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  IBM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IBM was the only technology company ranked in Working Mother magazine's Top 10 for 2004, and one of two technology companies in 2005 (the other company being Hewlett-Packard).
IBM employees won the lawsuit and arrived at a partial settlement, although appeals are still underway.
IBM India and other IBM offices in China, the Philippines and Costa Rica have been witnessing a recruitment boom and steady growth in number of employees.
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 SBM - Facts and Information - IBM research
IBM is also a leader in nanotechnology, which involves the creation of new structures and materials through manipulation of individual atoms or molecules.
In 2004 IBM announced advances in several areas of nanotechnology, including molecular self-assembly, spin-on semiconductors and the field of spintronics, which explores the potential control of an electron's magnetic properties instead of charge as a mechanism for devising new means of computing and communications.
IBM research is also pursuing the development of "autonomic computing" technologies, which pattern information systems after the human body's autonomic nervous system.
www.sbm.com.sa /IBM-research.php   (383 words)

  
 IBM - International Business Machines Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
IBM has over 300,000 employees worldwide and with revenues of over $89 billion, it just happens to be the largest information technology company in the world.
IBM is one of the few companies that has a history encompassing the 19th, 20th, and 21th centuries.
In 2002, IBM announced the beginning of a $10 billion program to research and produce the infrastructure technology necessary to be able to provide supercomputer-level resources, on demand like cable television, to all businesses as a metered utility.
www.paperscorner.com /ibm.html   (312 words)

  
 Mayo Clinic, IBM Aim to Drive Medical Breakthroughs
As a first step, IBM (opens in new window) and Mayo Clinic have integrated 4.4 million patient records that were in non-integrated formats, into a unified system based on a standard technology platform that incorporates robust security and privacy features.
IBM and Mayo Clinic will each make significant investments in people and technology in joint projects, with the aim of advancing a standard open technology platform for use in areas such as medicine, life sciences, and pharmaceutical research.
IBM and Mayo Clinic will focus on integrating genomic and proteomic data with clinical records and public databases for use by physicians, with a critical focus on effectively utilizing the wealth of information contained in the unstructured text of doctor's transcribed notes.
www.mayoclinic.org /spotlight/mayoibmcollaboration.html   (1166 words)

  
 Lenovo and IBM -- Q&A for customers
IBM will continue to provide warranty service and support and financing and leasing options as we do today for up to five years.
The alliance agreement between IBM and Lenovo is clear, and the path to PC success with Lenovo is clear, so the only uncertainties in the marketplace would be how Lenovo will impact the market share of some of its PC competitors.
IBM continues our strategy of focusing on business and the enterprise in the on demand era, leveraging our strategic, leadership positions in systems, software, and services.
www.pc.ibm.com /ww/customerqa.html   (1636 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE IBM Research Demonstrates Path for Extending Current Chip-Making Technique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Future research is aimed at developing lens, fluid and photoresist materials with indices of refraction of 1.9, which would enable even smaller features to be imaged.
IBM Research is the world's largest information technology research organization, with about 3,000 scientists and engineers in eight labs in six countries.
In the early 1980s, IBM Research scientists in San Jose invented and developed the first chemically amplified photoresist materials, a high-speed resist that was first to solve the industry-wide problem of low light intensity from deep ultraviolet mercury lamps.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=110392   (1100 words)

  
 Forbes.com - Magazine Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
According to Paul Horn, IBM's senior vice president of research, IBM has generated $1 billion in profit--that's profit, not sales--by licensing intellectual property developed by its researchers.
Researchers at IBM and HP (nyse: HPQ - news - people) are focused more on invention.
IBM hopes to use Charles Schwab as a test case to sell grids--in which hundreds or thousands of computer are strung together--to other customers.
www.forbes.com /2003/08/07/cx_ld_0807ibm_print.html   (751 words)

  
 Scripps Florida - Technologies
IBM and The Scripps Research Institute have announced a collaborative initiative to conduct advanced research on pandemic viruses leveraging the industry-leading talent and technology from both organizations.
IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences brings together IBM resources, including information technology, deep industry insights, and research expertise, to help clients develop and deliver safer, more affordable and more effective diagnostics, drugs and medical care.
Scripps Research is internationally recognized for its research into immunology, molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, neurosciences, autoimmune, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases, and synthetic vaccine development.
www.scripps.edu /florida/story1a.html   (740 words)

  
 Inside the Lab: IBM Research
IBM Research was founded in 1945 and has since generated a string of technology innovations that have had a tremendous impact on IT, including Fortran, reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures, relational databases, token-ring networking and magnetic disk storage.
Strengths and Challenges: IBM Research is one of the few remaining commercial U.S. research laboratories conducting pure research, which leads to a culture of academic excellence, openness and collaboration.
IBM Research is proactive in creating and evaluating technology transfer programs, and IBM’s consulting organization is an additional asset in forging links to real-world customers.
www.gartner.com /reprints/ibm/102530.html   (1205 words)

  
 Internet Research Project: IBM
Recently IBM has been gears their management strategy to be more attractive to smaller businesses, a sector that in the past IBM hasn't paid that much attention to.
IBM again has a large amount of power but this time it is spread over a few areas not just large business machines, IBM has taken steps to expand their market to small businesses as well.
IBM said that the merger was due to increased commerce on the internet, they hope that this step will help them reach their client faster and make them more efficient.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~mf404797/esp/internet.htm   (3137 words)

  
 IBM Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects.
Among their most famous past developments are the Data Encryption Standard (DES), the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), BenoƮt B. Mandelbrot's paper introducing Fractals, Magnetic disk storage (Hard Disks), One-transistor dynamic RAM (DRAM) (Dynamic random access memory), Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture, Relational databases, and the grandmaster level chess computer, Deep Blue.
IBM Research's several contributions to physical sciences include the scanning tunneling microscope and high temperature superconductivity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IBM_Research   (194 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE AIST to Advance Life Sciences Research With IBM Supercomputer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
IBM Research and AIST are also exploring possible areas for joint research using application software IBM has specifically designed to tackle protein simulations on BlueGene/L. Expected to be installed in February 2005, the BlueGene/L system will consist of four racks, with a peak processing speed of 22.8 trillion calculations per second, or 22.8 teraflops.
Blue Gene is an IBM supercomputing project which is creating a new family of supercomputers optimized for bandwidth, scalability and the ability to handle large amounts of data while consuming a fraction of the power and floor space required by today's fastest systems.
The project originated in 1999 in IBM's Research Division and is expected to be used worldwide by government and university researchers as well as businesses to tackle the most advanced challenges in several very different fields, including genomic research, automotive design, finance, weather forecasting and fluid dynamics.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=72195   (829 words)

  
 How IBM Sustains the Leading Edge
Although we constantly focus on the market, IBM Research has also produced a remarkable string of scientific firsts in physics and in other fields of science and engineering.
IBM hired its first doctorate-level employee in 1945, when Wallace J. Eckert, an astronomer and pioneer of punched-card computation for scientific purposes, joined the company as director of the pure science department.
Throughout this period, IBM Research developed and maintained a strong focus on the physics of the devices that process, store, and communicate information, as well as the materials and processes needed to fabricate those devices.
www.aip.org /tip/INPHFA/vol-10/iss-2/p18.html   (1626 words)

  
 Application Development Trends - alphaWorks to Provide Window on IBM Research Labs
A component of IBM’s developerWorks, alphaWorks is where IBM publishes early implementations of technologies and research prototypes, primarily for early adopters.
IBM is providing new online resources around what the company calls "research topics." These resources include technology downloads, demonstrations, articles and researcher profiles to inform developers and academia.
IBM originally planned to publish a new topic every six months, but after Goubert visited two of the company’s labs (New York and California), the company accelerated that schedule to one every three months.
www.adtmag.com /article.asp?id=11238   (444 words)

  
 GS1 Australia - IBM research on competitive supply chains
IBM research confirms that a competitive supply chain is directly linked to business growth.
IBM will present results from an extensive study into the progress of supply chain management among industry leaders at GS1 Australia's annual conference and expo, Impetus, in Melbourne on 25 July 2006.
IBM’s recent research into the supply chain, the IBM Value Chain Study, has found that Australian and New Zealand organisations are investing in the supply chain, treating it as a strategic tool to drive responsiveness and reduce costs.
www.ferret.com.au /articles/6b/0c04266b.asp   (433 words)

  
 APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The internships are salaried positions typically 10 weeks long at one of three IBM research locations (San Jose, CA, Austin, TX, or Yorktown Heights, NY), and include in addition a $2,500 grant, plus the opportunity to work with an IBM mentor.
Research areas of the internship are individually chosen so as to optimize the match between the skills and interests of the student, and the ongoing research programs of the laboratory.
The application process consists of an online application, which is submitted through an IBM server; two letters of recommendation, which are to be emailed directly from the recommenders to the internship chair; and a paper supplement (official transcript), which is submitted to IBM via postal mail.
www.aps.org /programs/women/scholarships/ibm/index.cfm   (534 words)

  
 IBM Research turns 60 | Tech News on ZDNet
IBM Research is celebrating 60 years of breakthroughs in computer science, physics and semiconductor design on Tuesday, as it steps up its efforts to scientifically study how organizations operate.
IBM inventions and discoveries include the programming language Fortran (1957), magnetic storage (1955), the relational database (1970), DRAM (dynamic random access memory) cells (1962), the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) chip architecture (1980), fractals (1967), superconductivity (1987) and the Data Encryption Standard (1974).
While IBM remains a major center for nanotechnology research, the company's push toward services and software has prompted it to dedicate more of its laboratories toward solving business process problems: supply chain management, application integration and transactional inefficiencies.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-5892661.html   (1165 words)

  
 IBM's research juggling act | Tech News on ZDNet
IBM Research is a 60-year-old institution that's had its hand in many technologies people now take for granted.
Our portfolio in research investment is not exactly one-third and one-third and one-third, but it's been moving from hardware, which at one time was 85 percent of the division, to now more software and services.
Research is really good in helping actually with both of those but really good at helping with automation.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-6045636.html   (1954 words)

  
 deal architect : IBM's Research Juggling Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
IBM is THE "cathedral" to the "bazaar" that is Open Source.
IBM's $ 50 billion services unit is itself a huge opportunity for process efficiencies as I wrote in Frederick Taylor and Technology Services.
For many clients re-engineering their IBM (and in fairness, their Accenture or EDS or TCS) contract is one of their biggest improvement opportunities given the inefficiencies in services today.
dealarchitect.typepad.com /deal_architect/2006/03/ibms_research_j.html   (595 words)

  
 Technology Review: Research in Development
Visitors entering the T. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, are greeted by glass cases displaying historical calculating machines, from the abacus to Leon Bolle's multiplier.
But while Horn is proud of IBM's achievements, he believes that the company needs to change the way it thinks about research, for the simple reason that its product mix keeps shifting toward the ethereal.
Speaking about IBM Research, Horn says, "If we were to disappear, there'd be a sudden stop in our products side.
www.technologyreview.com /articles/05/05/issue/brief_ibm.asp   (534 words)

  
 IBM's R&D Projects Include RFID, New Search Techniques - News by InformationWeek
IBM has always invested heavily in research and development, and that's not changing any time soon.
IBM manufactured the first commercial router before Cisco Systems ever existed, but execs couldn't convince higher-ups that IBM ought to care about routers.
But this is a combined research and consulting service, because once companies gain access to this information they [will want to] reengineer their business processes to have the correct products in regions at the right time.
www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=52601496   (1056 words)

  
 IBM misses estimates badly - Apr. 14, 2005
The SPDR (Research) exchange-traded fund, which tracks the S&P 500, and the Diamonds (Research), an ETF which tracks the Dow, both fell about 1.1 percent in after-hours trading.
IBM's stock has slipped as of late on concerns about how a weakening economy could impact tech spending in the U.S. Several tech companies, most notably in the software sector, have warned that they will miss first quarter forecasts.
IBM made the move ahead of an accounting rule change that will require all companies to report the cost of stock options plans in their income statements, as opposed to being buried in footnotes.
money.cnn.com /2005/04/14/technology/ibm_analysis   (1201 words)

  
 IBM Research | Watson Research Center | Hawthorne Information & Directions
North on Van Wyck Expressway tot he Whitestone Expressway and continue north across the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, to the Hutchinson River Parkway north to the Cross County Parkway exit and proceed west to the Bronx River Parkway.
If you are going to the IBM Industry Solutions Lab, located in the Hawthorne II building, after turning onto Skyline Drive turn right past the second building and park in the lot.
The IBM Industry Solutions Lab is on the left side of the main lobby.
www.watson.ibm.com /general_info_haw.shtml   (660 words)

  
 IBM moves closer to partners on research, SOA | InfoWorld | News | 2006-03-12 | By China Martens, IDG News Service
IBM Corp. is due on Monday to make a series of key announcements designed to foster closer future relationships between the company and its partners.
Where IBM's partners once were content to work with one of the vendor's divisions, they're now demanding "an IBM relationship, not a division relationship," he added.
From the second quarter of this year, members of IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks will be able to contact IBM's 3,000-strong global research staff for advice and collaboration on projects for customers, according to Cathy Lasser, vice president of industry solutions and emerging business at IBM Research.
www.infoworld.com /article/06/03/12/76367_HNibmclosersoa_1.html   (1429 words)

  
 Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN) - News
Based on the experimental data provided by TGen and IGC, the IBM and TGen researchers are beginning the process of mapping the molecular markers of cancer using IBM's Genes@Work Java-based software, a set of algorithms for analyzing highly complex life sciences data.
Using IBM Research's leadership in gene expression array analysis, the ultimate goal will be to determine the differences between genes in diseased and healthy cells.
IBM Life Sciences brings together IBM resources, from research, services and e-business expertise to data and storage management and high-performance computing, to offer new solutions for the life sciences market, including biotechnology, genomic, e-health, pharmaceutical and agri-science industries.
www.tgen.org /tgen_asu.html   (1177 words)

  
 EETimes.com - Q&A: Phillip Wong of IBM Research
IBM: There are many different kinds of devices and processes across a broad spectrum of technologies going from building logic chips or memory chips, to magnetic storage, plus there is a broad spectrum of applications.
IBM: That's right, but if you are just talking about logic and processor chips, then right now, in this moment of time, the carbon nanotubes seem to have a slight edge in the degree of understanding and maturity that they have, but that doesn't mean it's the only thing.
IBM: I think we should keep it [the ultimate vision] in our minds, so we can have some fun in the science-fiction area, but I think by and large that vision is a little bit too grand.
www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20020911S0057   (1119 words)

  
 IBM cuts research jobs - Jun. 19, 2002
The cuts are the latest in a series of layoffs throughout the company over the past several weeks and affect employees at the company's research facilities in San Jose, Calif., and Yorktown Heights, N.Y., according to Timothy Blair, an IBM Research spokesman.
The latest cuts bring the total number of layoffs among IBM's (IBM: Research, Estimates) U.S.-based employees to more than 7,000, although the company has not provided an official tally.
Earlier this month, IBM said the job cuts and other recent restructuring actions will result in a charge of $2 billion to $2.5 billion, most of that to be taken in the second quarter.
money.cnn.com /2002/06/19/technology/ibm/index.htm   (350 words)

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