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Intel tips second university research center
6/7/2011 2:19 PM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. said Tuesday (June 7) that the second Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC)—part of a commitment by the company to pump $100 million into U.S. university research over the next five years—will focus on secure computing and will be hosted at the University of California- Berkeley in collaboration with several other universities.
"The co-principal investigators from Intel and UC Berkeley will lead a talented team of researchers from across the country to address today's most challenging problems in computer security," said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, in a statement. "Forming a multidisciplinary community of Intel, faculty and graduate student researchers will lead to fundamental breakthroughs in one of the most difficult and vexing areas of computing technology."
Carnegie Mellon, Drexel, Duke and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are also participating in the newest Science and Technology Center, Intel said. The center represents the next $15 million installment of Intel’s five-year, $100 million ISTC program to increase university research and accelerate innovation, announced in January. The first ISTC is focused on visual computing and hosted across the San Francisco Bay from UC Berkeley at Stanford University.
The ISTC for secure computing will focus its research on a variety of areas over the next five years, including making personal computers safer from malware, use of third party applications and securing mobile devices, Intel said. Another key area researchers will address is how to protect personal data once it is scattered throughout the Web, Intel said.
Intel Labs also announced it would release source code for its Distributed Scene Graph 3-D Internet technology. This code is part of an ongoing effort to augment the OpenSim open-source virtual world simulator and will enable developers to build virtual regions where people can work or play online with a cast of thousands, instead of being limited to less than a hundred today, Intel said.
Also this month, Intel Labs will release as open source its offline ray tracing code to researchers and developers, Intel said. Ray tracing is a computer graphics technique that produces photo-realistic images by tracing imaginary light rays to determine where and how every part of an object should be illuminated, the company said.
"The co-principal investigators from Intel and UC Berkeley will lead a talented team of researchers from across the country to address today's most challenging problems in computer security," said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, in a statement. "Forming a multidisciplinary community of Intel, faculty and graduate student researchers will lead to fundamental breakthroughs in one of the most difficult and vexing areas of computing technology."
Carnegie Mellon, Drexel, Duke and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are also participating in the newest Science and Technology Center, Intel said. The center represents the next $15 million installment of Intel’s five-year, $100 million ISTC program to increase university research and accelerate innovation, announced in January. The first ISTC is focused on visual computing and hosted across the San Francisco Bay from UC Berkeley at Stanford University.
The ISTC for secure computing will focus its research on a variety of areas over the next five years, including making personal computers safer from malware, use of third party applications and securing mobile devices, Intel said. Another key area researchers will address is how to protect personal data once it is scattered throughout the Web, Intel said.
Intel Labs also announced it would release source code for its Distributed Scene Graph 3-D Internet technology. This code is part of an ongoing effort to augment the OpenSim open-source virtual world simulator and will enable developers to build virtual regions where people can work or play online with a cast of thousands, instead of being limited to less than a hundred today, Intel said.
Also this month, Intel Labs will release as open source its offline ray tracing code to researchers and developers, Intel said. Ray tracing is a computer graphics technique that produces photo-realistic images by tracing imaginary light rays to determine where and how every part of an object should be illuminated, the company said.
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MHK_#1
6/7/2011 9:52 PM EDT
Intel likes the west coast side much more than it likes anything on the east coast side. In MA, a presence of Intel is ever decreasing. It is almost no active business in industry. I had to go to the west coast to do a business with Intel. That is not convenient at all. I know Intel has money to spend. I guess a reason that all power players are on the west coast of branch...
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goafrit
6/8/2011 8:09 AM EDT
I agree - they like the desert
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Neo1
6/7/2011 10:20 PM EDT
It also depends on how much work each of those universities did in the past which was in business interests of Intel. I feel they gravitate more towards the west coast due to it's proximity to software development and also because it is a place which is considered the traditional locale for semiconductor technology.
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agk
6/8/2011 5:06 AM EDT
US university research or university research over all in the world leads to giving glimpses of future technology. Intel is triggering the young and expereinced brains to get the future technology road map.This is a boon for society.Thanks to INTEL.
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Gil Russell
6/8/2011 6:15 PM EDT
They are "attempting" a solution to the dwarfs problem...,
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Duane Benson
6/8/2011 7:28 PM EDT
I hope some useable solutions come of this. Security is a big enough issue today with interlinked computers. Once all of our home appliances and fixtures and our automobiles are interlinked, we will be set up for massive failures unless a new approach is found.
As it is today, it seems as though systems are by default either insecure and useable or secure and unusable.
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