SAN FRANCISCO—Renée James, senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corp.'s Software and Services Group, used her keynote address on the second day of the Intel Developer Forum here Wednesday (Sept. 12) to outline a high-level vision for "transparent computing" with emphasis on software compatibility across platforms, cloud infrastructure and security.
James stressed that the main thrust of the transparent computing concept is the ability for users to run the same applications on multiple devices running, for example, Windows, Android and iOS operating systems. She reinforced Intel's commitment to spurring adoption of HTML5 and ensuring that it remains an open standard language.
"Transparent computing is the core of how users view the experiences in compute today," James said. "It's about enabling what they want to do. They don't care about the operating system. And sadly, and as much as we would not like it to be true, they don't always care about the hardware architecture underlying their experience. What they care about is the task they're trying to perform, or the information that they're trying to get to."
Peter Biddle (left), general manager of cloud services at Intel, joins Renée James on stage at IDF to discuss key technology drivers for developers.