Modeling the planet's future

5 Minutes with Dr. Robert Bishop, President, International Center for Earth Simulation (ICES) Q. What is ICES?Robert Bishop: The acronym “ICES” stands for the International Center for Earth Simulation. We see this as a long-term issue. It’s a very ambitious mission to bring together all the sciences which are currently siloed separately. They don’t talk to each other enough. As a consequence I

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Portuguese IBM Scientific Prize Awarded

The IBM Scientific Prize 2010 was recently presented to Alexandra Silva, for her PhD research at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. Her paper is titled Quantitative Kleene coalgebras.

Silva received the prize during a ceremony in Braga, Portugal, with Education and Science Minister Nuno Crato and IBM Portugal President Jose Joaquim de Oliveira. The award consists of a charter

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Linking genes over generations

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Dr. Ajay Royyuru, the senior manager of IBM’s Computational Biology Center. We started the Genographic Project with National Geographic six years ago, and the first thing we worried about was how the general public would respond to our request for their DNA. There’s nothing more personal than that. Well, we ran out of our initial supply of 30,000 kits

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"It’s exciting when an experiment finally works"

IBM scientist Werner Escher received the 2011 HILTI Award for innovative research for his outstanding PhD thesis on new liquid cooling technologies for microprocessors. The renowned technical university ETH Zurich issues this award every year in recognition of a thesis or other research paper in the fields of physics or engineering that excels in combining extraordinary scientific research with

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The Next Grand Challenge in Computing

At the recent Frontiers of IT colloquium, IBM Aacdemy of Technology Chairman Emeritus Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger hosted a panel of industry and academic leaders who discussed what they consider today's grand challenges in computing.The Panelists: Jim Schatz, Department Head, Johns Hopkins Applied Information SciencesDavid Aronoff, Flybridge Venture CapitalErik Kruse, Marketing Strategist,

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The Future of Computing: Reuniting Bits and Atoms

Dr. Neil Gershenfeld, the director of The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, spoke about "how bits meets atoms" at the recent "Frontiers of IT" colloquium at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center."Projecting to exascale, we're heading toward 10-to-the-20 [operations per second]. The universe does 10-to-the-120 ops! There isn't a word for that. There's 10-to-the-100 head room we haven't reached.

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Transforming Health Care Through Data

Lori Beer, the executive vice president of Enterprise Business Services at WellPoint, spoke about how data -- and analyzing that data with systems such as IBM's Watson -- is transforming health care."If you look at [the health care industry], it's not that there's a lack of data. But if you look across the silos of the industry, whether it's pharmaceuticals, or medical devices, or medical

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Advanced Computing Systems for Energy

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