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"The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Research as a Consequence of Global Trends"

"Leap Ahead: Global R&D at Intel"

Abstract

Intel does research, development, and manufacturing for our products across the globe for a worldwide market. Get a glimpse into Intel’s latest global R&D efforts driving future processor and platform architecture innovations; how these innovations could address existing user needs and enable new possibilities for emerging markets; and the challenges to managing an international research organization.

Biography

Abel Weinrib is vice president of the Corporate Technology Group and deputy director of the Corporate Technology Group for Intel Corporation. He is responsible for Intel’s visionary research and technology innovation for future platforms. The Corporate Technology Group is a centralized R&D organization focusing on a broad portfolio of disruptive research, emerging technology development, industry standards, and world-wide technology policy. The group’s current areas of focus include parallel processing, silicon photonics and radios, future processor architectures, next-generation wireless communications, high-performance and trustworthy networking, virtualization, platform trust and security, energy efficient platforms, ethnography-based user studies and ubiquitous computing.

Previously, Weinrib was responsible for driving Intel’s leadership in communications and networking technologies as director of the Communications Technology Lab. In that role he focused on trustworthy networking, platform-based network acceleration and silicon innovation for radio and optical communications. Weinrib joined Intel in 1994 and has held a variety of senior positions within the Corporate Technology Group. Before coming to Intel, Weinrib was a member of the technical staff at Bell Communications Research.

Weinrib received his bachelor’s degree from MIT in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983, both in physics. From 1994 to 2001, he served as executive director of the Internet Architecture Board and from 1995 to 1999 was chair of the Internet Research Task Force. Weinrib has been published broadly in the fields of networking and communications.