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‘Bring Your Own Mac’ Program Provides New Insight, Learning for ITPutting Apple MacBooks to work behind the corporate firewall is something many small Silicon Valley startups may have been doing for years, but it may be less likely inside larger,…
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My iPhone Photo for Fast Company’s Intel Changing Energy Landscape Story
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While at Research@Intel, I shot this photo using my iPhone and here is a story by Fast Company that describes how Intel Labs is exploring ways for Changing Energy Landscape.
Really Smart Tech for Future Cars #IntelLabs
At Research@Intel day, Intel Labs researchers show some of the future technologies that we featured in this IntelFreePress story I wrote recently:
Consumers Accelerate Demand for Connected Cars. A look at what’s driving In-Vehicle Infotainment tech.
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Probing Speed of Data Zooming w/ Silicon Photonics
Intel Research@@Imtel Day #IntelLabs.
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Technological Sea Creator or Silicon Photonics?
Intel’s Research@Intel Day, meeting with the team working to bring the best benefits of silicon chip texhnology with the speed of light, fiber optic communication #IntelLabs.
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Solar + Wireless = Renewable Data Communications
Intel’s Research@Intel Day future technologies by #IntelLabs.
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Bike Pedaling to Power Classmate PC
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Thought I Saw a Robot! I Did, I Did.
It’s Jeffrey from the famed Intel TV commercials, Sponsors of Tomorrow. Greeting #IntelLabs, Research@Intel Day at the Computer History Museum.
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Predicting My Wants and Needs?
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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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.
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