Photographing Africa’s Grand Challenges and Opportunities

A Q&A with
photographer Mutua Matheka.

IBM opened its twelfth global lab, and first in Africa on November 8. Located at the
Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi,
Kenya, it is the first commercial
technology research facility on the continent. The lab brings together scientists and research engineers
from some of the world's best universities, most from the African diaspora.

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Prestigious Gordon Bell Prize Goes to Bubble Simulation

Part of the winning team accepting the 2013 Gordon Bell Prize.

IBM Blue Gene systems have helped map the human genome, flown airplanes, pinpointed tumors, predicted climate trends and we can now add simulated bubbles to the list — more precisely 15,000 of them. But this isn’t child’s play, in fact the research achieved a new supercomputing record and last night it was awarded the

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Advancing Equal Technology Access Rights to People with Disabilities

Editor’s note: This article is by Frances West, Worldwide Director, IBM
Human Ability and Accessibility Center 

I was honored to testify to the
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Thursday, Nov. 21 to discuss IBM’s point of view on
the proposed U.S. ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (UNCRPD).




Frances West



The
UNCRPD mandates that

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Sensors remind doctors to wash up

Fighting hospital-born infections starts with
simple hygiene.



While operating rooms are one of the most sterile places in the world – where special procedures and chemicals keep instruments and the doctors and nurses who use them perfectly clean – it’s a small space within a hospital. Other areas of open hallways and waiting rooms are near impossible to keep so perfectly germ-free. So, as

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Thinking positive helps teens

Editor’s note: This article is by Gili Ginzburg, the community
relations coordinator for the IBM R&D Labs in Israel.





Gili Ginzburg

For dozens of high school students across Israel, the
power of positive thinking is not just an empty slogan. For the fourth
consecutive year, IBM scientists are helping lead Think Positive, a mentoring
project that teams up IT professionals with students

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Combinatorial Test Design: Who needs it and what’s it good for?

Eitan Farchi


Editor’s note: This
article is by Eitan Farchi, a senior technical staff member at IBM Research – Haifa, who specializes in
software testing analysis and reviews.



With existing networks heading towards the limit of their
capacity, the need for a new Internet architecture – sometimes referred to as the Future Internet – is
becoming critical. Future Internet is the motivation

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Creating something from nothing

The innovation driver in emerging markets.





Editor's note: This article is by IBM Research - India Director, and IBM Chief Technologist for South Asia Ramesh Gopinath.  

Speaking with a journalist here in Bangalore,
recently, he quoted our website’s
statement: “IBM Research spends over USD $6 billion in research and
development, and has the most number of US patents to its credit.” He then

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