HP participates in elite Lindau Forum to drive scientific innovation.
HP today announced it will sponsor the Lindau Nobel Prize Laureates Meeting being held this year on 26 June - 1 July 2005. Forty-seven past laureates in chemistry, medicine and physics and more than 650 researchers from 54 different nations will gather at the event, including R. Stanley Williams, HP’s Senior Fellow and Director of Quantum Science Research at HP Labs.
The Lindau Nobel Prize Laureates Meeting is special through its broad international attendance, the excellence of the countries’ delegations, as well as its scientific importance underlined by the Nobel Laureates’ presence. Through its involvement in the meeting, HP aims to create a platform for dialogue between the scientific and business communities and to drive research and innovation.
“This is a unique event that provides an opportunity for young researchers to come together with senior scientists,” says Walter Stahlecker from HP’s Industry Standards Program Office. “And with the broad international attendance, national delegations and the presence of Nobel laureates, Lindau combines the efforts of multiple fields to advance research.”
With its sponsorship of the Lindau event, HP helps to provide the necessary backing that is essential to allow scientific research and innovation to take place. Being a leader in innovation itself, HP wishes to take every opportunity to engage with other leading thinkers in order to drive progress and to support highly talented young researchers.
“You can't have progress without research and innovation, and science needs financial backing. That's what makes the Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau an exemplar of efficacious cooperation between the realms of science, business, foundations and government,” states Thomas Ellerbeck, member and spokesperson of the Committee for Meetings of Nobel Laureates.
At HP, world-class experts such as Stan Williams are pioneering achievements in areas ranging from basic science to enterprise computing, imaging and printing and consumer products.
The HP Labs Team, led by Williams, has produced a number of important successes in the field of nanoelectronics, such as demonstrating a technology that could replace the need for transistors – the basic building blocks of computers for the last 50 years. The team has also created a new way to design future nanoelectronic circuits using coding theory, an approach currently being used in certain computer storage and telecommunications applications. This technology could lead to nearly perfect manufacturing yields and equipment a thousand times less expensive than what might be required using future versions of current technologies.
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2005, HP revenue totaled .3 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
