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Some analysts consider Intel to be a processor company with manufacturing facilities – others consider it to be a manufacturing company that just happens to make processors. In the grand scheme of things, Intel is a hybrid of product, manufacturing, expertise, investment, and perhaps most importantly, research. Intel has a lot of research and development on its books, most of it aimed at current product cycles in the 12-36 month time span, but beyond that, as with most big engineering companies, there’s a team of people dedicated to finding the next big thing over 10-20+ years. This is usually called the Moonshot Division in most companies, but here we find it called Intel Labs, and leading this team of path-finding gurus is Dr. Richard Uhlig.
Want to know what makes people tick? Ask them over Zoom
30 Dec, 2020 10:00 PM
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Researchers see an interesting opportunity in the widespread adoption of Zoom. Photo / Getty Images
Financial Times
By: Gillian Tett Stuart Henshall studies human behaviour for a living. Until March, the user research analyst was based in a UX [user experience] laboratory , or special conference suite, in an Indian city where he was carrying out research face to face; he d been interviewing predominantly low-income individuals to help companies understand what makes them tick.
Convo, the consultancy he co-founded in Mumbai and San Francisco, has worked for groups such as Facebook and Bose. It sells its services with the idea that real-world conversations matter and in-person interviews seemed the most obvious tool to use for Indians who did manual jobs, such as dhobis (washermen or women) or rickshaw drivers.