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{{short description|IBM's research and development division}}
[[File: IBM Yorktown Heights.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|IBM Research is headquartered at the [[Eero Saarinen]]-designed [[Thomas J. Watson Research Center]] in [[Yorktown Heights, New York]].]]
'''IBM Research''' is the [[research and development]] division for [[IBM]], an American [[Multinational corporation|multinational]] [[information technology]] company headquartered in [[Armonk, New York]], with operations in over 170 countries. IBM Research is the largest industrial research organization in the world and has twelve labs on six continents.<ref>{{cite web |title=Labs and locations |url=
IBM employees have garnered six [[Nobel Prize]]s, six [[Turing Award]]s, 20 inductees into the [[U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame]], 19 [[National Medal of Technology|National Medals of Technology]], five [[National Medal of Science|National Medals of Science]] and three [[Kavli Foundation (United States)#The Kavli Prize|Kavli Prizes]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/awards.shtml |title=Awards & Achievements |access-date=2012-05-23 |publisher=IBM |archive-date=2011-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629122453/http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/awards.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, the company has generated more [[patents]] than any other business in each of 25 consecutive years, which is a record.<ref>{{cite press release |title=IBM Breaks Records to Top U.S. Patent List for 25th Consecutive Year |url=https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/53581.wss |work=IBM |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=9 January 2018 |archive-date=13 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113055808/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/53581.wss |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==History==
{{see also|IBM#History}}
The roots of today's IBM Research began with the 1945 opening of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at [[Columbia University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/watsonlab.html |title=IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University |publisher=Columbia.edu |access-date=2010-05-05 |archive-date=2006-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909153423/http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/watsonlab.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This was the first IBM laboratory devoted to pure science and later expanded into additional IBM Research locations in [[Westchester County, New York]], starting in the 1950s,<ref name="autogenerated2">Beatty, Jack, (editor) [https://books.google.com/books?id=cX9zJctCAqkC
Notable company inventions include the [[floppy disk]], the [[hard disk drive]], the [[magnetic stripe card]], the [[relational model|relational database]], the [[Universal Product Code|Universal Product Code (UPC)]], the [[swap (finance)|financial swap]], the [[Fortran]] programming language, [[Sabre (computer system)|SABRE airline reservation system]], [[DRAM]], copper wiring in [[semiconductor]]s, the [[smartphone]], the [[portable computer]], the [[Automated Teller Machine]] (ATM), the [[silicon-on-insulator|silicon-on-insulator (SOI)]] semiconductor manufacturing process, [[Watson (computer)|Watson artificial intelligence]]<ref>{{cite web |title=History of progress |url=http://www.research.ibm.com/featured/history/ |work=IBM Research |access-date=28 December 2016 |archive-date=26 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126092232/http://www.research.ibm.com/featured/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Quantum Experience]].
Advances in [[nanotechnology]] include [[IBM (atoms)|IBM in atoms]], where a [[scanning tunneling microscope]] was used to arrange 35 individual [[xenon]] atoms on a substrate of chilled crystal of [[nickel]] to spell out the three letter company [[acronym]]. It was the first time atoms had been precisely positioned on a flat surface.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Browne |first1=Malcolm W. |title=2 Researchers Spell 'I.B.M.,' Atom by Atom |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/us/2-researchers-spell-ibm-atom-by-atom.html |agency=New York Times |date=April 5, 1990 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803210039/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/us/2-researchers-spell-ibm-atom-by-atom.html |archive-date=2009-08-03}}</ref>
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Major undertakings at IBM Research have included the invention of innovative materials and structures, [[High-performance computing|high-performance microprocessors and computers]], analytical methods and tools, [[algorithm]]s, [[software architecture]]s, methods for managing, searching and deriving meaning from data and in turning IBM's advanced services methodologies into reusable assets.
IBM Research's numerous contributions to physical and computer sciences include the [[Scanning tunneling microscope|Scanning Tunneling Microscope]] and [[high-temperature superconductivity]], both of which were awarded the [[Nobel Prize]]. IBM Research was behind the inventions of the [[Sabre (computer system)|SABRE]] travel reservation system, the technology of [[LASIK|laser eye surgery]], magnetic storage, the [[relational database]], [[Universal Product Code|UPC]] barcodes and [[Watson (computer)|Watson]], the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the [[Jeopardy!]] television quiz show. The Watson technology is now being commercialized as part of a project with healthcare company [[Anthem Inc.]] Other notable developments include the [[Data Encryption Standard]] (DES), [[fast Fourier transform]] (FFT), [[Benoît Mandelbrot]]'s introduction of [[fractal]]s, magnetic disk storage ([[hard disk]]s), the [[MELD-Plus]] risk score, the one-transistor [[dynamic random-access memory]] (DRAM), the [[Reduced instruction set computing|reduced instruction set computer]] (RISC) architecture, [[relational database]]s, and [[IBM Deep Blue|Deep Blue]] ([[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]-level [[chess]]-playing computer).
==Notable IBM researchers ==
{{see also|IBM#IBM alumni}}
There are a number of computer scientists "who made IBM Research famous."<ref name="IBM_Research_2012_notable">{{citation |url=http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=1886 |title=Computer scientists who made IBM Research famous |work=IBM |access-date=16 January 2016 |date=17 December 2012 |archive-date=11 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011051248/http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=1886 |url-status=live }}</ref> These include [[Frances E. Allen]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/witexhibit/wit_hall_allen.html|title=IBM Archives: IBM Women in technology IBM Women in WITI Hall of Fame profile for Frances Allen|date=January 23, 2003|website=www.ibm.com|access-date=February 9, 2020|archive-date=April 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405085216/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/witexhibit/wit_hall_allen.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Marc Auslander]], [[John Backus]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus.html|title=IBM Archives: John Backus|date=January 23, 2003|website=www.ibm.com|access-date=February 9, 2020|archive-date=February 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207022245/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ccrma.stanford.edu/marl/Backus/BackusHome.html|title=John Backus Archive Home Page|website=ccrma.stanford.edu|access-date=2016-01-16|archive-date=2016-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308113007/https://ccrma.stanford.edu/marl/Backus/BackusHome.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nndb.com/people/079/000129689/|title=John Backus|website=www.nndb.com|access-date=2020-02-09|archive-date=2019-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703031257/https://nndb.com/people/079/000129689/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/backus.html|title=John Backus|website=www.columbia.edu|access-date=2020-02-09|archive-date=2020-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131050023/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/backus.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html|title=John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies|first=Steve|last=Lohr|date=March 20, 2007|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=February 9, 2017|archive-date=July 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709173934/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bbfinkel/john_backus_memorial.pdf|title=John Backus Memorial|access-date=2016-12-29|archive-date=2018-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417105957/https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bbfinkel/john_backus_memorial.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Charles H. Bennett (computer scientist)]], [[Erich Bloch]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_bloch.html|title=IBM Archives: Erich Bloch|date=January 23, 2003|website=www.ibm.com|access-date=February 9, 2020|archive-date=May 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530143131/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_bloch.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Grady Booch]],
<ref>{{cite web |date= 9 February 2021|title=Grady Booch {{!}} IBM Research Profile |url=https://
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.handbookofsoftwarearchitecture.com/index.jsp?page=Blog |title=Handbook of software architecture |access-date=2016-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107022628/http://www.handbookofsoftwarearchitecture.com/index.jsp?page=Blog |archive-date=2012-01-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/onarchitecture |title=IEEE Software: On Architecture |access-date=2016-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803014315/https://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/onarchitecture |archive-date=2018-08-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://video.yahoo.com/watch/577305/2839970|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110328083425/http://video.yahoo.com/watch/577305/2839970|url-status=dead|title=The Promise, The Limits, The Beauty of Software|archive-date=March 28, 2011}}</ref> [[Fred Brooks]] (known for his book ''[[The Mythical Man-Month]]''),<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2010/07/ff-fred-brooks/|title=Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything|magazine=Wired|first=Kevin|last=Kelly|date=July 28, 2010|volume=18|issue=8|via=www.wired.com|access-date=February 9, 2020|archive-date=March 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303041543/https://www.wired.com/2010/07/ff-fred-brooks/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nndb.com/people/991/000029904/|title=Fred Brooks|website=www.nndb.com|access-date=2020-02-09|archive-date=2020-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126100006/https://www.nndb.com/people/991/000029904/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>
==Laboratories==
IBM currently has 19 research facilities spread across 12 laboratories on six continents:<ref>{{cite web |
* Africa (Nairobi, Kenya, and Johannesburg, South Africa)
* Almaden (San Jose)
* Australia (Melbourne)
* Brazil (
* Cambridge
* China (Beijing)
* Israel (Haifa)
* Ireland (Dublin)
* India (Delhi and Bengaluru)
*
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* [[IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center]] (Yorktown Heights and Albany)
Historic research centers for IBM also include [[IBM La Gaude]] ([[Nice]]), the [[Cambridge Scientific Center]], the [[IBM New York Scientific Center]], [[330 North Wabash]] ([[Chicago]]), IBM Austin Research Laboratory, and [[IBM Laboratory Vienna]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=IBM Corporation|title=Some key dates in IBM's operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)|url=https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/emea.pdf|website=IBM History|access-date=July 24, 2016|archive-date=October 10, 2022|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/emea.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2017, IBM invested $240 million to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, the Lab is a unique joint research venture in artificial intelligence established by IBM and MIT
===Almaden in Silicon Valley===
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[[File:IBM Research Almaden.jpg|thumb|IBM Research – Almaden]]
IBM Research – Almaden is in [[Almaden Valley, San Jose]], [[California]]. Its scientists perform basic and applied research in [[computer science]], services, storage systems, physical sciences, and materials science and technology.<ref name=azom>{{cite news|title=Gathering of the Most Brilliant Minds in Energy Storage to Take Place|url=http://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=17759|access-date=June 9, 2012|newspaper=AZOM|date=June 23, 2009|archive-date=May 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522125400/http://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=17759|url-status=live}}</ref>
Almaden occupies part of a site owned by IBM at 650 Harry Road on nearly {{convert|700|acre|km2}} of land in the [[Santa Teresa Hills]] above [[Silicon Valley]]. The site, built in 1985 for the research center, was chosen because of its close proximity to [[Stanford University]], [[University of California, Santa Cruz|UC Santa Cruz]], [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] and other collaborative academic institutions. Today, the research division is still the largest tenant of the site, but the majority of occupants work for other divisions of IBM.
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Prompted by a need for additional space, the center moved to its present Almaden location in 1986.
Scientists at IBM Almaden have contributed to several scientific discoveries such as the development of [[photoresist]]s<ref name=web-wire>{{cite news|title=IBM Research Demonstrates Path for Extending Current Chip-Making Technique|url=http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=9814|access-date=June 9, 2012|newspaper=Web Wire|date=February 20, 2006|archive-date=May 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522124617/http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=9814|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[quantum mirage]] effect.<ref name=science-daily>{{cite news|title=IBM Scientists Discover Nanotech Communication Method|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000207074352.htm|access-date=June 9, 2012|newspaper=Science Daily|date=Feb 7, 2000|archive-date=December 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217170515/http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000207074352.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
The following are some of the famous scientists who have worked in the past or are currently working in this laboratory: [[Rakesh Agrawal (computer scientist)|Rakesh Agrawal]], [[Miklos Ajtai]], [[Rama Akkiraju]], [[John Backus]], [[Raymond F. Boyce]], [[Donald D. Chamberlin]], [[Ashok K. Chandra]], [[Edgar F. Codd]], [[Mark Dean (computer scientist)|Mark Dean]], [[Cynthia Dwork]], [[Don Eigler]], [[Ronald Fagin]], [[Jim Gray (computer scientist)|Jim Gray]], [[Laura M. Haas]], [[Jean Paul Jacob]], [[Joseph Halpern]], [[Andreas J. Heinrich]], [[Reynold B. Johnson]], [[Maria Klawe]], [[Jaishankar Menon]], [[Dharmendra Modha]], [[William E. Moerner]], [[C. Mohan]], [[Stuart Parkin]], [[Nick Pippenger]], [[Daniel M. Russell|Dan Russell]], [[Patricia Selinger]], [[Ted Selker]], [[Barbara Simons]], [[Malcolm Slaney]], [[Arnold Spielberg]], [[Ramakrishnan Srikant]], [[Larry Stockmeyer]], [[Moshe Vardi]], [[Jennifer Widom]], [[Shumin Zhai]].
===Australia===
IBM Research – Australia
The opening of the Melbourne lab in 2011 received an injection of $22 million in [[Government of Australia|Australian Federal Government]] funding and an undisclosed amount provided by the [[Government of Victoria|State Government]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.itnews.com.au/news/photos-ibm-launches-melbourne-rd-lab-276777|title=Photos: IBM launches Melbourne R&D lab|website=iTnews|access-date=2020-02-09|archive-date=2019-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424104805/https://www.itnews.com.au/news/photos-ibm-launches-melbourne-rd-lab-276777|url-status=live}}</ref>
The Melbourne Research lab was closed in 2021, approximately at the same time as the deal for tax breaks from the [[Government of Victoria|State Government]] ended. Approximately 80 full-time researchers were made redundant.
===Brazil===
IBM Research – Brazil is one of twelve [[research laboratory|research laboratories]] comprising IBM Research,<ref name="auto"/> its first in [[South America]].<ref>{{cite web |author= |title=IBM Research - Brazil - Locations |url=
The new lab, [[IBM]]'s ninth at the time of opening and first in 12 years, underscores the growing importance of emerging markets and the globalization of innovation.<ref name=WSJ>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703302604575294820196514024|title=IBM To Open Research Lab In Brazil|first=Spencer E. Ante And Nathan|last=Becker|date=June 9, 2010|via=www.wsj.com|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|access-date=January 23, 2020|archive-date=June 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623070003/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703302604575294820196514024|url-status=live}}</ref> In collaboration with Brazil's government, it will help IBM to develop technology systems around natural resource development and large-scale events such as the [[2016 Summer Olympics]].<ref name=WSJ/>
Engineer and associate lab director Ulisses Mello explains that IBM has four priority areas in Brazil: "The main area is related to [[natural resource management|natural resources management]], involving oil and gas, mining and agricultural sectors. The second is the social data analytics segment that comprises the analysis of data generated from [[social networking]] sites [such as Twitter or Facebook], which can be applied, for example, to financial analysis. The third strategic area is [[nanotechnology]] applied to the development of the smarter devices for the intermittent production industry. This technology can be applied to, for example, blood testing or recovering oil from existing fields. And the last one is smarter cities."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nearshoreamericas.com/brazilian-research-labs-ibm-natural-resources/|title=IBM's Brazil Research Labs Target Natural Resources, Data Analytics and Nanotechnology|first=Silvia|last=Rosa|date=June 10, 2014|access-date=February 9, 2020|archive-date=March 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321151511/http://nearshoreamericas.com/brazilian-research-labs-ibm-natural-resources/|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Japan===
The IBM Research – Tokyo, which was called IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory (TRL) before January 2009, is one of IBM's twelve major worldwide research laboratories.<ref>{{cite book |title=Managing synergistic innovations through corporate global R&D, Volume 173 |last=Persaud |first=Ajax |author2=Uma Kumar |year=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=1-56720-463-5 |pages=82–83 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HsbQG9BbsFgC&q=IBM+New+York+Research+Laboratory+-+Managing+synergistic+innovations+through+corporate+global+R%26D&pg=PA82 |access-date=2020-10-18 |archive-date=2023-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312220523/https://books.google.com/books?id=HsbQG9BbsFgC&q=IBM+New+York+Research+Laboratory+-+Managing+synergistic+innovations+through+corporate+global+R%26D&pg=PA82 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is a branch of IBM Research, and about 200 researchers work for TRL.<ref name="TRL">{{cite web |title=IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory |url=
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory was established in 1982 as the Japan Science Institute (JSI) in Sanbanchō, [[Tokyo]]. It was IBM's first research laboratory in Asia.<ref name="TRL"/> [[Hisashi Kobayashi]] was appointed the founding director of TRL in 1982; he served as director until 1986.<ref>{{cite book |title=Network security: current status and future directions |last=Douligeris |first=Christos |author2=Dimitrios N. Serpanos |year=2007 |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHys9OXMFMIC&pg=PA566|isbn=978-0-471-70355-6 |page=566}}</ref> JSI was renamed to the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory in 1986. In 1988, English-to-Japanese machine translation system called "System for Human-Assisted Language Translation" (SHALT) was developed at TRL. It was used to translate IBM manuals.<ref name="TRL 25th Anniversary">{{cite web |title=TRL 25th Anniversary (1982-2006) |url=http://www.trl.ibm.com/history/index_e.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070504090755/http://www.trl.ibm.com/history/index_e.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 May 2007 |publisher=IBM |access-date=16 August 2009}}</ref>
====History====
TRL was shifted from downtown Tokyo to the suburbs to share a building with [[IBM Yamato Facility]] in [[Yamato, Kanagawa|Yamato]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture]] in 1993.<ref>{{cite book |title=Managing global innovation: uncovering the secrets of future competitiveness |last=Boutellier |first=Roman |author2=Oliver Gassmann |author3=Maximilian von Zedtwitz
The team led by [[Chieko Asakawa]] ([[:ja:浅川智恵子]]), [[IBM Fellow]] since 2009, provided basic technology for IBM's software programs for the visually handicapped, [[IBM Home Page Reader]] in 1997 and IBM aiBrowser ([[:ja:aiBrowser]]) in 2007. TRL moved back to Tokyo in 2012, this time at [[IBM Toyosu Facility]].
====Research====
TRL researchers are responsible for numerous breakthroughs in sciences and engineering. The researchers have presented multiple papers at international conferences, and published numerous papers in international journals.<ref name="Core Research Competency">{{cite web |title=Core Research Competency |url=http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/index_e.htm |publisher=IBM |access-date=16 August 2009 |archive-date=10 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010154329/http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/index_e.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Technical Paper |url=http://www.trl.ibm.com/news/publication_e.htm |publisher=IBM |access-date=21 August 2009 |archive-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091120120026/http://www.trl.ibm.com/news/publication_e.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> They have also contributed to the products and services of IBM, and patent filings.<ref name="Core Research Competency"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Research Results |url=http://www.trl.ibm.com/news/highlight_e.htm |publisher=IBM |access-date=16 August 2009 |archive-date=9 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009105643/http://www.trl.ibm.com/news/highlight_e.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> TRL conducts research in microdevices, [[system software]], [[security]] and [[privacy]], [[analytics]] and [[Optimization (mathematics)|optimization]], [[human computer interaction]], [[embedded systems]], and services sciences.<ref name="Core Research Competency"/>
====Other activities====
TRL collaborates with the [[List of universities in Japan|Japanese universities]], and support their research programs. IBM donates its equipment such as servers, storage systems, and so forth to the Japanese universities to support their research programs under the Shared University Research (SUR) program.<ref name="Collaboration with Academia">{{cite web |title=Collaboration with Academia |url=http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/academic/index_e.htm |publisher=IBM |access-date=17 August 2009 |archive-date=22 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622115727/http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/academic/index_e.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1987, IBM Japan Science Prize was created to recognize researchers, who are not over 45 years old, working at Japanese universities or public research institutes. It is awarded in [[physics]], [[chemistry]], [[computer science]], and [[electronics]].<ref name="Collaboration with Academia"/>
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===Israel===
IBM Research – Haifa, previously known as the Haifa Research Lab (HRL) was founded as a small scientific center in 1972.<ref>{{cite news |title=Aya Soffer named as new Director of IBM's Haifa Research Lab |url=https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3896570,00.html |publisher=CTECH |date=3 March 2021 |access-date=18 August 2021 |archive-date=18 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818112517/https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3896570,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Since then, it has grown into a major lab that leads the development of innovative technologies and solutions for the IBM corporation. The lab’s offices are situated in three locations across Israel: [[Haifa]], [[Tel Aviv]], and [[Beer Sheva]].
IBM Research – Haifa employs researchers in a range of areas. Research projects are being executed today in areas such as artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud, quantum computing, blockchain, IoT, quality, cybersecurity, and industry domains such as healthcare.
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===Switzerland===
IBM Research – Zurich (previously called IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, ZRL) is the European branch of IBM Research. It was opened in 1956 and is located in [[
In 1956, IBM opened their first European research laboratory in [[Adliswil]], Switzerland
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On 17 May 2011, IBM and the [[ETH Zurich|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich]] opened the [[Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center]], which is located on the same campus in Rüschlikon.<ref>{{cite web|title=IBM and ETH Zurich open collaborative Nanotechnology Center|url=http://www.zurich.ibm.com/news/11/nanocenter.html|work=Press Release|access-date=17 May 2011|archive-date=16 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416221135/http://www.zurich.ibm.com/news/11/nanocenter.html|url-status=live}}</ref>▼
== IBM Scientific Centers ==
▲In 1956, IBM opened their first European research laboratory in [[Adliswil]], Switzerland, near Zurich. The lab moved to its own campus in neighboring Rüschlikon in 1962. The Zurich lab is staffed by a multicultural and interdisciplinary team of a few hundred permanent research staff members, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, representing about 45 nationalities. Collocated with the lab is a ''Client Center'' (formerly the ''Industry Solutions Lab''), an executive briefing facility demonstrating technology prototypes and solutions.
In addition to the IBM Research Division, the IBM Scientific Centers, which were active in various functions from 1964 to the early 1990s, were another remarkable research unit. In contrast to the central control of the Research Division from the headquarters in Armonk in the USA, the IBM Scientific Centers were structured in a decentralized manner. Each center functioned as an integral part of the IBM organization in its respective region or country. This organization also financed the center and ultimately determined its content and strategic direction. The task of an IBM Scientific Center was to contribute with its research, its expertise and its cooperation projects for the benefit of the respective country and thus to contribute to the reputation of IBM in this country or this region.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Kolsky |first1=H. G. |last2=MacKinnon |first2=R. A. |date=1989 |title=History and contributions of the IBM Scientific Centers |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5387540 |journal=IBM Systems Journal |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=502–524 |doi=10.1147/sj.284.0502 |issn=0018-8670}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Blaser |first=Albrecht |url=https://cloud.uni-jena.de/s/gTjxFoqCKFGkPZg |title=The IBM Heidelberg Science Center: User Oriented Informatics and Computers in Science. |year=2001 |isbn=3-920799-23-2 |location=Sindelfingen, Germany}}</ref>
While the research laboratories of the IBM Research Division had to be very restrictive with regard to scientific cooperation projects with non-IBM institutions for patent reasons and other reasons, technical-scientific and application-oriented cooperation projects with universities and other public research institutions were an important part of IBM's mission for the scientific centers.<ref name=":1" /> Because of this, the spectrum of activities of such a center was often very broad. For example, some research groups could deal with topics that can be assigned to basic<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jaeschke |first1=G. |last2=Schek |first2=H. J. |title=Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD symposium on Principles of database systems - PODS '82 |chapter=Remarks on the algebra of non first normal form relations |date=1982 |chapter-url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=588111.588133 |language=en |publisher=ACM Press |pages=124 |doi=10.1145/588111.588133 |isbn=978-0-89791-070-5}}</ref> or product-oriented research,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dadam |first1=P. |last2=Linnemann |first2=V. |date=1989 |title=Advanced Information Management (AIM): Advanced database technology for integrated applications |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5387538 |journal=IBM Systems Journal |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=661–681 |doi=10.1147/sj.284.0661 |issn=0018-8670}}</ref> while others dealt with application-oriented research topics, for example satellite-based soil classification.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bernstein |first=Ralph |title=Concept for a Future Ground Control Data Set for Image Correction |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19820020862/downloads/19820020862.pdf |access-date=2023-11-17}}</ref>
▲The Zurich lab is world-renowned for its scientific achievements—most notably Nobel Prizes in physics in 1986 and 1987 for the invention of the [[scanning tunneling microscope]]<ref name="Nobel1986">[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/index.html Nobel Prize in Physics 1986]</ref> and the discovery of [[high-temperature superconductivity]],<ref name="Nobel1987">[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1987/index.html Nobel Prize in Physics 1987]</ref> respectively. Other key inventions include [[trellis modulation]], which revolutionized data transmission over telephone lines; [[Token Ring]], which became a standard for [[local area network]]s and a highly successful IBM product; the [[Secure Electronic Transaction]] (SET) standard used for highly secure payments; and the [[Java Card OpenPlatform]] (JCOP), a [[smart card]] [[operating system]]. Most recently the lab was involved in the development of [[SuperMUC]], a supercomputer that is cooled using hot water.
Descriptions of the thematic focus and research projects as well as a selection of references to the scientific publications of the individual centers, as far as they were still alive in 1989, can be found in.<ref name=":0" /> A comprehensive description of the evolution, projects, and success stories of the IBM Heidelberg Scientific Center from its very beginning and to shortly before its end can be found in.<ref name=":1" />
▲The Zurich lab focus areas are future chip technologies; nanotechnology; data storage; quantum computing, brain-inspired computing; security and privacy; risk and compliance; business optimization and transformation; server systems. The Zurich laboratory is involved in many joint projects with universities throughout Europe, in research programs established by the European Union and the Swiss government, and in cooperation agreements with research institutes of industrial partners. One of the lab's most high-profile projects is called [[DOME Microserver|DOME]], which is based on developing an IT roadmap for the [[Square Kilometer Array]].
The history of the IBM Scientific Centers began in 1964 with the founding of the first four centers in the USA (marked with * in the list below) and has subsequently grown to 26 centers worldwide in 1989. Their story ended in the early 1990s.
▲The research projects pursued at the IBM Zurich lab are organized into four scientific and technical departments: Science & Technology, Cloud and AI Systems Research, Cognitive Computing & Industry Solutions and Security Research. The lab is currently managed by Alessandro Curioni.
* Bari, Italy (1969–1979)
▲On 17 May 2011, IBM and the [[ETH Zurich|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich]] opened the [[Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center]], which is located on the same campus in Rüschlikon.<ref>{{cite web|title=IBM and ETH Zurich open collaborative Nanotechnology Center|url=http://www.zurich.ibm.com/news/11/nanocenter.html|work=Press Release|access-date=17 May 2011}}</ref>
* Bergen, Norway (since 1986)
* Brasilia, Brazil (1980–1986)
* Cairo, Egypt (since 1983)
* Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (since 1964) *
* Caracas, Venezuela (since 1983)
* Grenoble, France (1967–1973)
* Haifa, Israel (since 1972)
* Heidelberg, Germany (since 1968)
* Houston, Texas (1966–1974)
* Kuwait City, Kuwait (since 1980)
* Los Angeles, California, USA (since 1964) *
* Madrid, Spain (since 1972)
* Mexico City, Mexico (since 1971)
* New York City (1964–1972) *
* Palo Alto, California, USA (since 1964) *
* Paris, France (since 1977)
* Peterlee, United Kingdom (1969–1979)
* Pisa, Italy (since 1971)
* Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (1972–1974)
* Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (since 1986)
* Rome, Italy (since 1979)
* Tokyo, Japan (since 1970)
* Venice, Italy (1969–1979)
* Wheaton, Maryland, USA (1967–1969)
* Winchester, United Kingdom (since 1979)
==Publications==
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==References==
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== Further reading ==
*{{cite book |first = Jean Ford|last = Brennan|title = The IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University: A History|year = 1971|publisher = IBM|url = http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/brennan/index.html}}
==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051210065715/http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/wwwr_projects.nsf/projectlist.html?ReadForm&count=500&alpha=a Projects] (archived 10 December 2005)
* [http://www.research.ibm.com/about/top_innovations_history.shtml Research History Highlights] (''Top Innovations'')
* [http://www.research.ibm.com/about/history.shtml Research history by year]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20020812091414/http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=72 Oral history interview with Martin Schwarzschild] head of Watson Scientific Computation Laboratory at Columbia University, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota (archived 12 August 2002)
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