Quantum computing has been a Holy Grail for researchers ever since Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, in 1981, challenged the scientific community to build computers based on quantum mechanics. For decades, the pursuit remained firmly in the theoretical realm. But now IBM scientists believe they're on the cusp of building systems that will take computing to a whole new level.
May 11, 2012 marks the 15-year anniversary of IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue's victory over a reigning world chess champion. IBM Research scientist Dr. Murray Campbell, one of the original developers, talks about the challenges and breakthroughs of building Deep Blue.
David Ferrucci, IBM Fellow and principal investigator on the IBM Watson Project, discussed what is on the horizon for the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He also articulates the many challenges involved in developing a machine that learns from data mining and past decisions to make new predictions! The programmers for the PILL Method Financial Robot© have to solve similar challenges to develop its algorithms. We strive to continue to be leaders in the field of aritificial intelligence to optimize our client's finances!
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The IBM Computational Biology Center embraces activities at Yorktown Heights, with strong affiliations with activities at Almaden and other IBM Research Centers. Computational Biology (CompBio) including bioinformatics is the study of how computer systems can manage, analyze, and simulate the complex structures and processes inherent in living systems. CompBio Research at IBM spans pattern recognition in sequences, structures and processes, the studying of systems ranging from single protein molecules through to complex molecular interactions, and the data analysis, interpretation and reverse-engineering of complex disease-lifestyle-genomic interactions for fuller biological understanding. "CompBio" has a flavor of its own independant of its parents, biology and computer science. Nonetheless, CompBio is inherently a multi- disciplinary field with important applications in biology, chemical physics, materials science, agriculture, chemistry and ultimately nanotechnology.
IBM scientists have created the smallest 3D map of the earth - so small that 1000 maps could fit on a grain of salt*. The scientists accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex -- one million times smaller than an ant -- to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity. This patterning technique opens new prospects for developing nanosized objects in fields such as electronics, future chip technology, medicine, life sciences, and opto-electronics.
In 2009, IBM researchers set out to develop lithium-air battery technology capable of powering a family-sized electric car for approximately 500 miles (800 km) on a single charge. Instead of using heavy metal oxides, lithium-air batteries borrow oxygen from the air as the vehicle is being driven, creating an air-breathing battery. This results in lighter batteries with high energy density that extend the car's range from a single charge. IBM researchers have successfully demonstrated in the lab the fundamental chemistry of the charge-and-recharge process for lithium-air batteries and, if this bold research project is successful, people could see it in cars between 2020 and 2030.
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IBM researchers are teaming with California Department of Transportation and UC Berkeley to look at the problem of traffic as a data problem. Together, they are developing a solution that uses predictive analytics to help commuters avoid traffic congestion before it even happens and enable transportation agencies to better understand, predict and manage traffic flow.
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www.ibm.com John McPherson, Distinguished Engineer from IBM research introduces the Hadoop platform. This is part 1 of a 3 part series in which John discusses Hadoop, the Big data Ecosystem, use cases and aspects of Big Data that IBM research are focusing on. Track title: Clouds, composer: Dmitriy Lukyanov, publisher:Shockwave-Sound.Com Royalty Free Produced, directed and edited by Gary Robinson, contact robinsg@us.ibm.com
IBM Research - Almaden physicist Andreas Heinrich explains the industry-wide need to examine the future of storage at the atomic scale and how he and his teammates started with 1 atom and a scanning tunneling microscope and eventually succeeded in storing one bit of magnetic information reliably in 12 atoms.
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Steven Esser, IBM Research - Almaden researcher on the SyNAPSE project, walks through the transformational technology behind cognitive computing.
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www.ibm.com At IBM's THINK Forum in New York City, Noly Morimoto, Director of IBM Research in Tokyo discusses what leadership tools and technology future leaders will need to digest all the information, and big data that exists either in their business or community.
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IBM Research today announced that it has teamed with EKZ, the electricity utility provider of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, on a new pilot project that will allow consumers to conveniently charge electric vehicles and monitor their energy costs, using mobile devices. This near real-time information will also help utility providers better manage power grid loads during peak charging times -- a challenge that is set to grow as more electric vehicles are on the road.
IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. This result, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), signals a significant step forward in tools for molecular biology and nanotechnology by offering the ability to study complex 3D structures at the nanoscale. By extending MRI to such fine resolution, the scientists have created a microscope that, with further development, may ultimately be powerful enough to unravel the structure and interactions of proteins, paving the way for new advances in personalized healthcare and targeted medicine. This achievement stands to impact the study of materials from proteins to integrated circuits for which a detailed understanding of atomic structure is essential.
IBM researchers today announced they have demonstrated a world record in areal data density on linear magnetic tape -- a significant update to one of the computer industry's most resilient, reliable and affordable data storage technologies.
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Today IBM researchers published a breakthrough technique in the peer-reviewed journal Science that measures how long a single atom can hold information, and giving scientists the ability to record, study and "visualize" extremely fast phenomena inside these atoms. The paper is available online here: www.sciencemag.org
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IBM Research's Personal Memory Organizer can help organize your memory and access information that otherwise might get lost. This technology uses images, sounds, and text recorded on everyday mobile devices to help people recall names, faces, conversations and other important information.
IBM Research created an iPhone application to help local water boards collect and analyze critical data about water. A form of crowdsourcing called Citizen Science, people hiking or biking passed a creek or stream can snap a photo with their phones, answer a few simple questions about the condition of the water, and instantly send it off to their local water authority. The app is called Creek Watch and will be available for free in App Store soon. Visit www.creekwatch.org to sign up to be notified when the app is live.
Leading teams developing breakthrough technologies underlying innovation, Dr. Manish Gupta is the Director of IBM Research - India and Chief Technologist for IBM India/South Asia. He is leading the IBM Research activities across the world in the Mobile Web, Services, Software and Systems. Previously working as a Senior Leader at IBM Research - India, IBM India Systems, he has also been a part of The Technology Lab and the TJ Watson Research Center, where he led research on software for the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer. In addition, he has co-authored over 70 papers, with more than 3000 citations, in the areas of high performance compilers, parallel computing, and Java Virtual Machine optimizations, and has filed eighteen patents.
Sharing photos, links to article and videos with our friends and colleagues are all part of our daily routine. Whats not as common is sharing the process of how we do a task or multi-step process online with our networks like registering for a conference, making travel arrangements or even showing colleagues how to gather or analyze certain data. Often times in organizations, large or small, valuable knowledge and best practices are confined to just a few people. We get bogged down in the process of how to do things because they are confusing or the task isn't one we encounter that often. A new tool, created by IBM researchers aims to unlock that valuable "know-how" and make it easy to share relevant knowledge in your web browsing history with others. Try it out at: coscripter.researchlabs.ibm.com For more about the project, go to: www.ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com
IBM research scientist Matthias Steffen talks about advances in quantum computing science that are leading to the creation of the first true quantum computing systems.
Presentation by Dafna Sheinwald PhD, IBM Research -- Haifa at the IBM Research Colloquium "The Future of Healthcare" at IBM Research - Haifa on November 14, 2011.
Watch the full roundtable video here: ibm.co A group of industry leaders sit down to discuss how PureSystems will change the overall experience and economics of IT, and what this means for their businesses. Peter Hinssen - Noted IT Speaker and Author, George Kledaras - Founder & Chairman, Fix Flyer Andrew Smith - VP, Corporate IT Application Hosting Service, McKesson, John R. Rymer - VP, Principle Analyst, Forrester Kenneth Marritt - Global Head of Middleware, Barclays Alex Esca - Chief Executive Officer, Montran, Dario Gil - Program Director, IBM Research
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IBM Research - Almaden Storage Systems Director Bruce Hillsberg kicks off EWeek volunteer sign-ups. Engineer's Week, which runs February 21 - 25, allows IBMers the opportunity to make a difference in the community by volunteering at local classrooms. This year, volunteer hours can be credited towards the IBM Centennial Day of Service mission, which asks every IBMer to contribute to their community as part of our 100th year.
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Recognizing the changing demands of mobile computing, IBM Research unveiled a new email application prototype, created by researchers, to help mobile device users more effectively manage their email and tasks. Current mobile email clients are often just smaller versions of desktop clients and assume a user will open, read and respond to a message in the same manner they would on a desktop or laptop. But, in reality, mobile email usage differs greatly from desktop usage because of the environment and context in which it typically takes place. To help solve this common problem, computer scientists at IBM Research -- Almaden are engaged in a research effort to redefine the mobile email user experience to more closely reflect how people work today. The IBM Mail Triage Project, rethinks the mobile email experience by allowing users to quickly "triage" their email and identify what needs immediate action and what can be handled later.
This is an episode of REVOLUTIONARIES, a co-production of the Computer History Museum and KQED television, with major sponsorship by Intel. Recorded: Nov 15, 2011, originally broadcast on February 25, 2012. In an historic event in February 2011, IBM's Watson computer competed on Jeopardy! against the TV quiz show's two biggest all-time champions. Watson is a computer running software called Deep QA, developed by IBM Research. While the grand challenge driving the project was to win on Jeopardy!, the broader goal of Watson was to create a new generation of technology that can find answers in unstructured data more effectively than standard search technology. Computer systems that can directly and accurately answer peoples' questions over a broad domain of human knowledge have been envisioned by scientists and writers since the advent of computers themselves. Open domain question answering holds tremendous promise for facilitating informed decision making over vast volumes of natural language content. Applications in business intelligence, healthcare, customer support, enterprise knowledge management, social computing, science and government could all benefit from computer systems capable of deeper language understanding. The DeepQA project is aimed at exploring how advancing and integrating Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), Machine Learning (ML), Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) and massively parallel computation can greatly <b>...</b>
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On Wednesday, February 16th, IBM's Watson computing system competed in the final game of Jeopardy! against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter for the $1 million prize. IBMers, with their friends and families, attended this exciting event to see who walked away as the champion.
"Sametime 3D" is an ongoing IBM Research and Lotus initiative to integrate enterprise business applications with virtual world applications. The demonstration shows the integration of Lotus Sametime with OpenSim. Users of Sametime within an enterprise can invite meeting participants using group chat, select a virtual meeting space type (formal conference room, theater, collaboration space), upload files and generate a meeting space "on demand". Users are authenticated through internal authentication tools used for IBMs internal network. In-world functions include presentation viewer, brainstorming wall, monthly calendar view, sign in board, an action wall for documenting plans and a meeting content export capability. Sametime voice chat can be used to enable voice discussion during in world meetings. Future research under consideration includes additional reporting capabilities, enhanced voice integration, integration with other virtual world platforms, development of additional in world tools to support collaboration, and integration with 2D applications.
SRII 2011 GLOBAL CONFERENCE Silicon Valley, CA SRII 2011 Global Conference Keynote Presentation Robert JT Morris, Ph.D. Vice President, Service Research IBM Research 3.31.11 Dr. Robert JT Morris is Vice President, Services Research, IBM, where he is responsible for IBM's worldwide research efforts in services. From 2004-2006 he was VP, Assets Innovation, IBM Global Services where he put in place the strategies and practices to transform IBM's services business to one that is based on technology or IP assets.
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IBM has unveiled a novel membrane technology that stands to alleviate the growing shortage of drinkable water worldwide. Scientists at IBM Research, together with collaborators from Central Glass, the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, and the University of Texas, Austin have created a new membrane that filters out salts as well as potentially harmful toxins in water such as arsenic while using less energy than other forms of water purification. Today, one in five people lacks access to drinking water. According to the World Health Organization, arsenic-contaminated water has been a major health concern worldwide since the 1990s. Arsenic toxicity is cumulative; studies in countries where the population has had long-term exposure to arsenic-contaminated water show that one in 10 people who drink the water may ultimately die from cancers known to be caused by arsenic, including lung, bladder and skin cancer. Membrane filtration is currently one of the most energy efficient techniques for removing salt and improving water quality. But, conventional membranes used today are easily damaged by chlorine, which is commonly added to water to prevent bacterial growth that can cause health problems. Now, the collaborative research team has designed a new concept in membrane materials that combines resistance to chlorine damage and high performance separation behavior in mildly basic conditions, making it suitable for arsenic removal in addition to water desalination <b>...</b>
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In 2007 IBM Research began creating Watson, a data analytics and natural language processing computer, with the goal to have Watson compete on Jeopardy, a perfect testing platform. Visit ibmwatson.com for more information.
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Jeff Pierce (IBM Research - Almaden) , "Triage and Capture: Rethinking Mobile Email"
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IBM, the Governments of Canada and Ontario, and a consortium of seven universities led by the University of Toronto and Western University are collaborating to invest $210M to form a new research and development innovation network in Ontario that will create 145 new highly skilled jobs and a new economic cornerstone for the country.
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A panel at at the IBM Research Colloquium "The Future of Healthcare" at IBM Research - Haifa on November 14, 2011. Participants: Eddy Karnieli, MD, Director, Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Rambam Medical Center; Kobi Vortman, PhD, Founder, President, and CEO, InSightec; Shmuel Reis, MD, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Rappaport Faculty of Medicine; and Daniel Pelino, General Manager, Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM. Moderated by Yardena Peres, Manager, IT for Healthcare & Life Science, IBM Research - Haifa.
IBM research scientist Mark Ketchen explains how the quantum computing team conducts experiments in its extreme low temperature lab.
Presentation by Prof. Jonathan Halevy, Director General, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem at the IBM Research Colloquium "The Future of Healthcare" at IBM Research - Haifa on November 14, 2011.
In advance of the IBM Research colloquium -- The Frontiers of IT -- on October 21, Dario Gil, IBM's program director of Energy Technology & Strategy for IBM Research, talks about the elements of these IT frontiers, and what he's looking forward to at the event. For more about the event, visit www.ibm.com
Dr. Ferrucci, IBM research staff, demonstrates Watson in a Jeopardy-type environment and talks about how evidence analytics used by Watson can benefit medicine and health care.
