"Personal Systems" refers to the combination of hardware, software, and associated services that end users experience directly. Hardware includes personal computers (desktop and mobile), network computers, pervasive computing devices, and information access devices of all kinds. In the Personal Systems cross-discipline, we nurture new technologies and explore novel ways with which users may interact with computing devices.
IBM Research makes personal systems simpler to use -- customized to both the task and the user. Our success depends, on improvements in the human computer interface and connectivity. These trends underlie some of the major directions of our projects.
Some specific areas of interest include: personal information management on portable devices, novel human computer interfaces, multimedia on set top boxes, handwriting recognition, Bluetooth technology on mobile devices, managed small business clients and knowledge management for customer service.
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Personal and Mobile Computing has a long history at IBM Research, spanning a range of activities from application software on the early IBM PCs to novel input/output technologies on the first ThinkPad notebook. We are continuing to push the limits of this area by exploring the use of wearable computer and understanding discontinuities in component technologies, interfaces, system designs, applications, middleware and services.
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Human computer interfaces research spans many areas including: graphical user interfaces (GUIs), user-centered design, development environments and usability measurements and testing. IBM Research has had a long history of studying the technical and social factors that make interactive software effective. We feel that the human-computer interface is among the most important factors facing today’s broadening spectrum of computer users. A good human computer interface is both easy to use and appropriate to the operational environment.
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As they grow in number and functionality, information access devices are beginning to revolutionize our lives. These devices include appliances for accessing the Internet. They perform a range of functions e-mail, e-commerce, word processing and games. Operating systems on such devices are diverse and include Linux ®, Microsoft Windows® and Microsoft Windows CE ®.
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The Servers and Embedded Systems Department focuses on hardware, software, tools, utilities and algorithms. It is where hardware meets software, where architecture meets operating systems.
This area includes appliances, server devices, and supercomputers. Servers and Embedded Systems posses the breadth, depth and experience needed to research and develop complete systems from circuits to operating environments.
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The ever increasing need for bandwidth has IBM investigating new materials and techniques to push semiconductor research and manufacturing. IBM has made significant advances in optical lithography, copper, and "switch" technology for high bandwidth networks.
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Magnetic recording technology continues to make rapid advancements in storing information, currently doubling in storage densities every year. The goal of our work in IBM Research is to develop the fundamental understanding and innovative breakthroughs that allows this tremendous rate of progress to continue. In the future, however, the current method of magnetically storing data may reach its limit of achievable density.
At IBM Research, we are also exploring methods using alternate materials and techniques for storing information. The manufacturing aspects of storage devices, in terms of cost, yield, and quality are also critical and an area of study for our researchers.
In addition to work in the fundamentals of data storage technologies, we also pursue numerous projects in system design, both, at the drive level, and at the storage subsystem level. Performance, ease of use, advanced functionality, management of storage, and availability are all key attributes of storage systems.
Research over the past several years includes:
- Magnetism, materials, and recording physics of heads and disks (magnetic media)
- Recording electronics, signal processing, data coding, and hard disk drive architectures
- Mechanical design and integration for disk drives
- Drive chemistry and reliability
- Exploratory recording schemes, including probe based storage (AFM), holographic storage, patterned media
- Advanced functionality for storage subsystems, such as remote copy utilities and high performance file systems
- Advanced storage adapters for NT and UNIX
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices
- Storage management software
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