IBM Research
IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects.
Its origins can be traced to the establishment in 1945 of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University [1] which later expanded into other research labs in Westchester County, New York beginning in the 1950s.[2][3]
Some major activities include the invention of innovative materials and structures, high-performance microprocessors and computers, analytical methods and tools, algorithms, software architectures, and methods for managing, searching and deriving meaning from data.
Among their most famous past developments are the Data Encryption Standard (DES), the fast Fourier transform (FFT), Benoît B. Mandelbrot's paper introducing fractals, Magnetic disk storage (hard disks), One-transistor dynamic RAM (DRAM) (Dynamic random access memory), Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture, Relational databases, and the grandmaster level chess computer, Deep Blue. IBM Research's several contributions to physical sciences include the scanning tunneling microscope and high temperature superconductivity. Both these achievements were rewarded with Nobel Prizes.
IBM Research is involved in many significant collaborative research activities with different academic universities and industrial research laboratories. These include the International Technology Alliance, the Open Collaborative Research program and the research alliance that developed the DARPA High Performance Computing System.
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[edit] Laboratories
[edit] United States
- Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
- Austin Research Lab, Texas [7]
[edit] International
IBM Research also has laboratories in:
- IBM Research -- China [8]
- IBM Research -- Haifa, Haifa
- IBM Research -- India
- IBM Research & Development -- Ireland
- IBM Research -- Tokyo [9]
- IBM Research -- Zurich, Rüschlikon, Zurich
- IBM Research & Develoment -- Australia [10]
[edit] Past
Notable previous IBM Research laboratories:
[edit] Publications
- IBM Journal of Research and Development
- IBM Systems Journal
[edit] References
- ^ "IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University". Columbia.edu. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/watsonlab.html. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ^ Beatty, Jack, (editor) Colussus: how the corporation changed America, New York : Random House, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7679-0352-3. Cf. chapter "Making the 'R' Yield 'D': The IBM Labs" by Robert Buderi.
- ^ IBM, "Watson Research Center: Watson Facility History"
- ^ "IBM Research, Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY". IBM. 2007-02-06. http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_ykt.shtml. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ^ "IBM Research&, Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY". IBM. 2007-02-06. http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ^ "IBM Research, Watson Research Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts". IBM. 2007-02-06. http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_cam.shtml. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ^ IBM Austin Research Lab website
- ^ "IBM - China Research Laboratory - China". IBM Research. http://www.research.ibm.com/beijing/. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ^ "IBM Research - Tokyo". IBM Research. http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/extfnt_e.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ^ "IBM Research - Australia". IBM Research. http://www.research.ibm.com/australia/.
[edit] Further reading
- Brennan, Jean Ford (1971). The IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University: A History. IBM. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/brennan/index.html.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Projects
- Research History Highlights (Top Innovations)
- Research history by year
- Oral history interview with Martin Schwarzschild head of Watson Scientific Computation Laboratory at Columbia University, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
- IBM Research's technical journals
