The highly-regarded platform is helping expand the scope of HP Labs research
这一备受关注的平台正在帮助惠普实验室拓展研究范围

As HP announces a new generation of webOS-based devices, researchers at HP Labs are busy working to bring their innovations to the WebOS products of tomorrow.
    也许大家都知道，不久前惠普推出了三款基于webOS的新产品。如今，惠普实验室的研究人员们正在忙碌的工作，努力将惠普实验室的创新内容结合到未来的WebOS产品当中。

"HP's buying Palm was very exciting for a lot of us at HP Labs," says Mary Baker of HP's Mobile and Immersive Experience Lab. "It's going to be very cool to see our research on more platforms, especially platforms that reach millions of people."
    “惠普收购Palm让惠普实验室的很多人都感到非常激动，”惠普移动和拟真体验实验室的Mary Baker说。“看到我们的研究在更多平台上应用，特别是WebOS这种可以接触到千百万用户的平台上，将会是一件很酷的事情。”

Labs researchers are already collaborating with Palm's own engineers in a variety of areas, among them imaging and printing, application development, and social computing.
    实验室的研究人员已经和Palm的工程师们在很多领域开展协作，包括成像打印、应用开发和社会计算。

Baker's own interests lie in integrating webOS into her lab's research on the future of teleconferencing. "What people would like," says Baker, "is to have a good teleconferencing experience anytime, anywhere, and with whatever kind of device they have access to."
    Baker的个人兴趣在于把WebOS集成到她实验室对电话会议的研究中。Baker表示：“人们喜欢在任何时间、任意地点、以任何类型的设备体验良好的视频会议。”

But for that to happen, she notes, teleconferencing must work across an entire stack of communications technologies: from high-end telepresence solutions like HP's Visual Collaboration Studio system, through desktop-based based applications like HP's Visual Collaboration Executive Desktop, to apps running on wireless devices like tablets and smartphones.
    但她指出，要做到这一点，电话会议必须能够跨所有通信技术平台进行工作：从高端远程呈现的解决方案，例如惠普的视觉协作演播室系统（HP's Visual Collaboration Studio system）；或者通过基于桌面的应用，例如惠普的桌面可视化执行协作系统（Visual Collaboration Executive Desktop），一直到运行在类似图形输入板和智能手机等无线设备上的应用。

Of the various operating systems that run devices at the more constrained end of the media spectrum, webOS dovetails especially well with the higher end technologies already developed at HP Labs, notes Baker's colleague, Dan Gelb.
    对于那些有限制的媒体端设备的操作系统，WebOS与那些已经在惠普实验室开发的高端技术特别吻合，Baker的同事Dan Gelb指出。

"Our software framework exploits multitasking," he explains, "and unlike a lot of mobile platforms, webOS has real multitasking and real graphics support. As phones increasingly become multi-core, our framework will allow you to take advantage of that."
    “我们的软件框架采用多任务形式，”他解释说，“并不像其他的移动平台，WebOS可以做到真正的多任务和真正的图形支持。我们的系统框架，将适应不断发展的智能手机日后采用的多核处理器。”

"The other nice thing about webOS," adds Gelb, "is that it's built on Linux. We'd actually done some porting for Linux already, so when webOS came along, it was a lot easier than having to start from scratch."
    “另外一件很棒的事儿是，”Gelb补充说，“WebOS是基于Linux的。事实上，我们已经对Linux做了一些移植，所以当我们针对WebOS研发的时候，一切变得很容易，我们不必从头开始。”

Still, creating a seamless teleconferencing experience requires that a whole range of additional technical challenges be met, says Baker.
    尽管如此，创造一个无缝的电话会议体验仍需要面对一系列额外的技术挑战，Baker说。

"The user experience issues around having to deal with very constrained displays are huge," she notes. "Then dealing with wireless networks is an ongoing and very difficult area. When you can't pump that many bits over a network and you're trying to have a teleconference with multiple people, what do you do about these multiple streams - how do you accommodate that ?"
    “有些用户体验方面的问题很麻烦，例如受网络限制的视频显示，”她指出。“无线网络中多个视频传输是非常难的事情。当你没有足够的带宽，而你还要与多个人进行同一个电话会议，面对要平衡的多重数据流的窘境，要怎样做才能兼顾所有数据？”

While webOS offers HP Labs greater scope for applying its own research, Baker and her colleagues hope to help the operating system mature in its own right.
    WebOS给惠普实验室带来了更大范围的应用研究，Baker和她的同事希望帮助操作系统本身成熟起来。

"We want webOS to be as rich and as useful and as intriguing as possible," she says. "As we get our media framework to work on it, we'll want to bring all of the tricks and treats that we've developed to devices running webOS."
    “我们希望把WebOS变得更丰富、更有用，并且尽最大可能吸引用户，”她说，“随着我们的媒体框架在WebOS上运行，我们希望把所有的开发成果用于支持WebOS的设备当中。”

A number of HP Labs researchers have also developed their own novel webOS apps that they plan to share with the Palm community soon (see sidebar). Working on an app of her own has helped Baker appreciate the quality of the development tools already provided by Palm.
    一些惠普实验室的研究人员正在开发基于WebOS的新的且独有的应用程序，他们计划不久之后就能同Palm社区分享这些成果。在亲自开发一个应用程序的过程中，Baker体验了一把由Palm提供的高质量的开发工具。

"WebOS has a lovely user interface and great development tools," she says. "They are really going out of their way to make the development community as broad and diverse as possible and I think that's wonderful."
    “WebOS有可爱的界面和很棒的开发工具，”她说。“他们正努力让开发社区变得尽可能广泛和多元化，我得说，这太赞了。”