The desire to dovetail breakthroughs with commercial acceptance explains why anthropologists like Genevieve Bell play key roles at Intel Labs.
To ensure that inventions make it to market, Intel CEO Paul Otellini changed the success metrics for Intel Labs about five years ago.
In return, he takes some of what he learns about prototyping back to Intel Labs, which does research in a variety of futuristic computing fields.
The last interesting thing at IDF that I will report here is the demonstration by Intel Labs and Micron of a 1 Tbps DRAM device.
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This approach is interesting in its own right and at the same time synergetic with several other projects we are funding through the Intel Labs Academic Research Office.
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Enric Herrero, a research scientist at Intel Labs in Barcelona, said the lab is working on finding new ways to use and manage many cores in mobile devices.
For example, since 1998, Genevieve Bell, the Director of Interaction and Experience Research at Intel Labs, has led a team of fellow anthropologists to improve the design and functionality of smartphones and home management systems.
"The polarizing organic photovoltaic cell demonstrated by Professor Yang's research group can potentially harvest 75 percent of the wasted photons from LCD backlight and turn them back into electricity, " said Youssry Boutros, program director for the Intel Labs Academic Research Office, which supported the research.
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Dr. Yann Golanski, a researcher on the formation of stars, and Stephen Blair-Chappell from Intel Compiler Labs, offer suggestions for improving application performance through parallel programming.
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Mooring was previously president of Rambus Labs and before that an executive at Intel for a decade.
Symantec is the leader in the security software market and competes with McAfee (acquired by Intel), Computer Associates, AVG, TrendMicro and Kaspersky Labs.
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Home to two of the most innovative labs and research in the high-tech industry, Intel and McAfee will also jointly explore future product concepts to further strengthen security in the cloud network and myriad of computers and devices people use in their everyday lives.
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Sophos is primarily an end point anti-virus company competing with larger vendors like Symantec, McAfee (Intel), and Trend as well as several dozen smaller vendors like Kaspersky Labs, Eset, GFI Sunbelt, and AVG.
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