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2017 Tape Record
Date added: 02 Aug 2017
In this photo, IBM scientist Dr. Mark Lantz, holds a one square inch piece of Sony Storage Media Solutions sputtered tape, which can hold 201 Gigabytes, a new world record. (Photo credit: IBM Research)
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With AI, our words will be a window into our mental health 1
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
An analysis of Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy using IBM Research's app on a mobile device. (Credit: IBM Research)
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With AI, our words will be a window into our mental health 2
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
Members of the IBM Research neuroscience team are using machine learning and natural language processing to analyze spoken and written language to help better understand the workings of the human brain. From left to right: Sara Berger, Guillermo Cecchi, Djallel Bouneffouf, Irina Rish. (Credit: IBM Research)
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Hyperimaging and AI will give us superhero vision 1
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
Millimeter-wave radar imaging experimental set-up.(Credit: Carl De Torres, StoryTK for IBM Research)
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Hyperimaging and AI will give us superhero vision 2
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
Alberto Valdes Garcia, IBM Research scientist and manager of the RF Circuits and Systems Group, with the millimeter wave imaging experimental set-up that is part of his team's research and development of a portable hyperimager platform. (Credit: IBM Research)
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Macroscopes will help us understand Earth's complexity in infinite detail 1
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
Hendrik Hamman, Research Manager for Physical Analytics at IBM Research, running a demonstration of his team's big data platform for aggregating, organizing and analyzing geospatial information from billions of physical objects to improve our understanding of the world. (Credit: IBM Research)
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Medical labs “on a chip” will serve as health detectives for tracing disease at the nanoscale 1
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
IBM Research holds a silicon wafer designed to sort particles found in bodily fluids for the purpose of early disease detection. (Credit: IBM Research)
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Medical labs “on a chip” will serve as health detectives for tracing disease at the nanoscale 2
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
A silicon wafer designed to sort particles found in bodily fluids for the purpose of early disease detection. (Credit: IBM Research)
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Smart sensors will detect environmental pollution at the speed of light 1
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
IBM Researchers Chi Xiong, Norma Sosa and Will Green prepare a sensor for testing in the lab. (Credit: IBM Research)
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Smart sensors will detect environmental pollution at the speed of light 2
Date added: 05 Jan 2017
In the next five years, networks of sensors like this miniature silicon chip trace-gas spectrometer will help us "see" and manage environmental pollutants. This sensor design uses IBM's expertise in silicon photonics to detect methane with infrared light brought in via optical fibers. (Credit: IBM Research)
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Infographic: An "Express Lane" For Cloud Data
Date added: 09 Dec 2014
IBM invention enhances real-time analysis to make clouds more efficient. (Credit: IBM)
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Marist students collaborate with IBM
Date added: 21 Nov 2013
Marist College students Zachary Meath (on left) and Mary Miller demonstrate a cloud computing invention that--via the swipe of a finger on a smartphone or tablet--can prevent costly voice and data communications service disruptions caused by hurricanes and other natural disasters. Meath and Miller are collaborating with IBM engineers and Marist faculty to test the innovation, which can enable network operators to slash--from days to minutes--the time it takes to move voice and data services to a safe location. The invention is being demonstrated to clients and is expected to be commercially available in 2014. (Credit: IBM)
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Invention prevents outages caused by natural disasters
Date added: 21 Nov 2013
Marist College student, Mary Miller, demonstrates a cloud computing invention that can prevent network disruptions and outages caused by natural disasters. Miller is collaborating with IBM engineers and Marist faculty to test the innovation, which can enable network operators to slash--from days to minutes--the time it takes to move voice and data services to a safe location. The demonstrated to clients and is expected to be commercially available in 2014. (Credit: IBM)
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Marist student demonstrates IBM innovation
Date added: 21 Nov 2013
Marist College student, Zachary Meath, demonstrates an invention that enables IT professionals to quickly move network communications resources via a wireless phone or tablet. Meath is collaborating with IBM engineers and Marist faculty to test the innovation, which can significantly reduce or eliminate the loss of services and data during a major weather event or other crisis threatening network resources. The cloud solution is being demonstrated to clients and is expected to be commercially available in 2014. (Credit: IBM)
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IBM Opens Doors of First African Research Lab
Date added: 08 Nov 2013
H.E. the President of Kenya, Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and Dr. Kamal Bhattacharya, Director IBM Research - Africa (right) at the opening of IBM's First Africa Research Laboratory
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The Data of Disease Modeling
Date added: 30 Sep 2013
IBM Scientists Use Data to Predict Disease Outbreaks (Credit: IBM Research)
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Scientists Discover New Atomic Technique to Charge Memory Chips
Date added: 22 Mar 2013
Optical image of a typical ionic liquid (IL) gated device with a droplet of IL on top of the gate electrode and the oxide channel. The gold squares are pads used to make contact to the device via wire-bonding. On right is the magnified image of the device showing the channel (brownish yellow) and the gold electrical contacts (bright yellow). The contacts on the right and left of the channel are the source and drain contacts. The four other contact are used for 4-wire resistance & Hall measurements. (Credit: IBM)
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MRSA biofilm disrupted by hydrogel
Date added: 24 Jan 2013
On the left is a mature and healthy MRSA biofilm. After the hydrogel is applied, the biofilm is destroyed as seen on the right. The small portion of cells left have drastically disrupted membrane, preventing resistance. This type of biofilm disruption has not been reported in other antimicrobial hydrogels/synthetic polymers. (Photo Credit: IBM)
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Polymer solution in gel form
Date added: 24 Jan 2013
The polymer solution, shown above in a remoldable gel form after heated to body temperature, is injectable for targeted treatment of bacterial infections and causes no adverse side effects. Photo Credit: IBN
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Polymer solution is ninety-percent water
Date added: 24 Jan 2013
The polymer solution is free flowing (b, d) at room temperature (71 degrees F). When heated to body temperature (98.6 degrees F), the polymers self-assemble into a cross-linked network, causing the solution to form a gel (c, e). Photo Credit: IBM
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Cross-sectional view of an IBM Silicon Nanophotonics chip combining optical and electrical circuits
Date added: 10 Dec 2012
An IBM 90nm Silicon Integrated Nanophotonics technology is capable of integrating a photodetector (red feature on the left side of the cube) and modulator (blue feature on the right side) fabricated side-by-side with silicon transistors ( red sparks on the far right). Silicon Nanophotonics circuits and silicon transistors are interconnected with nine levels of yellow metal wires.
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IBM SEM of carbon nanotube substrate
Date added: 28 Oct 2012
IBM SEM image of carbon nanotubes deposited on a trench coated in hafnium oxide (HfO2) showing extremely high density and excellent selectivity (scale bar: 2 μm). Credit: IBM
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IBM carbon nanotubes in solution
Date added: 28 Oct 2012
IBM researcher Hongsik Park observes different solutions of carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes, borne out of chemistry, have largely been laboratory curiosities as far as microelectronic applications are concerned. Carbon nanotubes naturally come as a mix of metallic and semiconducting species and need to be placed perfectly on the wafer surface to make electronic circuits. For device operation, only the semiconducting kind of tubes is useful which requires essentially complete removal of the metallic ones to prevent errors in circuits. (Credit: IBM)
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IBM 3D Superconducting quantum bit
Date added: 28 Feb 2012
A picture of IBM’s “3D” superconducting qubit device where a qubit (about 1mm in length) is suspended in the center of the cavity on a small Sapphire chip. The cavity is formed by closing the two halves, and measurements are done by passing microwave signals to the connectors. Despite the apparent large feature size (the cavity is about 1.5 inches wide) for this single qubit demonstration, the team believes it is possible to scale such a system to hundreds or thousands of qubits.
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IBM 2D Superconducting quantum bit
Date added: 28 Feb 2012
A picture of the Silicon chip housing a total of three qubits. The chip is back-mounted on a PC board and connects to I/O coaxial lines via wire bonds (scale: 8mm x 4mm). A larger assembly of such qubits and resonators are envisioned to be used for a scalable architecture.
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IBM CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics Technology
Date added: 01 Dec 2010
IBM's new CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics chip technology integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light (instead of electrical signals).
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IBM CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics Technology
Date added: 01 Dec 2010
IBM has unveiled a new chip technology, called CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics chip technology, which enables a 10X improvement in integration density and produces smaller, faster and more power-efficient chips than is possible with conventional technologies.