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»  Summer 2013 interns at HP Labs -- Mingyu Gao

September 2013

Mingyu Gao has just completed his first year at Stanford University, working towards a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering where his focus is computer hardware design. At HP Labs this summer he's exploring how to improve memory systems for data centers. "It’s mainly a hardware project, but it also has some software components," says Gao.

»  David Fattal honored as one of top 35 innovators in 2013 by MIT Technology Review

August 2013

This week the prestigious MIT Technology Review revealed its annual list of top innovators under 35. For his work in the field of computer and electronics hardware, HP Labs' David Fattal has been honored as an outstanding inventor on the list. Fattal’s technological breakthrough consists of “a new kind of display that can project colorful moving images, viewable in three dimensions from multiple angles without any special glasses.”

»  Summer 2013 interns at HP Labs -- Kyle Rector

August 2013

Kyle Rector hails from Oregon. She's in the third year of her Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. This summer she's interning with HP Labs' Social Computing Research Group and working on information and email overload. But her true passion is issues of accessibility and how to help people with poor vision be able to exercise for example, developing "eyes-free exercise technology."

»  HP CTO and HP Labs Director Martin Fink appeared at Nth Symposium

August 2013

During a keynote address at the Nth Symposium, HP’s Martin Fink outlined HP’s vision for future computing architectures. As well, Fink reaffirmed HP’s commitment to big data, cloud services, business analytics and low power, highly scalable data systems such as HP’s Moonshot server.

»  Summer 2013 interns at HP Labs -- Sangman Kim

July 2013

After interning at HP Labs this summer, Sangman Kim will be entering his 5th year in the computer science Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at Austin. At Labs he's focusing on power and parallel computation. He's looking at ways to improve power efficiency across large distributed computing systems, especially those built on GPUs.

»  Summer 2013 interns at HP Labs -- Jiahong Zhu

July 2013

Jiahong Zhu is returning this summer for her second internship at HP Labs. A Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Purdue University in Indiana, she's working on finding the best way to provide performance guarantees for tenants in data center networks.

»  HP Fellow Partha Ranganathan is the recipient of the ACM SIGARCH 2013 Maurice Wilkes Award

July 2013

The prestigious award was presented to Partha Ranganathan at this year's International Symposium on Computer Architecture Awards Banquet in Tel Aviv, Israel, for contributions to the design of power-efficient microblade servers and pioneering work in disaggregated system designs.

»  Martin Fink at HP Discover 2013

June 2013

Watch the replay of the presentation given by HP CTO and Director of HP Labs Martin Fink at HP Discover 2013. In this talk, Martin outlines how HP Labs' research is addressing fundamental shifts in areas like flash storage and universal memory with an eye towards where future technology might take us.

»  HP Labs at the 2013 Cheltenham Science Festival

June 2013

HP Labs was a major presence at Europe’s largest festival of science and technology. The Cheltenham Science Festival runs for a week in June, bringing over 30,000 people to the historic English spa town of Cheltenham to view exhibits, hear talks on the latest in science research, and take part in workshops aimed at furthering public engagement in the field.  

»  A revolution in web data center architecture

May 2013

Researchers from HP Labs, ARM and Facebook are expected to publish a research paper next month proposing a new server processor custom-built to run Memcached, an open source software platform which allows web services like Facebook and Twitter to speed the delivery of data over networks. The chip will include a new “Thin Servers with Smart Pipes” architecture, designed solely to send data over a network to boost performance. Wired reports that HP Labs researcher Kevin Lim and HP Fellow Partha Ranganathan contributed to the paper.

»  HP's David Donatelli talks up HP Labs

April 2013

HP's head of the Enterprise Technology division, David Donatelli, gave an interview to Barron's "Tech Trader Daily" blogger Tiernan Ray in which he highlights the innovations from HP Labs that HP is bringing to the market.

»  The HP Labs team that helped develop HP Moonshot

April 2013

A small team of scientists in HP Labs' Systems Research Lab played a key role in the early research that led to the commercialization of Project Moonshot, the new low-energy, low-cost and ultra compact line of servers.

»  HP Labs glasses-free 3D research featured in Nature Magazine

March 2013

In the March 21 edition of the journal Nature, HP Labs researchers presented their multi-directional diffractive backlight technology allowing the rendering of high resolution, full parallax 3D images. The new technology is particularly suited to mobile devices. Read more in the featured news coverage below.

» Innovation @ HP Labs blog: On our way to glasses-free 3D

» Nature Magazine: “Hologram Lite” idea for 3D phone displays  

» MIT Technology Review: New 3-D Display Could Let Phones and Tablets Produce Holograms  

» Associated Press: HP develops glasses-free 3-D for mobile devices

» Engadget: HP Labs builds a glasses-free, portable 3D display with wide viewing angles

» CNET: HP creating glasses-free 3D tech for smartphones, tablets  

» CNET Australia: Holographic 3D for mobile to become a reality  

» The Guardian: Princess Leia hologram could become reality  

» The Verge: HP Labs developing a holographic 3D display with a 180-degree viewing zone  

» IEEE Spectrum: Glasses-Free 3-D From Almost Any Angle 

» Yahoo! News: Princess Leia Hologram in development

»  An HP Labs collaboration improves environmental accounting

February 2013

A pair of projects teaming young HP corporate finance professionals with researchers from HP Labs’ Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group has produced a set of tools that could help HP and its customers operate in a more environmentally sustainable way.

»  Avatars and your Personal Mobile Grid

February 2013

Computerworld UK reports that HP Labs' researchers are developing cloud-based personal avatars designed to enable next-generation mobile experiences. HP Fellow Paul Congdon explains that the idea is "to give individual users an identity that transcends the many smartphones, tablets and other devices they may carry."

»  HP Labs promotes one of its pioneering researchers to fellow

January 2013

HP Labs has appointed Alistair Veitch to the rank of HP Fellow. Veitch is a widely known expert in next-generation storage and distributed systems. Most recently, Veitch led the research behind the successful addition of metadata indexing and management to HP's storage devices.

»  Neuristors -- emulating the functionality of the nervous system

January 2013

In a paper titled "A scalable neuristor built with Mott memristors" published recently in Nature magazine, HP Labs researchers Matthew D. Pickett, Gilberto Medeiros-Riberiro, and Stanley Williams demonstrate that by using a combination of memristors and capacitors they were able to create a signal pattern similar to a neuron.

»  Dejan Milojicic is 2013 President-Elect of the IEEE Computer Society

January 2013

With the beginning of the new year, HP Labs researcher Dejan Milojicic is taking up his new role as president-elect of the IEEE Computer Society. In this interview for the HP Labs blog we spoke with Milojicic about his involvement with the IEEE CS, his new position, and how he’d like to see the society grow over the next few years.