At IBM Research – Zurich, the advanced materials and photonics group collaborate on photonics technology for future computing systems and the teams are currently researching the use of silicon photonics for intra-chip data communication to overcome bandwidth limitations imposed by copper wires. Optical link technology -- or "CMOS integrated silicon photonics" -- could ultimately enable data
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Shining a Light on Functional Oxides
Posted on 04:19 by Unknown
At IBM Research – Zurich, the advanced materials and photonics group collaborate on photonics technology for future computing systems and the teams are currently researching the use of silicon photonics for intra-chip data communication to overcome bandwidth limitations imposed by copper wires. Optical link technology -- or "CMOS integrated silicon photonics" -- could ultimately enable data
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Mission Impossible? Not for these IBM scientists
Posted on 07:34 by Unknown
IBM scientist Ioannis Koltsidas’ phone rang on the afternoon of February 4. His manager was on the other line.
“Pack your bags, you and Nikolas [Ioannou] need to fly out to the IBM lab in Almaden and build a half-petabyte storage system out of Flash. It's for a demonstration at a critically important meeting on 28 February.”
“But I don’t think that’s ever been done before,” commented a nervous
“Pack your bags, you and Nikolas [Ioannou] need to fly out to the IBM lab in Almaden and build a half-petabyte storage system out of Flash. It's for a demonstration at a critically important meeting on 28 February.”
“But I don’t think that’s ever been done before,” commented a nervous
Thursday, 14 March 2013
CeBIT Wrap Up - Projects in Haifa, Tokyo and Zurich
Posted on 21:00 by Unknown
Last week more than 300,000 people descended on the small German city of Hanover for the annual CeBIT Trade Show. The event attracts an important audience including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
IBM has been a CeBIT stalwart for more than 20 years and always offers attendees a booth roughly the size of a football pitch (a.k.a. a soccer field for those
IBM has been a CeBIT stalwart for more than 20 years and always offers attendees a booth roughly the size of a football pitch (a.k.a. a soccer field for those
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Big Bang, Big Data and Young Scientists
Posted on 21:00 by Unknown
How's this for a challenge? Create a computer based on technology that currently does not exist; analyse and store more data than what is on the daily Internet; and work on a billion dollar project with the formable name of Square Kilometer Array (SKA) that has drawn worldwide attention. And your goal: answer the biggest scientific question that have puzzled humankind for hundreds of years -- "
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Dimitri Kanevsky Translating Big Data
Posted on 05:45 by Unknown
Big Data is big. It’s 2.5 quintillion bytes of
data every day big. Proper noun Big. Dr. Dimitri Kanevsky, a Master
Inventor with IBM Research, is applying the techniques to discover meaning
within Big Data to speech transcription and translation.
He recently earned a Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in
Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for his work in
this area,
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Profile of a Scientist: Lukas Kull
Posted on 21:01 by Unknown
Who: Lukas Kull
Location: IBM Research - Zurich
Nationality: Swiss
Something about me: I speak Swedish and I build my own ultra-light tents for hiking in the mountains.
Lukas holding prototypes of his chip design.
Focus: Analog to Digital Chip Design
The annual growth rate of structured and unstructured Big Data is 60 percent. A large portion of this is real world data from the
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Chip technology earns Japan Prize
Posted on 13:06 by Unknown
Today's processors owe
advancement to chemically amplified photoresists.
C. Grant Willson
Chemically Amplified Resists – "materials used in
lithography to form the structures in today's semiconductor devices" –
developed at IBM's research lab in San Jose in the early 1980s (the lab since
moved to Almaden, CA in 1986) by professors C. Grant
Willson (who was working at IBM Research at the
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