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At the Computer History Museum last Wednesday, Intel CTO Justin Rattner unveiled more than 70 futuristic projects and concepts underway in Intel’s labs in the areas of the environment, healthcare, visual computing, wireless mobility and more, reflecting areas where the company is investing some of its annual $6 billion in research.

These experiments will turn into products in the next 5 years or so.

Some of the projects are:

Visual Computing

Programming everyday computers for best graphics and real time visual computing.
As future Intel chips scale from a few cores to many, the transition to mainstream parallel computing in which multiple computer tasks are handled simultaneously will result in an explosion of visual computing capabilities including life-like 3-D environments, immediate, real-world analysis of video feeds and more natural ways for people to interact with their devices.

Intel, together with Neusoft, demonstrated a future car application with cameras as eyes and multi-core processor-based computers as the brain. Future cars will be able to much more accurately identify other vehicles and pedestrians that are getting too close and alert drivers or take its own safe actions to prevent accidents.

Programming languages remain the issue and the car used Intel’s CT programming–an extension of C/C++.

Technology Advancing the Environment

Better the environment through smarter computer energy consumption.

Researchers are looking at ways to significantly improve the environment and energy efficiency of Intel-based products and systems with plans to continue improving a computer’s performance but at dramatically reduced levels of power consumption and electricity needs.

Intel researchers are exploring a new power management technique that could redefine the behavior and power management needs of future Intel-based computers.
The technique’s technologies, collectively called ” Platform Power Management,” operate by continually monitoring changes in a computer’s operation and intelligently reducing power, or turning off altogether, to portions of the system that are not in use such as the radio or USB ports. Early demonstrations of this work have shown power savings of more than 30 percent when a system is idle or lightly active.

Wireless

Ultra-fast and smarter technology for shrinking wireless world.

While Intel processors and mobile devices continue to shrink, demand for continuing the performance and Internet experience worthy of a fully loaded, larger laptop or desktop computer is ever increasing. Researchers at Intel are looking at technologies that will allow small Mobile Internet Devices to be aware of and interact with their surroundings, so that the consumer’s experience is not limited by the small size of the device.

Speech interfaces, for example, are particularly suitable for small mobile devices because of the limitation of the physical input and output channels. Intel researchers demonstrated a speech interface controlling the task of creating connections between two mobile devices and a wireless display with the goal of sharing resources and services. For example, consumers can speak commands in a natural manner to synch their mobile device with a large screen television to share recent photos of their children with grandparents.

Health

Connecting people and information for better health and healthcare.

For nearly 10 years, Intel has focused on people-centered research that leads to innovative technologies to improve the care of aging and chronically ill individuals in the home.

One example of Intel’s commitment to multidisciplinary research is its involvement in the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre, a groundbreaking research collaboration jointly funded by Intel Corporation and the Irish government to explore technologies that will enable people of any age to live independent lives.