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 Intel Chip Chat: Jim Ryan from the SSI Forum discusses server designs that broaden the group’s charter, such as the micro-server, and also gives an overview of major SSI milestones of the last year. Server System Infrastructure Forum [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…]

IT Data Center: Jason Waxman, GM of Intel’s Data Center Group, stops by for an update on IT cloud computing, the development of private vs. public clouds, and where the cloud will be in 2015. The Server Room Intel Chip [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Intel Fellows Sam Sivakumar and Tahir Ghani chat about the lithography and transistor technology behind Intel’s microprocessors – where it’s at now and what the future might hold. Architecture and [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 to understand. [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Jim Elliott from Samsung stops by to chat about the company’s advances in power-saving DDR3 memory for the Intel Xeon processors 5500, 5600 and 7500. Samsung Green Products and Programs [See the full post…]

IT Business Agility: This IT@Intel whitepaper shares how Intel IT has defined an architecture and implementation roadmap for a private enterprise cloud designed to increase agility and IT efficiency. This shared multi-tenant environment is built on a highly efficient, automated, [See the full post…]

IT Information Security: Intel IT recently completed a technology evaluation of Intel Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT), available on laptop PCs with 2010 Intel Core vPro processors. Intel AT is a hardware-based technology that can help detect theft and disable a [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…]

IT Business Agility: Selim Aissi and Jim Baca know enterprise mobility, not just because they research it for Intel IT — they live it, working closely with each other with a half a continent of space between them. Baca, a [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…]

Green IT: To increase data center energy efficiency at one of our older data centers in India, Intel IT’s Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop a [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT conducted a technology evaluation of Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manager (Intel DCM). Our goals were to assess the potential of these Intel power management technologies to increase data center energy [See the full post…]

In this audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Ian Miller from Cray discusses the company’s line of CX systems that utilize Intel Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series. Cray Inc. Home Page Intel Chip Chat Home Page

IT Innovation: David Stone, an Intel IT researcher in the Strategy Architecture and Innovation Group, says the idea of context awareness in the enterprise is amazing, but the road to getting there is not only about technology — it’s also [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: Intel IT is investigating virtualization because it has the potential to transform client computing, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and increasing IT control while giving users more flexibility. However, because client virtualization embraces multiple rapidly evolving technologies, [See the full post…]

IT Competitive Advantage: OS streaming can deliver considerable manageability benefits to Intel IT training rooms with multi-user PCs. To evaluate performance and utilization in a production environment, we conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing in two rooms located in different [See the full post…]

IT Cloud Computing: As more services are delivered via cloud computing, which combination of client platforms and service delivery methods best meets our needs? Intel IT has found that, whether services are kept in-house or outsourced to the cloud, rich [See the full post…]

IT Innovation: A great idea can emerge anywhere. But it takes a team of people to bring that idea into reality. It happens when IT can find that one idea from any of the company’s employees on the planet and [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: This Intel IT white paper documents how using the most up-to-date hardware and software affects server and network utilization as well as the performance of streamed and virtual hosted desktop compute models. Also find the original investigation, [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat with Allyson Klein: Sally Stevens from Dell discusses Intel Xeon processor 7500 products, the lineup of PowerEdge* Servers, and the company’s approach to emerging market segments. Dell Servers, Storage & Network Switches Intel Chip Chat [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 Harrison, [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 a [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 electrical [See the full post…]