Eight Computing Advancements At IBM Research
Eight Computing Advancements At IBM ResearchAlthough the company hasn’t used the “think” marketing term in its television ads for years, IBM is definitely one of the smartest tech companies around. In many ways, IBM transitioned from bring a PC manufacturer to a think tank that creates ideas—and charges the analyst fees you would expect if you want to hear about those ideas. Yet, in the IBM Research arm, there are lofty goals: to create the next kind of storage technology; one that is much faster yet less harmful on the environment, or to invent ways to read data from physical objects, such as a bridge or a waterway, that have not been known for being highly connected.
Each of these research projects is particularly interesting from a PC computing perspective because they will likely make their way into your home or place of work in the next ten years. In some cases, the research has already made an impact. Each project solves a puzzling computing problem, and will help usher in an age of more ubiquitous computing.
For the ones that remember the old OS/2 Warp it was a great operating system very stable with excelent multitasking capabilities.
IBM? A mere PC manufacturer? OMG! That is mind-shatteringly terrible -- 30 seconds of research would have told you that your understanding of IBM's history is hopelessly and ineptly inaccurate!
Poor.
Seriously poor.
was it? I remember we bought it simply because it was cheaper to buy the os and format the floppies than buy floppies individually!
Nope. Not reading any further!
Nah. IBM these days stands for "India-Based Manpower".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF1h_FaQOq4&feature=player_embedded#
LOL, conspiracy theories. Be careful IBM knows where you live, and even your dreams. Tin foil helps.
Please come back home.
-Person living in Binghamton.
Billions are being spent on research where the ultimate aim is... discovery!!!
Some of these ideas may have serious commercial applications, some may not, but all of them are amazing. Working in IBM's R&D division must be like "Eureka" but without all the sci-fi adventures.
All this is paid for with boring corporate ebusiness stuff, etc, etc.
I can imagine it like a stuffy accountancy company ploughing it's profits into going snowboarding at weekends
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Until a few years ago, the processor hardware community translated Moore's Law of transistor density directly into single-threaded performance gains as a result of increasing clock frequencies. Lately, this translation has been hampered by the effects of clock frequency on power consumption and heat generation. The new reality is that per-thread performance is essentially static, and an increase in performance is delivered by an increase in the number of available processor cores per socket.