2020
Programming microfluidic functionalities in real-time with virtual channels
29 Jun 2020. High-precision guiding and transport, splitting, merging and mixing of microfluidic flows.
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Biologically-inspired deep learning predicts chords of Bach
12 Jun 2020. Bringing AI closer to the way in which the human brain works.
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Fulfilling brain-inspired hyperdimensional computing with in-memory computing
1 Jun 2020. Taking inspiration from the cerebral attributes of neuronal circuits like hyperdimensionality to create a novel in-memory hyperdimensional computing system.
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Iso-accuracy deep learning inference with in-memory computing
18 May 2020. Developing a groundbreaking technique that achieves both energy efficiency and high accuracy on deep neural network computations using phase-change memory devices.
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Novel microfluidic method for microscale bio separations
11 Apr 2020. Developing a new method for separation of particles and molecules from small volume samples.
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New IBM and Intel blockchain security feature targets 5G auctions
3 Mar 2020. Increasing trust in high-stakes markets such as wireless spectrum auctions.
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2019
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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2018
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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2017
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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2016
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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2015
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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2014
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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2013
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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2012
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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2011
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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2010
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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2009
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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2008
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 machinesfrom 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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2007
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
tomorrows 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 Consortiums 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 worlds most powerful supercomputer.
Blue Gene/P nearly triples the performance of its predecessor,
Blue Gene/Lcurrently the worlds fastest computerwhile
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 materialhafnium dioxidein 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 electronicsa 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 softwarecalled Identity Mixerwill
enable consumers to purchase goods and services on the Internet
without disclosing personal information.
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2006
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 networksan 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. Cryptographythe
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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2005
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 initiativenicknamed the Blue Brain Projectto
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 IBMs eServer Blue Gene
supercomputer to create a detailed model of the circuitry in
the neocortexthe 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 Fellowthe 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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2004
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 years
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. PRIMEPrivacy 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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2003
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
supercomputera system of four towers with a total of 128
processors operating in parallelto 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 worlds 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 Meis press
release on the subject and a photo of the novel display
are available on Chi Meis Web site.
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2002
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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2001
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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2000
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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1999
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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1998
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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1997
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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1996
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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