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• Microsoft, Intel give US$20M for multi-core research - washingtonpost.com (March 22, 2008; 12:05 PM Elizabeth Montalbano PC World)

Imagine a man you know but whose name you can't remember approaches you, and your mobile phone uses face-recognition capability to give you his name and information about him before he says hello. This is the kind of application that researchers hope will be developed from US$20 million Microsoft and Intel are giving two U.S. universities for research on parallel computing.