Photographing Africa’s Grand Challenges and Opportunities

A Q&A with
photographer Mutua Matheka.

IBM opened its twelfth global lab, and first in Africa on November 8. Located at the
Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi,
Kenya, it is the first commercial
technology research facility on the continent. The lab brings together scientists and research engineers
from some of the world's best universities, most from the African diaspora.

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Prestigious Gordon Bell Prize Goes to Bubble Simulation

Part of the winning team accepting the 2013 Gordon Bell Prize.

IBM Blue Gene systems have helped map the human genome, flown airplanes, pinpointed tumors, predicted climate trends and we can now add simulated bubbles to the list — more precisely 15,000 of them. But this isn’t child’s play, in fact the research achieved a new supercomputing record and last night it was awarded the

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Advancing Equal Technology Access Rights to People with Disabilities

Editor’s note: This article is by Frances West, Worldwide Director, IBM
Human Ability and Accessibility Center 

I was honored to testify to the
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Thursday, Nov. 21 to discuss IBM’s point of view on
the proposed U.S. ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (UNCRPD).




Frances West



The
UNCRPD mandates that

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Sensors remind doctors to wash up

Fighting hospital-born infections starts with
simple hygiene.



While operating rooms are one of the most sterile places in the world – where special procedures and chemicals keep instruments and the doctors and nurses who use them perfectly clean – it’s a small space within a hospital. Other areas of open hallways and waiting rooms are near impossible to keep so perfectly germ-free. So, as

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Thinking positive helps teens

Editor’s note: This article is by Gili Ginzburg, the community
relations coordinator for the IBM R&D Labs in Israel.





Gili Ginzburg

For dozens of high school students across Israel, the
power of positive thinking is not just an empty slogan. For the fourth
consecutive year, IBM scientists are helping lead Think Positive, a mentoring
project that teams up IT professionals with students

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Combinatorial Test Design: Who needs it and what’s it good for?

Eitan Farchi


Editor’s note: This
article is by Eitan Farchi, a senior technical staff member at IBM Research – Haifa, who specializes in
software testing analysis and reviews.



With existing networks heading towards the limit of their
capacity, the need for a new Internet architecture – sometimes referred to as the Future Internet – is
becoming critical. Future Internet is the motivation

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Creating something from nothing

The innovation driver in emerging markets.





Editor's note: This article is by IBM Research - India Director, and IBM Chief Technologist for South Asia Ramesh Gopinath.  

Speaking with a journalist here in Bangalore,
recently, he quoted our website’s
statement: “IBM Research spends over USD $6 billion in research and
development, and has the most number of US patents to its credit.” He then

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Exfoliating wafer-scale graphene down to one layer

Editor’s note: This
article is by IBM Research scientists Jeehwan Kim and Hongsik Park, who work in carbon electronics.




Dr. Jeewhan Kim


Graphene
holds promise as the linchpin material for breakthroughs in everything from high-frequency
transistors and photo-detectors, to flexible electronics and biosensors because
of its supreme electrical, optical and mechanical properties. And
while

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Understanding the brain through cognitive computing

IBM scientists in Israel
collaborate with researchers from the Sagol School
of Neuroscience to better understand how the brain works.



Top PhD students from the Sagol School of Neuroscience
in Tel Aviv
University will spend time working
side by side with IBM researchers in Haifa, Israel
to develop new computer models that offer insight into how the brain works. The
program includes joint

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Swiss Hospital Tests New Cancer Tool Developed by IBM Scientists

IBM scientists are partnering with pathologists in Zurich, Switzerland to help unravel tumors and to assist in personalized treatment strategies.

Tissue staining is widely used in pathology to detect disease markers in
a patient's sample. More specifically, a particular disease marker is
bound with an antibody, which is then chemically colored or stained on
the tissue. The intensity of the

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New paths emerge in medical training

Dr. Neil Mehta




Editor’s note: This is
an interview with Dr. Neil Mehta, Associate Professor of Medicine and

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IBM Research to accelerate discovery with unique lab

The amount of data coming off of sensors and devices challenges researchers and data scientists to determine how to capture it and develop the right tools to analyze it. At IBM Research we are building centers of competency around this big data challenge that will pull together the right sets of collateral to make it easier to do engagements and execute the type of analysis needed for businesses

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A Tiny Way to Honor 150 Years of Swiss and Japanese Relations

In 1864, the first fish and chips shop supposedly opened in London, Abraham Lincoln was reelected as president of the United States and Switzerland and Japan established diplomatic relations after signing the Treaty of Amity and Trade. 

This auspicious anniversary will offer
plenty of occasions to emphasize the important bilateral relations, including a scientific conference from 9-11 October

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The analytics of heart failure

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