Preventing failures before they happen

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Amir Nahir, IBM researcher


“When you’re driving your car down the highway at 50 mph, you
assume that turning on the car radio or the headlights won’t affect the brake
system. It’s just one extreme example of the importance of an integrated system. And any
complex system that combines hardware and software must be verified to prevent problems
such as your

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IBM 5 in 5 2012: Smell

Computers will have a sense of smell.



Editor’s note: This 2012 IBM
5-in-5 article is by IBM
Research’s Dr. Hendrik F. Hamann, research manager, physical analytics.





Within the next five years, your mobile device will likely
be able to tell you you’re getting a cold before your very first sneeze.



With every breath, you expel millions of different molecules.
Some of these molecules are

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IBM 5 in 5 2012: Taste

Digital taste buds will help you to eat smarter.




Editor’s note: This
2012 IBM 5-in-5 article is by IBM’s Dr. Lav Varshney, research scientist, Services Research.

An extraordinary dining experience of perfectly cooked food,
with unique flavor combinations meticulously designed on a plate, heightens all
of our senses.



But we may not realize that the way we perceive flavors and
the

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IBM 5 in 5 2012: Touch

You will be able to touch through your phone.





Editor’s note: This 2012 IBM 5-in-5 article is by Robyn Schwartz, associate
director of IBM Research Retail Analytics, and Dhandapani Shanmugam, solutions architect and Siddique A. Mohammed, software
architect of IBM Software Group Industry Solutions.



Within the next five years, your mobile device will let you touch
what you’re shopping for

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IBM 5 in 5 2012: Sight

A pixel will be worth a thousands words.





Editor’s note: This 2012 5-in-5 article is by IBM’s John
Smith, senior manager, Intelligent Information Management.



They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but for
computers, they’re just thousands of pixels. But within the next five years,
IBM Research thinks that computers will not only be able to look at images, but
help us understand the

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IBM 5 in 5 2012: Hearing

Computers will hear what matters





Editor’s note: This 2012 IBM 5-in-5 article is by IBM
Master Inventor Dimitri Kanevsky.



Imagine knowing the meaning behind your child’s cry, or
maybe even your pet dog’s bark, through an app on your smartphone. In the next
five years, you will be able to do just that thanks to algorithms embedded in
cognitive systems that will understand any sound.

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60 Seconds with an IBM scientist

Who: Jan Camenisch
Location: IBM Research - Zurich
Nationality: Swiss

Focus: Privacy and Cryptography



Photo credit Bruno Schlatter

“Whenever we engage in electronic transactions we leave digital footprints, and similar to Neil Armstrong’s footprints on the moon, they never disappear. While I can’t and don’t want to stop users from benefiting from online technologies, I want to make it

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BlueSNP scales statistical genetics studies

New open source tool
could help researchers and hospitals find the chromosomal needle in the
haystack using the processing power of computer clusters.





Editor’s note: This
article is by Dr. Robert Prill, IBM Research Alamaden.


At the genome level, everyone is 99.5 percent identical. It is the half percent difference that may hold the key to understanding many diseases and give clues about

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A scientist for a smarter planet: Bruno Michel

IBM Research scientist Bruno Michel is a classic intellectual omnivore,
with scientific interests ranging from semiconductors and computer
system design to solar energy, biology and water cooling systems. Here’s a video profile in which Bruno describes his career path, his motivations and some of  his ideas for saving the planet...





Read more about his work on the IBM Smarter Planet blog.

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Seeing the potential in digitized Braille

IBM Fellow
Chieko Asakawa recalls the painstaking process of translating her textbooks
to Braille when she was in college. No Braille textbooks were available, so family
members read while Chieko translated using a Braille typewriter. Translating an
English textbook required her family members to spell out each word – which
could take 20 to 30 minutes per page because Braille is “written” by

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Coding the human heart

Dr. Jeremy Rice and Cardioid.


Editor’s note: This article is by Dr. Jeremy Rice a
computational physiologist at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, as told
to Chris Nay, IBM Research Communications.



The Journal of the American College of Cardiology reported
in 2006 that about two of 1,000 people, worldwide, die of a ventricular
arrhythmia every year – the most common cause of sudden

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Cryptographer, Change Agent, Anita Borg Award Winner

Maria Dubovitskaya is a PhD student of cryptography at the IBM Research – Zurich Lab and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. She recently won the Anita Borg Change Agent Award in recognition of her technical leadership and efforts to encourage women to pursue scientific and technical fields. 


Tell us about the PhD in efficient cryptographic protocols for privacy protection  that you

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60 Seconds with an IBM scientist

Who: Diego Alejandro Ortiz-Yepes
Location: IBM Research - Zurich
Nationality: Colombian



Focus: Computer Scientist focused on Mobile Security

"Every day new security vulnerabilities are reported for PCs, which will eventually impact mobile technologies. Our clients in banking and government need to proactively stay ahead of these attacks to keep their data safe." 

"So the team I am on

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30 Years in Japan

Editor's note: This article is by IBM Research - Tokyo
Director Norishige (Noly) Morimoto.



Opening in 1982, IBM's research lab in Tokyo was its fourth
– and first in Asia. IBM saw Japan as an important market to invest in research
where information science and advanced computer technologies were emerging as
hot research topics for major IT companies. 








Past IBM Research - Tokyo

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Reading a mind in pain

Editor’s note: This article is
by Dr. Guillermo Cecchi of IBM Research’s Computational Biology Group. 



Pain, whether dealing with a healthy or sick person, is an
enormous part of medicine. Yet it is poorly understood. Consider this: we are
often asked to rate our perception of pain intensity, by reporting it in a
scale between 1 and 10. In this way, pain can be measurable. However, pain is

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Carbon nanotubes to keep up with Moore’s Law

Editor’s note: This article is by Dr. Hongsik
Park and Dr. Wilfried Haensch. Dr. Park is a research scientist at IBM’s Thomas
J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Haensch is a senior manager and
the Carbon Nanotube project leader at IBM Research.  





The end of silicon microprocessors is near.
Well, the end of continued performance improvements in silicon chips is near.
One of its promising

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Setting the standard in Internet security

IBM Research scientist earns ISSA Hall of Fame recognition.


Dr. Wietse Venema, IBM Research's authority on Internet security, has been inducted into the Information Systems Security Association's Hall of Fame for lifetime achievements which include Postfix, the Coroner's Toolkit and many other information security applications. In this interview, Dr. Venema talks about what inspired some of

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Institute models the utility of the future

Editor’s note: This
article is by Dario Gil, IBM Research’s director of energy and natural
resources.



Lightning hits telephone poles. Wind knocks down power
lines. Mother Nature and power outages just seem to go hand-in-hand. IBM
Research wants to help energy and utility companies with technology that
predicts the future state of their assets – not just reacts to when they need repairing

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Chip verification made easy

Editor’s note: This blog entry was authored by Laurent Fournier, Manager of Hardware Verification Technologies at IBM Research - Haifa.


When I tell people that I do pre-silicon verification for a living…well, you can imagine the yawns. Yet, without me—OK, without teams of people like me—computer functions that we take for granted or think of as simple, like making an ATM withdrawal, might not

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Data-driven Healthcare Analytics: From data to insight for individualized care

by Moshe Rappoport, Technology
Advocate and Trend Expert, IBM Forum Zurich
Research - Industry Solutions Lab

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