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July 13, 2017
Posted in: Cognitive Computing, Education, IBM Research-Zurich
Grad student wins IBM Fellowship to Mimic Brain Architecture
S. R. Nandakumar, a graduate student in electrical engineering, has won a coveted IBM Ph.D. fellowship to support his work on computer systems that mimic the architecture of the human brain. Before the hard work begins we asked him a few questions about what lies ahead.
"Neuromorphic engineering is, in general, trying to realize the computational power and efficiency of the brain in hardware."
Brainiacs: Applying Watson for Genomics to better understand brain tumors
This spring I was invited to a global meeting about cancer research – how tumor data should be gathered, integrated and interpreted. It brought together specialists from medicine, biology, chemistry,...
July 11, 2017
Sharing the Art and Science of Lithography
IBM researcher Martha Sanchez describes her work in lithography and how she inspires students through the fun and art behind science.
July 7, 2017
Recent papers detail carbon nanotube scalabilty, integration breakthroughs
Carbon nanotubes appeal to the semiconductor industry because they’re superior electrical conductors compared to silicon with a mere 1 nanometer body thickness. So why don’t we have CNT chips in...
July 5, 2017
Using distributed learning to boost Watson’s Visual IQ
Quantity matters when training computers to accurately recognize what’s in an image. The more they see, the more they learn. But, training new visual recognition models from a large number...
June 30, 2017
Laura Haas: 36 years of making IBM Research “Famous for...
After 36 years with IBM Research, IBM Fellow Laura Haas is becoming Dean of the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst.
June 29, 2017
Scaling Wimbledon’s video production of highlight reels through AI technology
Demonstrating the continual innovation that takes place around its major sporting events, IBM Research and IBM iX are teaming up to provide “Cognitive Highlights” to The Championships, Wimbledon, the oldest...
June 27, 2017
Cornell, IBM Research collaborate to safeguard milk and — in...
Next-generation sequencing and big data analytics will help Cornell and IBM Research identify new ways to eliminate hazards in the food supply chain.
June 27, 2017
IBM Fellow Heike Riel awarded prestigious prize for women
Last night in Berlin, Dr. Heike Riel, an IBM Fellow and executive director of the IBM Research Frontiers Institute and IoT Technology, claimed the prize. Riel was nominated for her...
June 26, 2017
Wisdom from a brain-inspired computing researcher to the class of...
Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha is an IBM Fellow and IBM Chief Scientist for Brain-inspired Computing. Following is a transcript of the speech he delivered to the graduating class of the...
June 25, 2017
A new supercomputing-powered weather model may ready us for Exascale
IBM Research, The Weather Company, UCAR and NCAR are collaborating to develop the first supercomputing model to predict weather events at local scales.
June 23, 2017
As the Turing Award turns 50, honoring recipient Ted Codd
As both the ACM and IBM celebrate 50 years of the Turing Award, an IBM Fellow honors his mentor and Turing recipient, Ted Codd.
June 22, 2017
Micro-DataCenter from IBM Research and ASTRON Wins HPC Vendor Innovation...
Yesterday his intuition was recognized by Hyperion Research with the HPC Vendor Innovation Award. The award showcases return on investment (ROI) and success stories involving high performance computing (HPC) to...
June 21, 2017
From garbage to gold: How advances in plastic recycling can...
IBM Research polymer chemist Jeannette Garcia shares insight on the types of recycling available and their potential to turn garbage in to gold.
June 15, 2017
Automating low-level tasks for data scientists
Data scientists are among the most sought after professionals in the IT industry. In 2012, Harvard Business Review called data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century.”
June 13, 2017
The Cary Institute teams with IBM Research to address Zika
When the Zika virus arrived in Brazil, it went largely unnoticed until infected infants were born with microcephaly, a neurological disorder marked by a small head caused by severe underdevelopment...
Thomas J Watson Research Center
June 7, 2017
Using an air cavity to boost the performance of a...
This week the International Microwave Symposium kicks off as part of Microwave Week 2017, where I am giving a talk on new phased array packaging developments for 5G communications. I...
June 6, 2017
DREAM Challenge results: Can machine learning help improve accuracy in...
Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women. It is estimated that one out of eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their...
June 2, 2017
IBM’s Spark scientists show off their latest code at Summit
Since its inaugural event in 2013, thousands of developers, scientists, analysts, researchers and executives from around the globe have trekked to the Spark Summit to talk about how the open...
June 1, 2017
Upping the microservices game with Istio: A microservice mesh
In June last year I reported here the open sourcing of Amalgam8 – a microservice fabric first to provide a central control over layer 7 routing across a mesh of...
May 25, 2017
New app lets crowds use their phones to display a...
More than 4 million people, across every state in the US, participated in the January 22 Women’s March. And the recent Earth Day marches spanned six continents. The messages were...
May 24, 2017
The power of blockchain + Watson
The impact of disruptive digital technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain goes well beyond finance and payments, touching all aspects of the real economy. This is an underappreciated fact, and...
May 22, 2017
A funny thing happened on my way to Maker Faire
Normally on Friday mornings, I’d be winding my way up a canyon in the hills south of San Jose to IBM Research – Almaden, where I work as an advisory...
May 19, 2017
Computational Neuroscience
Understanding the brain’s dynamics is of central importance to neuroscience. Our ability to observe, model, and infer from neuroscientific data the principles and mechanisms of brain dynamics determines our ability...
May 19, 2017
A quantum experience at Maker Faire
We are taking our new 16 qubit quantum processor on the road, to the Bay Area Maker Faire, from May 19-21. I’ll be there, along with 15-20 other IBMers from...
May 18, 2017
Training Watson to see what’s on your plate
Today, we’re introducing our latest AI research in the form of a new beta feature: the IBM Watson Visual Recognition food model. This feature provides a built-in capability for recognizing...
May 18, 2017
Facilitating peer review with cognitive computing
Applying for or allocating funding for scientific research takes up a significant amount of time and energy, both from the scientists and the national foundations that evaluate the science itself....
May 16, 2017
Under pressure: New ptychography technique examines stressed atoms in 3D
Think of it as a CT scan. But for atoms. The nano-probe is building a 3D model of that device’s atomic structure, for which we can examine the amount of...
May 15, 2017
On blockchain and leaning in with new IBM Distinguished Engineer...
Vita Bortnikov has had to cross quite a few bridges - from her childhood in Ukraine, to choosing a career path after only two years in Israel, and through her...
May 11, 2017
IBMer supports Africa’s future innovators and entrepreneurs
The finalists from the 2017 Innovate Kenya program are all in secondary schools, or are recent graduates of secondary schools from across the country. The 32 finalists just completed a...
May 9, 2017
Q&A with the Great Nephew of Alan Turing
Carrying on the legacy of a famous relative is a no easy task, particularly for someone as renown as Alan Turing, who is widely considered to be the father of...
May 5, 2017
Millennial IBM scientists revolutionize cyber security operations from idea to...
As part of our agile design processes, we spent several weeks interviewing and sitting side-by-side with analysts at the IBM Managed Security Services (MSS) SOCs around the world, including Costa...
May 2, 2017
The Flame Challenge – explaining complex science to an 11-year-old
The Flame Challenge is the Alan Alda Center's annual contest to challenge scientists to explain complex science topics to 11-year-olds. The Flame Challenge Worldwide Assembly was this year live-streamed from...
Thomas J Watson Research Center
April 25, 2017
Quantum’s advantage solves black box bit riddle
How IBM Q learns parity with noise Quantum theory met practice in the Nature Quantum Information paper, “Demonstration of quantum advantage in machine learning” when colleagues at IBM Research and...
April 21, 2017
Spotting Diabetic Retinopathy by analyzing medical images pixel by pixel
IBM researchers developed a method using deep learning and visual analytics technology for the early detection of Diabetic Retinopathy, one of the leading causes of blindness. Deep learning algorithms combined...
April 20, 2017
You asked scientist Jessie Rosenberg anything about silicon photonics
Here’s what she said about flying qubits, wafer-scale photonic test systems, and more Silicon photonics uses light, versus electricity, to send signals from a microchip. IBM engineers use these pulses...
April 14, 2017
Big oil’s next gusher is at the nanoscale
Last year the world consumed almost 97 million barrels of oil per day. What if I told you that many more barrels still remain in those same wells? Deep inside...
April 11, 2017
Monitoring Parkinson’s disease with sensors and analytics to improve clinical...
IBM and Pfizer's Project BlueSky has made great strides over the last year with new technology to automatically assess the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
April 11, 2017
Advancing Core AI Research Through Academic Collaboration
IBM Research's new AI lab enable IBM researchers to work alongside faculty, staff and students at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA).
April 7, 2017
Featured patent: Machine learning models for drug discovery
IBM Researchers patented an invention that uses machine learning to help drug discovery researchers identify which drug indications are typically linked to which side effects.
April 7, 2017
From IoT and vines grow the fruits of innovation
IBM applied its expertise in IoT to co-develop a prototype precision irrigation system and install it in a ten-acre vineyard for E. & J. Gallo Winery.
April 6, 2017
IBM Research AI technology auto-curates golf highlights at the 2017...
IBM Research uses AI to create the first multi-modal system for summarizing golf video for the 2017 Masters Golf Tournament.
April 6, 2017
Using AI and science to predict heart failure
Heart failure is very hard to detect early, but with the help of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, a team of scientists at IBM Research partnered with scientists...
April 5, 2017
Cognitive computing will help autonomous vehicles share the road
IBM was also recently granted patents focused on improving autonomous vehicle safety through machine learning. The cognitive technologies could enable automakers to provide consumers with a new sense of confidence...
March 30, 2017
How They Did It: Meet the IBM Nanoscientists who Stored...
Find out more about the IBM nanoscientists and the 4 am breakthrough that allowed them to demonstrate the ability to read and write one bit of data on one atom....
March 29, 2017
Quantum Transport Goes Ballistic
Published today in the peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, IBM scientists have shot an electron through an III-V semiconductor nanowire integrated on silicon for the first time. This achievement will form...
March 27, 2017
Cognitive and Contextual Analytics for IT Services
Our ability to monitor and collect data about IT (information technology) services, ranging from cloud and hosted-IT delivery models to maintenance services, has grown to unprecedented levels over the past...
March 23, 2017
Healthcare research: IBM uncovers new way to stimulate the body to...
The Soft Matter Science department in IBM Research’s Healthcare and Life Sciences recently discovered that polymer-coated nanomaterials trigger a dramatic reaction in the body’s cells -- one that we previously...
March 22, 2017
Quantum Algorithm Classifies 9,500 Handwritten Numbers
While still in their infancy, as quantum computers edge closer to surpassing classical computers, a new discipline is emerging called quantum machine learning. It's goal is to apply quantum information...
March 13, 2017
The Road Not Taken: Computer-generated poetry
Every year, millions of Chinese families gather to watch a special celebration known as the Spring Festival Gala. It is the most watched television show in the world. This year’s...
March 9, 2017
Rethinking Healthcare – 11 women charting the future of health
March 8 marks International Women's Day - a global celebration of the societal, economical, cultural and political achievements of women. Since the early 1900s, this day serves as an opportunity...
March 8, 2017
IBM Researchers Take Home Innovation Prize for Semiconductor Research
IBM scientists have been recognized with the 2017 Compound Semiconductor Industry Innovation Award. The recognition is a culmination of five years of research by the Zurich-based team which is focused...
March 8, 2017
Joint program puts “cognitive” in chip manufacturing
Computer chips can fail in countless ways, from countless sources in the manufacturing process. Even with terabytes of sensor data pouring from the manufacturing equipment used to make them, there...
March 7, 2017
IBM achieves new record in speech recognition
Depending on whom you ask, humans miss one to two words out of every 20 they hear. In a five-minute conversation, that could be as many 80 words. But, for...
March 7, 2017
First steps towards programming a quantum computer over the cloud
Since last year, scientists, students, and the quantum computing curious have been able to explore the world’s first and only cloud-enabled quantum computing platform, the IBM Quantum Experience. They’re running...
March 6, 2017
How Big Data is Making Scientists Smarter about Ebola
IBM Research releases open-source computational model to study Ebola spread from animals to humans.
March 2, 2017
“When you plan too much you will miss the opportunities...
After 37 years, Ton Engbersen has officially retired from IBM Research – Zurich. His career has spanned such diverse areas as image processing, chip design, communications technology, server technology, legacy...
February 28, 2017
IBM at SPIE: Seven Advancements for Beyond 7nm Chips
When we announced the industry’s first functional 7 nanometer node (7nm) test chips in 2015, with our GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung partners, we knew the process for the chips to reach...
February 27, 2017
Breaking 50: The Kenyan Government & IBM Research Collaborate to...
After a few meetings with the Industrialization Ministry the IBM lab in Kenya agreed to a joint collaboration focused on improving the country’s Ease of Doing Business ranking.
February 23, 2017
Watson’s detective work could help stop the silent thief of...
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. The disease progresses very slowly and destroys vision gradually, starting with the side vision and narrowing over time. It often remains...
February 20, 2017
Publishing in Science: Predicting how molecules smell
Although the Roman philosopher Lucretius was right when he wrote that odors were caused by a flow of atoms emitted by objects, smell may still be the least understood of...
February 19, 2017
New IBM research: Making silicon biochips to stretch single DNA...
Just last month, IBM released its “5 in 5” predictions, an exercise to identify five innovations that will have an impact on society in five years. Among the five, it...
February 16, 2017
IBM scientists team with The Weather Company to bring edge...
Super Bowl LI was a historic day for the sport of football. It was also a historic day for technology. Picture this: wireless and cellular data consumed by fans at...
February 15, 2017
Of Big Brains and Tiny Devices: Here Comes the Internet...
The cognitive hypervisor is a versatile platform that shows an end to end integration from multiple wearable sensors in an edge computing device that interacts with the IBM Cloud to...
February 15, 2017
Realizing a barrier-free society
Field experiment at a busy shopping district in Tokyo Tokyo’s underground consists of miles of pedestrian walkways, extensive shopping arcades and a subway network. It stretches for hundreds of kilometers...
February 14, 2017
IBM & Warwick Image Highly Reactive Triangular Molecule for the...
Appearing today in Nature Nanotechnology, IBM scientists in collaboration with chemists at the University of Warwick have synthesized and characterized a tricky molecule called triangulene, also known as Clar’s hydrocarbon,...
February 13, 2017
A cognitive in-car companion to help us enjoy the journey
In Dublin, scientists from IBM Research - Ireland and University College Dublin (UCD) are developing and testing a Cognitive In-Car Companion as part of an EU H2020 funded project called...
February 9, 2017
Improving Healthcare in China with Cognitive Analytics
With the world’s largest population, China generates an unprecedented amount of medical data. It’s an ideal harvest ground for the development and application of cognitive solutions that extract insights from...
February 9, 2017
Presented Today at IEEE Conference: Making 5G a Reality
When Bodhisatwa (Bodhi) Sadhu was starting out his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS Pilani in India in 2003, students would have to wait in line 30...
IBM Scientists Measure Heat-Transfer through Single Atoms
IBM scientists have measured the thermal conductance of metallic quantum point contacts made of gold down to the single-atom level at room temperature for the first time.
IBM Research Teams up with Swiss University to Launch Degree...
To address this demand, in a collaboration with IBM scientists in Zurich, the Faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland is now offering a unique,...
How to find your grandmother in a wedding video
The secret behind this technology is a new optimization process based on a scoring system for the division into scenes. The process finds the feature you’re looking for, and then...
Get Ready for the Sentiment of Things
Is 2017 the year of the “Sentiment of things”? It could be if IBM Research postdoc Anca-Nicoleta Ciubotaru has her way. She recently took 3rd place in a hackathon using...
Blockchain Consensus Made in Zurich
The international team of scientists in Zurich has made tremendous progress in its first year, particularly for building Hyperledger Fabric, which is part of the Linux Foundation's open-source blockchain development....
Cognitive tech in drones could reduce infectious outbreaks
“Drone-based microbial analysis system” was just one of 8,088 total patents IBM received in 2016. The company’s patent output covers a diverse range of inventions in artificial intelligence and cognitive...
January 9, 2017
IBM 5 in 5: Macroscopes will help us understand Earth’s...
I am part of a team of scientists in IBM Research that study and explore the intersection of big data with physics; a field that is known as physical analytics....
IBM 5 in 5: Hyperimaging and AI will give us...
I have been an electronics enthusiast ever since I was in elementary school. To put together an electronic device that interacts with the physical world in some way has been...
IBM 5 in 5: Medical labs “on a chip” will...
The earlier a disease is diagnosed, the more likely it is to be cured or successfully managed. For example, breast cancer and prostate cancer detected and treated at stage one...
IBM 5 in 5: With AI, our words will be...
As a neuroscientist, I want to understand the brain. Beyond just the physical structures of neurons and the synapses, but how it works. How is it that we think? ..
January 5, 2017
IBM 5 in 5: Smart Sensors will detect environmental pollution...
Our team brings together a variety of disciplines including silicon photonics, spectroscopy, materials science and physical analytics to create new sensing technologies that can pinpoint and monitor the quality of...
IBM Scientist Brings Opportunity and Innovation to Somalia
Opportunity would come less than a year later. While he was still at IBM, Diriye and several partners, including Oxfam, VC4Africa and Telesom raised capital and launched Innovate Ventures, the...
Building an open seamless science cloud
A Q&A with Ezra Silvera Ezra Silvera is an IBM researcher who has been tackling the challenge of massive scale data in the cloud’s virtual machines for over a decade....
Designing new materials with data-centric systems
For decades, researchers have used high performance computing (HPC) to simulate systems at ever-growing speeds and scales. Recently, the design of HPC systems has started to evolve to handle and...
Building a “Frictionless” Network of Exchange in China Using IBM...
At IBM Research – China, the idea of enterprise blockchain is spreading rapidly among scientists, as we try taking the technology behind bitcoin to the next level with industry applications...
TJBot’s World Tour: Getting Built and Making Friends
TJBot -- a DIY kit to build a programmable AI cardboard robot powered by Watson -- made his debut at the Watson Developer Conference less than two months ago, but...
The brain’s architecture, efficiency… on a chip
2016 was a big year for brain-inspired computing. My team and I proved in our paper “Convolutional networks for fast, energy-efficient neuromorphic computing” that the value of this breakthrough is...
Advancing Visual Recognition and Unlocking Data in Plain Sight
The past decade has been defined by an unprecedented amount of visual content humans have been able to generate – from social media, to entertainment and manufacturing, to even the...
Students Live the Quantum Experience at IBM’s Swiss Lab
On 21 November, 20 students from across Switzerland who are members of the European Physical Society, visited IBM Research - Zurich for an opportunity to experiment with qubits using the...
Futurism, forecasting, and getting real about fake news
A Q&A with Futurist Amy Webb On December 6 and 7, academics, medical professionals, even professional humorists, among others shared their expertise and vision for how technology is changing the...
Machine Learning on the Cloud and the Search for E.T.
Maybe E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial would have made it home faster if cloud computing was readily available in 1982.
Building cognitive IoT solutions using data assimilation
How can we predict, with certainty, the motion or direction of clouds in the sky? How can we track an oil spill in the ocean, locate a gas leak in...
Cognitive machines assist independent living as we age
We’ve all had that so-called “senior moment.” Leaving your wallet at a restaurant. Forgetting where you put your house key. Or maybe it’s physical, like no longer being able to...
Advancing toward 7nm
This is the fourth of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016. The annual International Electron Devices Meeting is “the world's pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs...
Air spacers for 10nm chips
This is the third of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016. The annual International Electron Devices Meeting is “the world's pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs...
Another kind of chip with carbon nanotubes
This is the second of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016. The annual International Electron Devices Meeting is “the world's pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs...
Mapping hot spots at 10nm and below
This is the first of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016. The annual International Electron Devices Meeting is “the world's pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs...
Supply chain finance on blockchain debuts in India
Just a year ago, the concept of blockchain was still in its infancy; at about seven years old, the open source platform serving the bitcoin network was still an “underground”...
IBM Researchers Bring AI to Radiology at RSNA 2016
“When my father was misdiagnosed and administered the wrong medication placing him in a coma nearly 20 years ago, I saw firsthand the need for technology to help physicians make...
Hear like a bat
Dynamic artificial bat ears enrich speech signals Bats use biosonar to navigate their night flights through jungles and forests. Their system of ultrasonic pulses can pinpoint sound more precisely than...
Pathologists Look Forward to a Future with Deep Learning and...
Deep learning and neural networks are making significant progress in identifying cancer mitosis. A critical step in the diagnosis of cancer is the analysis of a patient's biopsy tissue sample,...
November 25, 2016