Self-Protecting Microprocessor Saves Energy

Update: The paper “Active Management of Timing Guardband to Save Energy in POWER7” also earned 2011 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper recognition.

Researchers at IBM’s Austin
lab recently earned “Best Paper” at The 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture for work on “Active Management of Timing Guardband to Save Energy in POWER7” – a new way of managing and reducing

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Advancing Quantum Computing

Quantum computing has been a Holy Grail for researchers ever since Nobel
Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, in 1981, challenged the
scientific community to build computers based on quantum mechanics.

For
decades, the pursuit remained firmly in the theoretical realm. But now
IBM scientists believe they're on the cusp of building systems that will
take computing to a whole new level.

&

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Technical Assistant looks back & forward

In August 2010, Thomas Weigold accepted a new challenge as Technical Assistant (TA) to Zurich Lab director Matthias Kaiserswerth. Thomas was previously a member of the BlueZ Business Computing team and was keen to get broader exposure to areas and people across IBM. As his term of office draws to an end, Thomas took a few moments to share some of the insights and experience he has gained in this

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Students and Faculty Must Work Across Disciplines to Meet Real-World Challenges

Editor's note: this post is by Jim Spohrer, director, IBM University Programs Worldwide.









Working with academia has been a longtime passion of mine, and for the last three years, my full-time job at IBM. In this role, I am often asked to offer advice, from an industry vantage point, on what needs to change in order to improve university and college education. 



After much

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Q&A with Yaniv Corem, gamification expert at IBM Research

Yaniv Corem joined IBM Research – Haifa in June 2010 after completing his undergraduate work at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and earning his master’s degree in architecture and computer science from MIT. Aside from his enthusiasm for rock climbing and bouldering, Yaniv is passionate about projects that use the "wisdom of the crowd" to solve difficult problems, complete tasks,

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Status of Higgs boson searches at CERN

The Higgs boson is the only particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics that has not yet been observed experimentally. Its observation would be a major step forward in our understanding of how particles acquire mass.  
Recently, Prof. Dr. Ivica Puljak who works at CERN and University of Split, visited IBM Research - Zurich for a lecture.  Before leaving he took a few questions (

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Predicting the Spread of Emerging Infectious Diseases

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