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Intel Unveils Connected Store with adidas, Best Buy, Kraft Foods, MIT Media Lab, Procter & Gamble

Concept Unveils 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor-based Solutions and Intel® AIM Suite Video Analytics

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

  • Intel features adidas*, Best Buy*, Kraft Foods*, MIT Media Lab* and Procter & Gamble* in future of retail concept.
  • 2nd Generation Intel® CoreTM processors power the latest retail and digital signage concepts.
  • Harley Davidson*, NEC* and The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino* support Intel’s new video analytics technology, Intel® AIM Suite, which anonymously collects viewer metrics.

National Retail Federation Convention, New York, Jan. 10, 2011– Intel Corporation today unveiled its Connected Store concept, a two-story, 2,400 square-foot futuristic retail storefront equipped with the latest technology for the retail and digital signage market segments.

 

Powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processors, previous-generation Intel® Core™ processors and Intel® Atom™ processors, the Connected Store features interactive demonstrations and proof-of-concepts that aim to integrate the best of online and mobile shopping with traditional retail environments. Notable industry brands such as adidas*, Best Buy*, Kraft Foods* and Procter & Gamble*, in addition to researchers at the MIT Media Lab*, worked with Intel to create these experiences and showcase what’s possible.

“Intel’s innovative retail solutions are designed to meet the changing needs of tomorrow’s marketplace by promoting brand interaction and delivering a more personalized and enjoyable shopping experience,” said Jose Avalos, general manager, Embedded Computing Division, Intel. “The interactive demos illustrate how retailers are able to reduce energy consumption, lower total cost of ownership and increase profits with features such as remote manageability and anonymous video analytics.”

Several of the proof-of concepts feature the company’s first “visibly smart” 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family that combines visuals and 3-D graphics technology with performance-leading microprocessors on a single chip. Demos involving Intel® Retail Interactive Fashion Experience, adiVERSE (a virtual search engine footwear wall) and the Intel® Digital Signage Endcap all show unique ways to seamlessly integrate these technologies into a retail environment with benefits for retailers and consumers alike.

Intel today also announced Intel® AIM Suite, a new video analytics technology for anonymous audience measurement in retail and digital signage applications in traditional storefronts. Showcasing the software capabilities via demos in the Connected Store, Intel AIM Suite anonymously monitors viewer metrics such as age, gender and length of attention. This enables retailers and advertisers to deliver targeted content for individual viewers and track return on investment with greater accuracy. Leading brands supporting Intel AIM Suite technology include Harley-Davidson* in Canada, NEC* and The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino* in Las Vegas.

Demos highlighted in the storefront include the Intel Retail Interactive Fashion Experience, adiVERSE, Intel Digital Signage Endcap Concept, Next Generation Meal Planning Solution, LuminAR* Augmented Product Display Counter, Next Generation Quick-Service Restaurant Kiosk, Secure Point-of-Sale Self Check-out Kiosk, and Intel® Expressway Tokenization Broker.

More information on the interactive demonstrations featured in the Intel booth is available in the NRF Demo Fact Sheet and the Smarter Devices with Intel® Embedded Press Kit.

About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

University of Utah Trumps MIT in Tech Startups

The University of Utah led all American academic institutions in producing technology startups, with 19 startups for 2009. MIT and Caltech tied for second with 18. – When it comes to spawning technology startups out of academia, the University of Utah is tops.
The University of Utah overtook the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) to become Americas number one research
institution when it comes to creating startup companies based on
university techno…


MIT On Creating A Smart City

Eric Lundquist, Vice President of Strategic Content for Ziff Davis Enterprise, speaks with MITs Visiting Scholar Katja Schechtner about how technology and planning can create smart cities. They also discuss smarter transportation methodologies for smarter cities including electric cars, new “mobility on-demand” transportation systems, and how new technologies and new ideas, plus new ways of thinking, can create smarter cities. About Smart Cities: “The Smart Cities Group pursues sustainability, livability, and social equity through technological and design innovation. We take the particular perspective that cities are systems of systems, and that there are emerging opportunities to introduce digital nervous systems, intelligent responsiveness, and optimization at every level of system integration – from that of individual devices and appliances (a traditional concern of the Media Lab) to that of buildings, and ultimately to that of complete cities and urban regions.” MIT Professor William J. Mitchell
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MIT Smarter Electric Vehicles Systems For Smart Cities

Smart electric vehicles are a big project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Electric vehicles could be delivered when drivers need the cars, rather than have cars sitting parking lots waiting for a driver. These new technology transportation systems incorporate new batteries, new electric motors, GPS, computers, and search technologies to deliver a new driving experience. In this video, Ryan Chin, Research Specialist at MIT Media Lab, describes the next technology stage for electric cars where smart transportation systems are used to provide a vehicle on demand.
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Kent Larsen of MIT Has a Platform for Smarter Cities

MIT’s Media Lab research group Changing Places, is developing new technologies and new products for cities, urban and suburban areas. New Technologies include Wireless sensing, algorithms, and new interfaces to respond to human activity. Projects range from fine-grain activity recognition using wearable accelerometers, a persuasive thermostat using GPS location of occupants, and a context-aware tunable LED lighting for office environments and new forms of electric vehicles and smart mass transportation systems. We’ll also discuss how you build a business model based on a cool idea and transition it into the business world. Join VP of editorial content at Ziff Davis Enterprise, Eric Lundquist as he sits down renowned architect and director of MIT’s Changing Places research group, Kent Larsen.
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Chip Shot: From Science to Glamour

Diploma from MIT – check. A Rhodes scholarship to study immunology at Oxford College in England – check.  An acceptance to Harvard Medical School – check. Being featured in Glamour Magazine as one of the Top 10 College Women of 2007 – check. Melis Anahtar has certainly kept herself busy since competing in the Intel Science Talent Search in 2004. Head to Inspire to read more about what she’s been up to and why she feels role models are so important to success.

May 11, 1951: RAM Is Born

1951: Jay Forrester files a patent application for the matrix core memory.
Back when computers still weighed hundreds of pounds and were primarily used by the military, computer memory relied on cathode rays to retrieve information. But the Navy needed a faster computer that could run flight simulations in real time.
In stepped a team at the [...]

April 6, 1903: Edgerton Born, Father of High-Speed Photography

1903: Harold Edgerton is born. The electrical engineer and photographer will change the way we see the world: fast.
Edgerton invented stop-action, high-speed photography, helping push the obscure stroboscope from a laboratory instrument into a household item. He used the technique to make a body of work that’s revered both for its scientific advancement and its [...]

April 1, 1998: Disney to Buy MIT for $6.9 Billion

1998: Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, long known for their school pranks, hack the school’s home page to announce to the world that the Walt Disney Co. would purchase MIT for $6.9 billion.
The prestigious school would be renamed the Disney Institute of Technology, according to an April Fools’ Day press release linked to the bogus [...]

March 8, 1955: The Mother of All Operating Systems

1955: Computer pioneer Doug Ross demonstrates the Director tape for MIT’s Whirlwind machine. It’s a new idea: a permanent set of instructions on how the computer should operate.
Six years in the making, MIT’s Whirlwind computer was the first digital computer that could display real-time text and graphics on a video terminal, which was then just [...]

MIT Wins DARPA Red Balloon Challenge

Using an inverse pyramid approach, a team from MIT captures the $40,000 first prize to locate 10 large, red balloons at undisclosed locations across the United States. DARPA hopes the contest will lead to further research on broad-scope problems that can be tackled using social networking tools.
– A team of MIT students has captured DARPA’s (Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency) Network Challenge, a competition requiring
participants to locate 10 large, red balloons at undisclosed locations
across the United States. Utilizing social networking tools, the
winning MIT team identified t…