Agilent Labs hosts first press, analyst briefing.On March 12, Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Laboratories (Agilent Labs) held a one-day press and analyst briefing at the lab's headquarters in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , CA. At the first event of its kind for Agilent, spokespeople briefed the media and researchers in attendance on what makes Agilent Labs the "spark of the Agilent Technologies growth engine." Agilent Technologies President and Chief Executive Officer, Ned Barnholt, kicked off the meeting by emphasizing that Agilent Labs is not solely aligned to any of Agilent's business groups. Instead, the laboratory is a "crucible crucible, vessel in which a substance is heated to a high temperature, as for fusing or calcining. The necessary properties of a crucible are that it maintain its mechanical strength and rigidity at high temperatures and that it not react in an undesirable way with of multiple technologies," charged with providing technical breakthroughs that increase Agilent's competitiveness in its current product divisions and developing leading-edge technology that allows Agilent to enter new business. Spending $86 million on research and development in 2001 and boasting more than 400 employees, the lab concentrates on four technologies: life sciences; communications and optics; systems and solutions; and electronics. After Barnholt's introduction, press and analysts spent several hours at their choice of breakout sessions led by Agilent management. Designed to provide attendees with a snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure. (2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. of key technologies and market areas Agilent is pursuing, sessions included: Accelerating the Wireless Future; New Era of Integration: Silicon Is Only the Beginning and Innovations in Manufacturing Test. Following the breakout sessions, Agilent Labs scientists provided demonstrations ranging from x-ray imaging machine vision tools of the future to a microelectromechanical system microelectromechanical system (MEMS) Miniature devices formed by combining mechanical parts and electronic circuits, typically on a semiconductor chip, with dimensions from tens to a few hundred micrometres (millionths of a metre). (MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. ) micromover, which is an ultra-high precision micromover. |
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