Intel and Microsoft launch Par Lab at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley is partnering with Intel and Microsoft to establish the Par Lab, which will accelerate developments in parallel computing and advance the powerful benefits of multi-core processing to mainstream consumer and business computers.

 

Research from this effort is expected to lead to powerful new mainstream applications, such as a cell phone that allows a user to recognize the face of an approaching acquaintance and, more importantly, to whisper that person's name into the user's ear. Another application may be speech recognition software that can act as a court reporter by providing an accurate, written record of what was said by numerous people in a court or conference room.

 

Read the UC Berkeley press release.