HP strengthens research lab

Palo Alo 24 May 00 Two Silicon Valley executives have joined the staff of HP Labs, the company's central research organization. Kris Halvorsen, director of the Information Sciences Technology Lab at Xerox PARC, has been named director of the Solutions and Services Technologies Center. Patrick Scaglia, vice president of research at Cadence Design Systems, will be director of the Internet and Computing Platform Technologies Center, also reporting to Lampman. The center will focus on developing leading-edge hardware and software technologies for computing platforms, servers and storage systems.

"We're delighted that two such prominent leaders in their fields are joining the staff of HP Labs," Lampman said. "We expect to leverage their experience and talents to further our objective of making HP the premier company for the Internet age." Halvorsen founded the Information Sciences Technology Lab at Xerox PARC in 1992 and developed it into a leading center for research on the fundamental forces driving the evolution of the Web and the Internet. Under his direction, the lab has conducted innovative studies and simulations of the large-scale dynamics of Web usage.

He has published widely in the areas of information access, natural language processing and linguistics. In addition, he maintains a broad set of collaborations with North American, European and Asian research institutes. He serves on the board of directors of Autodesk and Symantec, and on the advisory board of Groupfire, Inc., an Internet services start-up based on research from PARC.

Scaglia co-founded Cadence Berkeley Labs in 1993 and Cadence European Labs in 1996. Previously, he served as vice president of engineering, CAE Division. He joined Cadence in 1990 from Evans & Sutherland, where he was vice president of product development and a founder of the Supercomputer Division. He held senior R&D positions at Matra Data Systems and Alcatel (France).

He is a member of the board of directors of the PARADES Research Center (Rome, Italy), the executive board of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, the Technical Advisory Board of the GigaScale Silicon Research Center and the SEMATECH Focus Center (Austin, Texas). He is also a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the DAC Strategic Committee. He is an investor and advisor in Internet, computer and digital entertainment start-ups. He holds U.S. patents in computer architecture and is a member of the ACM and IEEE Computer Society.

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