"IT Nobel" Awarded to IBM Researcher

The IEEE Computer Society has awarded its 2012 W. Wallace McDowell Award to Ronald Fagin, Manager, Foundations of Computer Science at IBM Research - Almaden, "for fundamental and lasting contributions to the theory of databases."



Popularly referred to as the "IT Nobel," the W. Wallace McDowell Award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding recent theoretical, design,

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Big Data University

Rutgers and IBM team on a new High Performance Computing Center. 



Soon to be armed with a new IBMBlue Gene/P high performance computing center,
Rutgers University
will crunch big data from the life sciences to finance, and even do some climate
modeling.




Partnering
for analytics



RDI2
will be one of only eight of the nation’s 62 scientific computation centers
with an

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26 years at IBM Research - Zurich. A personal summary

Dieter Jaepel retires from IBMDr. Dieter Jaepel, computer scientist and executive briefer at the Industry Solutions Lab, which is part of the IBM Forum Center organization in Europe, looks back on a rich and varied career.Q. What brought you to the IBM Research – Zurich lab?DJ: When I joined IBM in 1986, the idea was to strengthen the software work at the Zurich Lab. For me that was quite a

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Looking back on 25 years of service to IBM

Christophe Rossel, physicist at the IBM Research – Zurich Laboratory, shares some thoughts and insights on a quarter century of service.Q. Christophe, congratulations on your 25th service anniversary. What brought you to the Zurich Lab?CR: I was attracted to the reputation of IBM. After doing a post-doc, I had been working on superconductivity as a research associate at UCSD in San Diego,

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Creek Watch iPhone App Goes Social

Editor’s note: The following article is a guest post by Conservation Biologist Erick Burres. He leads the state of California’s Citizen Monitoring Program: the Clean Water Team.






Water is one of our most precious resources -- vital for our survival. This week, its significance of those facts is highlighted in several commemorations: World Water Day and World Water Monitoring Day on March

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What works best for patients like me?

Clinical genomic analytics platform for decision support takes some of the guesswork out of medical treatments



On March 14, IBM announced the creation of a new clinical genomics analytics platform to help physicians and administrators at Italy's Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Nazionale dei Tumori make decisions about which treatments could work most effectively for individual patients.





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SXSW Spotlight: Data as Narrative

Editor’s note: This brief Q&A series
will feature IBM researchers making presentations at the 2012 South-by-Southwest
Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas.



Join the conversation: #sxswibm #timeMap





Research Scientist Dr. Jennifer Thom, a member
of IBM’s Visual Communications Lab, is part of the Maps of Time: Data As Narrative panel –
a discussion about understanding and visualizing

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Holey Optochip Transfers One Trillion Bits of Information

IBM scientists have developed a prototype optical
chipset, called Holey Optochip, that is the first parallel optical transceiver
to transfer one trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second, the
equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will occur at
the Optical Fiber Communication
Conference taking place in Los Angeles, Calif.

Read the announcement on ibm.com.

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SXSW Spotlight: Accessible Complex Data

Editor’s note: This brief Q&A series will feature IBM researchers making presentations at the 2012 South-by-Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas.

Join the conversation: #sxswibm #accessdata

Susann Keohane and Brian Cragun, consultants for IBM Research’s Human
Ability & Accessibility Center (referred to as the AbilityLab), will present Beyond a Thousand Words: Accessible

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Smart water analytics – when IT meets H2O

First Of A Kind project uses smart analytics to cut water loss in Sonoma County



"It took a crew of technicians and special equipment to block off traffic, climb down under the road, and make the adjustments to the water pressure valves," said Segev Wasserkrug, lead researcher for IBM's First Of A Kind (FOAK) project that brought smart water analytics from Haifa, Israel to Northwest

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Inventors’ Corner: Hall of Fame induction for magnetic memory breakthrough

Two IBM scientists, Drs. Lubomyr Romankiw and David Thompson (retired), will be inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame on May 2, 2012
for their three U.S.
patents that revolutionized data storage density and device ubiquity.





IBM has more than 4,000 active storage patents.




The patents – 4,295,173, 3,921,217, and 3,908,194 – are for techniques
that produce thin film magnetic

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