PARC Innovations Update (2006 #2)

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• Feature Story: Inside Search — What “Search” Really Means and Where Its Going
• News: PARC expertise enables new display technology for Uni-Pixel, Inc.
• Event: PARC joins EPA-award winning Sustainable Silicon Valley
• Awards/ Interests: Poker madness at PARC
• People & Jobs: An inside look at PARC’s culture and environment

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Feature Story: Inside Search — What “Search” Really Means and Where Its Going

Old models of search, which focus only on finding information from the Internet and on desktops, are out. So what’s next? Read about where search is going and a new set of technologies unveiled by PARC researchers.

News: PARC expertise enables new display technology for Uni-Pixel, Inc.

PARC has significant experience with MEMS and display technologies, and is now providing applied expertise to Uni-Pixel’s flat-panel color display development efforts.

Event: PARC joins EPA-award winning Sustainable Silicon Valley

PARC pledged to further reduce CO2 emissions when it joined EPA-award winning organization Sustainable Silicon Valley, a collaboration of businesses, governments, and NGOs that are identifying and addressing key environmental and resource pressures.

Awards/ Interests: Poker madness at PARC

PARC Area Manager Eric Saund won the Best Conference Paper Award for his personal paper (presented at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games), “Capturing the Information Conveyed by Opponents’ Betting Behavior in Poker”. According to Saund, “Poker is a currently popular instance of a very general machine learning and inference problem in understanding the activities of intentional agents.” Other pertinent PARC poker papers (alliteration aside!) include “Dealing Cards in Poker Games” and “Keeping Bots out of Online Games”.

People & Jobs: An inside look at PARC’s culture and environment

PARC has continually delivered industry-transforming innovations for over 35 years. What kind of people, mindsets, and environments are behind PARC’s innovation edge?