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

Read More

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

Read More

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

Read More

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

Read More

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

Read More

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

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)