Intel invests millions in social computing research center
Intel invests millions in social computing research center
- June 27, 2012
- The Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Social Computing, co-led by anthropology professor Bill Maurer, is featured in The Register (UK) June 27, 2012
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From The Register:
At Intel Labs' annual outing, Chipzilla has announced it is investing millions in
a new social research center and explained how it plans to avoid the mistakes of researchers
in the past. The new Intel Science Technology Center is a $15m program funding five
years of research into social and anthropological research into how people use technology.
Rather than focus on how hardware and software are used, the new center will be looking
at how human wetware interacts with the resulting data
For the full story, please visit http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/27/intel_social_computing_parc/.
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