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New PARC grant worth up to $8M
1 September 2010 | Silicon Valley/ San Jose Business Journal
"PARC -- the sole commercial organization funded within the entire FIA program -- will be collaborating with nine universities in a team led by UCLA."
Re-thinking the Internet with security and mobility in mind
31 August 2010 | Scientific American
by Larry Greenemeier
"The Internet's original design accounts primarily for information to be passed from one host server to another along a wired network. Attempts to secure these hosts and networks have come as an afterthought (ARPANET was originally a closed network) and have struggled to keep pace with society's expanding economic and social reliance on the Internet. Likewise, the host-based architecture (where computers seek access to information from a specific server or group of servers) is starting to look creaky as the number of computers and mobile devices seeking access multiplies exponentially each year.
An NSF-sponsored FIA project headed by Lixia Zhang, a computer science professor at UCLA, seeks to create a more efficient Internet through the distribution of data." Zhang and her team [which includes PARC] are developing what they call a Named Data Networking (NDN) architecture...
Make Your Outlook Inbox Smarter with Meshin [INVITES]
30 August 2010 | Mashable
by Christina Warren
"Quick Pitch: Meshin is an Outlook sidebar that organizes information contextually so that you can work faster and smarter.
Genius Idea: Using semantic technology and natural language processing, Meshin can take information from your inbox and connect it with related information on the web and conversations on social networks. Meshin is a Xerox-funded project incubated at PARC, where the Meshin team has worked on developing semantic technologies to create what they call 'context-aware information services'. In other words, this is technology that can go beyond keyword matching and create actual meaning."
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PARC scientist awarded The Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics
The American Institute of Physics awarded the 2010 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics “for developing proven technologies” to PARC’s Robert Street, “inventor of digital x-ray detector”. His pioneering work at PARC led to the development of flat-panel digital x-ray detectors, a commercially available technology that replaced traditional film x-ray machines for many medical applications.
Printed electronics: the opportunity (and the challenge)
A $300 billion industry is in the making. Raghu Das, CEO of analyst firm IDTechEx (and the first guest contributor to PARC’s blog), argues that the “printed electronics” industry will eventually become far larger than the semiconductor industry today.
Open source release for CCN -- a new approach to networking
PARC just released an early version of open source infrastructure software and protocol specifications for our "Content-Centric Networking (CCN)" architecture.
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PARC Awarded ‘National Science Foundation’ Funding to Expand Fundamental Research in Content-Centric Networking
-- Part of NSF’s new “Future Internet Architecture” program, the Named-Data-Networking (NDN) grant includes PARC and nine universities
1 September 2010
PARC, a Xerox company, today announced it is one of four project teams chosen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue ways to build a more trustworthy and robust Internet. The new “Future Internet Architecture” (FIA) program is focused on collaborative, long-range, transformative thinking about new comprehensive network architectures and concepts. PARC – the sole commercial organization funded within the entire FIA program – will be collaborating with nine universities in a team led by UCLA for “Named-Data-Networking (NDN)” in a grant worth up to $8M...PARC brings to the program its Content-Centric Networking (CCN) research launched by PARC Research Fellow Van Jacobson just four years ago. The CCN work has produced early protocol specifications and open source software which PARC released to encourage collaborative experimentation by the research community just as NSF is promoting with the FIA program. PARC is contributing the open source software as a base for the NDN project to build upon and extend...In addition to working on NDN for the NSF program, PARC is also working with a number of companies to explore commercial applications of Content-Centric Networking in various domains.
Power Assure and PARC to Virtualize Power Consumption in Data Centers
Joint Development Effort Will Significantly Reduce Electrical Energy Consumption without Impacting Quality of Service
27 January 2010
“PARC’s optimization approach to improve energy efficiency for data centers is a natural fit for Power Assure’s product roadmap, especially with the increasing use of virtualization tools,” said Brad Wurtz, Power Assure’s CEO. “We are pleased with how smoothly the two companies worked together to develop not only the DOE proposal, but also a partnering arrangement that aligns the long-term interests of both companies.”
PARC to address disruptive innovation in the flexible electronics industry and showcase materials-to-device capabilities at FlexTech 2010
CEO Mark Bernstein will deliver a keynote address on the changing ecosystem model for moving technologies from research to applications
27 January 2010
Bernstein will share some of PARC’s lessons learned, case studies, and recommendations for addressing the challenges raised by disrupted lab-to-market ecosystems. Some of these include how companies can: create an early warning system; bring in outside expertise/ open innovation partners; and position themselves flexibly for new near- and long-term opportunities.
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