Computer brains and people brains finding the right fit at Research at Intel Day, the 9th annual future of tech event for Intel researchers of all walks of life.
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Getting Technologic, Research@Intel #IntelLabs
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Ready to See the Future of Tech #IntelLabs
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Meeting Modern Day Da Vinci, Designer of Smart Spider Robot
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It’s “A Bug’s Life” meets “WALL-E,” except this other-worldly creation is no product of Pixar Animation. It’s the real deal.
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Above is the introduction for story I produced for Intel Free Press. What started out as a short story assignment quickly evolved into a more personal and technical expose of wonderful young engineering student from the University of Arizona, Matt Bunting.
After connecting with Intel Embedded team’s Stewart Christie, I learned that Bunting’s hexapod was appearing on the cover of the Linux Journal and that EE Times was honoring Bunting for prestigious ACES Award, naming him Student of the Year. That’s what brought him to San Jose, where I got to meet him and his mom, who actually helped me while I was shooting the video interview with her son. She even prompted some chuckles and emotional responses from her son while the camera was roling.
The video evolved over a few days of editing, as Christie and Bunting helped me collect photos and video that helped put visuals to Bunting’s words. The story took an artisit turn — blending art and science — when Bunting saw a piano at the Fairmont Hotel, and calmly sat down and dropped into a moody melody that I used at the beginning of the video. That music, mixed with the Spanish guitar music Bunting shared with me, along with sounds from the motor movements of the robot, infused some chilling excitement into the video, a feeling that many people get when they see the hexapod live for the first time.
What an inspiring and kind person. I let Bunting know that my son was moved by the hexapod story so much that now my son wants to be a robot maker. Bunting replied, “It is always wonderful to hear when I have inspired a young mind.”
Now I’m hooked! I’m cheering for Bunting and his University of Arizona research team as they build the Cheetah Project, funded by DARPA, which is an attempt to build a robot that can run as fast as a real four-legged cheetah and eventually a create the world’s fastest two-legged robot.
Here are some photos on Flickr I took with my Canon Rebel X and others collected from Bunting and Christie.
User Experience Takes Center Stage at TechFest
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PORTLAND, Ore.—There were more 1,000 of them from all over the world; Intel researchers and scientists chatting and sharing knowledge and information about transistors, systems, software, validation, voltage, augmented reality, power—and perhaps…
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New Power Management From Intel Labs Helps Future MIDs
My mentor, Larry Bozman used to always say: Simma-down now!
This is a a Powwa down now demo from Research@Intel day on June 17, 2009. I got a sneak peek during set up and just had to record one of the main guys from Intel Labs who is bringing research.
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by Channel.Intel with a No license (All rights reserved) license.
Researchers Building People Needs Into Future Technology
Since joining Intel in 2000, a few of my favorite things are:
- feeling momemtum grow as teams focus on a colective goal
- marveling at the unfathomable size big and small & economies of scale — everything must scale (will human intelligence scale?)
- getting to talk with researchers who are pulling up the horizon of the future
From Eric Dishman’s real and personal exploration into getting technology to heal the damaged healthcare industry.
Tony Salvador’s passion about people and how things fit purposefully into their lives, no matter what their background or where they live.
Research@Intel Day is second only to the Intel Developer Forum on my favorite Intel Events List. This year, I saw lots of healthcare projects and research into mobile technologies, like the video blog I posted about playing Second Life wirelessly using a small mobile Internet device.
Here is a compilation of some of the fascinating research projects that may somehow, someway help build next best computer chip.
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Groundswell’s on My Bookstack
Groundswell Books, originally uploaded by Forrester Research, Inc..
This photo was taken at the Forrester Research Marketing summit this week — really wish I could’ve been there. But I did follow some of the action Jeremiah Owyang shared on his blog.
Forrester shared a copy with me — it arrived from Boston a few weeks ago. I gotta get into it. My Intel buddy Neil is approaching chapter three and he gave me the thumbs up.
I got to help Charlene Li connect with some Intel social media pioneers, including Josh Bancroft, who told how he created Intel’s first company Wiki called Intelpedia.
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