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» New thin-film electronics manufacturing method wins award
April 2008
Self-aligned imprint lithography, a process developed by HP Labs and PowerFilm Solar for creating thin-film transistor backplanes like those used for flat panel TV monitors, received the Technical Development in Manufacturing award at Printed Electronics 2008.
» Picturing the future: Test new imaging applications at Snapfish Lab
April 2008
Snapfish Lab lets customers test experimental photo applications from HP Labs. It also represents a new model for research at HP.
» Database expert is newest HP Fellow
March 2008
Goetz Graefe, one of the most accomplished and influential technologists in the areas of database query optimization and query processing, joined HP Labs in 2007.
» HP Labs transformed
March 2008
HP Labs is 42 years old this year. But that doesn't mean it can't act like a startup.
» HP Sharpens HP Labs to Drive High-impact Research
March 2008
HP Labs now consists of 23 distinct labs across seven worldwide locations. Collectively, the labs are focused on five main areas: information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability.
» Painless injections possible with HP skin patch
January 2008
HP has invented the painless injection: a high-tech skin patch that uses inkjet technology to deliver drugs. It could one day become an alternative to the hypodermic needle.
» Apostolopoulos named IEEE Fellow
November 2007
John Apostolopoulos, a distinguished technologist and manager of the HP Labs Streaming Media Systems Group, has been chosen as an IEEE Fellow.
» Berners-Lee creating a science of the Web
November 2007
The man who invented the Web is creating a multidisciplinary science to study the Web and advance its future.
» HP Appoints Vladimir Polutin as Director of HP Labs Russia
November 2007
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Nov. 15, 2007 – HP today announced that Vladimir Polutin has been appointed to lead the St. Petersburg facility of HP Labs, the company’s central research arm.
» A conversation with Oren Ariel
November 2007
Oren Ariel, the new director of HP Labs Israel, discusses his background in enterprise software and how he might shape the lab.
» The life of a packet: Read Susie Wee's blog
November 2007
Wee, who keynoted at the PacketVideo 2007 Workshop in Lausanne, Switzerland, talks about the research challenges involved in emerging mobile and media applications. Rather than developing technology in a box, it's important to first consider the desired user experience and then develop the technologies that impact it, she says. Wee is director of the Mobile and Media Systems Lab at HP Labs.
» Painless injection systems wins innovation award
November 2007
A smart skin patch for pain-free injections based on HP’s thermal inkjet technology has received an Emerging Tech award from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
» Capturing China's knowledge
November 2007
China will use the open-source DSpace digital archiving system created by HP and MIT to preserve cultural and academic treasures and also to create a virtual museum for the 2008 Olympics.
» An online color-naming thesaurus
November 2007
Color names are a powerful means of selecting and communicating colors. Although several color vocabularies and dictionaries are available, there’s less research around capturing the similarities and differences in color naming. In their blog Mostly Color Perception, researchers Giordano Beretta and Nathan Moroney have posted an online color thesaurus to try out.
To learn more about HP Labs’ work in this area, see Moroney’s personal page
» Stan Williams awarded Seaborg Medal
November 2007
HP Senior Fellow R. Stanley Williams has received the prestigious Glenn T. Seaborg Medal awarded by the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to honor individuals for exceptional scientific contributions to chemistry and biochemistry.
» A conversation with Prith Banerjee
November 2007
HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee talks about why he left academia to joined HP Labs in August 2007, what challenges the lab faces and why open innovation is essential for the future. He also discusses his interest in the sitar and what led him to a career in electronics.
» Smarter shopping
November 2007
Researchers at HP Labs are exploring systems that blend the immediacy of in-store shopping with the information-rich experience of its online counterpart.
» HP Sets New Milestones in Data Center Energy Efficiency
October 2007
The largest deployment to date of HP's Dynamic Smart Cooling technology is up and running in a data center in Bangalore, India. The deployment is intended demonstrate how the cooling technology scales in a real-world, heterogeneous data center environment.
» Operating-systems group selects paper for Hall of Fame
October 2007
A paper by HP Fellow David P. Reed has received a Hall of Fame award from SIGOPS, the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems.
» The future of global IT: It's all about energy
September 2007
Creating, purchasing and operating IT systems needs to change, says HP Fellow Chandrakant Patel
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HP Labs technology for industry-first skin patch for “smart” drug delivery is licensed to medical-device company
September 2007
Researcher Janice Nickel found a way to use HP's inkjet technology to painlessly administer drugs to patients through thousands of tiny needles embedded in a skin patch. The technology, now licensed to medical-device developer Crospon, enables controlled release of one or more drugs in a single patch applied to the skin.
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Big Bang: HP helps CERN unlock the secrets of the universe
August 2007
HP technologies are contributing to CERN's Large Hadron Collider project to probe the secrets of the universe.
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Share, store, print - using your mobile phone
August 2007
Cloudprint, a new service developed by HP Labs, lets you print from almost anywhere in the world using just your telephone number and a document code.
» Memory Spot wins Computerworld Horizon Award for cutting-edge technologies
August 2007
Memory Spot, a wireless data chip, has the potential to revolutionize the way people store information on paper and other physical objects.
» Partha Ranganathan named to Technology Review 35
August 2007
Partha Ranganathan, a leader in the field of energy-efficient computing, has been named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's Technology Review.
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Introducing Prith Banerjee: New director brings new approach
August 2007
HP Labs' new director, Prith Banerjee, brings a unique background to the job -- he's the first academic to hold the director's position, the first born outside the U.S. and the first to have founded two startup companies.
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HP Drives Data Center Energy Efficiency with Thermal Services and Dynamic Smart Cooling
July 2007
The new services include HP Thermal Zone Mapping, a patent-pending development from HP Labs, which lets customers see a 3D model of how much and where data center air conditioners are cooling. As a result, they can arrange and manage air conditioning for optimal cooling, increased energy efficiency and lower costs.
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ChinaNANO best poster award goes to HP researchers
July 2007
A team from HP's Quantum Science Research group has received the best poster award at ChinaNANO 2007, one of the premier nanotech conferences worldwide.
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Researcher's paper named best at IEEE conference
July 2007
A publication on a self-tuning hierarchical aggregation system by HP researcher Praveen Yalagandula has received the best paper award at the first IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007).
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HP and MIT Create Non-profit Organization to Support Growing Community of DSpace Users
July 2007
HP and the MIT Libraries have formed the non-profit DSpace Foundation to provide support to the growing community of institutions that use DSpace, an open source software solution for accessing, managing and preserving scholarly works in a digital archive.
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Susie Wee chosen for ComputerWorld's "40 under 40"
July 2007
Susie Wee has been selected for ComputerWorld magazine's annual "40 under 40" list of IT innovators for her work co-editing the new JPSEC standard for JPEG-2000 image security.
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Snap, match, shop - Color-matching made simple
July 2007
Researchers applied their expertise in color science, imaging and mobile communications to create an experimental color-matching technology that turns any camera-equipped phone into a mobile makeup advisor.
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E pluribus Pluribus - out of many projectors, one super screen
June 2007
Pluribus, a flexible projector technology developed at HP Labs, can project crystal-clear, wall-sized images for one-tenth the price of existing projection systems.
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The data center in 2012: It's self-managed
June 2007
The computing demands of Web 2.0 will require entirely new types of data centers, says Rich Friedrich in his keynote at this year's IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007).
» HP, Tsinghua University Form Multimedia Technology Research Collaboration
May 2007
Researchers at HP and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, are jointly developing multimedia technologies, including automated photo sorting, facial expression recognition and video and music analysis.
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HP Shows Off System that Affords Every Customer a Personal Shopper
May 2007
The experimental system is designed to enhance the consumer shopping experience and improve efficiency for retailers by bringing the power of online access to brick-and-mortar stores.
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New HP Labs Director is announced
May 2007
Prith Banerjee, dean of the college of engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), has been named senior vice president, research, and director of HP Labs, effective Aug. 1. He replaces Dick Lampman, who is retiring after 35 years with HP.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits HP Labs
May 2007
HP hosted U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on a visit designed to focus attention on innovation and technology.
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Research manager elected president of leading imaging society
May 2007
Eric Hanson, a manager in the Digital Printing and Imaging Laboratory, has been elected president of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), the premier professional organization for imaging and printing research.
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Are you ready to mscape? Virtual world gets physical
May 2007
HP has launched a prototype toolkit that lets you can create and share games, tours, stories, art and other location-based experiences called mediascapes. Based on HP Labs technology, the tool is available for free at http://www.mscapers.com.
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Best of CHI goes to HP researchers' paper
May 2007
An HP Labs paper on consuming video on mobile devices received a "best of CHI" award at this year's Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference.
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Let the games begin
April 2007
HP is moving seriously into gaming, and HP researchers are ready with a host of new technologies.
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Quantum leap for cryptography: Technology could bring absolute security to everyday tasks
March 2007
HP researchers are working to build quantum cryptography into PDAs or mobile phones, possibly replacing passwords and PINs for common transactions.
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HP joins bio-info-nano research collaboration
March 2007
HP has become the first corporate affiliate of a new research institute dedicated to creating scientific breakthroughs made possible by the convergence of biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology.
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Gesture-based keyboard wins Indian innovation award
February 2007
A gesture-based keyboard developed by HP Labs India has received India's prestigious National Associate of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) Innovation in IT award.
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Jouppi named ACM Fellow
January 2007
Norm Jouppi, who is widely known for his contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance processors and memory systems, has been named a fellow of the ACM.
» Introducing HP Labs Russia
January 2007
Beth Keer, acting director of HP Labs Russia, talks about the site's focus on information management research.
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A novel way to better chips: New design could lead to chips that cost less, consume less power, but provide higher performance
January 2007
Researchers at HP Labs have demonstrated a new chip architecture that could lead to dramatic increases in performance without some of the problems in current designs.
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