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PARC's Responsive Mirror = Every Girl's Shopping Fantasy Come True
30 June 2009 | Boing Boing
by Lisa Katayama
By streaming video taken by the camera through their spatially oriented machine learning software, PARC researchers have figured out how to give people like me a real-time interactive comparison shopping experience... The technology hasn't hit retailers yet, but PARC researchers are hoping to implement it in dressing rooms soon.
Mr. Taggy & the History of Search at PARC
30 June 2009 | Boing Boing
by Steven Leckart
There are plenty of nifty search engines that don't begin with "Goo" and end with "gle," as Wired points out. But one site they forgot to include is MrTaggy, which was created by PARC's Augmented Social Cognition Area...The goal: be part-search, part-recommendation engine by tapping the wisdom of the crowd.
PARC: Flexible Electronics
30 June 2009 | Boing Boing
by Lisa Katayama
By building circuits and electrical connections into bendable plastics, glass, and metal foil substrates, they're paving the way for new technologies like flexible flat-panel displays, medical image sensors, and electronic paper. Because flexible electronics are super lightweight, rugged, and can be rolled or folded into smaller pieces, they are expected to take mobility and portability to new levels.
Cell Phones That Listen and Learn
22 June 2009 | Technology Review
by Kristina Grifantini
Kurt Partridge, a researcher at PARC, who has also created cell-phone software that tracks behavior, believes that the SoundSense project exploits an underused resource. "I don't think the field has really realized both how little power audio-based activity-sensing takes, and how informative it can be," Partridge says. "Audio can distinguish so many more activities [and] adds a social aspect to contextual sensing that's not possible otherwise."
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May 2009
Spotlight: Models and tools for increasing innovation strategies and thriving in uncertain times
A Frost & Sullivan Web eBroadcast
Leading companies are increasingly relying on ecosystem-based models to enter new, high-growth markets. How does a company exploit the innovation ecosystem to develop and execute new ideas? Why it is often necessary to pursue different types of innovation partnerships for different growth horizons? These questions will be answered during this Frost & Sullivan eBroadcast, where you can hear best practice perspectives from PARC, Sun Microsystems, and Frost & Sullivan analysts to help move from entrenched product offerings/market applications to new growth-based innovation models.
Strategies and Tools for Navigating and Thriving in Uncertain Times: 5th Annual Innovations in New Product Development and Marketing
A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange: June 7-10 in San Francisco, California
At this exclusive event, 18 interactive sessions will focus on the top concerns of innovation executives: Innovation Strategy and Process; Product and Technology Innovation; and Marketing in the Innovation Process. On Tuesday, June 9, PARC will facilitate an interactive breakout session, “The Makings of a World-Class Innovation Team.” For a $500 registration discount, use code PDSSP500.
Featured: “OPTOmism” Powering the Green Revolution through Photonics
This conference (May 18-20, Santa Clara, California) explored the business and technical aspects of optoelectronics in the rapidly emerging green market, and addressed the growing and critical role of green optics and photonics -- solar energy, solid state lighting, energy management, smart buildings, metrology, and green processes. Photonic sensors, which support better utilization of renewable and non-renewable resources, also will play a key role in green IT, communications, and information display. A partnering association in support of this first-time event, PARC participated by highlighting optical system design expertise for concentrator photovoltaic technology, and broad capabilities in optoelectronics innovation.
On the Road: Innovative Hydrodynamic Clarification as Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis Membranes
The 13th Water Reuse and Desalination Conference (May 18-19, Huntington Beach, California) highlighted research likely to generate scientific breakthroughs in water reuse and desalination. Water reuse and desalination professionals attend this conference to learn about new research developments and emerging trends. PARC scientist Dr. Meng Lean described a rapid, in-line, hydrodynamic clarification process that does not require a filtration barrier for source water pretreatment in front of reverse osmosis membranes. The ability to treat neutrally buoyant suspensions makes this method ideal for seawater -- resulting water quality is shown to be comparable to permeate waters from membrane filtration systems.
People: PARC Scientist Bo Begole named ACM CHI 2011 Technical Program Co-chair
Dr. Bo Begole is Technical Program Co-chair for the 2011 ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2011), the premier forum for research and innovations in the way people interact with information and technology. Bo manages PARC’s Ubiquitous Computing area, which aims to simplify the complexity of our social, device, and information networks by creating computational models of the ways people behave to accomplish their goals.
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Public Gets Sneak Peek at Xerox's Erasable Paper at WIRED NextFest
26 September 2008
Xerox researchers have developed an experimental printing technology that could someday replace printed pages that are used for just a brief time before being discarded. The project is a collaborative development between the Xerox Research Centre of Canada and PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc.)
PARC to develop sensor tape technology to track exposure to explosive blasts
DARPA program builds on PARC foundation in printing large-area, flexible electronics
3 June 2008
PARC has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and prototype, all-printed, disposable, blast dosimeters.
Incubating Inside Xerox Labs: Innovation that Benefits the Workplace, Healthcare, and the Environment
Xerox and global partners reveal unexpected projects during Inside Innovation event at PARC
29 April 2008
The event showcased new technologies: clean tech, biomedical/rare cell detection, greener plastics, advances in printheads, intelligent redaction, next-generation categorization, seamless documents, one-to-one communications technology, and higher dimensions of documents.
Xerox Unveils Technology That Blocks Access to Sensitive Data in Documents to Prevent Security Leaks
15 October 2007
Researchers from PARC demonstrated for the first time a new software technology (dubbed "intelligent redaction") that will greatly increase accuracy while reducing the time needed to remove sensitive or confidential material from documents.
PARC Opens Doors to Entrepreneurs
Startup@PARC program to help launch businesses by offering technical and scientific expertise to entrepreneurs and investors
21 September 2007
Building upon PARC’s success in strategic partnerships with new ventures, the program leverages the fabled research center’s approach to open innovation, a business model established in 2002 when PARC was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation.
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