Three IBM Researchers Appointed to National Academy of Engineers (link resides outside of ibm.com)
- Robert D. Miller, manager, advanced organic materials, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif. For inventions of polymeric materials for lithography, porous dielectrics, and processes in microelectronics.
- C. Mohan, IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif. For contributions to locking and recovery algorithms for database systems.
- Stuart S. P. Parkin, IBM Fellow and manager, magnetoelectronics, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif. For contributions to development of spin-engineered magnetic heterostructures for magnetic sensors and memory devices.
Is there a human side to software engineering?
Visiting researcher Janice Singer considers the social habits of highly effective software engineers and computer scientists.
IBM Researchers Named ACM Fellows
Three IBM Researchers, Kenneth Clarkson, Hamid Pirahesh, and Mark Squillante, were named 2008 ACM Fellows today, an award that recognizes the organization's top contributors to computing technology that have generated a broad range of innovations to industry, commerce, entertainment, and education.
Using mashups to coordinate healthcare
Ohad Greensphan talks about the role of mashups in integrating hospital applications. (mp3, transcript)
Bridging the software-hardware gap
David Bacon and Rodric Rabbah talk about Liquid Metal, a programming languages project that will give software programmers a means to realize customized hardware design.
IBM announces 2009 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline is February 2, 2009. Fellow will spend at least one year at an IBM Research lab.
IBM shatters U.S. patent record
Will openly publish many more future inventions; IBM Research to work on patent quality index. (link resides outside of ibm.com)
IBM Research Creates Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI
Extends 3D MRI to the nanoscale.
Have you taken BusinessWeek's Most Innovative Companies survey yet? Click here to take it now. (link resides outside of ibm.com)
Social scripting: Try CoScripter out with this free Firefox plugin
We're witnessing an emerging trend online towards more social tools. People are sharing photos, videos, and music online. Friends are even sharing minute details of their lives on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Yet one aspect of people's lives — what you do while sitting in front of your computer — has yet to migrate to the social realm. With our CoScripter project, we aim to change that, through the idea of social scripting.
IBM, Harvard want your PC for solar power study
Scientists at Harvard University and IBM are hoping to harness the power of a million idle computers to develop a new, cheaper form of solar power that could revolutionize the green energy world. (Reuters.com)
What are they saying about me?
With the emergence of web and blogs, news forums, message boards, and other web sites, the number of public places where a company's image can be discussed and influenced has exploded exponentially. How can a company possibly manage their brand image in such a fluid and dynamic environment?
5 in 5
Five innovations that could change your life in just five years.
Paving the way: Women in Research
Almaden researcher Tara Matthews is used to being the only female in the room...
Can we make software for older workers?
Peter Gregor talks about researching the cognitive changes that accompany old age.
How can we solve transaction problems?
IBM computer scientist Joel Branch talks about the work he and his colleagues are doing to help companies troubleshoot process glitches.
IBM announces Raviv fellowship winners.
Mihai Patrascu and Vinod Vaikuntanathan from MIT outpaced 100 other applicants.
Biological Research: Gene study shows the Phoenicians still with us.
The seafaring Phoenicians left the world more than a legacy of alphabets and purple dye -- they left their DNA scattered throughout Mediterranean men... (Reuters.com; pictured: Researcher Daniel Platt).
Software: IEEE hosts "On Architecture" podcast.
IBM Fellow and co-author of UML Grady Booch has bundled his IEEE columns into a podcast called On Architecture. (pictured: Researcher Grady Booch).
A smarter planet: The next leadership agenda
Remarks (as prepared) by Sam Palmisano, IBM Chairman and CEO, to the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, Nov. 6, 2008
IBM Has Tech Answer for Woes of Economy
I.B.M.'s chief executive, Samuel J. Palmisano, is proposing a technology-fueled economic recovery plan that calls for public and private investment in more efficient systems for utility grids, traffic management, food distribution, water conservation and health care (NY Times.com).
Visualization: IBM puts "Many Eyes" on Election 2008
Visualizing politics (msnbc.com; Researcher Martin Wattenberg)
Informatics: Can we demand a recount?
Rich Cardone advocates for an electronic voting system whose processes and results are verifiable. (Researcher Rich Cardone)
Accessibility: A letter from Helen Keller
(John E. Kelly: Director of IBM Research)
Community: IBM Expands R&D in China
Computer Maker Looks to Tap Country's Engineering Talent by Opening a New Facility in Shanghai (wsj.com; Researcher Thomas Li)
The Key to Smaller, More Powerful Gadgets
Current ways of storing information on PCs and cell phones won't cut it as memory demands grow and devices shrink. (Scientific American)
IBM Takes Lotus Sametime into 3D with OpenSim
To reduce the barrier to entry to virtual worlds while also making them more relevant to business needs. (Virtual Worlds News)
Understanding Arabic and Mandarin with GALE
How progress in speech recognition is helping automate translation for military and civilian clients. (podcast)
Point of View: An Avatar's Bill of Rights
Owners of virtual world sites should take steps proactively to give more power to users. (IP Law & Business)
Struggling With Data-Related Risk
John F. Kennedy once said, "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." (Risk Management Magazine)
InnovationJam2008
Starts October 5. IBMers register now.
Software: IBM opens 'social software' development center
Longtime tech mainstay IBM has announced the creation of a Cambridge, Mass.-based research center for the development of "social software," from consumer Web apps to enterprise communication tools. (cnet news)
Nanotechnology: IBM to Work With Taiwan Researcher on Racetrack Memory, Cell
A joint development team led by Stuart Parkin of IBM and the vice president of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Ian Chan, will study new materials and structures that can be used to further develop the memory chips. (IDG)
Systems Journal: SOA: From Modeling to Implementation
This issue contains eight papers on the challenges and insights related to modeling, testing, and governance which have emerged from SOA engagements in a variety of industries.
Software: LinuxWorld 2008 keynote: Linux, Open Source, and IBM
Bob Sutor connects the past, present and future in this keynote address at LinuxWorld 2008 (video)
Supercomputing: In failure, there is success.
STRETCH, the "almost" supercomputer, celebrates 50th anniversary at Mountain View, California Computer History Museum.
Filling in those little boxes
(March 2008)
Patently impressive
IBM achieves 15 years of patent leadership; partners to take eco-friendly patents public (January 2008)
Services speakers take center stage
The ODIS Services Research Seminar Series showcases technical work inside and outside of IBM (April 2008)
Services speakers take center stage
The ODIS Services Research Seminar Series showcases technical work inside and outside of IBM (September 2007)
Auto-pilot for IT systems
Generic Adaptive Control takes charge (June 2007)
Fran Allen: Explorer, pioneer, Turing Award winner
IBM Fellow becomes first woman to receive prestigious Award (February 2007)
Atomic computing
Nanotech breakthroughs pave the way for the ultra-small (August 2007)
MASTORing languages
Speech recognition (November 2006)
Fetch!
Dogear retrieves information through social bookmarks for corporations (June 2006)
Here's to your health
Open standards-based IHII could revolutionize medical care (December 2006)
