IBM Mobile Systems Remote now on Android

Last year, IBM research scientist Patrick Bohrer released the Mobile Systems Remote on Apple’s App
Store. Now, the app – a remote that lets IT administrators manage IBM
BladeCenter or System x server – is available for Android
OS devices.




Patrick Bohrer


The following interview with Bohrer, a newly named IBM
Distinguished Engineer, discusses the remote’s new features, ideas for future

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Is the Internet reaching its limit?

Editor's note: This entry was written by Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal, Senior Manager of the System Technologies and Services at IBM Research – Haifa.

With billions of people, devices, and objects now connected to the Internet, it is quickly reaching its architectural limits -- and doesn’t have the ability to scale up to capacity for the vast amounts of new data being created. It's quickly becoming clear

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A system that optimizes its work

Editor’s note: The following article was written by
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM
Research’s director of Distributed Computing.
 




Workload optimized systems are emerging as powerful
computers that, in the case of IBM’s Watson,
have been designed to tackle specific, complex problems such as cancer research.
But then the Research team asked: How could we
design a computer that understands what the

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Sunscreen for Semiconductors

Editor's note: This article is Geraud Dubois, IBM Research's manager of Hybrid Polymeric Materials.



Scientists at IBM Research – Almaden have developed a sunscreen for microprocessors called Post Porosity Plasma Protection. Lathered on a chip, it is the next leap in materials that improve speed and performance.

In the last 20 years, miniaturization has driven the improvement of chip

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Lose 5 pounds instantly: Stop schlepping your laptop

Michael Baentsch and Paolo Scotton, the scientists who spearheaded the development of the Secure Enterprise Desktop, give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the work that led up to this attractive new technology and explain its advantages for both companies and end users.IBM scientist Michael BaentschQ. In a nutshell, what was the motivation to develop the Secure Enterprise Desktop, which you

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Free iPad App from IBM Reinvents Iconic '60s Era Exhibit on History of Mathematics

At the cusp of NASA's
first moon mission, the 1964 World's Fair in New York City inspired thousands of
young people to study math and science and pursue careers in engineering. IBM's exhibit at the Fair
-- Mathematica: A World of
Numbers...and Beyond -- encouraged future generations to appreciate
math and create the next generation of computing.




To mark the impact of
math on the world and

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IBM researchers help ASTRON tackle big data among the stars

IBM scientists are working
with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) to develop a
massively powerful computing system for harvesting a huge quantity of
data gathered by the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio
telescope.

Their project, called DOME, will investigate emerging technologies that
might be used in the SKA computing systems. They’ll explore how to

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Like a kid in a toy shop

Beat Weiss, engineer and lab technician at the IBM Research – Zurich Lab, celebrates 25 years of service.Q: What originally brought you to the IBM Research – Zurich Lab?After my apprenticeship as a mechanic, I applied for an opening. At my interview, they gave me a tour of the labs, and wow! In this one lab, it was rather dark and there was this bright green laser, cables everywhere, high-tech

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