News and events
December 2008
» mscapeFest locates to Belfast
December 2008
HP Labs just held its third annual mscapeFest conference for mscape, pervasive, locative and interactive media enthusiasts.
» (Tiny) Rings of Fire – sending data via light at the nano-scale
December 2008
Researchers at HP Labs are working toward putting photonics on the chip itself -- something that can only be done by working with light on the nano-scale.
» HP and Arizona State University Demo Flexible, Unbreakable Displays
December 2008
HP and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University (ASU) today announced the first prototype of affordable, flexible electronic displays.
November 2008
» Featured in Computer
November 2008
An article by Bernardo Huberman, a senior HP Fellow and director of the Social Computing Lab at HP Labs, about the role of social networks in the "generation, dissemniation and validation of ideas," was published in the November 2008 issue of the IEEE journal Computer.
» Chandrakant Patel named IEEE Fellow
November 2008
Chandrakant Patel, an HP Fellow at HP Labs and Director of the Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory, has been chosen as an IEEE Fellow.
» Blades of Light -- HP Labs puts optical connections inside the server
November 2008
Researchers at HP Labs are working toward using photonics – the science of transmitting information via light – to transmit data between the separate circuit boards, or blades, that typically make up a modern server.
September 2008
» Cloud computing pondered at eBay event
September 2008
Officials from companies such as HP and Joyent debated the merits and even the definition of cloud computing Monday during an event at eBay headquarters, emphasizing efforts underway and noting limitations to cloud computing on the software side.
August 2008
» MagCloudPublish, print your own magazine on demand
August 2008
MagCloud, a new service from HP Labs and HP Corporate Ventures, lets you create personalized magazines and economically print, promote, sell and deliver them on demand.
» The best and the brightest: Top universities worldwide win HP Labs awards for joint research
August 2008
Forty-one professors from some of the world's top technical universities are winners of HP Labs' inaugural Innovation Awards funding collaborative research for the next academic year and beyond.
July 2008
» Clear skies for cloud computing: New collaboration offers open cloud-computing research test bed
July 2008
Researchers will gain access to a vast store of computing power to test and advance new types of cloud-computing software, data center management and hardware issues as a result of a new collaboration involving HP, Intel, Yahoo! and several partners.
» Your photos, only better: Fast, auto photo fixes from HP Indigo and Snapfish Lab
July 2008
A glossy, beautifully produced book of photographs used to be something only publishing pros could dream of making. Today anyone can custom-create a high-quality photo book from a personal set of digital images and print it at a reasonable price. Yet the ability to print a personalized photo book brings its own set of problems: The images themselves.
June 2008
» Engineering memristor: Control over device could pave way for computers that learn
June 2008
HP Labs scientists who in April proved the existence of the memristor have made another significant advance toward developing a new type of computer memory that's many times faster than Flash and could lead to analog computers that process information in a manner similar to the human brain.
» Sustainable IT: New research could lower costs and reduce carbon footprint
June 2008
How can we keep growing the world’s economies while adding very little to – or even reducing – our impact on the environment? It’s one of the great dilemmas facing our planet today – and it presents IT researchers with an incredible opportunity.
» HP Labs Advances Sustainable IT with New Research Projects
June 2008
HP Labs announced three new sustainability research initiatives: an industry-first initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers by 75 percent, groundbreaking research to replace copper wiring in servers with laser light beams and tools for measuring and managing the amount of energy used to develop products.
» HP Licenses Technology to Xtreme Energetics for Creation of Super-efficient Solar Energy System
June 2008
HP has licensed transparent transistor technology developed in HP Labs to Xtreme Energetics of Livermore, CA, to develop a solar energy system designed to generate electricity at twice the efficiency and half the cost of traditional solar panels.
» Call for papers on energy, sustainability
June 2008
HP Labs is sponsoring a best paper award competition at ASME IMECE 2008, the preeminent technical conference for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
May 2008
» Memristor FAQ
May 2008
HP Senior Fellow Stan Williams answers readers' questions about the Memristor and provides additional technical detail.
» HP Labs Opens Research Opportunities to Academia
May 2008
HP issued a request for proposals for colleges, universities and research institutions worldwide to participate in joint research with HP Labs.
» InfoWorld Green 15 awarded to HP
May 2008
The award, for organizations that have embraced sustainable technologies, recognized HP for an experimental data center in Bangalore, India, where researchers are creating the next-generation of energy-management solutions.
April 2008
» Demystifying the memristor: Proof of fourth basic circuit element could transform computing
April 2008
Researchers have solved a decades-old mystery by proving the existence of a fourth basic element in integrated circuits that could make it possible to develop computers that turn on and off like an electric light.
» Featured in Nanotechnology
April 2008
A paper by members of the Information and Quantum Systems Lab on the practical implementation of nano-crossbar circuitry was the April 21 cover story in the journal Nanotechnology.
» Nathan Moroney named IS&T Fellow for color-science contributions
April 2008
Nathan Moroney has been named a fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) for his contributions to scientific experimentation, practical application and standardization of innovative color imaging technologies.
» New thin-film electronics manufacturing method wins award
April 2008
Self-aligned imprint lithography, a process developed by HP Labs and PowerFilm Solar for creating thin-film transistor backplanes like those used for flat panel TV monitors, received the Technical Development in Manufacturing award at Printed Electronics 2008.
» Picturing the future: Test new imaging applications at Snapfish Lab
April 2008
Snapfish Lab lets customers test experimental photo applications from HP Labs. It also represents a new model for research at HP.
March 2008
» Database expert is newest HP Fellow
March 2008
Goetz Graefe, one of the most accomplished and influential technologists in the areas of database query optimization and query processing, joined HP Labs in 2007.
» HP Labs transformed
March 2008
HP Labs is 42 years old this year. But that doesn't mean it can't act like a startup.
» HP Sharpens HP Labs to Drive High-impact Research
March 2008
HP Labs now consists of 23 distinct labs across seven worldwide locations. Collectively, the labs are focused on five main areas: information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability.
January 2008
» Painless injections possible with HP skin patch
January 2008
HP has invented the painless injection: a high-tech skin patch that uses inkjet technology to deliver drugs. It could one day become an alternative to the hypodermic needle.