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HP Labs Adopts 41 University Projects

EE Times (08/14/08) Merritt, Rick

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs researchers have selected 41 academic projects from 34 institutions to receive up to $100,000 in funding for one year as part of HP's first annual Innovation Research Awards. Some of the projects will focus on new modeling tools to create energy-efficient data centers, more powerful lasers to create faster optical interconnects, and online agents for more accurate predictions. "Deepening HP Labs' strategic collaboration with those in academia, government, and the commercial sector ensures HP's research endeavors result in high-impact research that meets the scientific and business objectives of HP and its partners," says HP Labs director Prith Banerjee. Four of the projects focus on quantum devices that could possibly replace semiconductors. In one of those projects, University of California at Santa Barbara's John Bowers will use CMOS to design a hybrid silicon ring resonator laser that could power tiny lasers for next-generation optical interconnects. Meanwhile, University of California, Berkeley researchers are developing a tool to model the energy efficiency of data centers, and separate projects at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan will look at automated tools as a way of managing super-sized data centers. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher will examine automated Internet tools and explore the possibility of prediction economies.

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