Dr. Tze-Chiang Chen receives IEEE honor for technology leadership

“Generation after generation we hit the technology wall. IBMers possess the attitude that we never see the wall as a barrier; we see it as an opportunity for innovation.”
– T.C. ChenWhen Dr. Tze-Chiang Chen joined IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1984, the microprocessors ran at 5 MHz with 275,000 transistors per microprocessor. Since that time, Chen has

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IBM's first cognitive computing chips mimic functions of the brain

Today, IBM announced the very first cognitive computing chips, designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. The technology could yield many orders of magnitude less power consumption and space than used in today’s computers, and give computers a sort of "right brain" capability to match their superior calculating abilities. Following Watson, it is yet another

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Building an inclusive society on the web

In an effort to improve Web accessibility of public services for every Japanese citizen, including the elderly and disabled, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) developed Operational Models for Government Agencies and Municipalities: a manual that provides guidance and procedures that ensure accessibility for such tasks as municipality orders for outsourcing Web site

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How IBM is digitizing the world's text

The idea of digitizing all books and making them available on electronic libraries can be traced back to 1945, when Dr. Vannevar Bush wrote "As we may think" in the July issue of The Atlantic. His visionary description of an information centric application called "memex" influenced the development of the hypertext concept and the Internet. And projects in the 1970s – such as Michael Hart's

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