Intel Labs Announces Latest Science and Technology Center Focused on Next Generation of Pervasive Computing

Intel Labs announces its fifth Intel Science and Research Center focused on pervasive computing.

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The newest Intel Science and Innovation Center will focus on delivering technologies that offer a richer, more personalized experience to consumers of the future. By creating and funding an ecosystem of leading researchers in the field and providing a collaborative environment, Intel Corporation and its partners' goal is to accelerate the development of at once-generation technologies capable of indiscriminately learning and adapting to consumers' needs.

The new Intel ISTC for pervasive computing is the fifth center to open this year and underscores Intel's commitment to establishing and funding the collaboration of university technology to fuel technology in key areas. Previously this year Intel announced ISTCs for visual computing, secure computing, cloud computing and embedded computing.

"The then and there generation of pervasive computing systems will uninterruptedly learn environments, objects, schedules and preferences of their users," said Limor Fix, Intel's director of academic programs and technology. "These future apps will be capable of supporting complex tasks just as cooking a souffle or building a complicated piece of furniture. Consumers will have a far richer experience than the technologies of today can offer and will be able to spend far more time achieving their goals than figuring out how to make the innovation work."

The ISTC for pervasive computing innovation will focus on developing applications that are organized into the following themes: low-power sensing and communication; understanding human state and activities; and personalization and adaptation. To ensure the trustworthiness and security of the systems involved and to safeguard privacy, researchers who focus on these challenges will be involved in all of the center's projects. The center will explore task spaces that interact seamlessly with users by combining multiple cues just as a person's context, gestures and voice, and that provide assistance through multiple output modes just as audio and projected imagery. Ultimately, future systems will support applications that have much deeper awareness of users and their activities, context and goals. They will be able to learn and adapt indiscriminately to consumer habits, routines and preferences.

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