HP Innovation Journal Issue 02: Spring 2016 | Page 11

HP Labs 50th anniversary
1980
Office laser printer
1967
Cesium-beam
atomic clock
1984
Inkjet printer
1972
Pocket
scientific
calculator
1986
3D graphics
workstations
1980
64-channel
ultrasound
1968
Programmable
desktop calculator
1966
Light emitting diode (LED)
Celebrating 50 years
of innovation
On March 3, 2016 HP Labs celebrated the
anniversary of its creation and its rich history
of innovation. HP’s founders set out to change
the world by developing technology that
would improve the lives of people everywhere.
Fifty years ago in 1966, they opened HP’s first
centralized organization focused on exploring
new ideas. HP Labs became respected not
only for the work that was being done there,
HP Founders Dave Packard (left) and Bill Hewlett
1995
64-bit
architecture
1989
Digital data
storage drive
2013
Moonshot
2010
ePrint
2013
SureStart
2012
SERS
Sensor
2005
Virus
throttle
1986
Commercialized
RISC chips
2011
MagCloud
2011
StoreOnce
2015
3D Materials
2015
Charge Roller
2003
Smart cooling
but also for sharing it with the larger scientific
community. From the first programmable
desktop calculator to office laser printers, dig-
ital data storage drives, and most recently the
Sprout immersive computing platform and
commercial-scale 3D printing, HP Labs has
created some of the greatest technological
breakthroughs of our time.
To celebrate our 50th year, we are bringing
a renewed openness to HP Labs. As part of
Keep Reinventing, we are looking at new
ways to share the mind-bending technology
we are creating in HP Labs that will trans-
form businesses and lives—technologies
such as 3D printing, immersive computing,
hyper mobility, Internet of Things, smart
machines and more. Through lighthouse
moments along the way we will bring these
technologies to life—disrupting markets
and fundamentally changing the way we live
and work.
The first 50 years of HP Labs were
incredible, but we are just getting started.
Keep Reinventing!
Barney Oliver (left), founder and first director of HP Labs, checks out a new
scope with Peter Lacy (center) and George Mathers in 1966.
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