"This really bridges the digital and physical worlds, " said Howard Taub, associate director at HP Labs.

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Joel Birnbaum was the head of HP Labs at the time and he knew that RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing)architecture was the future and not CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing).

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Built from HP's industry-leading server intellectual property (IP) and 10 years of extensive research from HP Labs, the company's central research arm, HP Moonshot delivers a significant improvement in energy, space, cost and simplicity.

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Corporate customers are supposed to use that system to deliver their own consumer products, and buy efficiency-building network software that is to come out of HP Labs and EDS, the consulting company purchased in 2008.

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"We call it a Dick Tracy watch, " said Carl Taussig, director of information surfaces at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, in a reference to the comic-strip detective whose high-tech wristwatch doubled as a two-way radio.

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Gupta worked in HP's labs, where he helped design the Merced microprocessor--at the time the fastest in the world.

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Gupta worked in HP's labs, where he helped design the Merced microprocessor, at the time the fastest in the world.

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The method developed in HP's research labs will use perhaps 1 million very small sensors, connected wirelessly.

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Fortify competitor Ounce Labs was acquired by IBM last July for an undisclosed sum, and Fortify announced a partnership with HP around the same time.

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