Google is the best search engine on the Net. And it's (still) free!
Their system is lightning fast and the results are very satisfying.
Strangely enough, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995. You can read more about their story and Google's history at the Google History
But these guys are clever! Besides an outstanding search engine, they also developed an advertising system called Google Adwords and Google Adsense that make them a lot of money AND makes money for those who use this advertising system! Great job.
And they have an email service called Gmail where the same search algorithms are used to search thousands and thousands of emails in a flash. A Gmail account has a storage capacity of 1,000 Megabytes (1 Gigabyte). Impressive.
(I have a few invitations left. If you want one, use the 'Contact An Own Site'-link at the right. You can thank me later.)
Google is in the news quite often. Below you'll find a nice selection of the latest blogposts about Google.
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Their system is lightning fast and the results are very satisfying.
Strangely enough, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995. You can read more about their story and Google's history at the Google History
But these guys are clever! Besides an outstanding search engine, they also developed an advertising system called Google Adwords and Google Adsense that make them a lot of money AND makes money for those who use this advertising system! Great job.
And they have an email service called Gmail where the same search algorithms are used to search thousands and thousands of emails in a flash. A Gmail account has a storage capacity of 1,000 Megabytes (1 Gigabyte). Impressive.
(I have a few invitations left. If you want one, use the 'Contact An Own Site'-link at the right. You can thank me later.)
Google is in the news quite often. Below you'll find a nice selection of the latest blogposts about Google.
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Intel and Microsoft have collaborated on Windows 7 since before Microsoft Vista launched to create the best experience for consumers and businesses. Hundreds of engineers produced advances in such areas as performance, responsiveness, security, energy efficiency and virtualization. In this video, Microsoft Fellow Mark Russinovich and Intel Fellow Shiv Kaushik discuss the joint effort.
The Intel Reader, a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who have trouble reading standard print, is now available to assist the more than 55 million people who have specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia or vision problems such as low-vision or blindness. This paperback book-sized device converts printed text to digital text and reads it aloud to the user, allowing people to access the information that many of us take for granted, such as reading a menu or a favorite book. The Intel Reader has been endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association as an important advance in assistive technology. View the press kit for more information.
In recognition of International Education Week, Intel ethnographer Tony Salvador discusses what he observed last week at the International eLearning Summit, a gathering of educators and policymakers from 40 countries. He reflects on the difficult - but essential - task many education decision makers are faced with to ensure their education systems are moving in the right direction. Tony calls outPortugal and Macedonia as leading countries supporting education, by investing in technology for enhancing and facilitating learning in the classroom. Read more from Tony and let us know your thoughts on how to improve our education system.
Intel Partners with White House to Advance Math and Science Education
Today, we had the honor of joining President Obama as he announced a national science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education initiative, called the “Educate to Innovate” campaign. This is the first time a president has made this level of commitment to math and science education. At Intel, math and science education has been a focus of more than $1 billion of investment and the catalyst to train more than 6 million teachers.
We are very excited to be working with the Administration’s Office of Science and Technology on this effort and, in support of the President’s campaign, Intel has committed more than $200 million over the next 10 years for teacher training. Former Intel Chairman and CEO Craig Barrett will serve as a co-chair of the President’s new program.
The private and public leaders involved in “Educate to Innovate” have set a goal to find and replicate successful science, math and technology programs all across America. The President talked about training teachers and hosting winners of science competitions that are the result of hands-on learning, which he did earlier this year by inviting winners of Intel Science Talent Search to the White House. These are areas where Intel can make difference.
The president also said that winners in science competitions should be honored like winners of NCAA championships. It was only fitting that the students from Oakton High School in Vienna, VA demonstrated an impressive robot that they invented to shoot hoops.
Through years of experience and thousands of hours in classrooms world-wide, Intel has identified two concrete areas that fall in line with President’s goals:
• Help prepare all students to take Algebra I by 8th grade. Intel will work with states, local education agencies and universities to train 100,000 American teachers in both Intel Math, a new, proven, results-driven math curriculum to increase knowledge and passion for the subject, as well as in Intel Teach, an ongoing program that trains teachers to use technology in the classroom, to help build the critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Allow every student an opportunity to learn science by doing science. Intel will develop new models for student research programs in rural, inner-city, low-income and high-minority classrooms across the U.S. that encourage hands-on science and math learning. Student achievements will be recognized in Intel’s science competitions – the Intel Science Talent Searchand the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the most prestigious science competitions in the world.
The President said today that an announcement like this “doesn’t get a lot of focus.” He pointed out that “they’re not what’s debated on cable.” This is exceptionally unfortunate, as we wholeheartedly agree with his opinion that “this is probably going to make more of a difference in determining how well we do as a country than just about anything else that we do here.”
Intel believes that our young people are the key to solving our global challenges. Please share your thoughts with us and help us build a broad commitment to improve math and science education across the country.
Tags: education, education to innovate, inspire, Intel, Math and Science, Obama, STEM
According to the December print edition of PC World, the Intel X25-M SSD ranked No. 3 in the PC World Top 100 Best Products of 2009, ahead of both Facebook and Twitter. According to the publication, "This model's speedy test results put it at the top of our chart; its price and performance make it a compelling flash upgrade for notebook or desktop users." SSDs, or Solid State Drives, are storage devices that can replace a computer's hard drive. Because SSDs have no moving parts they offer faster performance and greater energy efficiency and durability.
For the fourth time, students in grades 9 through 13 can now apply to participate in the Intel Leibniz Challenge hosted by Intel and the Leibniz University Hanover and supported by the Initiative D21. The contest aims to introduce young people to the engineering profession and arouse interest in natural and technical sciences. The registration period ends on February 28th, 2010. The Intel Leibniz Challenge is part of the Intel Education Initiative which covers a range of education advancement programs for pupils, students, pedagogues as well as young entrepreneurs. The multi-faceted programs aim to improve the teaching and learning environment at schools, universities, and other educational institutions while providing access to the latest computing technologies.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Concept chip from Intel Labs is aimed at scaling on-chip performance, communication and power consumption for decades to come.
- Contains the most Intel Architecture (IA) computing engines integrated on a silicon CPU chip – 48 cores -- while consuming only as much electricity as two standard household light bulbs.
- Processors could become smart enough to let PCs use "vision" to interact with people.
Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and servers. This futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside today's most popular Intel® Core™-branded processors.
The long-term research goal is to add incredible scaling features to future computers that spur entirely new software applications and human-machine interfaces. The company plans to engage industry and academia next year by sharing 100 or more of these experimental chips for hands-on research in developing new software applications and programming models.
While Intel will integrate key features in a new line of Core-branded chips early next year and introduce six- and eight-core processors later in 2010, this prototype contains 48 fully programmable Intel processing cores, the most ever on a single silicon chip. It also includes a high-speed on-chip network for sharing information along with newly invented power management techniques that allow all 48 cores to operate extremely energy efficiently at as little as 25 watts, or at 125 watts when running at maximum performance (about as much as today's Intel processors and just two standard household light bulbs).
Intel plans to gain a better understanding of how to schedule and coordinate the many cores of this experimental chip for its future mainstream chips. For example, future laptops with processing capability of this magnitude could have "vision" in the same way a human can see objects and motion as it happens and with high accuracy.
Imagine, for example, someday interacting with a computer for a virtual dance lesson or on-line shopping that uses a future laptop's 3-D camera and display to show you a "mirror" of yourself wearing the clothes you are interested in. Twirl and turn and watch how the fabric drapes and how the color complements your skin tone.
This kind of interaction could eliminate the need of keyboards, remote controls or joysticks for gaming. Some researchers believe computers may even be able to read brain waves, so simply thinking about a command, such as dictating words, would happen without speaking.
Intel Labs has nicknamed this test chip a "single-chip cloud computer" because it resembles the organization of datacenters used to create a "cloud" of computing resources over the Internet, a notion of delivering such services as online banking, social networking and online stores to millions of users.
Cloud datacenters are comprised of tens to thousands of computers connected by a physically cabled network, distributing large tasks and massive datasets in parallel. Intel's new experimental research chip uses a similar approach, yet all the computers and networks are integrated on a single piece of Intel 45nm, high-k metal-gate silicon about the size of a postage stamp, dramatically reducing the amount of physical computers needed to create a cloud datacenter.
"With a chip like this, you could imagine a cloud datacenter of the future which will be an order of magnitude more energy efficient than what exists today, saving significant resources on space and power costs," said Justin Rattner, head of Intel Labs and Intel's Chief Technology Officer. "Over time, I expect these advanced concepts to find their way into mainstream devices, just as advanced automotive technology such as electronic engine control, air bags and anti-lock braking eventually found their way into all cars."
Cores Allow Software to Intelligently Direct Data for Efficiency
The concept chip features a high-speed network between cores to efficiently share information and data. This technique gives significant improvement in communication performance and energy efficiency over today's datacenter model, since data packets only have to move millimeters on chip instead of tens of meters to another computer system.
Application software can use this network to quickly pass information directly between cooperating cores in a matter of a few microseconds, reducing the need to access data in slower
off-chip system memory. Applications can also dynamically manage exactly which cores are to be used for a given task at a given time, matching the performance and energy needs to the demands of each.
Related tasks can be executed on nearby cores, even passing results directly from one to the next as in an assembly line to maximize overall performance. In addition, this software control is extended with the ability to manage voltage and clock speed. Cores can be turned on and off or change their performance levels, continuously adapting to use the minimum energy needed at a given moment.
Overcoming Software Challenges
Programming processors with multiple cores is a well-known challenge for the industry as computer and software makers move toward many-cores on a single silicon chip. The prototype allows popular and efficient parallel programming approaches used in cloud datacenter software to be applied on the chip. Researchers from Intel, HP and Yahoo's Open Cirrus collaboration have already begun porting cloud applications to this 48 IA core chip using Hadoop, a Java software framework supporting data-intensive, distributed applications as demonstrated by Rattner today.
Intel plans to build 100 or more experimental chips for use by dozens of industrial and academic research collaborators around the world with the goal of developing new software applications and programming models for future many-core processors.
"Microsoft is partnering with Intel to explore new hardware and software architectures supporting next-generation client plus cloud applications," said Dan Reed, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Extreme Computing. "Our early research with the single chip cloud computer prototype has already identified many opportunities in intelligent resource management, system software design, programming models and tools, and future application scenarios."
This milestone represents the latest achievement from Intel's Tera-scale Computing Research Program, aimed at breaking barriers to scaling future chips to 10s-100s of cores. It was co-created by Intel Labs at its Bangalore (India), Braunschweig (Germany) and Hillsboro, Ore. (U.S.) research centers. Details on the chip's architecture and circuits are scheduled to be published in a paper at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in February.
Intel Corporation issued the following statement regarding the suit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC): "Intel has competed fairly and lawfully. Its actions have benefitted consumers. The highly competitive microprocessor industry, of which Intel is a key part, has kept innovation robust and prices declining at a faster rate than any other industry. The FTC's case is misguided. It is based largely on claims that the FTC added at the last minute and has not investigated. In addition, it is explicitly not based on existing law but is instead intended to make new rules for regulating business conduct. These new rules would harm consumers by reducing innovation and raising prices."
Intel senior vice president and general counsel Doug Melamed added, "This case could have, and should have, been settled. Settlement talks had progressed very far but stalled when the FTC insisted on unprecedented remedies – including the restrictions on lawful price competition and enforcement of intellectual property rights set forth in the complaint -- that would make it impossible for Intel to conduct business."
"The FTC's rush to file this case will cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to litigate issues that the FTC has not fully investigated. It is the normal practice of antitrust enforcement agencies to investigate the facts before filing suit. The Commission did not do that in this case," said Melamed.
Intel announced earlier this year that the company is investing $7 billion in its U.S. manufacturing operations and employs more than 40,000 people domestically. Intel [NASDAQ: INTC], the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.
WHAT: | Press and analyst conference call on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's competition case involving Intel Corporation. | |
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WHO: | Doug Melamed, Intel senior president and general counsel, will make brief statements regarding today's U.S. FTC suit and take questions. | |
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WHEN: | Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Call begins promptly at 9 a.m. PST | |
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WHERE: | Call-in: 1-800-289-0479 or 913-312-1381. Passcode: 5637824 (Callers please reference: "Intel call") | |
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CONTACTS: | Claudine Mangano, Intel Media Relations | |
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Chuck Mulloy, Intel Media Relations | ||
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REPLAY: | Download the conference replay | |