"Smart Machines" Preview

IBM Senior Vice President and Research Director Dr. John E.
Kelly III and IBM writer Steve Hamm have authored a book, Smart Machines:
IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing, which will be published by
Columbia University Press this fall. The book presents a comprehensive
perspective on the future of technology and calls for government, academia and
the global tech industry to help power

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A scientist for a smarter planet: Bruno Michel

IBM Research scientist Bruno Michel is a classic intellectual omnivore,
with scientific interests ranging from semiconductors and computer
system design to solar energy, biology and water cooling systems. Here’s a video profile in which Bruno describes his career path, his motivations and some of  his ideas for saving the planet...





Read more about his work on the IBM Smarter Planet blog.

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Box Office to Front Office: Winning with Big Data

On Friday, August 10, 2012, the latest installment of the IBM Research Colloquia, "Box Office to Front Office: Winning with Big Data," will convene Bay Area thought leaders and experts in sports and entertainment for a discussion on using Big, Fast Data to engage consumers, develop products and drive revenue.



Join our livestream web event to hear how our esteemed panelists are using Big,

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Breakthrough in high-performance computing

IBM scientists (left to right)
Alessandro Curioni, Yves Ineichen and Costas Bekas

Yves Ineichen, a pre-doc at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) working at IBM Research – Zurich, together with coauthors Costas Bekas and Alessandro Curioni and PSI, ETHZ coauthors Andreas Adelmann and Peter Arbenz have been awarded the European Supercomputing PRACE Award 2012 for their paper "A Fast and

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Modeling the planet's future

5 Minutes with Dr. Robert Bishop, President, International Center for Earth Simulation (ICES) Q. What is ICES?Robert Bishop: The acronym “ICES” stands for the International Center for Earth Simulation. We see this as a long-term issue. It’s a very ambitious mission to bring together all the sciences which are currently siloed separately. They don’t talk to each other enough. As a consequence I

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