Research will transform the future of technology claims Intel

Justin Rattner, pictured, Intel's cto, made the announcement at the 9th annual Research at Intel event. Highlighting the company's collaborative efforts with industry and academic partners, demonstrations covered areas such as visual computing, security and authentication to user experience and cloud computing. New technologies included processor graphics for cryptography operations; a 3d avatar that tracks movements in real time and changes its body dimensions using gesture; spherical loudspeakers that produce dynamic, steerable sound; and a plug in device that uses pattern recognition to determine when different electrical loads turn on and off in the home. The company also announced it will release source code for its Distributed Scene Graph 3d iInternet technology. According to Rattner, 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 congregate online with thousands of others. Currently, this is limited to less than 100. There are also plans to release as open source its offline ray tracing code to researchers and developers. 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 code will improve the speed by up to 100% on Intel based systems. The code is expected to find use in commercial applications such as designing cars, producing movies and visualising new architectural designs. Rattner also announced the latest Intel Science Technology Center (ISTC), a collaborative framework for security research between Intel and several leading universities, including the University of Berkeley. As part of Intel's five year, $100million ISTC programme, the new $15m centre will encourage tighter collaboration with 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 Rattner. "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." Over the next five years, the centre will focus its research on protecting pcs from malware, securing mobile devices and address how to protect personal data once it is online.