Profile of an IBM Scientist: Abu Sebastian

Who: Abu Sebastian

Location: IBM Research - Zurich

Nationality: Indian (born in Kerala)



Abu (right) accepting the IFAC Award.

Something about me: I’ve lived on four different continents for at least three years including India (Asia), Nigeria (Africa), the state of Iowa in the U.S. (North America) and Switzerland (Europe).

Focus: Dynamics, modeling and control at the nanometer scale.

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Getting Hot with Data Retrieval

IBM scientists and developers spanning from Almaden, California; Tucson, Arizona and Zurich, Switzerland recently achieved a significant breakthrough in distributed FLASH cache for enterprise transaction processing. The technology was recently unveiled at the IBM EDGE 2012 conference in Orlando, Florida and was demonstrated to show a latency improvement of more than 5x for certain workloads.

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Inventors’ Corner: Hall of Fame induction for magnetic memory breakthrough

Two IBM scientists, Drs. Lubomyr Romankiw and David Thompson (retired), will be inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame on May 2, 2012
for their three U.S.
patents that revolutionized data storage density and device ubiquity.





IBM has more than 4,000 active storage patents.




The patents – 4,295,173, 3,921,217, and 3,908,194 – are for techniques
that produce thin film magnetic

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