News and events

December 2009

» HP Appoints Dr. Min Wang as Director of HP Labs China

December 2009
Dr. Min Wang has been appointed to lead the Beijing, China facility of HP Labs, the company's central research arm.

 

» HP Labs debuts autogreetingcard.com

December 2009
Innovative web-based service gives you a new way to create and print unique, customized greetings cards.

 

» Streamlining Innovation

December 2009
HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee discusses the company's corporate innovation strategy with technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant Sramana Mitra. The column appeared in Forbes.com.

 

» "Patterns in Videos and News Stories Can Help Predict Ad Revenue, Optimize Web Content"

December 2009
Research in HP's Social Computing Lab led by HP Senior Fellow Bernardo Huberman is profiled in the December 7 issue of Advertising Age.

 

» Partnering with the best

December 2009
HP Labs' Open Innovation Office announces its third annual Innovation Research Program.

 

» HP Labs director Prith Banerjee profiled in IEEE magazine

December 2009
In the December issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine Tekla S. Perry provides an in-depth profile of HP Labs director Prith Banerjee.

 

November 2009

» Earth calling: Turn off the lights!

November 2009
HP Labs is developing a network of tiny, cheap, tough and exquisitely sensitive detectors that will make life more convenient and safer today while laying the groundwork for worldwide awareness tomorrow.

 

October 2009

» HP BookPrep delivers access to nearly 500,000 out-of-print library books

October 2009
HP BookPrep, a cloud service derived from HP Labs that enables on-demand printing of books, will make a large number of out-of-print books available for sale through a collaboration with the University of Michigan Library.

 

» HP brings magazine publishing to Wikia through collaboration with MagCloud

October 2009
Users of the consumer publishing platform can now access online content through MagCloud, an HP cloud service that automates magazine publishing. MagCloud started as an incubation project in HP Labs, the company's central research arm.

 

» Frustration-free photo books

October 2009
HP Labs launches Magic Photobook, a breakthrough solution to the most difficult and frustrating steps of photo book creation.

 

September 2009

» HP Labs' role in implementing an innovative idea

September 2009
In an article published in Business Week Jessie Scanlon describes how "Hewlett-Packard negotiated internal stumbling blocks to roll out "everything-as-a-service", its new company-wide strategy."

 

» Integrating memristors with existing computer hardware

September 2009
An article in New Scientist profiles the latest advances made in memristor research by HP Fellow Stan Williams and team.

 

» A global conference, right at your desk

September 2009
HP Labs technology powers HP SkyRoom, the company's latest high fidelity video collaboration solution.

 

» Recycling revamped

September 2009
HP Labs develops a 'universal' process to remove all kinds of inks from all kinds of print media.

 

» "Seeing a fabulous vision of the future"

September 2009
San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy recounts his visit to HP Labs.

 

August 2009

» HP Labs Innovation Press Tour

August 2009
On Friday, August 28th, San Francisco Bay Area media outlets attended an innovation tour of HP Labs Palo Alto, learning about the focused transformation of HP Labs. Here are three of the resulting stories:

HP Labs researchers shift focus to bottom line
Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writer

HP Labs rolls its own paper-thin plastic displays for Dick Tracy watches
Dean Takahashi, Venture Beat

HP shows off the works in its labs
Brandon Bailey, San Jose Mercury News

 

» HP Labs featured in the New York Times

August 2009
In an article published on Sunday August 16th, "The Corporate Lab as Ringmaster", Steve Lohr (New York Times) discusses the role of the corporate R&D lab in today's Internet era, in which the concept of open innovation has become paramount to a company's research model.

 

» HP Labs Takes Innovative Approach to Corporate Research

August 2009
Technology blogger John Furrier sat down recently with Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President and Director of HP Labs, and Chandrakant Patel, Director of the Sustainability Lab, for an in-depth interview about the full scope of HP Labs' mission in the areas of high-impact research, open innovation and technology transfer.

 

July 2009

» INFORMS presents HP with 2009 Franz Edelman trophy

July 2009
The 2009 Franz Edelman Award trophy was presented to Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President of the Personal Systems Group, and Shane Robison, HP Chief Strategy and Technology Officer.

 

» Fast, cheap and under control

July 2009
HP Labs introduces sparse indexing to radically improve data backup for small and medium-sized businesses.

 

» Can I have your attention!

July 2009
HP Labs pilots i-catcher, a service that automatically maximizes the viewership of media Web sites

 

June 2009

» HP Appoints Doron Shaked as Director of HP Labs Israel

June 2009
Doron Shaked has been appointed to lead the Israel facility of HP Labs, the company's central research arm.

 

» Pushing scientific frontiers by partnering with the best

June 2009
HP Labs announces the recipients of its second annual Innovation Research Awards.

 

» Meeting in (and Over) the Cloud

June 2009
HP hosted the first ever Open Cirrus Summit on cloud computing, bringing together sites and researchers participating in the Open Cirrus collaborative test environment to share project progress, discuss new opportunities and further solidify research into all aspects of large-scale cloud systems.

 

» HP, Intel and Yahoo! Attract Leading Research Organizations to Collaborative Cloud Computing Test Bed

June 2009
HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced that three new research organizations will join Open Cirrus™, a global, multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research.

 

» Fully coordinated

June 2009
A new approach from HP Labs makes data centers more efficient, stable and cheaper to run.

 

» Open Cirrus Summit

June 2009
Open Cirrus Summit, hosted by HP, Intel and Yahoo, will be held in Palo Alto, CA, June 8-9, 2009. Open Cirrus™ is an open cloud-computing research testbed designed to support research into the design, provisioning, and management of services at a global, multi-datacenter scale.

 

May 2009

» HP Appoints Sudhir Dixit as Director of HP Labs India

May 2009
Sudhir Dixit has been appointed to lead the Bangalore facility of HP Labs, the company's central research arm.

 

» HP Labs Director among the most creative people in business

May 2009
Fast Company magazine released it's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business" with Prith Banerjee ranked No. 11 among "new thinkers, rising stars, and boldface names who couldn't be ignored."

 

» Central Nervous System for the Earth

May 2009
Forbes magazine profiles "CeNSE," the multi-year project led by HP Labs nanotechnology researcher Peter Hartwell that aims to deploy billions of nano-scale sensors for real-time monitoring.

 

» Robert E. Tarjan named SIAM Fellow

May 2009
HP Senior Fellow Robert Tarjan has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his work on the design and analysis of algorithms.

 

» HP CloudPrint for BlackBerry Smartphones

May 2009
The CloudPrint service enables mobile users to easily print to the nearest printer. The service is printer-agnostic and driverless and requires simple Internet access. The CloudPrint technology was invented by HP Labs.

 

» Imagining the Future of Publishing

May 2009
Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology's Open Publishing Lab, winner of a 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, are showcasing their research at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival in Rochester, New York.

 

April 2009

» Innovation + Smart Planning = Happy Customers

April 2009
HP Labs' Revenue Coverage Optimization tool breaks new ground in operations research, improves the customer experience and saves HP millions of dollars in the process.

 

» Gift of the Gab

April 2009
HP launches Gabble, enabling private video conversations between groups of friends.

 

» The Green Enterprise: HP

April 2009
A video profile by ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das looks at HP's Eco Solutions.

 

» Technology critical to turning mass of data into useful insight

April 2009
Prith Banerjee, HP Labs SVP and Research Director, discusses the state of R&D investment and innovation in the US.

 

» Stan Williams - ACE Innovator of the Year

April 2009
HP Labs Senior Fellow Stan Williams is the winner of this year's EETimes ACE Award for Innovator of the Year.

 

March 2009

» HP Labs 'Media Breakfast' highlights research progress over the past year

March 2009
HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee spoke to a group of key business and technology journalists at a Media Breakfast held on March 13, 2009, in San Francisco.

 

» HP Labs 2008 Annual Report now available

March 2009
The HP Labs Annual Report highlights our research themes, significant inventions, open innovation activities and, most importantly, our research team.

 

» The ThinkJet turns 25

March 2009
Thirty years ago this week, HP Labs launched a research project destined to reshape the printing industry and the company itself.

 

» Getting creative at the photo shop

March 2009
HP Labs reinvents photo layout software, making photo kiosks much easier to use

 

February 2009

» Computer systems research at HP Labs featured in January issue of Operating Systems Review

February 2009
This special issue of OSR is dedicated to showcasing the breadth and depth of computer systems research at HP Labs.

 

» Placing trust in the business PC

February 2009
Trusted Virtualization keeps employees from compromising their employer's IT investments.

 

» Rebuilding cities right

February 2009
Old cities need new, smarter infrastructures, says HP Labs Fellow Chandrakant Patel

 

» Are you up for the challenge?

February 2009
HP Labs joins the ACM 2009 Multimedia Grand Challenge to address the sector's most pressing needs.

 

January 2009

» Umeshwar Dayal named ACM fellow

January 2009
HP Fellow Umeshwar Dayal was named ACM Fellow for contributions to managing federated, active, and heterogeneous databases.

 

» Partnering with the best

January 2009
HP Labs' Open Innovation Office announces its second annual Innovation Research Program

 

» HP Labs' research featured in "Wired" top 10 list

January 2009
Two technology breakthroughs announced last year by HP Labs were included in Wired.com's recent list of "Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008."

 

» Electronic paper moves closer to mass-adoption

January 2009
Digital displays are finally poised to make the leap from the lab to production on a mass scale.