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]
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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Laboratories
United States
- Thomas J. Watson Research Center [2]
- Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California [6]
- Austin Research Lab, Texas [7]
International
IBM Research also has laboratories in:
- IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Zürich [8]
- IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa [9]
- IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory [10]
- IBM China Research Laboratory [11]
- IBM India Research Laboratory [12]
Past
Notable previous IBM Research laboratories:
Publications
- IBM Journal of Research and Development
- IBM Systems Journal
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.
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
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