Intel

I thought today's project interesting and kind of cool. It uses the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK and your laptops (or PC's) camera to convert head gestures/turns into text. And who doesn't like a new SDK to play with? HeadTexter, A Head Movement to Text Conversion using Intel Perceptual Computing…

This Part 3 of a 3 part series on My Dream Machine (Part 1, Part 2) Tuning. I finished Part 2 with a Windows Experience Index of 4.7 Stated goal: an all round 5.9 for all measurements. Off to order more bits, and change some components in the beastie: General Melchett. Tweaking time.   Video…

High Performance Computing has its roots in non-commercial, academic, national lab and governmental environments where very large, compute-intensive workloads and applications are executed.  According to recent data from IDC HPC, economically-attractive clusters have become the common…

Kinect for Xbox 360 has certainly brought a new dimension to gameplay, courtesy of its 3D camera and audio sensors, but a new research project from Intel aims to do the same for younger children. Researchers at the company, alongside staff at the University of Washington are using 3D cameras and…

SC08: Intel rep discusses TBB for parallelizing C++ code on multi-core systems.

Intel were showing off some cool new concept Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) at CES 2008 featuring the new Silverthorne chipset. Silverthorne is the code name for Intel's upcoming 45nm processors designed for UMPCs and MIDs. Uday from Intel showed us one of the functioning Silverthorne…

Ben "The PC Guy" visits with Intel at CES 2011 to look at their new technology.

If you have a little extra time to relax over the Thanksgiving weekend (or just a usual weekend for the rest of us!) then make sure you check out Intel’s Morrow Project – it’s a literary project which brings to life the impact that research currently being conducted by the company could have on our…

It’s the day of the presentation. Months of work culminate in a thirty minute review with the board. You’ve been working for weeks on the deck, and even if you say so yourself, it’s looking sharp (especially those 3am changes you made overnight). You enter the boardroom, they’re all there, waiting.…

SC08: Intel rep discusses the Math Kernel Library (MKL), parallelization, etc.