IBM Research
Meet the Newest IBM Fellows
Since the first class of IBM Fellows in 1962, IBM has honored its top scientists, engineers and programmers, who are chosen for this distinction by the CEO. Among the best and brightest of IBM’s global workforce are 12 new IBM Fellows who join 293 of their peers who have been so recognized over the last […]
How IBM is Advancing AI Once Again & Why it Matters to Your Business
There have been several seminal moments in the recent history of AI. In the mid-1990s, IBM created the Deep Blue system that played and beat world chess champion, Garry Kasparov in a live tournament. In 2011, we unveiled Watson, a natural language question and answering system, and put it on the hit television quiz show, […]
Amplifying the Power of Debate with AI
French essayist, Joseph Joubert, wrote in 1896: “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” For the last 15 years, I’ve led the nation’s most popular debate organization, ProCon.org. While our public charity has served more than 180 million people since 2004, our obsession with […]
Cancer as an Information Science Challenge, and Manageable Condition
As a former trauma coordinator for Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, I know what it’s like to be on the front lines of patient care. It was perhaps most personal when my cousin was diagnosed with bone cancer. As a patient in the hospital in which I worked, I watched as doctors tried everything they knew […]
Using AI to Close the Learning Gap
In classrooms of all ages and in schools around the world, teachers are met with the challenge of addressing each student’s individual needs and rate at which he or she learns. At IBM our Watson Education team is focused on leveraging AI to improve learning outcomes and implement solutions that will help all students succeed. […]
Accessibility: The Intersection of Innovation and Inclusion
On this seventh Global Accessibility Awareness Day, let’s talk, think and learn about digital accessibility, inclusion and people with disabilities. As a researcher, I enjoy technology, especially when it comes to helping people with disabilities. Over the years, our team has invented and developed many new technologies that enable accessibility. I would like to share […]
GDPR & Protecting Data Privacy with Cryptographic Pseudonyms
Within two years, most of today’s cybersecurity technologies will be obsolete. Since the beginning of 2016, hackers have stolen more than 8 billion records – more than double the two previous years combined – and that doesn’t account for unreported intrusions. The current system of patches, firewalls and blacklists isn’t working. It’s no match for […]
Changing the Way the World Works: IBM Research’s “5 in 5”
Our mission at IBM is to help our clients change the way the world works. There’s no better example of that than IBM Research’s annual “5 in 5” technology predictions. Each year, we showcase some of the biggest breakthroughs coming out of IBM Research’s global labs – five technologies that we believe will fundamentally reshape […]
Future Designers Unleash Creativity with AI
At Tommy Hilfiger, we have always been industry pioneers and driven by our vision to break conventions. We are constantly seeking new ways to evolve and respond to our consumer’s expectations. In this age of newness, it’s more important than ever to evolve and deliver on the instant gratification that consumers are looking for. Two years ago, we had the unique […]
IBM Patents: the Foundation of Innovation and Discovery
The strategic use of intellectual property has been at the core of IBM’s success throughout our 107-year history. We have always sought an approach to patenting that balances proprietary and open innovation. Patents not only allow us to grow and thrive as a company but they also enable us to advance the cause of technology […]
Getting the World Quantum Ready
The world took a big leap forward toward quantum computing readiness, today. A dozen international organizations representing Fortune 500 companies, academia, and the government joined the newly minted IBM Q Network. Together, we are committed to exploring scientific and commercial applications of quantum computing, leveraging IBM’s recently-announced 20-qubit commercial system – and, soon, our next-generation […]
The Chip Innovation of ’97 that Spurred Even Greater Scale & Speed
Twenty years ago, after riding high on a microprocessor architecture that launched and sustained the PC revolution, the industry faced considerable new hurdles – specifically with the microchip’s speed and scale. Any company that manufactured a device with a chip inside of it needed something new to help them keep up with the incredible demand for […]