Bill Gates Last Day - CES 2008


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A new kind of "calculator" from HP Labs

Every hear of a calculator for color? For the past month or so I've been playing around with the Color Calculator, a tool my colleague Nathan Moroney created as a way of choosing colors without names.

The calculator has nine color "buttons" and a larger square. It works like sort of an electronic artist's palette, and the square is where the colors get mixed. You start out with grey and the calculator shows the RGB (red-green... read more >>

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Intel CTO predicts physical computers will eventually disappear into walls, cars and homes in Intel’s next 40 years

I had a chance to chat with Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, as he reflected on Intel’s first 40 years and looked ahead to the next 40 years. He says instead of technology being an evolution over time, big revolutionary changes tend to happen in rapid “giant leaps”. He thinks the next major leap will be in the human interface with technology, with potential future breakthroughs in processing that would have the physical boxes of computers disappear in... read more >>

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Carry Small, Live Large

One of the great computing revolutions of our time has been the dramatic reduction in size of processing components and the power they consume, making mobile computing a reality. The term mobile computer spans many types of devices, from laptop or notebook computers—now central to much of our work—to the smallest cell phones, which can not only provide a mundane telephone connection but also serve as an electronic organizer. The PDA, also origin... read more >>

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Scoble visits Labs

Robert Scoble, the well-known technology blogger, was here the other day and posted a trio of videos about what he saw.

  • Datacenter of the future: Scoble visits the HP Labs data center and finds that, unlike most, it isn't freezing inside, thanks to HP Labs cooling and power-management technologies that dramatically reduce energy demands.  He also gets to meet our data center robot. interviews HP Fellow Chandrakant Patel, who is dire...
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Photonics to the rescue

I've written frequently on the HP Labs site about the problems of rising costs and energy consumption facing computer makers as they try to squeeze more performance out of the existing IT infrastructure.

One possible solution would be to replace the copper connections among blades, boards and chips with light. Why replace copper? It's not energy-efficient, is increasingly scare and expensive, and mining it can create environmental pro... read more >>

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Sustainable IT and the Digital Divide

Chandrakant is a pioneer in what's now known as sustainable IT or "green computing". He founded HP Labs' thermal technology research program in the early 1990s, and has continued to push for (and develop) more energy-efficient IT solutions.

Environmental issues have long been important to me so Chandrakant's work is, in my opinion, some of the most exciting research we do at HP Labs.

One of his latest projects aims ... read more >>
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Interactive 3D Streaming by Alexander Sterkin

Second Life® and World of Warcraft® are among the most prominent MMOGs. They demand lots of computing power – both from the CPU and Graphics. These demands overload any mobile device of today or near future, even including MIDs. By... read more >>
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Taking Multi-core Programming Into The Bazaar: An Argument for Open Source Tools

All the major CPU manufacturers have thrown their lot in with multi-core designs. The (multi-billion dollar) question now is how to program these devices. I can tell you with some confidence that we don’t yet know what the answer will... read more >>
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Wireless Displays: To Compress or Not Compress

This years CES was filled with a variety of wireless display and wireless HDMI solutions using various combinations of radios (proprietary radios in the UWB or 5 GHz unlicensed bands, WiFi-based, UWB/W-USB based, and 60 GHz based) and compression algorithms... read more >>
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Kevin Kahn on Redefining Mobility: Carry Small, Live Large

Imagine a day when a single device small enough to fit in your pocket has the power of a laptop and can deliver a rich computing, telephony, media, gaming, and Internet experience. Imagine a day when this device knows your tendencies and preferences and can adapt and optimize its interfaces to match what you are doing at any point any time. Imagine a day when this device is not constrained as a standalone unit, but can dynamically become a hyb... read more >>

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