array of inscriptions about daily life – would fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. They also would have not guessed how much [See the full post…]

In 2009 the Irish rock band U2 experienced the realities of space communication when they connected in a live 2-way video conference between Bono on the concert stage in front of stadium audiences and astronauts in the International Space Station. [See the full post…]

In this week’s show we explore computer vision and perception, and the research involved in advancing a computer’s ability to understand the real world.

We talk with Intel senior researchers Rahul Sakthankar and Lily Mummert from the Intel research lab [See the full post…]

The concept of “stemness” refers to the capacity within a stem cell to create different kinds of cells. It promises to revolutionize medicine. Isolated in the petri dish, stem cells exhibit interesting behaviors that scientists are just beginning [See the full post…]

Zero energy buildings, known as ZEB and also known as zero net energy buildings, promise to have a huge impact on energy consumption globally, especially since office and commercial buildings use nearly 40% of fossil based energy in the U.S. [See the full post…]

What is possible if we could greatly reduce the bottlenecks in the transfer of data? Electrons and copper wire have taken us far, but only so far. What lies beyond is light speed. Silicon photonics is the transmission of data [See the full post…]

Michael Payne directs the Interactive Experience Research Group, IXR, at Intel. In this video, he talks about new ways technology can enhance user experience at Research@Intel Day 2010, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Beverly [See the full post…]

At Research@Intel Day 2010, scientists reveal compelling usages for gaming technology. Water Wars employs gaming technology to educate users about water consumption and encourages their participation in public policy. Intel Labs researchers anticipate the move from text-based interaction to [See the full post…]

For researchers at Intel, energy conservation can mean finding ways to exploit even small opportunities to harvest or save energy. In these research projects scientists are examining ways that a home energy system can make a building intelligent: detecting [See the full post…]

Vu Nguyen, Technology Evangelist at Intel, talks about the Connected Car, at Research@Intel Day, held at the Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale, California.

Nguyen demonstrates wireless connection to a smart electric car: smart charging, diagnostics, monitoring, security, as well [See the full post…]

Intel Labs researches a diverse range things, from nanotechnologies that push the development of new chip technologies to human behavior and interaction with technology. This video is an introduction to Intel Labs’ annual Research@Intel Day which is a showcase of [See the full post…]

Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer at Intel, talks about Research@Intel Day, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The event is a gathering of press and academia to meet the best and brightest minds [See the full post…]

Earth Day – April 22:
Here’s Intel IT‘s sustainability practice in a tour that zings from laptops to servers. At the heart of Intel IT’s strategy is the company’s own technology: the latest microprocessors that equip IT [See the full post…]

From the live webcast at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco on December 2, 2009, Intel CTO Justin Rattner delivers the opening remarks on the Single-Chip Cloud Computer, the latest Intel Labs milestone in the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research Program [See the full post…]