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Future Lab is a weekly online radio show devoted to technology research from Intel Labs, and its university and industry partners. The interviews introduce you to a range of fascinating people on the front lines of research in areas like computing, biology, anthropology, energy, automotive design, visual sensing, robotics, space exploration and more.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Future Lab Radio episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Future Lab Radio for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Future Lab Radio episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: Cloud Gaming

Future Lab: Cloud Gaming

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02/28/11 • -1 min

Gaming fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of “cloud gaming,” with its promise of mobile, low-end devices running intense, realistic graphics at amazing speeds. Technological developments from leading scientists, combined with newsmaking marketplace competition (well-covered by Dean Takahashi), are bringing intense graphics and computationally demanding games to devices like Apple’s iPad. Games like “Assassin’s Creed […]
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Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: Mapping the Network in the Brain
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10/11/10 • -1 min

Brain trauma affects more than 2 million people in the U.S. each year because of accidents and participation in sports. But little is understood about the connections within the brain that can be broken but not detected. Using MRI scans, computer scientists are helping brain researchers to map the network of tracks–containing hundreds of thousands […]
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Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: The Wealth of Data
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09/06/10 • -1 min

In ancient Greece, potters would never have believed the vases they created – donning a vast array of inscriptions about daily life – would fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. They also would have not guessed how much precious information about their (and our) civilization would be gleaned from this pottery. Today, millions […]
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Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: Stemness

Future Lab: Stemness

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08/16/10 • -1 min

The concept of “stemness” refers to the capacity within a stem cell to create different kinds of cells. It promises to revolutionize medicine. Isolated in the petri dish, stem cells exhibit interesting behaviors that scientists are just beginning to understand. With thousands of cells to monitor, computer vision technology is helping researchers analyze great numbers […]
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Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: Scaling Virtual Worlds
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07/19/11 • -1 min

Researchers are investigating how to build virtual environments in which hundreds or thousands of participants can log in and interact with each other. The applications go beyond gaming. Simulations are used for meetings, organizational operations and even product branding. Scientists are discovering how to meet the challenges of creating 3D spaces for many users to […]
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Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: 3D Molecular Visualization
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05/31/11 • -1 min

Advances in interactive molecular graphics enable not only creative research, but an increasingly collaborative and mobile research community to interact. In the “VIsualization Vault,” at the University of California, San Francisco, Professor Tom Ferrin and his team created Chimera, a visualization system for exploratory research. Ferrin, one of the pioneers of visualization, leads UCSF’s computer […]
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Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: Context Aware Car Safety
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05/16/11 • -1 min

While context-aware devices of the near future might recommend restaurants, monitor a user’s health, or screen phone calls, they may also save human lives by keeping drivers safe and aware of their surroundings. Future Lab spoke with researchers about the problem of drowsy or distracted driving, the ability of the human mind to process information […]
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Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: The TRIL Centre
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05/02/11 • -1 min

The world’s population is aging. It’s estimated that by the year 2050 more than half the people on Earth will be over the age of 50. But while people are living longer, they still have to live with the diseases that come with old age. The European community has been working with technology companies to […]
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As computing power increases and we all rely increasingly on cloud computing and storage, the environmental demands of information technology are growing significantly. Earth Day 2011 marks a moment when, by some estimates, the carbon footprint of data centers exceeds that of the airline industry (an Environmental Protection Agency estimate suggests this will happen by […]
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Future Lab Radio - Future Lab: Energy Research
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08/09/10 • -1 min

Zero energy buildings, known as ZEB and also known as zero net energy buildings, promise to have a huge impact on energy consumption globally, especially since office and commercial buildings use nearly 40% of fossil based energy in the U.S. and Europe. Milan Milenkovic, who heads up the zero net energy project for Intel Labs, […]
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What is the most popular episode on Future Lab Radio?

The episode title 'Future Lab: 3D Molecular Visualization' is the most popular.

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