Today, IBM announced an initiative designed to link state-of-the-art IBM Research projects directly to the largest part of the company - services.The Services Innovation Lab (SIL), led by researchers with development and client experience in virtually every field of science and technology, will bring together researchers and services professionals to generate ideas, solve problems, capture
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Monday, 25 July 2011
A Century of IBM Patents
Posted on 05:30 by Unknown
One hundred years ago, on July 25, 1911, IBM received its first patent for an invention related to punched card tabulation (U.S. Patent # 998,631). Since then, IBM inventors have been granted more than 150,000 patents globally for technological creations that have made a lasting impact on business and society.Patents and innovation are essential components of IBM's business growth strategy, and
Monday, 18 July 2011
Ponder This: A Q&A with puzzle master Oded Margalit
Posted on 10:39 by Unknown
Every month since May 1998, thousands of people match wits with the best minds in IBM Research by trying to solve Ponder This puzzles. The Ponder This puzzles began as a way for IBM researchers to increase productivity. Some employees found that when they got stuck on a problem, that immersing themselves in solving a completely different type of problem helped get them back on track.
Friday, 8 July 2011
Inventors' Corner: U.S. Patent #7,877,706 – Controlling a document based on user behavioral signals detected from a 3D captured image stream
Posted on 12:02 by Unknown
This patent describes a technique that enables an individual to use gestures and movements to search the Web or automatically create or update a document, spreadsheet, e-mail, etc.Similar to the technology used in gaming systems to capture a player's actions or movement, this invention is capable of seeing or detecting certain gestures or movements of computer users, which can be used to interact
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