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Simpler tools for more complex systems
Editors note: This blog entry is authored by Gabi Zodik, Department Group Manager of Software and Services at IBM Research – Haifa.
Systems such as planes, cars, or air traffic control are becoming more and more complex. Although they now provide us with functionality, efficiency, and productivity never before imagined, they are also introducing new engineering challenges. This is
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White House highlights Materials Genome Initiative
Editor's note: this article is by David Turek, IBM's vice president of High Performance Computing Scalable Systems.
Today, I am participating in a White House event highlighting the first results and next steps of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which President Obama announced almost one year ago.
The name of this initiative is a riff on the Human Genome Project
because it intends to
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Fifteen years after Deep Blue's chess victory
On May 11, 1997, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue made "man versus machine" history by winning a six-game chess match against a grand master with two wins, one loss and three draws. The technology went beyond playing chess, and
was applied to financial modeling, molecular dynamics, and to develop new drugs.
Want to know more about the game, and the technology inside Deep Blue? One of its
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IBM's pioneering text mining research effort honored in Japan
In 1997, a team of researchers
at IBM Research - Tokyo
invented TAKMI, a technology that can read and uncover trends from the avalanche of information in natural
language format. The Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan recently honored the research team for its contribution in pioneering text mining technology with the 2012
Commendation for Science and
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Is the Internet reaching its limit?
Editor's note: This entry was written by Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal, Senior Manager of the System Technologies and Services at IBM Research – Haifa.
With billions of people, devices, and objects now connected to the Internet, it is quickly reaching its architectural limits -- and doesn’t have the ability to scale up to capacity for the vast amounts of new data being created. It's quickly becoming clear
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