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Gabe Newell of Valve on Game Development and Perceptual Computing
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted June 17th 20130
Recently, Valve’s Gabe Newell (steampowered.com) sat down with the Intel video team to talk about his impressions of perceptual computing, game development, and how one technology (Miracast) is set to change the gaming user experience as we know it. ...
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Finding the right fit for your application on Intel(R) Xeon and Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) processors
By CJ Newburn (Intel)Posted June 16th 20130
Not all applications are created equal.   Some are chomping at the bit to harvest as much parallelism as a target platform can provide.  Those may be good candidates for running on an Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Coprocessor.  Other applications are scalar (not vectorized) and sequential (not threaded ...
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Going Local to Become Global: The Benefits of Localizing Software
By Eliana Penzner ...Posted June 14th 20130
Most road maps for software development include a marketing plan that will expand the audience for the app, but few include a strategy for localization. Localization moves beyond simple translation, and results in an app that can be used seamlessly by a native speaker. It also expands the software ...
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Monitoring Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions with Intel® PCM
By Roman Dementiev...Posted June 14th 20130
After applying a new technology (a new processor, a hardware accelerator, a new instruction, etc) besides measuring the immediate performance delta one requires a method to verify that this technology has been applied correctly and efficiently. Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions ( ...
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Masking RGB Inputs with Depth Data using the Intel® PercC SDK and OpenCV
By Infrared5Posted June 14th 20130
Introduction One of the challenges in computer vision applications is segmentation-the separation of desired objects from their surroundings. Early techniques separated objects by color or contrast. With the introduction of time of flight infrared cameras, it became possible to segment objects by ...
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Adaptive Order Independant Transparency Sample Using Pixel Shader Ordering
By Leigh Davies (Intel)Posted June 14th 20130
Transparency is a fundamental open problem in real-time rendering due to the difficulty of compositing in the right order an arbitrary number of transparent layers; the Adaptive Order Independent Transparency sample using Pixel Shader Ordering shows a real-time solution using Intel’s DirectX ...
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Meshcentral.com - June 14 Server Maintenance
By ylian-saint-hil...Posted June 13th 20130
Just a quick note to say that there will be server maintenance tomorrow June 14th for a while. The server room that hosts Meshcentral.com is upgrading their UPS. So, no panic you there is no ...
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ylian-saint-hilaire (Intel)
Intel Ultimate Engineering Experience (IUEE): From Participant to Assistant Leader
By Ashish D.Posted June 13th 20131
Last summer I was lucky enough to be part of the first Intel Ultimate Engineering Experience in Chandler, Arizona at the Hilton Hotel. I had a lot of fun during my internship, I met a lot of people with the same interests as me and we all made connections and networked together. I still see a lot ...
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Haswell: The Effect on Game Developers and Perceptual Computing
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted June 13th 20130
The highly anticipated 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family code-named Haswell has finally made its debut. Some of the most positive attention this processor microarchitecture group is getting are from game developers, coders on the cutting-edge of development technology who are reporting ...
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Modeling Education for the Connected World
By Jake L.Posted June 13th 20132
Sit back for a moment and reflect on just what the internet is and how it has affected you, your work, and the world at large. Feel the sweeping, awestruck sensation of there being a meta-universe that exists, not unlike the seemingly infinite neural pathways inside your brain (that picture, by ...
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What is Intel(r) Secure Key Technology?
By Gael Hofemeier ...Posted May 14th 20120
Introduction: Intel Secure Key, was previously code-named Bull Mountain Technology. It is the Intel name for the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures instruction RDRAND and its underlying Digital Random Number Generator (DRNG) hardware implementation. Among other things, the DRNG using the RDRAND ...
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Using #ifdef in OpenGL ES 2.0 shaders
By Orion Granatir ...Posted March 26th 20120
It’s nice to use #ifdef’s in an OpenGL shader. This allows a shader file do things like contain a vertex shaders and pixel shaders in the same file. Or have different render paths selected at run time. Here is an example of a simple shader file: ...
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Porting existing Game Engines to Metro
By steve-hughes (Intel)Posted March 26th 20122
Introduction. I’ve been looking at Windows 8 Metro, wondering what issues may arise when developers try to port existing games to Metro and ...
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Maintenance options in SCS 8.0
By Nachman Israel ...Posted March 24th 20120
After you configure your system once, every now and then you will need to perform “maintenance” tasks on the machine. What are maintenance tasks? Well, they include re-synching Intel® AMT’s internal clock so Kerberos will keep working; re-issuing any certificates that are about to expire; re- ...
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What Android SDK R17 and Intel HAXM mean for Android Developer and Programmer?
By Tao Wang (Intel)Posted March 23rd 20121
The answer is " Android Emulator Faster, More Capable ". Mike James wrote an article title: "Android Emulator Faster, More Capable " on ...
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ROI and Social Media: Getting Started with Social Media Engagement Measurement
By Kevin MurphyPosted March 23rd 20123
Measuring social media engagement can feel like a daunting task. What are you measuring? Which tools can be used? What do these numbers mean? The questions and the options ...
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Meshcentral.com - Win8 Metro Prototype Application
By ylian-saint-hil...Posted March 20th 20120
A few weeks back I started on a new quest to build a Windows 8 Metro application for Meshcentral.com. At least, learn about how to build such an app and get ready for when developers can ...
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ylian-saint-hilaire (Intel)
Dualbooting Windows 7 and Windows 8
By rradi (Intel)Posted March 20th 20125
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO image became public a few days ago, which is available here, so I am sure a lot of people are interested in trying it out on their development systems without replacing their current ...
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Update on the 915 Graphics WDDM Vista Driver Issue
By Josh Bancroft (...Posted May 7th 2007561
Wow, you guys are really persistent. :-) Since I posted a comment in one of the previous discussions about the 915 Graphics Vista driver issue, that I was going to talk to the graphics group about the possibility of releasing an open source and/or "beta" unofficial WDDM driver, to let you at least ...
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Video: Why Intel 915 graphics don't have a WDDM driver for Vista
By Josh Bancroft (...Posted April 2nd 2007190
Click To PlayI get this question a LOT: "Why hasn't Intel ...
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Intel Releases Preproduction Windows 7 Graphics Driver
By Doug Holland (Intel)Posted December 11th 2008184
Intel yesterday made available a preproduction Windows 7 WDDM 1.1 Graphics Driver, more information can be found ...
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The C# Programming Language Version 4.0
By Doug Holland (Intel)Posted March 30th 2009160
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 will soon be in beta and there are some excellent new features that we can all get excited about with this new release. Along with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 we will see version 4.0 of the C# programming language. In this blog post I ...
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64-bit and Intel
By Steve Pitzel (Intel)Posted September 20th 2006159
A few days ago an OEM asked whether or not Intel had 64-bit... It was kind of funny, kind of sad - and, of course, the OEM should know we do...but, then again, I have to admit we've done a pretty lousy job to date of letting folks know about our 64-bit offerings - while AMD has even included 64 ...
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SIGGRAPH 2008: From the Show Floor!
By Gina Bovara (Intel)Posted August 12th 2008110
    The ...
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There is a hack! (for Second Life and the Intel 965 Chipset)
By Gael Hofemeier ...Posted November 29th 200794
There are hacks for everything, right? Well I have this brand new HP 6910p with the Intel 965 Express chipset running Vista and I could not get onto Second Life. Everytime I tried to connect, it would ask me if I wanted music and then it would crash. Well I thought, maybe my HP doesn't like music ...
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It is time to crush, smash and bomb your opponents: Join the action at the Intel Xeon Robo Brawl.
By ajay-mungara (Intel)Posted February 27th 200883
Build your own robot and then boost it with enough protection, speed and arsenal to fight in the battle ring. Oh man … it is ruthless out there – kill or get killed. In spite of my best efforts, which lasted about 30 mins, my robot "smtbot" managed to rank only at 1293. Please note that the top 3 ...
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200M+ mobiles in india - a software opportunity?
By Narendra Bhanda...Posted April 8th 200874
Mobility: Best tech adoption story in an emerging market One of the best technology adoption stories which spans the breadth of Indian society seems to be the mobile phones. Also, The rapid rate of adoption of Notebooks in the Indian corporate and Consumers is one of the fastest in the region. ...
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