News and events
July 2009
» Fast, cheap and under control
July 2009
HP Labs introduces sparse indexing to radically improve data backup for small and medium-sized businesses.
» Can I have your attention!
July 2009
HP Labs pilots i-catcher, a service that automatically maximizes the viewership of media Web sites
June 2009
» HP Appoints Doron Shaked as Director of HP Labs Israel
June 2009
Doron Shaked has been appointed to lead the Israel facility of HP Labs, the company's central research arm.
» Pushing scientific frontiers by partnering with the best
June 2009
HP Labs announces the recipients of its second annual Innovation Research Awards.
» Meeting in (and Over) the Cloud
June 2009
HP hosted the first ever Open Cirrus Summit on cloud computing, bringing together sites and researchers participating in the Open Cirrus collaborative test environment to share project progress, discuss new opportunities and further solidify research into all aspects of large-scale cloud systems.
» HP, Intel and Yahoo! Attract Leading Research Organizations to Collaborative Cloud Computing Test Bed
June 2009
HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced that three new research organizations will join Open Cirrus™, a global, multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research.
» Fully coordinated
June 2009
A new approach from HP Labs makes data centers more efficient, stable and cheaper to run.
» Open Cirrus Summit
June 2009
Open Cirrus Summit, hosted by HP, Intel and Yahoo, will be held in Palo Alto, CA, June 8-9, 2009. Open Cirrus™ is an open cloud-computing research testbed designed to support research into the design, provisioning, and management of services at a global, multi-datacenter scale.
May 2009
» HP Appoints Sudhir Dixit as Director of HP Labs India
May 2009
Sudhir Dixit has been appointed to lead the Bangalore facility of HP Labs, the company's central research arm.
» HP Labs Director among the most creative people in business 
May 2009
Fast Company magazine released it's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business" with Prith Banerjee ranked No. 11 among "new thinkers, rising stars, and boldface names who couldn't be ignored."
» Central Nervous System for the Earth
May 2009
Forbes magazine profiles "CeNSE," the multi-year project led by HP Labs nanotechnology researcher Peter Hartwell that aims to deploy billions of nano-scale sensors for real-time monitoring.
» Robert E. Tarjan named SIAM Fellow
May 2009
HP Senior Fellow Robert Tarjan has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his work on the design and analysis of algorithms.
» HP CloudPrint for BlackBerry Smartphones
May 2009
The CloudPrint service enables mobile users to easily print to the nearest printer. The service is printer-agnostic and driverless and requires simple Internet access. The CloudPrint technology was invented by HP Labs.
» Imagining the Future of Publishing
May 2009
Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology's Open Publishing Lab, winner of a 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, are showcasing their research at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival in Rochester, New York.
April 2009
» Innovation + Smart Planning = Happy Customers
April 2009
HP Labs' Revenue Coverage Optimization tool breaks new ground in operations research, improves the customer experience and saves HP millions of dollars in the process.
» Gift of the Gab
April 2009
HP launches Gabble, enabling private video conversations between groups of friends.
» The Green Enterprise: HP
April 2009
A video profile by ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at HP's Eco Solutions.
» Technology critical to turning mass of data into useful insight
April 2009
Prith Banerjee, HP Labs SVP and Research Director, discusses the state of R&D investment and innovation in the US.
» Stan Williams - ACE Innovator of the Year
April 2009
HP Labs Senior Fellow Stan Williams is the winner of this year's EETimes ACE Award for Innovator of the Year.
March 2009
» HP Labs 'Media Breakfast' highlights research progress over the past year
March 2009
HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee spoke to a group of key business and technology journalists at a Media Breakfast held on March 13, 2009, in San Francisco.
» HP Labs 2008 Annual Report now available
March 2009
The HP Labs Annual Report highlights our research themes, significant inventions, open innovation activities and, most importantly, our research team.
» The ThinkJet turns 25
March 2009
Thirty years ago this week, HP Labs launched a research project destined to reshape the printing industry and the company itself.
» Getting creative at the photo shop
March 2009
HP Labs reinvents photo layout software, making photo kiosks much easier to use
February 2009
» Computer systems research at HP Labs featured in January issue of Operating Systems Review
February 2009
This special issue of OSR is dedicated to showcasing the breadth and depth of computer systems research at HP Labs.
» Placing trust in the business PC
February 2009
Trusted Virtualization keeps employees from compromising their employer's IT investments.
» Rebuilding cities right
February 2009
Old cities need new, smarter infrastructures, says HP Labs Fellow Chandrakant Patel
» Are you up for the challenge?
February 2009
HP Labs joins the ACM 2009 Multimedia Grand Challenge to address the sector's most pressing needs.
January 2009
» Umeshwar Dayal named ACM fellow
January 2009
HP Fellow Umeshwar Dayal was named ACM Fellow for contributions to managing federated, active, and heterogeneous databases.
» Partnering with the best
January 2009
HP Labs' Open Innovation Office announces its second annual Innovation Research Program
» HP Labs' research featured in "Wired" top 10 list
January 2009
Two technology breakthroughs announced last year by HP Labs were included in Wired.com's recent list of "Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008."
» Electronic paper moves closer to mass-adoption
January 2009
Digital displays are finally poised to make the leap from the lab to production on a mass scale.