IBM Almaden Research Center

Coordinates: 37°12′38″N 121°48′27″W / 37.2106270°N 121.8075442°W / 37.2106270; -121.8075442

The IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California

The IBM Almaden Research Center is in San Jose, California, and is one of IBM's nine^[1] worldwide research labs. Its scientists perform basic and applied research in computer science, services, storage systems, physical sciences, and materials science and technology. The center opened in 1986, and continues the research started in San Jose more than fifty years ago. Nearly all of Almaden’s approximately 500 research employees are in technical functions and more than half of these hold Ph.D.s. The lab is home to ten IBM Fellows, ten IBM Distinguished Engineers, nine IBM Master Inventors and seventeen members of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Almaden is located at 650 Harry Road on nearly 700 acres (2.8 km²) of land in the hills above Silicon Valley. The site was chosen because of its close proximity to Stanford University, UC Berkeley and other collaborative academic institutions. Research at the lab is organized into four areas: Science and Technology, Computer Science, Storage Systems, and Service Research.

Notes

This article relies on references to primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject, rather than references from independent authors and third-party publications. Please add citations from reliable sources. (January 2009)

External links

• IBM Almaden Research Center
  • IBM Almaden Computer Science
  • IBM Almaden Science and Technology
  • IBM Almaden Storage Systems
  • IBM Almaden Service Research
• IBM Almaden Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
• IBM Research history
• IBM Almaden Research Center Timeline

v d e IBM History History of IBM  · Mergers and acquisitions · Think (motto) · Operating Systems Products Cell microprocessor · Mainframe · Personal Computer · POWER · Information Management · Lotus Software · Rational · SPSS · ILOG · Tivoli: Service Automation Manager  · WebSphere · alphaWorks · Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History · Mashup Center · PureQuery · Redbooks · Fortran Business entities Global Services · jStart · Research · Sterling Commerce · International Facilities Towers (Montreal, Paris, Atlanta) · Software Labs (Rome, Toronto) · IBM Buildings (Chicago, Johannesburg, Seattle) · Research Labs (China, Tokyo, Zurich, Haifa, India, Almaden) · Facilities (Hakozaki, Yamato) · IBM Scientific Center · Hursley House · Canada Head Office Building · Thomas J. Watson Research Center · IBM Rochester · Somers Office Complex Initiatives Academy of Technology · Centers for Advanced Studies: CASCON · Deep Thunder · IBM Fellow · IBM Distinguished Engineer · Pulse conference · The Great Mind Challenge · DeveloperWorks: Develothon · ITUP · Linux Technology Center · IBM Virtual Universe Community · Smarter Planet Inventions Automated teller machine (ATM) · Hard disk drive · Floppy disk · DRAM · Relational model · Selectric Typewriter · Financial swaps · Universal Product Code · Magnetic stripe card · SABRE airline reservation system Terminology Globally Integrated Enterprise · Commercial Processing Workload · Consumability · Technology dividend · e-business CEOs T. J. Watson (1914–1956) · T. J. Watson, Jr. (1956–1971) · T. V. Learson (1971–1973) · F. T. Cary (1973–1981) · J. R. Opel (1981–1985) · J. F. Akers (1985–1993) · L. V. Gerstner, Jr. (1993–2002) · S. J. Palmisano (2002–2011) · V. M. Rometty (2012-) Other Deep Thought · Watson (computer) · Common Public License/IBM Public License · Customer engineer · Dynamic infrastructure · IBM and the Holocaust · IBM international chess tournament · Lucifer cipher · Mathematica · SHARE computing · ScicomP Annual revenue: US$99.9 billion (FY 2010) · Employees: 426,751 (2010) · Stock symbol: NYSE: IBM · Website: ibm.com