IBM and the Jeopardy! Challenge

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Rethinking the Mobile User Email Experience

You're standing in line or at a conference so you quickly check your email on your smartphone. Basically, you want to know what's new; what needs to be handled immediately; what can be deleted now and what can wait until back in the office. If it's something that you can put off until later, you probably have some trick to remind yourself. Then, you get back to your desk and find yourself

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And the 2010 Kavli Award in nanoscience goes to....

On September 28, 1989, IBM researcher Don Eigler moved a xenon atom back and forth between two defect sites on a platinum surface. In his lab notebook of that date, under the heading of “first atom to be manipulated under control”, Eigler wrote “Did it,” “Did it” and “Did it again! 3 in a row. On February 14, 1990, Eigler used a different method to manipulate single atoms: instead of dragging the

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East Meets West : Analyzing Digital Medical Records to Understand Treatment Efficacy

Eastern and Western medicine take very different approaches to the practice of medicine -- whether in prevention or disease treatment. And while, they may seem mutually exclusive, more and more clinicians are trying to understand how and when it may be best to integrate the two in order to prescribe the most effective, appropriate treatments for a patient.Combining data from Traditional Chinese

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Inventors' Corner U.S. Patent #7,689,595 -- Automatic travel content capture tool for address book entries

Master Inventor, Rick Hamilton, explains how the invention associated with U.S. patent #7,689,595 works:



This patent describes an invention that automatically checks your cell phone or handheld's address book and calendar when traveling and, using GPS, automatically provides directions from your current location to nearby destinations.  For example,if you're traveling on business and are

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