In 1965, when Computer Science was just becoming established as a separate academic discipline, the first Department of Computer Sciences was formed in the IBM Research Division at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. The department's stated mission was "to create and test new concepts and techniques in computer systems design, and to identify and provide a first inroad into new areas of computer applications." Since that time, Computer Science has established itself across all the IBM Research labs world wide: Almaden, Austin, Beijing, Delhi, Haifa, Tokyo, Watson, and Zurich. In the ensuing years, IBM Research has been responsible for helping create important new subdisciplines of Computer Science, as well as bringing those research results to the marketplace including compiler optimization (FORTRAN), relational database (SQL and DB2®), speech recognition (Via Voice™), Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC - RS/6000® and PowerPC®), data encryption (DES), fractals, and scalable parallel systems (RS/6000 SP™).

Our goal today is to help create the future of computer technology and applications - technology and applications that will be vital to IBM's future success, and that will be an important influence in the research disciplines of Mathematics and Computer Science. Our research program is broad, covering roughly 20 different areas of computer science and mathematics, as well as being a critical part of interdisciplinary activities (such as Systems and Storage) that are only possible in a large and diverse organization, such as IBM Research, that has both the breadth and depth in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and the Physical Sciences.

Our research agenda ranges from theory that underlies the entire discipline, to basic research in all the subdisiciplines described in this brochure, to advanced technology that we create in partnership with IBM's product, solution, and service divisions, to leading-edge experiments with IBM customers. In each arena we aim to solve new fundamental problems and to make research results that have direct impact on new hardware, software, systems and services. Beyond this traditional academic and industrial research areas, we are also taking on a few grand challenges that we hope will push the frontier of science and technology. These include Blue Gene (building the hardware and software to solve the protein folding problem), Planet Blue (creating a living laboratory where we can help create a future of ubiquitous computing that is truly part of everyone's life and so easy to use that it becomes invisible), the Deep Computing Institute , and the Institute for Advanced Commerce .

This brochure describes these focus areas and our many Computer Science subdisiciplines. No static document can ever keep up with a discipline that changes as fast as does Computer Science, so we encourage you to explore our web site, www.research.ibm.com/compsci and for the individual discipline's description please click on the links below.

	Algorithms & Theory
	Artificial Intelligence
	Communications & Networking
	Computational Biology
	Computer Architecture
	Data Management
	Distributed & Fault Tolerant Computing
	E-Commerce
	Graphics & Visualization
	Human Computer Interaction
	Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
	Mobile Computing
	Multimedia
	Natural Language Processing
	Operations Research
	Operating Systems
	Performance Modeling & Analysis
	Programming Languages & Software Engineering
	Security
	Web

Please contact Paridhi Verma to obtain copies of the Computer Science Brochure