"With flexible photo-voltaics and polymer batteries,
digital light can be harvested, stored and carried in textiles.com/viaro.

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Sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA ) through
the Air Force Research Laboratory, PCAA will enable computers to leap ahead of
traditional information-processing capabilities used to perform cognitive
tasks, such as deduction, reasoning , and learning.

PRESS RELEASE 'Extreme Textiles' Exhibition at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum features KVA's Smart Textile Wall and Herman Miller's Viaro Infrastructure

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In the current year the company has been named to the Dow Jones Global
Sustainability Index and was again cited by Fortune magazine as the "Most
Admired" company in its industry in the annual survey of industry
executives and analysts.

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They are incapable of
adjusting to changing environments and situations that programmers and systems
designers have not previously considered," said Dr.
Sheila Kennedy and the design team at Kennedy
& Violich Architecture, Ltd. Viaro Infrastructure is a new
technological innovation conceived for Herman Miller, Inc.
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The ZIP ROOM demonstrates the convergence of architecture and low voltage
electrical infrastructure in a textile cladding that integrates energy
efficient, light emitting semi-conductor technologies. by Sheila
Kennedy of KVA and Danny Hillis and Bran Ferren of Applied Minds, Inc. "Extreme Textiles:
Designing for High Performance" was organized by the Smithsonian
Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

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The contract was awarded
September 2004.

About Herman Miller

Herman Miller helps create great places to work by researching, designing,
manufacturing, and distributing innovative interior furnishings that
support companies, organizations, and individuals all over the world.

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The PCAA will be an important enabling technology for the Department of
Defense, because it can transition into many applications , including
intelligence analysis systems and unmanned aerial vehicle control.

About KVA

Founded by principals Sheila Kennedy and Juan Frano Violich Kennedy &
Violich Architecture, Ltd .

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CHERRY HILL, N. These architectures usually require multiple processors for
each task , which degrades processing power, adds weight, and consumes space on
various platforms.

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The Zip Room demonstrates a new space making concept that uses digital
design , manufacturing, and business paradigms to create versatile and
responsive textile architecture products that are sustainable, strong,
lightweight, and easy to ship and install."

"Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance" is the first museum
exhibition devoted to the subject of technical textiles.

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The
modular, mobile and programmable Viaro infrastructure provides a means for
effectively adapting and changing building interiors as needs change over
time.

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, Lockheed Martin
(NYSE: LMT ) initiated a two-year, $6.kvarch.

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(KVA), along with Viaro, a Herman Miller
company, today announced the inclusion of the Zip Room -- a smart textile
wall system installed with Viaro infrastructure -- within the "Extreme
Textiles: Designing for High Performance" exhibition at Smithsonian's
Cooper -Hewitt, National Design Museum.com/viaro


"The Zip Room creates an adaptive and responsive approach to the use of
space that offers an alternative to change by demolition. For additional information visit: www. The
company's award-winning products, complemented by furniture-management and
strategic consulting services, generated $1. In fiscal 2004 Herman Miller was named
recipient of the prestigious National Design Award for product design from
the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper -Hewitt, National Design Museum and was
again included in Business Ethics magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens.

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"By morphing both its hardware and
software components and their interactions, PCAA will address a wide range of
flexible requirements and fulfill mission tasks that require cognitive
processing at previously impractical levels. and Osram Sylvania, Inc. (KVA) is an interdisciplinary design practice
that explores new relationships between architecture, technology and
emerging public needs. For additional information visit: www. For additional information visit:
www.

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Founded in 2004, Viaro provides
a community of designers, architects, builders, consultants and
manufacturers with the ability to create a responsive infrastructure,
allowing unprecedented insight and control over physical environments.

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KVA
projects have been recognized by National Design Excellence Awards from the
American Institute of Architecture, Industrial Design Excellence Awards,
Progressive Architecture Awards and the Public Work Award of the National
Endowment for the Arts.

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Lockheed Martin to Develop Advanced Cognitive Computing Architecture

The Zip Room design
combines physical flexibility of form with flexible control of digital
technologies.hermanmiller.

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The PCAA technology will make
military computing applications significantly more flexible and agile."
The ability of PCAA technology to morph the processing behavior of a
single computer allows it to address scalability limitations of current
architectures. Herman Miller is widely recognized both for its innovative
products and business practices.

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Computer architectures cannot effectively support real-time , data-
intensive, multiple mission environments.
The PCAA contract is part of DARPA's Architectures for Cognitive
Information Processing program.lockheedmartin. The Zip Room's flexible
structural system combines a non-woven 100% recycled paper honeycomb core
with a flexible 3-D knit textile cladding of PET polyester and elastomer
with optical coatings. With the Zip
Room, architects and designers can envision a spatial environment with
unprecedented flexibility that comes from design with high performance
materials and integrated digital communication networks," said KVA founder,
Sheila Kennedy.34 billion in revenue during
fiscal 2004.

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"Traditional computing systems are inflexible .
Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, Lockheed Martin employs about 130,000
people worldwide and is principally engaged in research, design, development,
manufacture, and integrations of advanced technology systems, products, and
services. MATx, the firm's material research unit works with
business leaders, manufacturers, material scientists, engineers and public
agencies to design and realize transformative applications for sustainable
digital technologies in architecture, building materials and textiles.

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The PCAA technology will provide significant increases in
computational power and capability to process cognitive tasks compared to the
very limited capabilities of current embedded and distributed systems.

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Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories is the program's system
integrator and leads a team that includes Lockheed Martin Aeronautics,
Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions, University of Pittsburgh,
University of Texas, Soar Technology, California Institute of Technology,
Micro Analysis and Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University ,
Altarum Institute, and Reservoir Laboratories. The exhibition,
curated by Matilda McQuaid, Exhibitions Curator and Head of Cooper-Hewitt's
Textiles department, will present over 150 extreme textile applications
from a wide range of areas, including architecture, apparel, medicine,
transportation, aerospace , and the environment.

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"Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance" exhibit will be on view
from April 8 - October 30, 2005 at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in
New York City.hermanmiller . The company trades on the NASDAQ stock market
under the symbol MLHR.

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will enable computing systems to approximate and deduce information without
human operators and, thereby, support multiple mission tasks. Textiles
can become radically sustainable forms of flexible infrastructure that
shift the boundaries between traditional walls and utilities.

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6-million study contract to develop a
Polymorphous Computing Agent Architecture (PCAA) that will perform cognitive
tasks for military systems. The Viaro infrastructure enables users to change and
reconfigure the lighting, translucency and color of Zip Room walls without
electrical rewiring or renovations.net

About Viaro

Viaro, a Herman Miller company, contributes to the evolution of interior
space design by combining design expertise and technology to meet changing
functional, cultural and economic demands.

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Boris Gelfand, Lockheed
Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories. Zip Room materials
were provided by Viaro, Milliken, Inc.

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