Intel Research is focused on a vision of Essential Computing: simplifying and enriching all aspects of work and daily life through application and system technologies that collectively empower individuals, connect them to each other and into the fabric of networking society.

The Intel Mote 2 platform embodies multiple years of research in low-power, high-performance building blocks for wireless sensor networks. Crossbow Technology Inc. recently introduced a commercial line of licensed products based on this innovative platform for the broad research community.

University of California, Berkeley announced the results of a collaborative effort between Aravind Eye Hospital in India, the University of California (UC) Berkeley and Intel Corporation. Researchers from UC Berkeley's Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) team and Intel Research's lab on the UC Berkeley campus, developed a new wireless technology system to enable low-cost vision care for thousands of residents of rural villages in India.

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These recent presentations from the Spring 2005 Intel® Developer Forum give you the technical details on the technology advancements.

The Spring 2006 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) is the premier technology industry event where attendees can learn, collaborate and innovate with technologists and top companies from around the world and around the Intel ecosystem. This three-day event focused on Intel® Next Generation Micro-Architecture for future digital home, digital enterprise, mobile platforms, and low-power technology that will enable a new category of converged consumer devices.

The scenarios above hint at the enormous potential of wireless sensor networks. By delivering detailed data about the physical world, sensor networks can vastly enrich our understanding of how the world works, opening the door to entirely new computing applications.

Intel Research has been exploring the application of virtual machine technology to the system management challenge.

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is an association of more than 200 North American academic computer departments, laboratories and centers in industry, government, academia and affiliated professional societies.

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Madeleine Glick, of the Intel Research Cambridge Lab has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP). The IOP is an international society which promotes the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and education in the science of physics, pure and applied. The IOP has >37,000 members of which are approximately 1/10th are Fellows. Fellows are elected on the basis of "outstanding contributions to Physics at the highest levels".

Dr. Roy Want, a Principal Engineer at Intel Research and leader of the Ubiquity project, has been named a Fellow by two leading industry organizations, the IEEE and ACM.

MIT Technology Review Magazine article "Sensors Without Batteries" profiles Intel Research Seattle Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform.

Eric Brewer gave the keynote speech at the International World Wide Web Conference in Chiba, Japan in May 2005, on "The Case for Technology for Developing Regions."