Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) is to invest in computational intelligence projects at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The funding is part of a $40 million investment worldwide over the next five years in university research centers in the UK, Germany and Israel that drive innovation, through the Intel Collaborative Research Institutes (ICRI) in those three countries.
Intel said that the ICRI for computational intelligence is a joint collaboration with the Technion and Hebrew University that "will explore ways to enable computing systems to augment human capabilities in a wide array of complex tasks. For example, by developing body sensors that continuously monitor the owner’s body, researchers could then pre-process this information and take appropriate actions. The system can continuously monitor human functions from the brain, heart, blood, eyes and more, and send this data to a remote server that will combine them with other data such as environmental weather conditions, along with historical data, and could proactively warn people about a potential headache or dizziness during driving."
Intel CTO Justin Rattner said, “The new Intel Collaborative Research Institute program underscores our commitment to establishing and funding collaborative university research to fuel global innovation in key areas and help address some of today’s most challenging problems. Forming a multidisciplinary community of Intel, faculty and graduate student researchers from around the world will lead to fundamental breakthroughs in some of the most difficult and vexing areas of computing technology.”
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on May 28, 2012
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