IBM researcher Heike Riel wins SVIN Award 2012.This article was translated from a Q&A conducted by SVIN managing director Brigitte Manz-Brunner. See also the external press release.Zurich physicist Heike RielThe Swiss Association of Women in Engineering (SVIN) honored Heike Riel, physicist at IBM Research – Zurich with its 2012 "Technical or Scientific Innovation" award. Heike's work focuses on
Friday, 29 June 2012
Monday, 25 June 2012
New destinations for mobile
Posted on 07:16 by Unknown
A Q&A with Gal Shachor, newly appointed Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research – Haifa.
Gal is one of the pioneering founders of WebSphere. His current work focuses on architecture and innovation for mobile computing platforms.
How did the industry – and IBM – make the move to mobile computing and how were you involved?
Gal Shachor: In 1996, contrary to the advice I got from many people, I
Gal is one of the pioneering founders of WebSphere. His current work focuses on architecture and innovation for mobile computing platforms.
How did the industry – and IBM – make the move to mobile computing and how were you involved?
Gal Shachor: In 1996, contrary to the advice I got from many people, I
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Optimizing underwater oil exploration
Posted on 05:57 by Unknown
Applied mathematicians from IBM Research are working with the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to maximize oil
exploration in the North Sea.
Oil shapes the quality of daily life, the world over. And nearly
everything associated with it – especially finding it and getting it out
of the ground – poses an international challenge. To solve that
challenge, applied
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Project dreams of helping doctors find a cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease, other challenges
Posted on 05:19 by Unknown
Biologists
push theory to experiment with the wisdom of crowds.
Seven
years ago, IBM Research scientist Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky’s team was looking
for a way to better-understand the accuracy of the biological results yielded by
the network reconstruction algorithms they were developing at IBM. In other
words, how could Stolovitzky improve the evaluation of their reverse
engineering efforts to
Monday, 18 June 2012
Green chemistry and the quest for environmentally sustainable plastics
Posted on 10:15 by Unknown
White House recognizes
IBM Research scientist for green chemistry breakthrough.
While exploring metal-free materials and processes for the thin polymeric
films used in microprocessors, IBM researcher Jim Hedrick and Stanford University
professor Dr. Robert Waymouth discovered that these chip development techniques
can also be used in organocatalysis – the use of organic materials instead of
Blue Gene/Q delivers a smarter planet in record speed
Posted on 00:00 by Unknown
Editor’s note: This
article was written by Michael
Rosenfield, IBM Research’s director of Deep Computing Systems.
IBM’s Blue Gene/Q supercomputer,
Sequoia, at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab took the number one ranking in
the TOP500
list of the world’s fastest machines. And 21 other Blue Gene/Q configurations
also earned spots on the list – including four in the top 10. Quite an
Monday, 4 June 2012
Research & Development in Europe
Posted on 15:35 by Unknown
This article by Rich Hume, General Manager of IBM Europe, originally appeared on the IBM Smarter Planet blog.
In an ever more globally integrated economy, Europe has headlined one of its key competitive differentiators: Research and Development.
A fact acknowledged by Horizon 2020, the European Union’s ambitious € 80 billion program for research and innovation.
Part of the drive to create new
In an ever more globally integrated economy, Europe has headlined one of its key competitive differentiators: Research and Development.
A fact acknowledged by Horizon 2020, the European Union’s ambitious € 80 billion program for research and innovation.
Part of the drive to create new
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