HP Labs celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

Hewlett-Packard is celebrating the 10th anniversary of HP Labs in India.

 

Some of the achievements of the company are the first-ever effort to create handwriting recognition, speech recognition and speech synthesis technologies for Indian languages, which aimed to address the language barrier in India to IT adoption. In 2007, Lipi Toolkit was released by HP  as open source averaged over 30,000 downloads per month. Other key pilots and concepts announced during the last decade include Gesture Keyboard, TVPrintcast, Vayu, Personalized Video, VideoBook, SiteOnMobile, Trusted Hardcopy, and Educenter, among others. Several of these efforts have been recognized through industry awards. In 2012, HP Labs is re-focussing its research efforts towards services and solutions with deeper engagements within HP Enterprise Services, HP Enterprise Group and Global Analytics. Future research will centre on enterprise and consumer-centric research projects such as Human Augmented Cloud Computing or “CrowdCloud” and Future Other areas include Smart Mobile Services. 

 

Chandrakant D. Patel, HP Senior Fellow and Director (interim), HP Labs, said, “This milestone we are celebrating is about more than retrospection. HP Labs India is at the intersection of the present and the future. India is one of the world’s largest sources of human potential. At the same time, Information Technology (IT) is one of the world’s best mechanisms for maximizing human potential. HP Labs India is bringing these two forces together in ways that are powerful and productive.” 

 

Sudhir Dixit, Director, HP Labs India, said, “Cloud computing, mobility, security, collaboration, and big data analytics are beginning to play a crucial part in the evolution of next-generation technology usage and adoption across both enterprises and consumers alike.  There is a distinct opportunity to take our past end-user focussed research and brings its benefits to services and solutions that organizations can use to grow their market and expand their offerings. It is a unique intersection that we fully intend to leverage and explore.”