2007 feature stories and news articles

	November

» Apostolopoulos named IEEE Fellow
November 2007
John Apostolopoulos, a distinguished technologist and manager of the HP Labs Streaming Media Systems Group, has been chosen as an IEEE Fellow.

» Berners-Lee creating a science of the Web
November 2007
The man who invented the Web is creating a multidisciplinary science to study the Web and advance its future.

» HP Appoints Vladimir Polutin as Director of HP Labs Russia
November 2007
Vladimir Polutin has been appointed to lead the St. Petersburg facility of HP Labs, the company's central research arm.

» A conversation with Oren Ariel
November 2007
Oren Ariel, the new director of HP Labs Israel, discusses his background in enterprise software and how he might shape the lab.

» The life of a packet: Read Susie Wee's blog
November 2007
Wee talks about the research challenges involved in emerging mobile and media applications in a keynote speech at the PacketVideo 2007 Workshop.

» Painless injection systems wins innovation award
November 2007
A smart skin patch for pain-free injections based on HP’s thermal inkjet technology has received an Emerging Tech award.

» Capturing China's knowledge
November 2007
China will use the open-source DSpace digital archiving system created by HP and MIT to preserve cultural and academic treasures and create a virtual museum for the 2008 Olympics.

» An online color-naming thesaurus
November 2007
Color names are a powerful means of selecting and communicating colors. Try out our online color thesaurus.

» Stan Williams awarded Seaborg Medal
November 2007
HP Senior Fellow R. Stanley Williams has received the prestigious Glenn T. Seaborg Medal awarded by the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

» A conversation with Prith Banerjee
November 2007
HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee talks about why he left academia for HP Labs, what challenges the lab faces and why open innovation is essential for the future.

» Smarter shopping
November 2007
Researchers at HP Labs are exploring systems that blend the immediacy of in-store shopping with the information-rich experience of its online counterpart.

	October

» Operating-systems group selects paper for Hall of Fame
October 2007
A paper by HP Fellow David P. Reed has received a Hall of Fame award from SIGOPS, the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems.

	September

» The future of global IT: It's all about energy
September 2007
Creating, purchasing and operating IT systems needs to change, says HP Fellow Chandrakant Patel

	August

» Big Bang: HP helps CERN unlock the secrets of the universe
August 2007
HP technologies are contributing to CERN's Large Hadron Collider project to probe the secrets of the universe.

» Share, store, print - using your mobile phone
August 2007
Cloudprint lets you print from almost anywhere in the world using just your telephone number and a document code.

» Memory Spot wins Computerworld Horizon Award for cutting-edge technologies
August 2007
Memory Spot, a wireless data chip, has the potential to revolutionize the way people store information on paper and other physical objects.

» Partha Ranganathan named to Technology Review 35
August 2007
Partha Ranganathan, a leader in the field of energy-efficient computing, has been named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT's Technology Review.

» Introducing Prith Banerjee: New director brings new approach
August 2007
HP Labs' new director, Prith Banerjee, brings a unique background to the job -- he's the first academic to hold the director's position, the first born outside the U.S. and the first to have founded two startup companies.

	July

» ChinaNANO best poster award goes to HP researchers
July 2007
A team from HP's Quantum Science Research group has received the best poster award at ChinaNANO 2007, one of the premier nanotech conferences worldwide.

» Researcher's paper named best at IEEE conference
July 2007
A publication on a self-tuning hierarchical aggregation system by Praveen Yalagandula has received the best paper award at the first IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007).

» Susie Wee chosen for ComputerWorld's "40 under 40"
July 2007
Susie Wee has been selected for ComputerWorld magazine's annual "40 under 40" list of IT innovators for her work co-editing the new JPSEC standard for JPEG-2000 image security.

» Snap, match, shop - Color-matching made simple
July 2007
Researchers applied their expertise in color science, imaging and mobile communications to create an experimental color-matching technology that turns any camera-equipped phone into a mobile makeup advisor.

	June

» E pluribus Pluribus - out of many projectors, one super screen
June 2007
Pluribus, a flexible projector technology developed at HP Labs, can project crystal-clear, wall-sized images for one-tenth the price of existing projection systems.

» The data center in 2012: It's self-managed
June 2007
The computing demands of Web 2.0 will require entirely new types of data centers, says Rich Friedrich in his keynote at this year's IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007).

	May

» U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits HP Labs
May 2007
HP hosted U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on a visit designed to focus attention on innovation and technology.

» Research manager elected president of leading imaging society
May 2007
Eric Hanson has been elected president of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), the premier professional organization for imaging and printing research.

» Are you ready to mscape? Virtual world gets physical
May 2007
HP has launched a prototype toolkit that lets you can create and share games, tours, stories, art and other location-based experiences called mediascapes. The tool is available for free at http://www.mscapers.com.

» Best of CHI goes to HP researchers' paper
May 2007
An HP Labs paper on consuming video on mobile devices received a "best of CHI" award at this year's Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference.

	April

» Let the games begin
April 2007
HP is moving seriously into gaming, and HP researchers are ready with a host of new technologies.

	March

» Quantum leap for cryptography: Technology could bring absolute security to everyday tasks
March 2007
HP researchers are working to build quantum cryptography into PDAs or mobile phones, possibly replacing passwords and PINs for common transactions.

» HP joins bio-info-nano research collaboration
March 2007
HP has become the first corporate affiliate of a new research institute dedicated to creating scientific breakthroughs made possible by the convergence of biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology.

	February

» Gesture-based keyboard wins Indian innovation award
February 2007
A gesture-based keyboard developed by HP Labs India has received India's prestigious National Associate of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) Innovation in IT award.

	January

» Jouppi named ACM Fellow
January 2007
Norm Jouppi, who is widely known for his contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance processors and memory systems, has been named a fellow of the ACM.

» Introducing HP Labs Russia
January 2007
Beth Keer, acting director of HP Labs Russia, talks about the site's focus on information management research.

» A novel way to better chips: New design could lead to chips that cost less, consume less power, but provide higher performance
January 2007
Researchers at HP Labs have demonstrated a new chip architecture that could lead to dramatic increases in performance without some of the problems in current designs.