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. Its origins can be traced to the establishment in 1945 of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/watsonlab.html

Some major activities include the invention of innovative materials and structures, high-performance microprocessors and computers, analytical methods and tools, algorithms, software architectures, and methods for managing, searching and deriving meaning from data.

Among their most famous past developments are the Data Encryption Standard (DES), the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Benoît 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. Both these achievements were rewarded with Nobel Prizes.

Laboratories

United States

• Thomas J. Watson Research Center http://www.watson.ibm.com/
  • Yorktown, New York http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_ykt.shtml
  • Hawthorne, New York http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_haw.shtml
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts http://www.watson.ibm.com/general_info_cam.shtml
• Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California http://www.almaden.ibm.com/
• Austin Research Lab, Texas http://www.research.ibm.com/arl/

International

IBM Research also has laboratories in:

• Rüschlikon, Zürich http://www.zurich.ibm.com/
• IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa http://www.haifa.ibm.com/
• Tokyo http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/extfnt_e.htm
• Beijing http://www.research.ibm.com/beijing/
• Delhi http://www.research.ibm.com/irl/

Past

Notable previous IBM Research laboratories:

• Cambridge Scientific Center
• IBM New York Scientific Center

External links

• Official website
• Projects
• Research History Highlights (Top Innovations)
• Research history by year
• History of IBM Watson Research Laboratory at Columbia University
• Oral history interview with Martin Schwarzschild head of Watson Scientific Computation Laboratory at Columbia University, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

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