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HP Labs Chief Engineer to offer “A glimpse into the future at HP Labs”
Contributed by Simon Firth, freelance technology journalist
Next month Chandrakant Patel, HP Labs Chief Engineer, will offer “A glimpse into the future at HP Labs” at HP Discover 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“I’ll be sharing how we look at emerging trends to understand where our industry—and our world—is headed,” says Patel. “I’ll also detail how we transform HP Labs ideas into innovations and work with our colleagues in HP’s business units to commercialize our work.”
As an example, Patel will highlight Labs’ transformation of the data center through innovations in power and cooling, microgrids, sensing and control, and energy efficient server design. Labs researchers are now re-inventing the data center once again to tackle the coming ‘data deluge’ – the result of connecting our physical and digital worlds into an ‘internet of things.’
HP's innovation engine
Every year a preselected group of engineers from across all of HP gathers at an undisclosed location to share the latest projects they're working on and more importantly to network. The gathering is called Tech Con. Many of HP's innovations had their starting point during this annual confab of HP's global engineering community.
In a post published on HP Next, Martin Fink, HP CTO and Director of HP Labs, gives his take on why this meeting is crucial to HP's innovation pipeline.
Meet HP intern Kyungyong Lee
Contributed by Simon Firth, freelance technology journalist
Kyungyong Lee is two thirds of his way into a year-long internship in HP’s Systems Research Lab. A native of Busan, South Korea, Lee received his undergraduate degree from Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul, and then worked for Samsung as a software engineer for four years before deciding to pursue graduate studies. He is currently a PhD student in computer engineering at the University of Florida. After experiencing the flatlands of Florida, Lee’s enjoying being back in a region with some serious mountains. He hikes in the California foothills and Sierras when he can, and stays fit by cycling to work every day.
Alistair Veitch named HP’s newest HP Fellow
Contributed by Simon Firth, freelance technology journalist
Storage expert Alistair Veitch is HP Labs’ newest HP Fellow, joining a select group of HP researchers recognized as leaders and technical pioneers in their respective fields.
The author of almost 40 peer-reviewed papers and the holder of over 25 patents, Veitch has wide-ranging research interests in computer science, with a particular interest in storage and distributed systems. He’s worked in areas as diverse as operating systems design, software engineering, database systems, storage systems management, and information management.
Since joining HP Labs in 1998, Veitch has led break-through research in storage systems management and design, including the first demonstrations of completely self-managing storage systems. He was the lead architect for the Federated Array of Bricks project, which demonstrated that it was possible to build enterprise-class disk arrays from distributed, commodity components.
3D mobile technology makes innovation real at HP Labs
Contributed by E.G.Nadhan, HP Distinguished Technologist. Nadhan is an active blogger on the HP Services Journey through Enterprise IT Sevices blog. He has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, has co-authored several books and is an astute observer of the services technology landscape.
Innovation is a regular phenomenon at HP Labs – I have discussed this in innovating the Planet by 2020, improving patient care in the Healthcare industry as well as flexible displays. So, it was no surprise to see the glasses-free, portable 3D display technology from HP Labs in the MIT Technology Review. However, innovation is not just about technical marvels – it becomes real when it improves our quality of life. This came up when I engaged in a discussion about innovation with my college-going niece, Kavita who was simply fascinated by this technology.
As an under-graduate in the field of commerce, Kavita brings an interesting non-technical perspective of the next generation of innovators.
We started with a baseline definition for innovation, which continued to evolve, based on her comments:





