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Take the whisky test: How IBM tech can help root out fake scotch
16 Dec 2019. Ensuring that what you buy is what it says on the label.
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Harnessing gallium phosphide for future information technology
9 Dec 2019. Developing high-performance photonic devices.
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Speculator: A microscope for spectre-like attacks
2 Dec 2019. Verifying micro-architectural behaviors such as nested speculative execution, various speculation window sizes and more.
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Crypto anchors and blockchain
2 Dec 2019. A strong alliance against supply chain fraud.
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Artificial intelligence, drones and sensors
29 Nov 2019. Saving our crumbling infrastructure.
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Quantum computing gains a first foothold in investment banking
29 Nov 2019. Predicting the price of financial options.
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IBM brings AI retrosynthetic analysis to the cloud
23 Oct 2019. Extending IBM RXN for Chemistry, a cloud-based app that determines the chemicals needed to create a target molecule.
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World’s smallest DRAM cell promises low-power memory in future mobile devices
6 Sep 2019. Presenting the smallest ever built DRAM memory cell, fifty years after its invention.
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World’s first quantum computing-safe tape drive
23 Aug 2019. Developing cryptographic algorithms that are resistant to potential security concerns posed by quantum computers.
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Making and Imaging Cyclocarbon
15 Aug 2019. Revealing the polyynic structure of cyclo[18]carbon for the first time.
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Novel AI tools to accelerate cancer research
22 Jul 2019. Deepening our understanding of cancer to equip industries and academia with the knowledge that could potentially one day help fuel new treatments and therapies.
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Quantitative immunohistochemistry: Adding new sight to a historic technique
17 Jul 2019. Immunofluorescence is a milestone method that uses fluorescent antibodies for tagging specific antigens in biological tissues.
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Linear-complexity Earth mover’s distance approximations for efficient similarity search
16 Jul 2019. Measuring distances between entities is a fundamental function that powers many mission-critical applications across various sectors.
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Imaging molecules in different charge states
11 Jul 2019. Resolving with unprecedented resolution the structural changes of individual molecules upon charging.
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Hypertaste: An AI-assisted e-tongue for fast and portable fingerprinting of complex liquids
5 Jul 2019. Rapid and mobile fingerprinting of beverages and other liquids.
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Eni and IBM boost geological data interpretation with AI
25 Jun 2019. Building an augmented intelligence platform based on AI called cognitive discovery.
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Cracking the molecular code with the right type of quantum hardware
4 Jun 2019. New quantum computing approach uses exchange-type two-qubit gates to calculate molecular properties.
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World’s first ultrafast all-optical room temperature transistor
24 May 2019. Creating a transistor for ultrafast switching without cryogenic cooling.
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Optomechanics with gallium phosphide for quantum transduction
20 May 2019. Addressing the challenge of interconverting microwave and optical quantum information.
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Deciphering breast cancer heterogeneity using machine learning
16 May 2019. Looking into why a one-size-fits-all approach to cancer treatment is not always effective.
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Shaping microscale flows with electric fields
13 May 2019. Revolutionizing chemical analyses by reducing large-scale laboratories to a chip.
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Controlling nuclear noise in semiconductor qubits
26 Mar 2019. A new technique to control fluctuations of nuclear spins that limit the lifetime of spin qubits.
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Harnessing the power of quantum computing to speed up the study of magnetic materials
22 Mar 2019. Magnetic materials could be at the forefront of an upcoming revolution in electronics.
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Privacy by design for financial services in the GDPR era
19 Feb 2019. IBM Research has developed state-of-the-art solutions for protecting data.
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In-memory computing using photonic memory devices
15 Feb 2019. Could light be the answer to more energy-efficient and faster computing?
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IBM researchers remove the “mem” from memcache
15 Jan 2019. Orders of magnitude higher capacity at a lower cost while maintaining performance.
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NeuNetS: Automating neural network model synthesis for broader adoption of AI
14 Dec 2018. Using AI to automatically synthesize deep neural networks faster and more easily than ever before.
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TAPAS: Frugally predicting the accuracy of a neural network prior to training
14 Dec 2018. Estimating the classification performance of a neural network for unseen input datasets within fractions of a second.
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The Pockels effect on silicon: A new material for ultra-fast data transfer
12 Nov 2018. As data grows, so does the energy consumption required to store and process it.
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Addressing climate change at a major source: Buildings
9 Nov 2018. Can silica gel desiccant packs be the answer to our energy needs for buildings?
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Restoring balance in machine learning datasets
10 Oct 2018. BAGAN, or balancing generative adversarial networks, can generate completely new images for datasets to restore balance for training AI.
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Monitoring fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assays in real time
2 Oct 2018. Accurately characterizing hybridization kinetics for any given set of probes or target sequences.
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Corpus conversion service makes PDF content discoverable
21 Aug 2018. An AI-based cloud system that can ingest PDF documents at scale and extract their content using machine learning models.
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IBM launches free AI tool in the cloud for predicting chemical reactions
19 Aug 2018. Using deep learning and artificial intelligence to predict reactions of organic compounds.
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Keep it simple: Towards single-elemental phase change memory
24 Jul 2018. A different approach using antimony, which is semi-metallic in its crystalline phase and semiconducting as an amorphous thin film.
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High-yield and ambient-stable molecular devices via semiconductor fabrication
11 Jul 2018. A new technique to fabricate microelectronic devices that allows molecular integration on conventional silicon chips and by standard semiconductor methods.
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Novel synaptic architecture for brain-inspired computing
6 Jul 2018. IBM scientists take a significant step towards large-scale and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing technology.
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Great Minds 2018: Meet the New Generation
29 Jun 2018. Five students have the opportunity to do a 3- to 6-month internship.
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Ink spots to put an end to counterfeit diagnostic tests
13 Jun 2018. Optical security codes created by inkjet spotting patterns can be used in combination with smartphones for authenticating medical tests.
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Ocean carbon imaged on the atomic scale
5 Jun 2018. Scientists look at the structure of individual molecules in deep ocean basins to gain a better understanding of the ocean carbon cycle.
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Hydrodynamics in cell studies
23 May 2018. Studying the interaction of liquid flows with biological cells.
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IBM scientists demonstrate mixed-precision in-memory computing
17 Apr 2018. Hybrid design for AI hardware.
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IBM scientists measure the energy levels of single molecules on insulators
16 Apr 2018. Measuring reorganization energies.
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Mastering the flow of tiny biological liquids with electrogates
10 Apr 2018. Microfluidic chips that can be used for point-of-care diagnostics.
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IBM scientists first to demo rocking Brownian motors for nanoparticles
30 Mar 2018. Great potential for lab-on-a-chip applications in material science, environmental sciences or biochemistry.
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IBM GPU-accelerated semantic similarity search at scale shows ∼30000× speed up
29 Mar 2018. Efficient text search encompasses high quality of results and speed of execution across millions of documents.
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IBM sets tera-scale machine learning benchmark record with POWER9 and NVIDIA GPUs
20 Mar 2018. Available soon in PowerAI.
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Quantencomputer: Der Beginn der kommerziellen Quanten-Ära
23 Feb 2018. Quantencomputer für Chemie, Supply Chain bis zu Machine-Learning.
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Computational biologists find inspiration for machine learning cell cycle sorting method in an unlikely place
14 Feb 2018. Using CellCycleTRACER to quantify cell cycle and cell volume variability.
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Behind the architecture of Hyperledger Fabric
2 Feb 2018. A flexibly-designed blockchain system that can be tailored to particular use cases and trust models.
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IBM breaks records to top U.S. patent list for 25th consecutive year
9 Jan 2018. IBM inventors receive record 9,043 patents in 2017 in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud, blockchain, cybersecurity and quantum computing.
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ROMEO seeks to improve wind farms with machine learning and IoT
28 Dec 2017. €16 million EU Horizon 2020 project to reduce the maintenance cost of wind turbines.
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IBM announces collaboration with leading Fortune 500 companies, academic ainstitutions and national research labs to accelerate quantum computing
14 Dec 2017. IBM Q Network to explore practical applications of quantum computing for business and science.
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IBM scientists demonstrate 10× faster large-scale machine learning using GPUs
4 Dec 2017. Training Big Data sets quickly.
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Using neural networks to predict outcomes of organic chemistry
4 Dec 2017. Found in translation.
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IBM scientists demonstrate in-memory computing with 1 million devices for applications in AI
24 Oct 2017. Exploiting the physics of memory devices to perform high-level computations.
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Resilient consensus protocols for blockchains
18 Oct 2017. IBM Cryptographer Christian Cachin at the 2017 Int’l Symposium on Distributed Computing.
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Using IoT and machine learning to track the progression of lung disease
13 Oct 2017. IBM scientists Thomas Brunschwiler and Rahel Straessle are developing machine-learning algorithms to interpret IoT data.
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Two days, two different honors for IBM’s Zurich Lab
5 Oct 2017. IBM scientists receive prestigious Kavli award and EPS declares IBM Lab a historic site.
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MIT Technology Review honors two IBM researchers on annual innovators under 35 list
16 Aug 2017. Scientists from Kenya and Switzerland focus on fintech and nanoscience.
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New microfluidic chip boosts the sensitivity of immunoassays by >1000×
8 Aug 2017. Proteins are one of the most important classes of biomarkers — biological molecules indicative of a disease or health of an individual.
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IBM sets new record for magnetic tape storage; makes tape competitive for cloud storage
2 Aug 2017. Increased storage density demonstrates viability of scaling the tape roadmap for another decade.
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Using angles to improve the future of electronics
31 Jul 2017. Graphene is considered to be one of the most promising materials for future semiconductor electronic and quantum devices.
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Low-power, high-performance optical receivers
27 Jul 2017. Thanks to IBM scientists, replacing copper wires with light to transfer data at improved speeds and with optimal energy efficiency is within reach.
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IBM scientists observe elusive gravitational effect in solid-state physics
19 Jul 2017. Previously thought to occur only in the early stages of the universe and within neutron stars and black holes.
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The science of Spectral: Is that really how Bose–Einstein condensate behaves?
18 Jul 2017. Spoiler alert: An actual Bose–Einstein condensate scientist debunks the movie’s science.
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Grad student wins IBM Fellowship to mimic brain architecture
13 Jul 2017. 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.
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IBM Fellow Heike Riel awarded prestigious prize for women
26 Jun 2017. Recognition for her role in the development of the active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display.
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Micro-DataCenter from IBM Research and ASTRON wins HPC Vendor Innovation Award
21 Jun 2017. An innovation that integrates compute, storage, networking, power and cooling in a package up to 20 times denser than today’s typical data center technology.
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IBM scientists demonstrate ballistic nanowire connections, a potential future key component for quantum computing
18 May 2017. Publication in peer-reviewed Nano Letters Journal outlines electron transport method that maximizes system’s computational space.
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IBM builds its most powerful universal quantum computing processors
17 May 2017. IBM doubles compute power for IBM Q commercial systems with new processor — Developers, researchers and programmers execute more than 300,000 quantum experiments on IBM Cloud.
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IBM Scientist Named Fellow by International Association for Cryptologic Research
5 May 2017. Jan Camenisch recognized for his contributions to the theory and practice of privacy-preserving protocols and impact on government policy and industry.
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Wearables im Gesundheitswesen
25 Apr 2017. Chancen durch kognitive Technologien.
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Blockchain
9 Apr 2017. Die neue Form von Datenbanken, die in den kommenden Jahren Wirtschaft und Verwaltung revolutionieren werden.
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Quantum Transport Goes Ballistic
27 Mar 2017. IBM scientists have shot an electron through an III–V semiconductor nanowire integrated on silicon.
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IBM Researchers Take Home Innovation Prize for Semiconductor Research
8 Mar 2017. Compound Semiconductor Industry Innovation Award.
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IBM builds first universal quantum computers for business and science
6 Mar 2017. IBM unveils roadmap for commercial “IBM Q” quantum systems.
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Ton Engbersen retires from IBM Research – Zurich
28 Feb 2017. Looking back on 37 years of service.
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Of Big Brains and Tiny Devices
15 Feb 2017. Here Comes the Internet of the Body.
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IBM & Warwick Image Highly Reactive Triangular Molecule
13 Feb 2017. Imaging some of the tiniest objects known to science.
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IBM Scientists Measure Heat-Transfer through Single Atoms
6 Feb 2017. Measuring the thermal conductance of metallic quantum point contacts made of gold down to the single-atom level at room temperature.
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IBM Research teams up with Swiss university to launch degree in cyber-physical and embedded systems
1 Feb 2017. Supporting the Internet of Things and providing backbone technologies for smart homes and cities, smart grids, intelligent transportation systems and healthcare.
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Get ready for the Sentiment of Things
23 Jan 2017. IBM Research intern takes bronze in a recent hackathon using IBM Bluemix.
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Blockchain Consensus Made in Zurich
13 Jan 2017. The international team of scientists in Zurich has made tremendous progress in building Hyperledger Fabric.
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Students live the Quantum Experience at IBM’s Swiss lab
14 Dec 2016. Twenty students from across Switzerland visited IBM Research – Zurich for an opportunity to experiment with qubits using the IBM Quantum Experience.
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Mapping hot spots at 10 nm and below
2 Dec 2016. First of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016.
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Pathologists Look Forward to a Future with Deep Learning and Neural Networks
25 Nov 2016. Deep learning and neural networks are making significant progress in identifying cancer mitosis.
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From Switzerland to Princeton via IBM Research
22 Nov 2016. IBM intern Millian Gehrer shares his experiences.
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Watson tutors medical students at Humanitas University
15 Nov 2016. Watson doctors train new generations.
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Rhön-Klinikum hospitals to study how IBM Watson can support doctors in the diagnosis of rare diseases
18 Oct 2016. Cognitive assistant is planned to support physicians to help improve time to treatment for hundreds of patients annually.
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Fabrication method for artificial molecules wins best poster prize
13 Sep 2016. Scientists at ETH Zurich and IBM Research – Zurich published a new method in Science Advances to fabricate artificial molecules out of different types of microspheres.
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Predicting disk failures for reliable clouds
13 Aug 2016. Scientists at IBM Research – Zurich have devised an algorithm to combat disk failure preemptively.
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Imaging atoms on 2D atomic crystals in liquids
12 Aug 2016. IBM scientists in Zurich have achieved another breakthrough in the field of atom-by-atom imaging and metrology.
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IBM scientists imitate the functionality of neurons with a phase-change device
3 Aug 2016. Technology could lead to the development of neuromorphic computers with highly co-located memory and processing units to speed up cognitive computing and analyze IoT Big Data.
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IBM scientists develop transparent cloud tiering
26 Jul 2016. IBM empowers software-defined storage to manage unstructured data for cloud, big data, analytics, objects and more.
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AFM pioneers recognized with Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
2 Jun 2016. Award for the invention and realization of atomic force microscopy, a breakthrough in measurement technology and nanosculpting that continues to have a transformative impact on nanoscience and technology.
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IBM scientist Peter Staar on using cognitive computing to discover new materials
25 May 2016. Imagine trying to discover a new type of metal which is malleable and can withstand heat and rust based not only on decades of internal research and patents, but also external sources, such as peer review papers. Now realize this could be possible at the click of a button.
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IBM scientists achieve storage memory breakthrough
17 May 2016. Technology can speed up machine learning and access to the Internet of Things, mobile phone apps and cloud storage.
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Universal memory has a viable candidate
16 May 2016. Today at the IEEE International Memory Workshop in Paris, IBM scientists are presenting, for the first time, successfully storing 3 bits per cell in a 64k-cell array at elevated temperature.
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IBM makes quantum computing available on IBM Cloud to accelerate innovation
4 May 2016. IBM Research is making quantum computing available to members of the public, who can access and run experiments on IBM’s quantum processor.
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Variass to manufacture 64-bit microservers developed by ASTRON and IBM
24 Apr 2016. This is the first order of the microservers which began development in 2012 as part of an IT roadmap for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). For ASTRON and IBM, this is an important milestone in the valuation.
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Cognitive storage
11 Apr 2016. Teaching computers what to learn and what to forget
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Microfluidic probe for personalized healthcare
1 Apr 2016. Sequencing the entire human genome back in the early 2000s is considered one of the most important scientific breakthrough enabling data-driven medicine.
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IBM scientist Abu Sebastian awarded ERC Grant
20 Mar 2016. Focused on exploratory memory and cognitive technologies, Sebastian will apply his grant to focus on investigating resistive memory and its applications in non-von Neumann computing.
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IBM scientists bring trust and reliability to the cloud with advanced cryptography
8 Mar 2016. EU project.
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INSIGHT: Meeting the increasing performance demands at millimetre-wave frequencies
3 Mar 2016. Future radar imaging systems and 5G communication systems will generate improved resolution and provide higher data-transmission rates when operated at higher frequencies, but at the cost of increased power consumption. To reduce power consumption, increase performance, and lower costs, the European project INSIGHT (Integration of III-V Nanowire Semiconductors for Next Generation High Performance CMOS SOC Technologies) is aiming at developing III-V CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology.
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IBM scientists invent a thermometer for the nanoscale
3 Mar 2016. The IBM lab responsible for inventing the scanning tunneling microscope and the atomic force microscope has invented another critical tool for helping us understand the nanoworld.
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Inside the IBM Research Lab in Zurich
27 Feb 2016. I had a déjà-vu of my student days in Lausanne when I entered the IBM Research campus near Zürich. In Newly Swissed, by Rajan
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IBM scientist Kirsten Moselund awarded prestigious European grant
24 Feb 2016. European Research Council (ERC) was the first pan-European organization to fund frontier research through individual grants.
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Besserer Passwortschutz Dank neuartiger Kryptographie-Technologie
15 Feb 2016. Airlock Entwickler haben IBM Research – Zürich bei der Entwicklung eines hocheffizienten kryptographischen Protokolls zum Passwortschutz im Falle von Server Kompromittierung unterstützt.
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Data Privacy Day Webinar
26 Jan 2016. Protecting personal information can be easy.
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30 Years of Atomic Force Microscopy: IBM Scientists Trigger and Observe Reactions in an Individual Molecule
25 Jan 2016. Once again, IBM scientists are opening the eyes of the world to objects that exist only at the atomic scale.
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Aus Rechnerabwärme Kälte machen: Neuer Forschungscluster CooLMUC-2 am LRZ in Betrieb
22 Jan 2016. Mit Abschluss der letzten Installationsarbeiten und Abnahmetests geht heute am Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ein neuer Rechencluster in Betrieb, der sogenannte CooLMUC-2.
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IBM’s privacy-friendly Identity Mixer meets the Internet of Things
21 Jan 2016. Cryptographic algorithm to protect personal data to be applied for protecting the privacy of sensor data.
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IBM Researcher Ton Engbersen appointed honorary professor of Data Science Engineering, University of Groningen
14 Jan 2016. “The era of cognitive computing is upon us,” says Engbersen.
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New IBM cloud tool eliminates the need for users to share personal data with apps
20 Nov 2015. IBM Identity Mixer, now available on Bluemix, enables developers to build apps which protect consumer privacy and combat identity theft.
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Gordon Bell Prize awarded for most realistic simulation of the dynamics of earth’s interior to date; opens path to better understanding of earthquakes and volcanoes
20 Nov 2015. IBM POWER supercomputer simulated the entire earth’s mantle and plate motion efficiently.
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Field-induced conductance switching
16 Nov 2015. Industry experts consider 7-nanometer technology crucial to meeting the anticipated demands of future cloud computing and big data systems, cognitive computing, mobile products and other emerging technologies.
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The switch molecule
16 Nov 2015. A new kind of switch which operates at the nanometre scale has been presented by an international research team. The switch’s state can be altered in a targeted manner using a single electron.
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Making memory with carbon
26 Oct 2015. Memories that constitute resistance as the state variable encompass a very broad range of materials and switching mechanisms.
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Eureka moments lead to radical new memory design
3 Sep 2015. IBM researchers focus on emerging memory technologies based on what are known as phase change materials. Such materials can be used to store data quickly, simply by applying electrical pulses to the material, which is sandwiched between two metal electrodes.
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Waste not, want not: THRIVE sets its sights on waste heat
27 Jul 2015. As part of the National Research Program “Energy Turnaround” NRP 70 the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is supporting the interdisciplinary research project “THRIVE”. With IBM Research – Zurich and the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil as leading houses, scientists from Empa, ETH Zurich, HEIG-VD and PSI will be teaming up with industrial partners until 2017 to develop a heat pump that is powered by waste heat.
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IBM Research and CiQUS scientists first to image short-lived molecules
13 Jul 2015. Scientists from IBM Research CIQUS at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, have confirmed the existence and characterized the structure of arynes, a family of highly-reactive short-lived molecules which was first suggested 113 years ago. The technique has broad applications for on-surface chemistry and electronics, including the preparation of graphene nanoribbons and novel single-molecule devices.
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IBM Research alliance produces industry’s first 7 nm node test chips
9 Jul 2015. It’s an important moment in the history of the electronics industry. Researchers from IBM Research, SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanotech Science + Engineering and partners including GlobalFoundries and Samsung have produced advances that will enable the semiconductor industry to pack about twice as many transistors on the chips that power everything from data-crunching servers to mobile devices.
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Grundlagen für «Smart City» St.Gallen schaffen, www.stadt.sg.ch
1 Jul 2015. How Swiss town of St. Gallen is transforming itself into a "Smart City" (in German only).
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"Futuristic components on silicon chips, fabricated successfully," eurekalert.org
8 Jun 2015. IBM researchers develop a technique for integrating 'III-V' materials onto silicon wafers, a breakthrough that may allow an extension to Moore’s Law.
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"Nun habe ich das letzte Wort," netzwoche.ch
3 Jun 2015. Seit ein paar Wochen leitet Alessandro Curioni das IBM Research Center in Rüschlikon.  Die Redaktion sprach mit ihm über seine neue Aufgabe und den Forschungsalltag im Labor.
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Alessandro Curioni named director of IBM Research – Zurich
16 Apr 2015. Dr. Alessandro Curioni has been named vice president and director of the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland. The 22-year IBM veteran, who will assume the position at the end of the month, was named an IBM Fellow in 2014. He succeeds Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth, who will retire and as of 1 May become the new managing director of the Hasler Foundation, which promotes information and communications technology for the well-being and benefit of Switzerland.
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IBM Research sets new record for tape storage
9 Apr 2015. At just pennies per gigabyte, breakthrough could lead to new applications for tape. IBM scientists have demonstrated an areal recording density of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch on low-cost, particulate magnetic tape, a breakthrough which represents the equivalent of a 220 terabyte tape cartridge that could fit in the palm of your hand.
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Silicon photonics takes the next step toward a high-bandwidth future
12 Mar 2015. Researchers at IBM attach silicon photonic chips directly onto a processor package promising a faster, cheaper and lower energy future for computing systems, including cloud data centers.
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Low-power networking technology from IBM and Semtech to help enable telcos to launch new services for the Internet of Things
11 Mar 2015. IBM Research and Semtech announced a new technology based on low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) that offers significant advantages over cellular networks and Wifi for providing machine to machine (M2M) communications.
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IBM’s Zurich Lab builds up systems biology team
2 Feb 2015. Recently, SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, announced that IBM Research - Zurich was accepted as a new partner organization within its framework — a significant achievement making it easier for IBM scientists to collaborate with the greater Swiss biological research community. Led by IBM FellowAlessandro Curioni, we recently spoke with Maria Gabrani and Maria Rodriguez Martinez, two of the systems biology scientists in Zurich. The two are already involved in a number of SystemsX.ch projects and are planning for the next SystemsX.ch proposal call in 2018.
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IBM Research announces cloud breakthrough for protecting personal data
28 Jan 2015.  IBM researchers today announced plans for a cloud-based technology that holds potential to help consumers better protect online personal data, including date of birth, home address and credit card numbers.
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IBM, Forschungszentrum Jülich and NVIDIA Team to Establish POWER Acceleration and Design Center
10 Nov 2014.  IBM, in collaboration with NVIDIA, and the Jülich Supercomputing Center, part of the largest research center in Germany, today announced plans for a new competency center to advance the creation and optimization of research applications on GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER compatible systems.
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E2SWITCH
25 Sep 2014. Energy Efficient Tunnel FET Switches and Circuits. Ultra-low consumption of energy at a stable temperature: The electronics of tomorrow is the subject of a new European Projects. EPFL press release
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Airlight Energy brings solar electricity and heat to remote locations
23 Sep 2014. Airlight Energy, a Swiss-based supplier of solar power technology has partnered with IBM Research to bring affordable solar technology to the market by 2017. The system can concentrate the sun’s radiation 2,000 times and convert 80 percent of it into useful energy to generate 12 kilowatts of electrical power and 20 kilowatts of heat on a sunny day—enough to power several average homes.
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A high-bandwidth spintronic position sensor
22 Aug 2014. Published in Nanotechnology 25 (2014) 375501, DOI.
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CIQUS researchers develop an extremely simple procedure to obtain nanosized graphenes, which will be crucial in future electronic devices
15 July 2014. The prestigious journal Angewandte Chemie has recently published a work by CiQUS researchers (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) in collaboration with IBM Research – Zurich (Switzerland), which describes an extremely simple method to obtain high quality nanographenes from easily available organic compounds.
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IBM Announces $3 Billion Research Initiative to Tackle Chip Grand Challenges for Cloud and Big Data Systems
10 July 2014. Scientists and engineers to push limits of silicon technology to 7 nm and below to create post-silicon future.
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The First Awarding of The Heinrich Rohrer Medals
30 June 2014. Winners Roland Wiesendanger, Yoshiaki Sugimoto and Jan Hugo Dil to be honored at the 7th International Symposium on Surface Science (ISSS-7).
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Defining the Future of Technology
27 June 2014. Interview with Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth, Vice President and Director of IBM Research – Zurich, International Innovation.
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IBM Research Sets New Record for Storing Massive Amounts of Big Data
19 May 2014. Important tape storage milestone storing, protecting and accessing increasing volumes of Big Data.
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The Greek Mythical Hero of Storage Class Memory
6 May 2014. IBM scientists have big plans for phase-change materials, which they see as a critical piece of the overall storage hierarchy to improve the speed and endurance of enterprise-class systems to store and analyze Big Data.
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World’s Smallest Magazine Cover: “Chiseling” the Future of Computing
25 Apr 2014. To create more energy-efficient clouds and crunch Big Data faster, we need a new generation of technologies including novel transistors. But before we can put these future technologies into mass production, we need new techniques for prototyping below 30 nanometers—the size where prototyping becomes increasingly difficult. One nanometer is 80,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
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New Physical Phenomenon on Nanowires Seen for the First Time
11 Apr 2014. Very tiny wires made of semiconducting materials — more than thousand times thinner than a human hair — promise to be an essential component for the semiconductor industry. Thanks to these tiny nanostructures, scientists envision not only a more powerful new generation of transistors, but also to integrate optical communication systems within the very same piece of silicon, making possible to transfer data between chips at the speed of light.
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The Evolution of IBM Research
8 Apr 2014. Looking back at 50 years of scientific achievements and innovations. Europhysics News.
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Alessandro Curioni erhält IBMs höchste Auszeichnung
3 Apr 2014. Dr. Alessandro Curioni wird „IBM Fellow” für seine wegweisenden wissenschaftlich-technischen Arbeiten im Bereich Supercomputing-Simulationen.
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Help Set a Guinness World Records
10 Mar 2014. IBM scientists are partnering with National Geographic Kids to set a Guinness World Records title for the world’s smallest magazine cover. You can participate by voting for your favorite National Geographic Kids cover.
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CTOs come to Switzerland for inaugural event to discuss the business of R&D
6-7 Mar 2014. The IBM Research - Zurich Lab hosted a unique "Rüschlikon Dialogue" event with a distinguished group of CTOs and R&D executives from 23 companies across 10 countries.
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Scientists set new speed record for Big Data
13 Feb 2014. Ultra-high definition 4K movie or 40,000 songs from the Cloud could be downloaded in a few seconds.
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3D-stacked hybrid SRAM cell to be built by European scientists
4 Feb 2014. Scientists will apply new materials and design concepts to demonstrate a working prototype of a new type of SRAM cell by 2017.
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Learning molecular models from data
13 Jan 2014. One day soon, advanced biological processes like cell mitosis will be represented in mathematical expressions and/or computer code.
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IBM Forscher beobachten Quantenphänomen erstmals in einem Kunststoff
9 Dec 2013. Bose-Einstein-Kondensation in einer dünnen Polymerschicht bei Raumtemperatur nachgewiesen.
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Helping clients securely and reliably migrate cloud data
6 Dec 2013. IBM inventors have developed new cloud storage software that provides a simple interface for clients to dynamically migrate data across multiple clouds, while keeping it confidential and secure.
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New international prize in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology based on surface science
Dec 2013. Established by The Surface Science Society of Japan (SSSJ) in collaboration with IBM Research - Zurich, the Swiss Embassy in Japan and Mrs. Rohrer.
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Scientists “burst” supercomputing record with bubble collapse simulation; Could lead to advances in healthcare and industrial technology
18 Nov 2013. 15,000 bubbles are simulated using IBM BlueGene/Q “Sequoia” at 14.4 petaflops of sustained performance, a 150-fold improvement over current state-of-the-art.
See also the IBM Research blog.
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IBM, ETH Zurich, PSI and the University of Lugano investigate future computer chips with an “electronic circulation system”
13 Nov 2013. Interdisciplinary joint research project to develop revolutionary 3D chip technology inspired by the human brain.
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Big Bang meets Big Data
11 Nov 2013. The world’s largest big data and analytics project is tackling some of the most complex scientific questions, ones that have mystified humankind for centuries. Huffington Post.
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Wissen teilen
7 Nov 2013. Von Social Media zum Social Business — ein Megatrend für die Geschäftswelt.
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Symposium zu Ehren von Heinrich Rohrer
4 Nov 2013. An der ETH Zürich trafen sich gestern führende Wissenschaftler, um die Verdienste von Heinrich Rohrer zu würdigen. Der Physik-Nobelpreisträger und ETH-Alumnus verstarb im Frühling dieses Jahres.
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Moshe Remembers
3 Nov 2013. Moshe Rappoport has been at the forefront of computing ever since computers moved from huge data centers into offices and homes. Today, he is Executive Technology Advocate at IBM Research in Zurich where he helps develop new approaches to the use of emerging technologies.
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IBM and Swiss hospital test new tool for diagnosing cancer
23 Oct 2013. IBM scientists are collaborating with pathologists at the University Hospital Zürich to test a new prototype tool to accurately diagnose different types of cancer. This work is based on a technology developed by IBM scientists called a microfluidic probe, which slightly resembles the nib of a fountain pen.
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IBM and Libelium launch Internet of Things Starter Kit
21 Oct 2013. IBM and Libelium, the wireless sensor network hardware provider, today released an Internet of Things Starter Kit to enable dozens of sensor applications ranging from monitoring parking spaces or air pollution to providing assistance for the elderly.
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Two-factor security for mobile transactions
18 Oct 2013. According to a new report by ABI Research, the number of NFC devices in use will exceed 500 million in 2014. This statistic and the fact that 1 billion mobile phone users will use their devices for banking purposes by 2017 make for an increasingly opportune target for hackers.
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A tiny way to honor 150 years of Swiss and Japanese relations
9 Oct 2013. From the IBM Research blog.
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Young IBM researchers take on a cognitive computing challenge
31 Aug 2013. From IBM’s Smarter Planet blog.
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IBM Zurich — A Success Story
16 Aug 2013. Physik Anekdoten, Swiss Physical Society bulletin.
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IBM Research Creates New Foundation to Program SyNAPSE Chips
8 Aug 2013. New generation of intelligent sensor networks that mimic the brain’s abilities for perception, action, and cognition.
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The research dilemma can drive innovation
30 Jul 2013. How can research create value in the short term while achieving radical innovation in the long term? Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Neuroscience to benefit from hybrid supercomputer memory
12 Jun 2013. Collaboration among IBM, EPFL, and ETH Zurich.
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Heinrich Rohrer, Nobel Laureate and IBM Fellow, 1933-2013
21 May 2013. In memory of scanning tunneling microscope co-inventor.
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Earth Day: Collaboration aims to harness the energy of 2,000 suns
22 Apr 2013. High-concentration photovoltaic thermal system able to convert 80% of collected solar energy.
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Forscherin Heike Riel erhält IBMs höchste Auszeichnung
3 Apr 2013. Neue Rolle als Technologiebotschafterin der IBM Südafrika.
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IBM receives Swiss Tell Award for investment in new nanotechnology center
12 Mar 2013. Switzerland recognizes IBM’s contribution to research and innovation in Zurich with the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center.
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Big Bang Meets Big Data
11 Mar 2013. South Africa joins ASTRON and IBM to build the foundation for a new era of computing.
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Ultra-Fast Ethernet Research Improves Internet Speeds to 100 Gb/second
21 Feb 2013. Generates one billion analog-to-digital conversions per second.
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Dow Corning and IBM Scientists Develop New Materials for Board-Level Photonics
4 Feb 2013. New flexible polymer material made of high-performance silicone to create optical waveguides on printed circuit boards that can withstand extreme operating heat and humidity with no measurable degradation in performance.
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IBM Scientists Honored with Prestigious 2012 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
14 Jan 2013. Another step towards revolutionary nanotechnologies that will transform our lives for the better.
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Up in the air
Dec 2012. Lithium–air batteries hold the promise of great enough power density to fuel cars—but has their progress stalled in recent years? Published in Chemistry World.
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The industrial academy
Nov 2012. IBM’s Zurich Research Centre opened its doors 50 years ago, quickly becoming a world-leading research lab. But does it still live up to its illustrious past?
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Swiss energy utility and supermarket chain pilot smart grid using renewable energy
21 Sep 2012. FlexLast project for optimal power system integration.
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IBM scientists first to distinguish individual molecular bonds
14 Sep 2012. Atomic force microscopy helps scientists to reveal the bond order and length of bonds within molecules.
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IBM scientists "waltz" closer to using spintronics in computing
31 Aug 2012. IBM Research is first to synchronize electron spins and image the formation of a persistent spin helix.
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IBM researcher Heike Riel wins innovation award
29 Jun 2012. Swiss Association of Women in Engineering (SVIN) bestowed its 2012 award in the category "Technical or Scientific Innovation" to Zurich physicist.
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IBM Forscher Fabian Mohn erhält Preis der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
21 Jun 2012. Auszeichnung würdigt wissenschaftlichen Durchbruch in der Nanophysik.
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IBM hot-water-cooled supercomputer to consume 40% less energy
18 Jun 2012. "SuperMUC" named Europe’s fastest supercomputer.
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ETH Zurich, IBM and Paul Scherrer Institute researchers receive 2012 PRACE Award
18 Jun 2012. Award recognizes breakthrough in the field of high-performance computing.
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SK Hynix und IBM gründen Entwicklungspartnershaft für Phase-Change-Memory
11 Jun 2012. PCRAM oder auch Phase-Change-Memory (PCM, in Deutsch: Phasenwechsel- oder Phasenübergangs-Speicher) ist eine neuartige nichtflüchtige Speichertechnologie, die aufgrund der erzielbaren Schreib- und Lesegeschwindigkeit in Kombination mit sehr guter Langlebigkeit und hoher Speicherdichte das Potenzial aufweist, innerhalb der nächsten Jahre die Speicherlandschaft zu verändern.
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Fünf Ringe im Nanomassstab — Moleküstruktur sichtbar gemacht
30 May 2012. Nanotechnologie einmal sportlich: Eine spezialisierte Rasterkraftmikroskopie-Technik von IBM Forschern in Rüschlikon bildet Molekül mit atomarer Auflösung ab.
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IBM Forscher Rolf Allenspach wird Einzelmitglied der SATW
26 Apr 2012. Würdigung seiner wissenschaftlichen Pionierarbeiten auf dem Gebiet des Oberflächenmagnetismus.
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IBM Research treibt das Battery 500-Projekt mit neuen Industriepartnerschaften voran
20 Apr 2012. Die japanischen Unternehmen Asahi Kasei und Central Glass verstärken das Konsortium zur Entwicklung einer Lithium-Luft-Batterie für Elektroautos.
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From Big Bang to Big Data: ASTRON and IBM collaborate to explore origins of the universe
2 Apr 2012. Partners to research the exascale computer systems that are needed for what will become the world’s largest radio telescope.
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Holey optochip first to transfer one trillion bits of information per second using the power of light
8 Mar 2012. Researchers invent novel technique by fabricating tiny holes in a single quarter-inch chip to boost data transfer rates.
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Cloud-based secure desktop streaming from any PC
6 Mar 2012. Access entire desktop, online or offline, on any Windows or Linux PC with no pre-installed software.
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Battery 500 Project: 800 km range for electrovehicles
2 Mar 2012. IBM Research explores lithium–air batteries for electromobility. Project highlighted at IBM’s booth at CeBit 2011.
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IBM Research nanophysics breakthrough captures first-ever image of charge distribution in a single molecule
27 Feb 2012. Scientists use special kind of atomic force microscopy at low temperatures and in ultrahigh vacuum to image the charge distribution within a single molecule.
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Microscopically small Ampelmännchen demonstrate the performance of a new nanoprinting technique
22 Feb 2012. Positioning nanotubes in a controlled manner to create red or green pedestrian pictograms, depending on the orientation.
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Inspired by steel, nanomanufacturing gets wear-resistant carbide tip
8 Feb 2012. 10,000 times more wear resistant than previous state-of-the-art tips.
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New silicon probe assists in disease diagnostics and drug discovery
13 Jan 2012. Novel microfluidic probe improves tissue staining for pathologists.
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IBM Research determines atomic limits of magnetic memory
12 Jan 2012. IBM scientists create the world’s smallest magnetic memory bit using only 12 atoms.
First-ever demonstration of engineered atomic-scale structures storing information magnetically at low temperatures.
New experimental atomic-scale magnet memory is at least 100 times denser than today’s hard disk drives and solid state memory chips.
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W3C announces first draft of standard for online privacy
15 Nov 2011. "Do not track" approach balances user preferences with personalized Web experiences.
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IBM and ABB scientists collaborate to improve energy transmission for more efficient grids
1 Nov 2011. Computer simulations test high-voltage insulators to improve electrical grids.
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Einblicke in ein neuartiges Laborkonzept
30 Oct 2011. Umfassende Störungsreduktion als Herausforderung.
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IBM and EKZ make electric vehicle charging more convenient with new smartphone application
13 Oct 2011. IBM Research today announced that it has teamed with EKZ, the electricity utility provider of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, on a new pilot project that will allow consumers to conveniently charge electric vehicles and monitor their energy costs, using mobile devices. This near real-time information will also help utility providers better manage power grid loads during peak charging times – a challenge that is set to grow as more electric vehicles are on the road.
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IBM unveils cognitive computing chips
18 Aug 2011. IBM researchers unveiled a new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. The technology could yield many orders of magnitude less power consumption and space than used in today’s computers.
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IBM announces new Innovation Lab dedicated to technology services
28 Jul 2011. New Services Innovation Lab to help clients capitalize on new opportunities.
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IBM scientists demonstrate computer memory breakthrough
30 Jun 2011. Scientists achieved a 100 times performance increase in write latency compared to flash memory.
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IBM and ETH Zurich open collaborative Nanotechnology Center
17 May 2011. Ultramodern $90 million research facility.
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IBM honors the 25th anniversary of high-temperature superconductivity
18 Apr 2011. IBM scientists J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller discovered the first successful high-temperature superconductor using a breakthrough ceramic material.
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What’s next?
1 Mar 2011. Scientists from IBM’s global R&D labs show the future at CeBIT 2011.
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Supercomputers the size of sugar cubes
1 Mar 2011. Energy efficiency and miniaturization thanks to water-cooled chips.
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C4 energizes computational sciences
22 Feb 2011. Network of computational chemists to advance the frontiers of computational sciences.
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European research consortium to pilot digital privacy solutions at university and secondary school
28 Jan 2011. Preserving privacy in school community portal and privacy protecting electronic university course evaluation.
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IBM’s “Watson” Computing System to Challenge All Time Greatest Jeopardy! Champions
14 Dec 2010. Competition scheduled for February 2011.
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Breakthrough chip technology lights the path to exascale computing
1 Dec 2010. IBM silicon nanophotonics uses optical signals to connect chips faster and with lower power.
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European Union consortium launches advanced cloud computing project with hospital and smart power grid provider
22 Nov 2010. Scientists will resolve privacy and resilience limitations of public cloud infrastructures in a new project called Trustworthy Clouds (TClouds).
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Gerhard Meyer wins DPG Prize
18 Nov 2010. Major research prize of the German Physical Society goes to IBM Research – Zurich scientist.
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European Union research initiative aims to increase electronic device efficiency by 10× and eliminate power consumption of devices in standby mode
27 Oct 2010. Scientists will apply nanotechnology to lower electricity consumption and extend battery life of electronic devices.
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University of Lugano receives international IBM Shared University Research award
22 Oct 2010. IBM supports top research with powerful IBM computer system.
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IBM scientist Jan Camenisch receives prestigious research award
7 Oct 2010. ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award for seminal research in privacy-enhancing cryptography.
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IBM opens three new analytics centers in Europe
23 Sep 2010. Centers bring IBM analytics expertise to clients and students.
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IBM and University of Aberdeen collaborate to identify molecules from the deep sea
2 Aug 2010. For the first time, atomic force microscopy helps scientists reveal the exact chemical structure of a natural compound.
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Mit heißem Wasser große Rechner kühlen
6 Jul 2010. Die Kühlung von Computersystemen in Rechenzentren bietet ein großes und bisher weitgehend ungenutztes Potenzial für Effizienzsteigerung und Nachhaltigkeit. Aquasar, ein neuartiger heißwassergekühlter Supercomputer, der von IBM entwickelt wurde, zeigt dies auf.
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IBM unveils software to expand use of wireless sensor networks and further smarter systems globally
9 Jun 2010. New software enables developers to create and use sensor networks more easily.
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IBM and MEMSIC bring ease of use to wireless sensors
9 Jun 2010. MEMSIC adopts IBM software to enable organizations to more easily harness sensors and find patterns in ubiquitous data.
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IBM hot water-cooled supercomputer goes live at ETH Zurich
6 May 2010. Energy consumption reduced by up to 40%; direct utilization of waste heat cuts carbon dioxide emissions by up to 85%.
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IBM wins European Identity Award
5 May 2010. Makes new open source code available for developing privacy-friendly ID management applications.
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IBM Research creates world’s smallest 3D map; brings low cost and ease of use to the fabrication of nanoscale objects
22 Apr 2010. New 3D microscopic technique improves development of nanoscale structures and devices.
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IBM scientist honored with Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award
12 Apr 2010. Inaugural prize awarded for outstanding research in surface science.
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Swiss Biotech Association and IBM Research – Zurich launch life sciences & nanotech platform
1 Apr 2010. Over 25 professionals attended the first event of the Life Sciences & Nanotech Platform organized by the Swiss Biotech Association. Hosted and partnered by IBM Research – Zurich this networking event was the first one in a series to intensify exchange and knowledge transfer between industry and academia on the overall topic of Nanotechnology and Life Sciences. Industry platforms of the Swiss Biotech Association enable companies and other stakeholders, active in similar business areas, to pool interests and to discuss current expectations, future requirements and unmet needs.
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15 Moore’s Years
9 Mar 2010. 3D chip stacking will take Moore’s Law past 2020.
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IBM researchers develop energy-efficient method to analyze the quality of data at record speeds
25 Feb 2010. Nine terabytes of data validated in less than 20 minutes; greater predictability with more accuracy.
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Nanotechnologists from the University of Pennsylvania collaborate to form near-frictionless diamond material
25 Feb 2010. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research-Zürich have fabricated an ultra sharp, diamond-like carbon tip possessing such high strength that it is 3,000 times more wear-resistant at the nanoscale than silicon.
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IBM Research sets new record in magnetic tape data density
22 Jan 2010. Important milestone in storing, protecting and accessing increasing volumes of data for a smarter planet.
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Welcoming the "Great Minds" winners 2010
20 Jan 2010. Dobrý deň, Bună ziua, Iyi günler, Dobar dan!
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IBM Research scientists receive IEEE Control Systems Technology and Outstanding Paper awards
18 Dec 2009. At its annual conference, the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) today announced two significant honors for IBM Research, namely, the 2009 IEEE CSS Control Systems Technology Award and the 2009 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award.
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Internationaler IBM Forschungspreis für Fraunhofer-Institut FOKUS
15 Dec 2009. .Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin wurde von IBM mit dem internationalen Shared University Research (SUR) Grant Forschungspreis ausgezeichnet. Der Leiter des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (FOKUS) und Professor am gleichnamigen Lehrstuhl der TU Berlin erhält den mit 50.000 US-Dollar dotierten Forschungspreis für die Entwicklung von Verfahren, die Nutzern sichere Transaktionen im Internet gewährleisten. Mit diesem Preis fördert IBM Vorhaben auf dem Gebiet der Datenschutzforschung. Zusammen mit IBM arbeiten die Wissenschaftler des Fraunhofer-Instituts an verlässlichen Datenschutztechnologien, die eine Voraussetzung für die Akzeptanz von Internetdienstleistungen sind. IBM steuert als Kooperationspartner die Software „IBM Identity Mixer“ („Idemix“) bei, die es Anwendern ermöglicht, sich im Internet zu authentifizieren, ohne die eigene Identität preisgeben zu müssen.
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IBM Research and VASCO present prototype for more secure online banking solutions
17 Nov 2009. At Cartes 2009, IBM and VASCO Data Security International, Inc., a leading software security company specializing in authentication products and an IBM Business Partner, demonstrated a prototype combining IBM’s secure banking technology with VASCO’s device expertise—bringing a new level of security to online banking for consumers.
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IBM scientists reinvent medical diagnostic testing
17 Nov 2009. IBM have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for many diseases, including one of world’s leading causes of death, cardiovascular disease. The results are so quick and accurate that a small sample of a patient’s serum or blood, could be tested immediately following a heart attack, to enable the doctor to quickly take a course of action to help the patient survive.
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IBM expands analytics and risk management capability in Ireland
16 Oct 2009. Today, IBM and the Industrial Development Agency of Ireland (IDA Ireland) announced a new Risk Management Analytics research collaboration, joining IBM’s worldwide network of advanced analytic centres in the U.S., Germany and UK.
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IBM Researchers Honored by the Society for Computer Science for Smart ID Card
1 Oct 2009. Patrik Bichsel, Jan Camenisch, Thomas Gross and Victor Shoup from IBM Research – Zurich in Switzerland, have been honored with the 2009 Innovation Award by the Society for Computer Science’s (GI), a nonprofit professional society with more than 24,500 members.
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IBM scientists effectively eliminate wear at the nanoscale
7 Sep 2009. IBM scientists have demonstrated a promising and practical method that effectively eliminates the mechanical wear in the nanometer-sharp tips used in scanning probe-based techniques. This discovery can potentially be used in the development of next generation, more advanced computer chips that have higher performance and smaller feature sizes. Scanning probe-based tools could be one approach to extend the capabilities, quality and precision beyond the projected limits of current production and characterization tools.
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IBM scientists first to image the “anatomy” of a molecule
28 Aug 2009. IBM scientists have been able to image the “anatomy” or chemical structure of an individual molecule with unprecedented resolution, using noncontact atomic force microscopy. This marks a milestone in surface microscopy and advances the exploration of using molecules as electronic building blocks for microprocessors and other nanodevices. These results hold potential to impact a variety of fields such as molecular electronics, catalysis or photovoltaics.
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Big Blue’s Global Lab
27 Aug 2009. How IBM is forging cutting-edge partnerships around the world. Read this cover story of BusinessWeek, which features interviews with IBM’s John Kelly and Matthias Kaiserswerth and their views on open innovation and collaboration.  Reporter Steve Hamm also talks about IBM Research in this video.
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IBM and ETH Zurich unveil plan to build new kind of water-cooled supercomputer
23 Jun 2009. In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO₂ per year, compared to a similar system using today’s cooling technologies.
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IBM scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope
12 Jun 2009. IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of individual atoms using noncontact atomic force microscopy. Measuring with the precision of a single electron charge and nanometer lateral resolution, researchers succeeded in distinguishing neutral atoms from positively or negatively charged ones. This represents a milestone in nanoscale science and opens up new possibilities in the exploration of nanoscale structures and devices at the ultimate atomic and molecular limits. These results hold potential to impact a variety of fields such as molecular electronics, catalysis or photovoltaics.
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IBM und ETH Zürich legen Grundstein für gemeinsames Nanotech-Labor
2 Jun 2009. Die ETH Zürich und das IBM Forschungslabor Zürich haben heute den Grundstein für ein gemeinsames Forschungszentrum für Nanotechnologie auf dem Gelände der IBM in Rüschlikon gelegt. Der Neubau umfasst 6000 m2, davon allein 900 m² Reinraumfläche, und stellt ab 2011 eine erstklassige Forschungsumgebung zur Verfügung. Die Investition ist Teil einer strategischen Partnerschaft beider Institutionen und stellt einen Gewinn für den Wissens- und Wirtschaftsstandort Schweiz dar. Eine Zusammenarbeit steht auch weiteren interessierten Partnern offen.
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IBM and Wrocław Research Center sign joint research collaboration
27 May 2009. The Wroclaw Research Center, European Institute of Technology Plus (WRC EIT+) and IBM have agreed today to collaborate on the advancement of scientific research, graduate education and technological development in fundamental and applied sciences. The host of the signing ceremony was the Polish Ministry of Science and Education.
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IBM developing computing system to challenge humans on America’s favorite quiz show, Jeopardy!
27 Apr 2009. IBM today unveiled details of an advanced computing system that will be able to compete with humans on Jeopardy!, America’s favorite quiz show. Additionally, officials from Jeopardy! announced plans to produce a human vs. machine competition on the renowned show.
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IBMs «Zero Emission Data Center» gehört zu den innovativsten Green-IT Projekten in der Schweiz
18 Apr 2009. Das IBM "Zero Emission Data Center" wurde unter die Top-3 Green-IT Projekte als Anwärter für den "Green IT Innovation Award" in der Kategorie "Green IT-Lösungen für IT-Anwendungen" gewählt. Das zukunftsweisende Projekt aus dem IBM Forschungslabor Rüschlikon setzt auf eine neuartige, effiziente Wasserkühlung im Rechenzentrum und direkte Abwärmenutzung. Dies spart doppelt Energie und reduziert Kohlenstoffemissionen. Der von der Orbit, dem WWF, Öbu und business campaigning Switzerland erstmalig verliehene "Green IT Innovation Award" zeichnet  herausragende Green IT-Projekte aus, die dazu beitragen, die Wirtschaft von morgen energieeffizienter zu gestalten.
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Beating the backup blues
3 Apr 2009. That sinking feeling when your hard disk starts screeching and you haven’t backed up your holiday photos is a step closer to becoming a thing of the past thanks to research into a new kind of computer memory.
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IBM researchers honored with the Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence
19 Mar 2009. IBM researchers have been honored with the 2008 Harvey Rosten Award of Excellence for their work in overcoming a barrier in chip cooling by improving the application of a paste that binds chips to their cooling systems. The new technology will allow for faster computer chips to be cooled more efficiently.
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IBM joins EDISON project to build smart grid for electric cars
25 Feb 2009. IBM today announced its membership in the EDISON research consortium, a Denmark-based collaborative aimed at developing an intelligent infrastructure that will make possible the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles powered by sustainable energy.
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Leading organizations unveil new interoperability specification for encryption key management to aid IT security, compliance and data recovery
12 Feb 2009. Brocade, HP, IBM, LSI, RSA – The Security Division of EMC, Seagate and Thales (formerly nCipher) today announced the creation of a jointly developed specification for enterprise key management that is engineered to dramatically simplify how companies encrypt and safeguard information.
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Welcoming the “Great Minds” winners 2008
2 Feb 2009. Four students from Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine won the second “Great Minds” internship program of IBM Research - Zurich and will join the lab this year. The initiative was launched in 2007 to offer students from across Central and Eastern Europe the chance to win an internship at the renowned research laboratory.
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IBM marks more than 50 years of healthcare technology leadership
13 Jan 2009. Nearly 60 years after IBM played a major role in developing the heart lung machine, scientists and engineers from IBM Research continue to break new ground in modernizing healthcare.
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New IBM Ph.D. Fellowships and Faculty Awards honor K. Alex Müller and other legendary IBM employees
13 Nov 2008. IBM has announced prestigious new Ph.D. Fellowships and Faculty Awards created to honor K. Alex Müller and other past famed IBM research and development leaders. The new programs are designed to put greater focus on nurturing technical talent and fostering innovation among women and diversity groups worldwide.
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“Security-on-a-Stick” to protect consumers and banks from the most sophisticated hacker attacks
29 Oct 2008. Resembling a memory stick with an integrated display, a prototype USB device developed at IBM Research - Zurich brings a new level of security to online banking for consumers. Pilot devices are ready and available to banks for trials.
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Moscow State University and IBM announce supercomputing collaboration
24 Oct 2008. Moscow State University (MSU) and IBM today signed an agreement to conduct joint research into nanotechnology using a Blue Gene/P supercomputer installed at the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. Advanced mathematical modelling and the huge computational power of the Blue Gene/P supercomputer will allow researchers from MSU and IBM Research - Zurich to perform cutting-edge research into new types of nano-scale circuitry which could one day lead to a radically new type of computing device.
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IBM–led European research consortium receives IAPP Privacy Innovation Award
24 Sep 2008. At the IAPP Privacy Academy 2008 in Orlando, Florida, the European research project Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (PRIME), which has been led by IBM Research - Zurich, was internationally recognized by the leading privacy association for its pioneering concepts and solutions for user-centric privacy and identity management.
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IBM Research - Zurich reaches out to students in eastern and central Europe with its "Great Minds" internship initiative
11 Sep 2008. In ten central and eastern European countries, computer science students can participate in this year’s "Great Minds" program and get a chance to win internships at IBM Research - Zurich.
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IBM moves real-time communication and collaboration into 3-D
3 Sep 2008. IBM Research announced a new project, dubbed "Sametime 3-D," demonstrating the integration of Lotus Sametime with several virtual environments. The project showcases the business value virtual environments can bring to the future of unified communications.
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Das "Zurich Information Security Center" feiert sein 5-jähriges Bestehen
26 Aug 2008. Vor fast genau fünf Jahren, am 1. September 2003, wurde das "Zurich Information Security Center" (ZISC) ins Leben gerufen. Die Idee für die Gründung eines Kompetenzzentrums im Bereich der Informationssicherheit, das ETH-Forscher und Experten aus der Privatwirtschaft zusammenbringt, entstand in Gesprächen zwischen dem IBM Forschungslabor Zürich und dem Departement Informatik der ETH Zürich. Heute ist das ZISC international bekannt als eines der führenden Zentren in diesem Bereich. Hier entwickeln Forscher neue Lösungen für die stetig wachsenden Anforderungen an die Sicherung von Informationssystemen.
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Europe’s best student talents envision the future of IT at Big Blue’s Zurich Research Lab
18 Jul 2008. From July 2 to 4, IBM Research - Zurich hosted this year’s Best Student Recognition Event for 74 top students from 23 European countries. Organized annually by IBM in Europe since 2003, this event gives students an opportunity to get a glimpse of IBM’s areas of business, its strategy and broad spectrum of research, as well as a chance to meet and network with peers.
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IBM and ETH scientists advance supercomputing simulations to improve diagnosis of osteoporosis
2 Jul 2008. Using an IBM®Blue Gene/L supercomputer, scientists of the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and IBM Research - Zurich demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structures, providing doctors with a “high-definition” view of fragility or strength of bones they never had before. This achievement could lead to better clinical tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, a widespread disease that affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men over the age of 50.
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IBM and ETH Zurich form $90 million partnership in nanoscience
26 Jun 2008. IBM and ETH Zurich, a premiere European science and engineering university, today announced the formation of a partnership in the field of nanotechnology.
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IBM cools 3-D chips with H₂O
5 Jun 2008. In IBM’s labs, miniscule rivers of water are cooling computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other, a design that promises to extend Moore’s Law into the next decade and significantly reduce the energy consumed by data centers.
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IBM Research unveils breakthrough in solar farm technology
15 May 2008. IBM today announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun’s power for electricity.
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University of St. Gallen rates IBM Research - Zurich a premiere industrial research lab
25 Apr 2008. A recent study conducted by the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland revealed that in central Europe the German Fraunhofer Institutes, the Max Planck Society and IBM Research - Zurich are perceived as the three premiere institutions in research and development (R&D), ahead of the R&D departments of Siemens and Philips. For this study, 112 European R&D managers were surveyed and asked to rank 33 public and industrial organizations.
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Lorenz Meier erhält Preis der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
28 Mar 2008. Im Rahmen der diesjährigen Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (SPG) in Genf wurde Lorenz Meier gestern mit dem SPG Preis für hervorragende Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der kondensierten Materie der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (SPG), ausgezeichnet. Der SPG-Preis würdigt im Besonderen die in Zusammenhang mit seiner Doktorarbeit gewonnenen grundlegenden Erkenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Spintronik und deren Bedeutung für die künftige Informationsverarbeitung. Seine Dissertation mit dem Thema „Manipulation of electron spins in quantum wells with magnetic and electric fields" erarbeitete er während der letzten drei Jahre im Rahmen einer Forschungskollaboration zwischen der ETH Zürich und dem IBM Forschungslabor in Rüschlikon.
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EU funds project to pioneer privacy and identity management solutions in Web 2.0
27 Mar 2008. “PrimeLife“ – Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life – is a new three-year research project, funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme with 10 million euros. Coordinated by IBM Research - Zurich and involving 14 other partners, its objective is to empower users to manage and control, throughout their entire lifetimes, their personal data and privacy whenever they participate in Web 2.0 technologies, such as social networks or virtual communities.
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Intelligent use of heat emissions in data centers of the future
3 Mar 2008. At the CeBIT 2008 tradefair scientists from IBM Research - Zurich will present for the first time a pioneering concept of a zero carbon emission data center achieved by the direct reuse of waste heat. The first prototype is not only extremely energy-efficient, but allows three-quarters of the IT operating energy to be redirected to such uses as to heat buildings. This is environmentally friendly and lowers overall operating costs. A powerful new kind of water cooling system embedded on the chip is the basis of this innovation.
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IBM unveils a green optical network technology prototype
28 Feb 2008. IBM researchers today unveiled the fastest and most highly integrated optical data bus ever developed. The prototype technology could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy-efficient way to all kinds of machines—from cell phones to supercomputers. This could revolutionize the way we access, use and share information across many different applications.
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Breaking the performance barrier of 22-nm CMOS technology: Are high-mobility, non-silicon channel materials the answer?
19 Feb 2008. A major initiative has been launched in Europe with a top-ranked project called DUALLOGIC, Dual channel CMOS for (sub)-22 nm high performance logic. Co-funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program (FP7) in Information and Communication Technologies, DUALLOGIC is the flagship of CMOS R&D in FP7. Mobilizing key European semiconductor IC and equipment manufacturers, top technology development laboratories, research centers and universities, the DUALLOGIC project is an endeavor to shape future CMOS generations beyond today’s 22-nm technology by achieving breakthroughs in nano-electronic materials, equipment, processing and device integration on silicon.
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OSMOSIS project: Light speed communications for supercomputers
17 Dec 2007. The performance of tomorrow’s supercomputers will be dictated by their ability to exchange large volumes of data instantly between the hundreds of thousands of processors of which they are built. Using optical networks to transfer data throughout the system using light, researchers at IBM and Corning Inc., under a project sponsored by the US Department of Energy/NNSA, have succeeded in demonstrating the world’s most advanced and powerful optical packet switch. This novel switch is capable of transmitting 2.5 Terabits of data—equivalent to 20 high-definition movies—in a single second.
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IBM Research - Zurich announces winners of "Great Minds" student internship initiative
10 Dec 2007. IBM Research - Zurich—the European branch of IBM Research—has selected six students from Ukraine, Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic for its first “Great Minds” internship program 2008. The new initiative was launched last summer to offer students from across Central and Eastern Europe the chance to win an internship at the reknowned research laboratory.
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Talent for innovation event raises interest in careers at IBM Research
13 Nov 2007. Sixty-five students from universities in Switzerland, France, Germany, and even as far afield as the US and India attended the career information event of the IBM Research - Zurich Computer Science department. This event gave students the opportunity to gain insight into some of our current computer science projects. Meeting with researchers as well as graduate and undergraduate students currently working at IBM Research - Zurich gave our young visitors a first-hand impression on what research at IBM Research - Zurich is like.
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Jo van Nunen receives Faculty Award from IBM Research - Zurich
8 Nov 2007. Jo van Nunen, professor of Logistics and Information Systems and chairman of the research department Decision and Information Sciences at RSM Erasmus University receives a Faculty Award from IBM Research - Zurich. The award honors his outstanding work in the field of Services Sciences in integrated supply chain management.
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IBM-Forscher Tobias Kraus mit dem SSOM-Preis 2007 ausgezeichnet
13 Sep 2007. IBM-Forscher Tobias Kraus wurde gestern auf der Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Optik und Mikroskopie (SSOM) in Basel für seine Arbeiten über Anordnung und Drucken von Mikro- und Nanopartikeln ausgezeichnet. In Zusammenarbeit mit der ETH Zürich entwickelte Kraus eine vielseitige „Druck“-Methode für die effiziente Integration einer grossen Anzahl kleinster, funktionaler Partikel in mikrotechnisch gefertigte Bauelemente.
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Novel nanoprinting technique may lead to advances in biomedicine, electronics, and future chips
11 Sep 2007. IBM researchers in collaboration with scientists from the ETH Zurich have demonstrated a new, efficient and precise technique to print at the nanoscale. The method could advance the development of nanoscale biosensors, of lenses that can bend light inside future optical chips, and the fabrication of nanowires that might be the basis of tomorrow’s computer chips.
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"Great Minds" student-internship initiative launched at IBM Research - Zurich
11 Sep 2007. Today, at the Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman (MSTU), Matthias Kaiserswerth, Director of IBM Research - Zurich announced the "Great Minds" initiative. The program offers students from across Central and Eastern Europe, the chance to compete to win an internship at IBM Research - Zurich, the European branch of IBM Research.
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IBM unveils two major nanotechnology breakthroughs as building blocks for atomic structures and devices
30 Aug 2007. IBM today announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules. Although still far from making their way into products, these breakthroughs will enable scientists at IBM and elsewhere to continue driving the field of nanotechnology, the exploration of building structures and devices out of ultra-tiny components as small as a few atoms or molecules. Such devices might be used as future computer chips, storage devices, sensors and for applications nobody has imagined yet.
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Durchbruch in der Analyse der Spin-Bahn-Wechselwirkung in Halbleitern
13 Jul 2007. In der nächsten Ausgabe von Nature Physics wird eine Arbeit publiziert, in der die kontrollierte Manipulation von Elektronenspins mit elektrischen Feldern demonstriert und die relevante Wechselwirkung zum ersten Mal vollständig charakterisiert wird. Dieses Resultat ist ein wichtiger Schritt in Richtung der Nutzung des Spins für Logikanwen-dungen in der Informationsverarbeitung. Die Forschungsarbeit entstand in einer Zusammenarbeit der IBM-Forscher Lorenz Meier und Gian Salis mit Ivan Shorubalko, Silke Schön, Emilio Gini und Klaus Ensslin von der ETH Zürich innerhalb des NCCR Nanoscience.
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PRIME project releases new White Paper
27 Jun 2007. Privacy and Identity Management in Europe – the PRIME Project has just released the second version of its White Paper. The document serves as an introduction into and overview of the PRIME Consortium’s findings shortly after entering the final phase of research.
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IBM triples performance of world’s fastest, most energy-efficient supercomputer
26 Jun 2007. IBM today announced Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Blue Gene/P nearly triples the performance of its predecessor, Blue Gene/L—currently the world’s fastest computer—while remaining the most energy-efficient and space-saving computing package ever built.
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Using self assembly to create airgap microprocessors
3 May 2007. IBM today announced the first-ever application of a breakthrough self-assembling nanotechnology to conventional chip manufacturing, borrowing a process from nature to build the next generation computer chips. The natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth has been harnessed by IBM to form trillions of holes to create insulating vacuums around the miles of nano-scale wires packed next to each other inside each computer chip.
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IBM milestone brings MRI technology to the nanoscale
23 Apr 2007. IBM today announced that researchers at its Almaden Research Center have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to visualize nanoscale objects. This technique brings MRI capability to the nanoscale level for the first time and represents a major milestone in the quest to build a microscope that could "see" individual atoms in three dimensions.
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IBM moves Moore’s Law into the third dimension
12 Apr 2007. IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend Moore’s Law beyond its expected limits. The technology — called "through-silicon vias" — allows different chip components to be packaged much closer together for faster, smaller, and lower-power systems.
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Dritte Science Week weckt Begeisterung für Forschung
5 Apr 2007. Sechs Schulklassen und eine Lehrergruppe aus Zürich und den Nachbarkantonen haben an der dritten "Science Week" des IBM Forschungslabors in Rüschlikon vom 3. bis zum 5. April teilgenommen. Neben der Nanotechnologie bildete in diesem Jahr die Wissenschaft der Computer- und Internetspiele ein weiteres Schwerpunktthema.
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IBM’s Peter Dill receives Mentor Graphics Award
29 Mar 2007. Continuing its tradition of promoting and recognizing printed circuit board (PCB) designer excellence, Mentor Graphics Corporation yesterday announced the winners of its 19th Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards at the PCB Design Conference West in San Jose, USA. Among the winners for the longest running international competition of its kind for PCB designers in the IT industry was Peter Dill from IBM Research - Zurich.
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IBM researchers demonstrate world’s fastest optical chipset
26 Mar 2007. IBM scientists reveal a prototype of an optical transceiver chipset capable of reaching speeds at least eight times faster than optical components available today. The breakthrough could transform how data is accessed, shared and used across the Web for corporate and consumer networks. The transceiver is fast enough to reduce the download time for a typical high definition feature-length film to a single second compared to 30 minutes or longer.
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IBM researchers unveil details of chip cooling breakthrough
22 Mar 2007. At the IEEE Semi-Therm Conference 2007, IBM researchers unveiled details of a new technique to significantly improve capabilities to cool computer chips.
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IBM supercomputing simulations support chip breakthrough
26 Feb 2007. IBM researchers announced an advancement in computer-based simulations that is helping to drive chip technologies to new heights of performance and function. A team of scientists at IBM Research - Zurich for the first time used advanced supercomputer-based models to more deeply understand and master the complex behavior of a promising new material—hafnium dioxide—in silicon transistors, the fundamental building blocks of computer chips.
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IBM Research - Zurich researcher Emanuel Lörtscher receives Swiss Physical Society award
22 Feb 2007. Emanuel Lörtscher of IBM Research - Zurich received the 2007 Applied Physics Award of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) for his outstanding achievements in the field of molecular electronics—a hot new prospect for future information processing.
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IBM Forschungslabor Zürich erhält Top 5 Auszeichnung für Innovationsmanagement
5 Feb 2007. Das IBM Forschungslabor in Zürich erhielt vom Institut für Technologiemanagement der Universität St. Gallen eine Top-Five Auszeichnung als "Successful Practice" Unternehmen.
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IBM’s new transistor to spawn next generation of chips
27 Jan 2007. IBM today announced it has developed a long-sought improvement to the transistor – the tiny on/off switch that serves as the basic building block of virtually all microchips made today.
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IBM software safeguards consumer identity on the Web
26 Jan 2007. IBM today announced software that allows people to hide or anonymize their personal information on the Web, ensuring protection from identity theft and other misuse. Developed by researchers at IBM’s laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland, the software—called Identity Mixer—will enable consumers to purchase goods and services on the Internet without disclosing personal information.
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DIADEM firewall tightens the net against attacks
6 Dec 2006. The EU project DIADEM Firewall is a prototype of a novel architecture to block attacks against large-scale networks—an increasingly severe threat in this IT era where businesses are becoming ever more networked to provide goods and services on demand. Together with their project partners, scientists at IBM Research - Zurich have developed a hardware module for large-scale, high-speed business networks. The technology gives businesses and network service providers entirely new capabilities to offer their customers secure, high-speed broadband services, thereby guaranteeing business-critical network availability at all times.
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ZISC Workshop of Europe’s leading cryptographers
28 Nov 2006. The instant, worldwide exchange of information is an integral part of today’s global economy and society. But this flow of information can be forged, falsified, misappropriated, abused or deleted by unauthorized persons. To protect information from unauthorized access, it must therefore be encrypted. This is especially true for online banking, e-payments with credit cards, transmission of confidential data, and electronic voting via the Internet. Cryptography—the mathematical discipline of developing methods to encrypt data— is therefore becoming increasingly important.
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IEEE European Conference on Web Services 2006
18 Nov 2006. The entire Web Services World pilgrimages to Zurich to exchange the latest information on Web services, both from a practical, business-oriented as well as a research point of view. Participants will examine how Web services allow businesses to unlock the full power of their IT systems by coupling and thus leveraging the information they already possess.
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Optics to boost interconnect bandwidth in computer systems
13 Nov 2006. At this year’s Electronica trade fair in Munich, IBM Research, Varioprint AG, and IntexyS Photonics are displaying a jointly developed optical interconnect system prototype that brings optical data transmission in computer systems closer to reality. Thanks to integrated optical technology, the processor-to-processor interconnect bandwidth can be increased significantly, which is a major requirement for future computing systems. The industry partners are presenting a complete novel board-level optical interconnect solution that features low-cost standard mass-manufacturability of the components and assembly.
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IBM licenses Clipped Tag RFID technology to Marnlen RFiD
8 Nov 2006. Privacy-enabled radio frequency identification labels now available for wide-scale deployment. IBM today announced it has completed a licensing agreement with Marnlen RFiD to produce IBM’s Clipped Tag, which is now immediately available. The Clipped Tag, developed at IBM’s Watson Research Center, allows consumers to tear off the majority of an RFID tag’s antennae, reducing the tag’s read range to just a few inches, ensuring consumer privacy while maintaining the benefits of the technology, such as product authentication or recalls.
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Heineken, IBM, Safmarine and University of Amsterdam launch wireless "Beer Living Lab"
26 Oct 2006. A new intelligent wireless project called the "Beer Living Lab" will track cargo container shipments of Heineken beer from Europe to the United States using satellite and cellular technology. The goal is to create paperless documentation through better system interoperability, resulting in faster deliveries and reduced costs for international trade.
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IBM researchers develop next-generation chip-cooling technologies
26 Oct 2006. IBM researchers have presented an innovative approach for improving the cooling of computer chips, an increasingly urgent need given the large amount of heat released by today’s more powerful processors and the additional energy required for removing that heat.
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IBM Forscher mit renommiertem Schweizer Wissenschaftspreis ausgezeichnet
13 Oct 2006. Emmanuel Delamarche erhielt den diesjährigen Werner-Preis der Schweizerischen Chemischen Gesellschaft für seine innovativen Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Oberflächenchemie.
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IBM & Genome Institute of Singapore collaboration may lead to better understanding of cell process regulation
22 Sep 2006. IBM, in collaboration with the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) revealed results from a joint research study that could potentially alter our views of how cell processes are regulated. The two teams have discovered that microRNAs, small molecules that are an important regulatory component in the machinery of living cells, likely exert their influence much more widely than previously thought.
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RFID clipped tags among top technology innovations of 2006
13 Sep 2006. Among the runners-up for this year’s Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation awards are the privacy-enhancing RFID clipped tags developed by IBM researchers Paul Moskowitz and Günter Karjoth. Clipped tags allow consumers to partially tear off the antenna, preventing long-range RFID readers from detecting and reading them, thereby putting consumer privacy back in the hands of the consumer.
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IBM researchers look beyond silicon technology and investigate molecules for the future of information processing
4 Aug 2006. Scientists at IBM Research - Zurich have demonstrated how a single molecule can be switched between two distinct conductive states, which allows it to store data. As published today in SMALL, these experiments show that certain types of molecules reveal intrinsic molecular functionalities that are comparable to devices used in today’s semiconductor technology. This finding is yet another promising result to emerge from IBM’s research labs in their efforts to explore and develop novel technologies for the post-CMOS era.
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International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology in Basel
4 Jul 2006. Will Basel become the “Woodstock” of nanoscience on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the scanning tunneling microscope, the instrument that in 1981 unlocked the nanoscale universe? The forthcoming International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICN&T 2006) in Basel, Switzerland, from July 31 to August 4, has all the ingredients to write nano history.
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Matthias Kaiserswerth appointed Director of the IBM Research - Zurich
23 Jun 2006. Matthias Kaiserswerth has been named director of IBM Research - Zurich and Vice President Systems Management and Compliance. He succeeds Krishna Nathan, who is moving to the Technology and Intellectual Property organization of IBM as Vice President, Technology.
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IBM scientists image orbital reorganization upon bond formation
26 May 2006. Researchers at IBM Research - Zurich have succeeded in obtaining direct images of the orbital reorganization that takes place when a gold atom and a pentacene molecule form a complex on a surface. Apart from its scientific beauty, the atomic-scale precision in this single-molecule chemistry experiment breaks new ground in the contacting possibilities of single molecules, which could be of importance for future electronics.
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IBM researchers set world record in magnetic tape data density
16 May 2006. IBM researchers today announced they have demonstrated a world record in data density on linear magnetic tape, a dramatic indication that one of the computer industry’s oldest and still most affordable data storage technologies has the potential to provide increased capacity for years to come.
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IBM researchers demonstrate new method for rapid molecule sorting and delivery
1 May 2006. IBM researchers have demonstrated a new nanoscale method that both rapidly separates very small numbers of molecules and also delivers them precisely onto surfaces with unprecedented control. When fully developed, the new technique has the potential to improve such diverse applications as medical lab tests and future nanoelectronic circuit manufacturing.
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IBM extends enhanced data security to consumer electronics products
10 Apr 2006. IBM today announced a new technology designed to greatly increase the security of consumer products, medical devices, defense systems and digital media. Developed by IBM Research and code-named “Secure Blue,” the new technology helps enable mainframe-inspired security typically only available in data centers.
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IBM launches services to combat worm and virus threats
27 Mar 2006. IBM today announced new intrusion detection capabilities to help clients detect, prevent and analyze hacker attacks.
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Enhancing semiconductors through nanotechnology
24 Mar 2006. IBM today announced that its researchers have built the first complete electronic integrated circuit around a single "carbon nanotube" molecule, a new material that shows promise for providing enhanced performance over today’s standard silicon semiconductors.
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IBM Research demonstrates path for extending current chip-making technique
20 Feb 2006. IBM researchers announced they have found a way to extend a key chip-manufacturing process to generate smaller chip circuits, potentially postponing the semiconductor industry’s high-risk conversion to an extremely expensive alternative.
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IBM scientists demonstrate chipset to boost wireless communications
6 Feb 2006. IBM scientists today announced that they have created a small, low-cost chipset that could allow wireless electronic devices to transmit and receive ten times faster than today’s advanced WiFi networks.
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Zurich Research Lab celebrates its 50th anniversary
3 Feb 2006. Looking at the history of IBM’s Zurich Research Lab, it becomes clear that innovation has constituted an integral part of its philosophy since the very beginning. This is illustrated by the broad range of research breakthroughs and other successes that have been achieved here in the past 50 years. And innovation will continue to be the driving force of future research. Thus it was only natural to choose the slogan "Celebrating Innovation - 50 Years IBM Zurich Research Lab" for the lab’s anniversary activities that will take place throughout 2006.
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Silicon photonics: IBM scientists harness "slow light" for optical communications
3 Nov 2005. IBM today announced its researchers have created a tiny device that represents a big advance toward the eventual use of light in place of electricity in the connection of electronic components, potentially leading to vast improvements in the performance of computers and other electronic systems.
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Technologieschub Pervasive Computing: Dialog über Chancen und Risiken in Rüschlikon
29 Sep 2005. Die Auswirkungen der allumfassenden, sich selbst organisierenden Vernetzung von intelligenten Objekten und IT-Systemen sind grundlegend: Das so genannte Pervasive Computing berührt sämtliche Grundlagen des wirtschaftlichen, politischen und sozialen Zusammenlebens. Auf der Tagung "The Future of Business and Society in an intelligent World" diskutierten am 29. September in Zürich namhafte Wissenschaftler und Manager im "Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue" Szenarien und Handlungsoptionen. Die Tagung stützte sich auf Ergebnisse einer Expertenzusammenarbeit zwischen Swiss Re, IBM Research und dem "Zentrum für Technologiefolgen-Abschätzung Schweiz".
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IBM and Maersk Logistics provide real-time cargo monitoring for global supply chain optimization
20 Sep 2005. IBM and Maersk Logistics announced today an initiative to bring real-time, enhanced visibility to global supply chain operations by improving the quality of container tracking, thus providing greater security for transported goods. The solution includes highly intelligent wireless tracking devices and an advanced technology network for use by manufacturers, retailers, logistics providers, carriers, and governments to share real-time cargo information.
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IBM researchers receive technology award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation
15 Sep 2005. The 2005 Technology Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation will be awarded to two researchers of IBM Research - Zurich. Together with Professor Hisashi Kobayashi of Princeton University, IBM’s Drs. François Dolivo and Evangelos Eleftheriou will receive this prestigious prize for their pioneering contributions to the data-recording technology in hard-disk drives, which enabled significant increases in recording densities and data rates for many decades.
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Ultra-Breitband: Neuer Megamarkt für drahtlose Kommunikation
5 Sep 2005. Die neue drahtlose Übertragungstechnik "Ultra-Breitband" steht unmittelbar vor der Markteinführung. Das zeigte die "2005 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband" (ICU 2005) Anfang September an der ETH Zürich mit einer Reihe von Fachvorträgen, Expertendiskussionen und Demonstrationen.
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PRIME privacy and identity management project releases White Paper
19 Aug 2005. Privacy and identity management are the central topics of PRIME. The project, in which IBM Research - Zurich has the technical leadership, has just released the initial version of its White Paper to launch a debate on these issues. The document focuses on groundbreaking solutions needed to protect the privacy of individuals against the risks emerging inm in the context of powerful technologies.
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BlueGene supercomputer installed at IBM Research - Zurich
11 Aug 2005. A new supercomputer enables IBM scientists to conduct true-to-life simulations for the design of microchips. It allows the computer-based design of novel materials that may eventually be used in the next generation of supercomputers.
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New "micropipette" enables the exploration of single living cells
2 Aug 2005. Scientists at IBM Research - Zurich have developed a ground-breaking device that opens new possibilities for biochemical analysis and diagnostics on the micrometer scale. The device’s major breakthrough is its ability to manipulate biomolecules and single cells in their native cell-culture environment - which holds great promise for cell research in medicine and biology.
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IBM Research - Zurich researcher receives Swiss Physical Society award
14 Jul 2005. Heike Riel of IBM Research - Zurich has received the 2005 Applied Physics Award of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) for her outstanding scientific achievements in the field of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) for display technologies.
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Marketing Science prize for IBM Research
17 Jun 2005. IBM’s CELM solution has won the 2005 INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize, that recognizes the fusion of marketing theory and practice. CELM, developed at IBM Research - Zurich and jointly introduced with Finnair, is an innovative approach that leverages customer data to better understand customer lifecycles and determine current and potential future value of customers for optimizing marketing policies.
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IBM/EPFL Blue Brain project
6 Jun 2005. IBM and The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) announced a major joint research initiative—nicknamed the Blue Brain Project—to take brain research to a new level. Over the next two years scientists from both organizations will work together using the huge computational capacity of IBM’s eServer Blue Gene supercomputer to create a detailed model of the circuitry in the neocortex—the largest and most complex part of the human brain. By expanding the project to model other areas of the brain, scientists hope to eventually build an accurate, computer-based model of the entire brain.
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Evangelous Eleftheriou named IBM Fellow
25 May 2005. IBM announced that five employees will be named IBM Fellow—the company’s most prestigious technical honor, among them Dr. Evangelos Eleftheriou of IBM Research - Zurich. The five honorees drive innovation in areas as diverse as nanotechnology, computer design and data storage.
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IBM creates new academic curriculum to improve services innovation
23 May 2005. IBM announced that it is making available to universities through the IBM Academic Initiative program a new academic curriculum called Services Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME). The new course is designed to develop the skills required in the world’s increasingly services-based economies.
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First IBM "Science Week" sparks thirst for knowledge
15 Apr 2005. Eleven school classes from throughout the canton of Zurich participated in the first "Science Week" hosted from 11 to 15 April by IBM’s Zurich Laboratory. This gave youngsters hands-on exposure to selected science and technology projects.
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"Millipede" small-scale prototype shown at CeBIT
3 Mar 2005. Given the rapidly increasing data volumes that are downloaded onto mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, there is a growing demand for suitable storage media with more and more capacity. At CeBIT, IBM will for the first time show the prototype of the MEMS* assembly of a nanomechanical storage system known internally as the "millipede"

project. Using revolutionary nanotechnology, scientists at IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland, have made it to the millionths of a millimeter range, achieving data storage densities of more than one terabit (1000 gigabit) per square inch, equivalent to storing the content of 25 DVDs on an area the size of a postage stamp.
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IBM Privacy Faculty Award 2004
Dec 2004. Carnegie Mellon University academic Lorrie Cranor named winner of 2004 award.
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European Information Security Award 2004 for Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA)
30 Nov 2004. The winners of the European Information Security Award 2004 were announced at the RSA Conference in Barcelona. In the category Research & Development, the award went to Jan Camenisch and Roger Zimmermann of IBM Research - Zurich, who developed the Direct Anonymous Attestation protocol (DAA) in cooperation with researchers from HP and Intel.
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IBM / ETH Center for Advanced Silicon Electronics (CASE) receives EEEfCOM Innovation Award 2004
Nov 2004. IBM / ETH CASE has received the Gerotron / Rohde & Schwarz / Agilent EEEfCOM (Electrical and Electronic Engineering for Communication) Innovation Award 2004 in the category Universities. The value of the award is €40,000 for equipment to be used within CASE.
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Sharp and IBM Japan collaborate on development of large-capacity IC card
20 Oct 2004. The IC card uses JCOP, a new embedded operating system developed at IBM Research - Zurich.
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IBM scientists receive The Economist Innovation Award
14 Sep 2004. Three scientists of IBM Research - Zurich have been awarded this year’s Economist “No Boundaries” Innovation Award. The prize was bestowed to Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer and Christoph Gerber for the invention and development of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), which marked the birth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The Economist Annual Innovation Summit & Awards celebrate the individuals and best practices that drive the most successful innovations that transform our global economy.
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MAFTIA project short-listed for EU Descartes Prize 2004
Sep 2004. The MAFTIA (Malicious and Accidental Fault Tolerance for Internet Applications) project has been short-listed in the field of information sciences for the annual EU Descartes Prize for Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievements Resulting from European Collaborative Research.
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IBM scientists control the charge state of an individual atom
23 Jul 2004. Scientists of IBM Research - Zurich and of Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, have succeeded in manipulating and controlling the charge state of individual atoms. With this experiment, a new dimension of manipulation has been achieved.
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IBM Research - Zurich scientists win award for Privacy Enhancing Technologies
27 May 2004. Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter and Michael Backes of IBM Research - Zurich’s Computer Science department received the 2004 Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
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Winners of Swiss Olympiad in Informatics 2004 announced
18 May 2004. The winners of the 9th Swiss Olympiad in Informatics, a competition for young computer enthusiasts, are NAMES from PLACES.
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Interview with IBM Research - Zurich Nobel laureate Gerd Binnig in IEEE Spectrum
May 2004. An article entitled "A Beautiful Noise" by Harry Goldstein appeared in the May 2004 issue of IEEE Spectrum. It includes an interview with IBM Research - Zurich Nobel laureate Gerd Binnig, who discusses current issues in the field of nanotechnology.
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1st IBM Research - Zurich Alumni Convention a success
7 May 2004. IBM Research - Zurich hosted its first Alumni Convention. Former graduate students had been invited back to IBM Research - Zurich to meet not only their former colleagues but also the current generation of so-called pre-docs. The event provided the aspiring young scientists with information and career ideas for “life after IBM” as well as an opportunity to network with alumni.
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EU launches PRIME project for privacy and identity management
Mar 2004. PRIME—Privacy and identity management for Europe is a 4-year project whose objective is the research and development of solutions to empower individuals in managing their privacy in cyberspace.
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Swiss Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin visits IBM Research - Zurich
30 Mar 2004. Hosted by Peter Quadri, General Manager of IBM Switzerland, and IBM Research - Zurich Director Krishna Nathan, Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin and his team came to hear about the latest trends in IT.
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Zurich Laboratory awarded health and well-being prize
12 Mar 2004. IBM’s Zurich Laboratory was awarded the 2004 Zurich Prize for the Promotion of Health and Well-Being at Work in the category of large enterprises.
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EU Research Commissioner visits Zurich laboratory
1 Mar 2004. Philippe Busquin visited IBM Research - Zurich in Rüschlikon on March 1 to get a personal impression of the scope of work pursued here. Busquin is the member of the European Commission responsible for research programs within the EU.
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Optical technology program for supercomputers
Nov 2003. IBM Research - Zurich is involved in a $20 million project between Corning Incorporated, IBM, the US Department of Energy, and the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop high-speed, optically switched interconnects for supercomputers. More details are provided in a joint press release.

Remote monitoring of health conditions
31 Oct 2003. IBM researchers, working with medical device manufacturers and mobile phone handset manufacturers, have created a unique solution to track vital health signs. The IBM technology, if adopted, could help limit a patient’s health risk, increase his or her comfort level, reduce the number of check ups as well as time spent in hospital and enhance the effectiveness of pharmaceutical field tests. The solution includes a so-called "pill box" and a home-based blood pressure monitor that resembles a large wrist watch.
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New IT security center at the ETH Zurich
24 Sep 2003. The Zurich Information Security Center (ZISC) is taking shape at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, in collaboration with an industry consortium currently comprised of Credit Suisse, IBM Research - Zurich, and Sun Microsystems Laboratories. The ZISC initiators aim to forge closer links between fundamental research and practical applications and thus lay the groundwork for the secure systems that are essential to a functioning information society.
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Zurich scientist Heike Riel named top young innovator
Sep 2003. Heike Riel, a member of the Display Technology group at IBM Research - Zurich, has been elected to TR100, the annual list of the world’s 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.
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Das Schweizer Team für die Internationale Informatikolympiade 2003 steht fest
24 Jun 2003. Nach Abschluss der 8. Schweizer Informatikolympiade für Jugendliche steht fest, wer die Schweiz bei der 15. Internationalen Informatikolympiade in den USA vertreten wird. Dies sind Jonas Wagner aus Boll bei Bern, Simon Felix aus Klingnau (AG), Anthony Bagwell aus Dully (VD) sowie Nicolas Cepeda aus Zürich-Altstetten.
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Supercomputer donation to University of Zurich
19 Jun 2003. After IBM Research - Zurich recently installed Switzerland’s fastest computer at its site in Rüschlikon, it has now donated its previous supercomputer—a system of four towers with a total of 128 processors operating in parallel—to the Organic Chemistry Institute (OCI) of the University of Zurich. This donation will also support the planned collaboration between the OCI and the computational biochemistry effort at IBM Research - Zurich.
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IBM awards technology to Stanford University for computational photonics project
22 Apr 2003. IBM has donated a powerful computer system to Stanford University in CA/USA to support its groundbreaking work in modeling photonic material structures in collaboration with IBM Research - Zurich.
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IEEE honors Zurich LAN pioneers
14 Apr 2003. The IEEE has named Werner Bux, manager of the Communication Systems department at IBM Research - Zurich, and Hans Müller, retired senior researcher of the same department, as recipients of the 2003 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. The award recognizes the two IBM scientists for their contributions to the design, development and standardization of the Token Ring local area network (LAN). The legacy of the technology can be seen in today’s high-speed, fault-resistant fiber optic LANs and Ethernet.
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World’s largest OLED display
13 Mar 2003. Chi Mei Optoelectronics has announced the world’s largest organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display driven by amorphous silicon thin-film transistors (TFTs). Core pieces of the underlying technology have been developed at IBM Research - Zurich as well as at IBM research labs in the US and in Japan. Chi Mei’s press release on the subject and a photo of the novel display are available on Chi Mei’s Web site.
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Heart rate monitor calls cell phone for help
19 Dec 2002. Zurich researchers, together with colleagues from IBM’s Engineering Technology Services and IBM Corporate Design, have developed a small, portable, wireless device that measures heart rate and is able to sense when its wearer is in distress, then calls a cell phone for immediate help.
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Switzerland’s fastest computer installed at IBM Research - Zurich
12 Dec 2002. Switzerland’s fastest computer has been installed at IBM’s Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon near Zurich. Ranked 70 among the world’s top 500 computers, the system works at a top speed of more than a trillion operations per second. The computer will be used by IBM scientists to advance research in computational biochemistry and material sciences.
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IBM awards technology to University of Karlsruhe for grid computing research
13 Nov 2002. The Chair for Information Management and Systems of the Department of Economics and Business Engineering announced it has been awarded 34 computers worth more than 200,000 euros from IBM to build an infrastructure for experiments in electronic market engineering and grid computing.
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Zurich Extreme Blue project a success
22 Oct 2002. The team of four students from Australia, India, Italy, and Poland did an outstanding job of creating a working prototype of a traffic prediction system within three months of intensive work at IBM Research - Zurich in summer 2002.
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New director of IBM Research - Zurich
11 Jul 2002. Effective August 1, 2002, Krishna Nathan has been named Director of IBM Research - Zurich. He succeeds Matthias Kaiserswerth, who has been appointed Managing Director for IBM’s Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) customer account.
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Extreme Blue team to develop "car data booster"
11 Jul 2002. A team of four students from Australia, India, Italy and Poland has started a three-month research effort at IBM Research - Zurich this week. Their ambitious goal is to develop a fully functional prototype of a traffic control subsystem by the end of September.
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IBM’s "Millipede" project demonstrates trillion-bit data storage density
11 Jun 2002. Using an innovative nanotechnology, IBM scientists have demonstrated a data storage density of one trillion bits per square inch — 20 times higher than the densest magnetic storage available today.
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Optical time multiplexer
Mar 2002. IBM Research - Zurich announced the development of a miniature, low-loss optical 10 to 40 Gbit/s time-division multiplexer based on its novel planar optical waveguide technology at the 2002 Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) held in Anaheim, California/USA, March 19 - 21.
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Zurich Technology at 2002 Optical Fiber Conference
Mar 2002. IBM Research - Zurich will present dynamic gain equalizers and chromatic dispersion compensators based on its novel planar optical waveguide technology at the 2002 Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) held in Anaheim, California/USA, on March 19 - 21.
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First IBM Workshop on Protein Science in Europe
Feb 2002. On March 15 and 16, 2002, the IBM Blue Gene protein science project of IBM Research and the UK National e-Science Center will host the Protein Science Workshop "Blue Gene 2002" to be held at the National e-Science Institute in Edinburgh. The first Blue Gene workshop on Protein folding was held in 2001 at San Diego, California, USA.
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IBM launches privacy and data protection initiatives
Nov 2001. IBM has announced the formation of the Privacy Institute, an IBM Research organization, and the Privacy Management Council to focus exclusively on privacy and data protection challenges facing its enterprise customers and the marketplace. Visit the Privacy Institute Website for more information on this important initiative in which IBM Research - Zurich plays a leading role.
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Investigation of novel materials for continued electronic chip miniaturization
21 Sep 2001. INVEST research consortium formed by nine partners, including IBM Research - Zurich. Its ambitious goal is to develop the use of new materials at the core of microelectronic chips, which will be crucial for continued miniaturization well beyond the foreseeable limits of today’s technology.
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Switch chip based on Zurich’s Prizma switch architecture moves network traffic four times faster
Sep 2001. IBM announced a new packet routing switch (PRS) based on the Prizma Switch architecture developed at IBM Research - Zurich. The new chip, PowerPRS Q-64G, performs four times faster than the previous generation, yet does so with a far more compact design.
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"Bio-printing" — an efficient new method in biotechnology
1 Sep 2001. Scientists at IBM Research - Zurich and the University of Zurich have developed a new printing method that may greatly improve the ability to extract molecules from fluids and to place them in arbitrary patterns on surfaces, which is widely required for investigation and analysis in biotechnology.
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IBM and ETH open competence center in advanced communication technologies
30 Aug 2001. IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich open a new center at ETH for the design of novel high-frequency analog circuits crucial to the advance of wired and wireless communication technologies.
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IBM develops Java card for Migros Bank
12 Jul 2001. Migros Bank has issued chip cards with digital certificates for Internet banking to 1,000 selected customers. This pilot program allows customers to access their accounts by means of a modern Java smart card that contains a personal certificate. This eliminates the need for a strike-off list of additional passwords.
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"Extreme Blue" at IBM Research - Zurich
11 Jul 2001. Research marathon for students. This week, two international teams of students have embarked on a three-month research marathon at IBM Research - Zurich. Their goal: to produce functional software prototypes by October.
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More efficient network traffic engineering
May 2001. Dramatically increasing data traffic on the Internet calls for the best possible use of network resources in an ever more complex environment. These requirements are met by drawing on more and more intelligence provided by network processors.
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Mobile Solution Innovation Center at Zurich-Mobile e-business institute to coordinate research initiatives
5 Dec 2000. IBM has announced a network of Mobile e-business Innovation Centers in Europe to help customers and partners develop the next generation of mobile e-business solutions.
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Major smart card industry players support price breakthrough for OpenPlatform smart cards
12 Oct 2000. A major program to offer Visa member banks a family of low-cost multiapplication smart cards has been launched by Visa International, together with IBM and Philips Semiconductors, supported by four major smart card manufacturers.
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Censio Internet insurance based on Zurich’s virtual marketplace technology
29 Aug 2000. IBM, Siebel Systems, and Internet insurance broker Censio have jointly developed a new, integrated e-commerce system that for the first time ever makes it possible to use the Internet to compare the quality of different insurances instead of merely comparing prices.
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Zurich signal processing technology in IBM’s 1 GB Microdrive
Jul 2000. Performance of the world’s smallest hard disk drive, IBM’s Microdrive that now carries up to 1 GB of data on a disk 2.7 cm in diameter relies on noise-predictive maximum-likelihood (NPML) detection for reliable recovery of data from readback signals.
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Leading-edge smart card technology meets sophisticated watch technology
Jul 2000. IBM, Philips Semiconductors and Junghans have created an exciting new type of watch, worn exactly like a standard wristwatch, but one which provides far greater functionality than just time measurement.
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Significant extension of IBM’s Zurich Laboratory completed
15 Jun 2000. A handsome new building on the campus of IBM Research - Zurich is a tangible manifestation of the extension of IBM’s activities in Rüschlikon.
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New director of IBM Research - Zurich
30 May 2000. Matthias Kaiserswerth has been appointed Director of IBM Research - Zurich. As of June 1, he will succeed David McQueeney, who continues as Vice President, Emerging Business.
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IBM and university researchers uncover a new biomechanical phenomenon using tiny silicon fingers
13 Apr 2000. Scientists from IBM Research and the University of Basel have found a new approach for using tiny biochemical "machines" made of silicon to detect defects in DNA, which could eventually lead to new medical treatments.
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The smart way to access UBS telebanking
30 Mar 2000. For the first time ever, a bank in Switzerland is launching a public field test involving digital ID certificates on smart cards.
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Synchrotron radiation reveals secrets of antiferromagnetism
11 Feb 2000. The PEEM2 microscope has produced the first images of the domain structure of an antiferromagnetic thin film—a type of material vital to advanced magnetic devices such as the read heads of computer hard-disk drives.
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Swissair, IBM first to enable passengers to check in from mobile phones
16 Dec 1999. In support of Swissair’s new levels of customer care IBM has developed an application which enables selected Swissair passengers to check in from web enabled mobile phones.
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IBM presents world’s first dual-interface OpenPlatform JavaCard™
22 Nov 1999. A technology demonstration of the world’s first dual-interface OpenPlatform JavaCard™ based on Philips Semiconductors' MIFARE® PRO chip is being shown by IBM Research - Zurich at the Cartes '99 fair.
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1000 tips for ultrahigh-density data storage
13 Oct 1999. A novel concept developed at IBM Research - Zurich promises high-density storage.
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Communication Research and Development Center established
29 Sep 1999. IBM Research and the Microelectronics Division (IMD) jointly sponsor the Communication Research and Development Center (CRDC).
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Zurich inventions in infrared products
31 May 1999. IBM announced the first family of high-speed, low-cost, multipoint wireless networking products based on the advanced infrared (AIr) connectivity standard.
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IBM’s European Industry Solutions Lab to be moved to Zurich Laboratory
16 Apr 1999. Relocated to Rüschlikon, Switzerland, on the site of IBM Research - Zurich.
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Ground-breaking for a new building at IBM Research - Zurich
16 Apr 1999. Construction has begun for a new extension to IBM Research - Zurich.
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New director of IBM Research - Zurich
24 Mar 1999. David F. McQueeney appointed director of IBM Research - Zurich.
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From first principles to industrial applications
19 Oct 1998. Researchers at Ford and IBM have completed the first realistic simulations of the hydration of aluminum oxide surfaces by using first principles (ab initio) computational methods.
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Java-based multi-function smart card technology
24 Sep 1998. IBM demonstrated for the first time a prototype implementation of Java technology on a smart card at the Defending Cyberspace '98 conference in Washington, D.C.
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Researchers close security gap in the Internet
24 Aug 1998. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and IBM Research - Zurich in Rüschlikon, co-developed a method to protect information from even the most aggressive hacking attacks.
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Researchers reveal method for doubling superconducting transition temperature
30 Jul 1998. Scientists have succeeded in doubling the transition temperature at which a material becomes superconducting and loses all resistance to the transport of electrical current.
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Discovery of molecular wheel offers promise for design of nanoscale devices
24 Jul 1998. IBM scientists and a team of international collaborators  reported the discovery of "molecular wheels": propeller-shaped molecules that rotate rapidly in a bearing-like structure formed by surrounding molecules.
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Low-cost microscope to spur new surface studies
15 Jul 1998. Scientists can now examine surfaces with greater precision, more convenience and at lower cost thanks to a cleverly designed atomic force microscope developed by IBM Research - Zurich in Switzerland and Seiko Instruments Inc., in Chiba, Japan.
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"Light stamps" could simplify optical lithography
15 Jul 1998. Scientists at IBM Research - Zurich have demonstrated that a surprisingly simple optical technique can create exceedingly fine patterns on silicon wafers without using the expensive lenses required today.
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"SEMPER" security on the Internet: Advanced European e-business prototype goes online
31 Mar 1998. First e-business transactions on the Internet using a security prototype system developed by the European research project SEMPER (Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe) has gone live.
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Get a Swiss railway ticket over the Internet
16 Jul 1997. Swiss Railway introduced one of the world’s first on-line railroad ticket services over the Internet in July of this year - a system developed jointly with IBM Research - Zurich.
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1997 Discover Awards honor IBM Research achievements in nanotechnology
2 Jun 1997. IBM Research’s pioneering work in nanotechnology received the 1997 Editor’s Choice award for Emerging Technology at the Eighth Annual Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation.
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Molecular amplifier
7 Mar 1997. Scientists of IBM Research - Zurich in Switzerland and the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Toulouse, France, have demonstrated an experimental electronic device with a tiny active part.
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Gottfried Ungerboeck co-recipient of 1997 Australia Prize
11 Feb 1997. The Australia Prize, a prestigious international award given by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia for outstanding achievements in a selected area of science and technology promoting human welfare, this year for major contributions in telecommunications.
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The world’s smallest abacus
13 Nov 1996. Scientists at IBM Research - Zurich have built an abacus with individual molecules as beads with a diameter of less than one nanometer, one millionth of a millimeter.
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Ordering railway tickets over the Internet
27 Aug 1996. The Swiss Federal Railway and IBM sign agreement concerning the joint development of a system for ordering railway tickets over the Internet.
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Pioneer of modem technology receives 1996 Marconi Fellowship award
6 Jun 1996. To recognize and stimulate creativity in communications, the Marconi International Fellowship this week announced Gottfried Ungerboeck, an IBM Research scientist in Zurich, as the recipient of the 1996 International Marconi Award.
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Zurich scientists position individual molecules at room temperature
12 Jan 1996. For the first time, scientists at IBM Research - Zurich have succeeded in moving and precisely positioning individual molecules at room temperature, using the extremely fine tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM).
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