http://hpl.hp.com/rss/news RSS feed for recent news and feature stories about HP Labs, the central research lab for Hewlett-Packard. Mon, 30 april 2012 14:00:00 GMT en-us http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Data-Central/With-personal-data-worth-a-fortune-why-not-sell-your-own-HP-Labs/ba-p/111831 Companies of all kinds are keen to learn ever more about us, and are increasingly willing to pay for the privilege, notes Bernardo Huberman, HP Senior Fellow and director of the Social Computing Research Group at HP Labs. That’s the argument behind a new paper, “A Market for Unbiased Private Data: Paying Individuals According to their Privacy Attitudes,” [pdf] written by Huberman and HP colleague Christina Aperjis. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-04-05/flexible-displays-computing-screens/54064128/1 In a recent feature article in USA Today, Carl Taussig, director of HP Labs' Advanced Display Research. discusses, among others, the potential and challenges of flexible display technology. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/hp-corona/ Wired writes that HP hopes to complete Corona, a computer that connects 256 microprocessors through beams of light, by 2017. Corona would be able to communicate at 20 terabytes per second, and the outlet notes that its advances in power efficiency could bring supercomputers closer to exascale computing. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/hp_calculator/#more-10877 A Wired article wonders if HP Labs can deliver an industry-changing product on the order of its HP-35 Scientific Calculator. HP’s Prith Banerjee asserts that Project Moonshot could lead to a hit product. http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Data-Central/HP-Labs-study-forecasts-the-popularity-of-news-articles-on/ba-p/106789 HP Labs researchers have developed a method of determining "with surprising accuracy" how many times a news article will be reposted on Twitter. The team created a statistical model to rate the popularity of 40,000 articles from nine days in August 2011, taking into account the article's source, the type of news being reported, whether the content is emotional or objective, and the naming of a celebrity. http://web.hpl.hp.com:8181/news/2012/jan-mar/rankr.html HP Labs' Social Computing Research Group teamed up with HP Sweden to test a new social ranking engine called Rankr on HP's Sweden Facebook page. http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2012/jan-mar/annual_report.html In a keynote address at DesignCon 2012 in Santa Clara, Prith Banerjee described his vision of future systems architectures capable of handling the coming flood of digital data. http://www.rfdesignline.com/electronics-news/4235659/HP-Labs-sketches-path-to-terabyte-backplane http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16636609 BBC offers a look inside HP Labs in Bristol, describing ongoing projects such as security technology that uses "forensic virtual machines" to detect infections, the Central Nervous System for the Earth sensor network, and low-power, nonbacklit mobile displays. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-17/internet/30635005_1_app-world-app-developers-set-top An in-depth article published by the Times of India looks at the potentially revolutionary device called Vayu. Developed by researchers at HP Labs India, it connects anyone's TV to the Internet, allowing millions of people to access the Internet without a PC. http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/ HP Labs has issued the Call for Proposals in its annual Innovation Research Program, creating opportunities at colleges, universities and research institutes around the world to engage in collaborative research with HP. http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2011/oct-dec/immersive3D.html HP today unveiled the HP Photon Engine solution, capable of broadcasting true-to-life 3D content on huge surfaces. It also allows enterprises to transform how they interact with data and customers. http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Data-Central/How-HP-is-learning-to-predict-customer-behavior-by-merging/ba-p/101085 New text analytics technology developed by HP's Information Analytics Lab is enabling data from social media to be merged with company data, thereby predicting customer behavior with up to 90% accuracy. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111018xd.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news Researchers from HP Labs used the immense amount of data available inside a patient’s electronic chart to develop the electronic dashboard that improves care and saves lives. Watch the video. http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2011/oct-dec/security_analytics.html As HP Labs' Security Analytics research is commercialized, it readies for the cloud. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/socialinfluence/SocialInfluence.pdf New research from HP Labs shows that our choices can be reversed when we're exposed to the recommendations of others. In a surprising twist, though, we're more likely to change our minds when fewer, not more, people disagree with us. http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2011/jul-sep/susantu.html Susan Tu is unique among HP Labs' interns this summer. While her peers are mostly already in graduate school, Tu has yet to enter college Link the title to the article page. She graduated this summer from the Harker School in San Jose, CA and will be entering Stanford University this fall. http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2011/jul-sep/IRP_awards.html HP announces the recipients of its 2011 Innovation Research Program (IRP) awards. http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2011/jul-sep/zhang.html Zhuoyao Zhang grew up in Wuxi, near Shanghai, where she attended Fudan University as an undergraduate. She's now studying for a PhD in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.