Intel Labs Santa Clara

Essential Computing

"At Intel Research in Santa Clara we enjoy the advantages of being at the headquarters of Intel Corporation and our close proximity to academic and industry partners around the Bay area. Our focus areas include mobile systems and wireless, future computer architectures, machine learning, bio-systems and sensors... all exciting topics for the future being explored by our world class researchers and partners" – Dr. John Gustafson, Director

Santa Clara Overview

The Santa Clara Research teams are located at Intel’s Headquarters in Santa Clara, California USA. Research is conducted on a variety of topics including Dynamic Composable Computing, N+4, iWireless, Proteus, Every Day Sensing and Perception and for Integrated Biosystems.

Integrated Biosystems Lab

Under the leadership of Director Madoo Varma the Biosystems Lab is conducting biosystems research. Our vision is to enable people to see molecular interactions more efficiently. We are investigating new interfaces, sensors and biomolecules, which could in future help biomedical researchers develop high performance, cost effective systems for biomedical applications. We envision that millions to billions of individual molecules from a tiny amount of a biological sample could be specifically detected and quantified by a silicon chip containing a large number of nano-sized sensors.
This capability could be a powerful tool for biomedical researchers in studying gene or protein expression, detecting genetic variations and gene sequences, monitoring infectious agent strains and types. Using these tools, researchers can also study efficacy of drug candidates or responses of biological systems to pollutants. Creating such biosensors is a broad multi-disciplinary scientific endeavor involving:
• Developing sensors as small as molecules and packing them densely in a single silicon die.
• Functionalizing the sensor surfaces chemically to give the sensors sensitivity.
• Developing chemical agents that can recognize bio-molecules specifically.
• Designing biochemical reactions to generate quantitative
electrical signals.
• Processing billions of data points to produce information
of biomedical significance.
Current projects are focused on electronic sensor development for protein and DNA analyses. We are collaborating with world leaders in sensor development, chemistry, biochemistry and bio-applications.

Successful research programs rely on interdisciplinary approaches that include disciplines as diverse as materials, computer science, communications, electronics, molecular biology & bio-informatics. Intel Research is pursuing such an interdisciplinary research program to exploit the growing technical advances to integrate bio-molecules with electronics in order to develop a broad range of functional devices.

The research projects in Intel Labs Santa Clara Include:

	Dynamic Composable Computing>
	Dynamic Composable Computing (DCC) overcomes the limitations of small mobile computers by allowing users to create an enhanced mobile computing experience, wirelessly integrating more capable resources such as displays, storage, networking sensing and processing available on nearby computers.
	Proteus >
	The goal of Proteus is to improve security solutions for enterprise networks. The majority of security breaches inside enterprise networks today occur when laptops (nodes at the mobile perimeter) leave, get infected, and then re-enter the enterprise. We consider it imperative to make laptops smarter so they can do a better job of protecting themselves against a broad range of security threats, and thereby protecting the enterprise as well. We propose to develop and use individual profiles of end host behavior that can in term be used to allow the security solutions at each machine to be personalized. These profiles will also enable novel security solutions to be developed.
	Intelligent Wireless >
	The Intelligent wireless project aims to achieve better co-existence and higher throughput in future dense wireless networks with multi-radios, multi-bands, mutli-standards. This will be realized by designing advanced PHY/MAC/NET algorithms for cognitive resource management, coordinated coexistence and advanced PHY-layer cooperation.
	N+4 >
	This project explores N+4 (four process technologies ahead of our current technology node) interconnect and active devices. This is just at the edge of what people believe is possible with silicon MOS transistor technology. The team has deep multi-layer expertise, spanning device technology, circuits, computer architecture, and software; and operates to identify fundamental challenges, breakthrough new opportunities, and critical solutions.
	Everyday Sensing and Perception >
	Making computing systems aware of their users and context in everyday activities and environments. Drive fundamental research advances that enable computingsystems to become aware in everyday activities and environments.