2. IBM Research
Agenda
IBM Research Overview
–Reimagining how science and technology can change our market
and our world
Innovation
–Where do we get the idea
Collaboration
–Examples from IBM Research - Almaden
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3. IBM Research
A legacy of World-Class Research
1944: 1948: 1956: 1957: 1964: 1966: 1967: 1970: 1971:
Mark 1 SSEC RAMAC FORTRAN System/360 One-Device Fractals Relational Speech
Memory Cell Database Recognition
Nobel Prizes:
1973: 1979: 1980: 1986: 1987: 1990: 1994: 1993: RS/6000 SP
Winchester Thin Film RISC Scanning High Temperature Chemically SIGe 1996,97: Deep Blue
Disk Recording Tunneling Superconductivity Amplified
Heads Microscope Photoresists
1997: 1998: 1998: 2004: 2006: 2008:
Copper Silicon-on-Insulator Microdrive 2002: Blue Gene 5-stage Carbon World’s First Petaflop
Interconnect Millipede The fastest Nanotube Ring Supercomputer
Wiring supercomputer Oscillator
in the world
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4. IBM Research
A Culture of Innovation – External Recognition
9 US National
Medals of 5 US National 6 Turing
5 Nobel Laureates Technology Medals of Science Awards
Copper Chip Silicon-on-
Technology Insulator
Nuclear
SiGe DRAM Magnetic
High Temperature Electron Tunneling Basis for
Superconductivity Effect Resonance MRI today High Performance Computing
Techniques First woman recipient in the history
Scanning Tunneling Microscope of this prestigious ACM award
22 Members in 62 Members in 10 Inductees in
National Academy > 330 Professional National Academy of National Inventors
of Sciences Society Fellows Engineering Hall of Fame
AAAS APS IEEE
ACM AVS IOP
ACS ECS OSA
Laser-etched hair based on
excimer laser surgery –
foundation for LASIK surgery
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5. IBM Research
Reimagining How Science and Technology Can Impact Our World
Impacting our products, services and solutions
– Technologies for Linear Tape Open (LTO) and Enterprise Tape Drive
– Contributions to Websphere/Enterprise Java Performance
– Storage management
– High Speed Adaptive Stream Processing and Analytics
– Text Analytics Solutions
– Global Delivery Framework (GDF)
Contributing to our broader scientific community
– Services Science
Working to improve our lives
– Research Advances in Multimodal Healthcare Analytics for Clinical Decision
Support
– Traffic Prediction
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6. IBM Research
IBM Research
~3,000 employees
China
Zurich Tokyo
Almaden Watson Haifa
Austin India
Brazil
IBM Research Lab
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7. IBM Research
IBM Research: Collaborative Innovation
TD Bank Ireland
Shenyang China
Marine Institute Wangfujing
DEMC Pangoo
China
National
Geographic Zurich Tokyo
Almaden Watson Haifa
Virginia Tech
India Industrial Technology
Austin Research Institute
Meraca
Institute The University of Sydney
IBM Research Lab
OPEN SSME!
Global, Smarter Planet Collaborations
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8. IBM Research
A Diversity of Disciplines
Behavioral Computer Electrical
Science Chemistry Science Engineering
Materials Mathematical Service
Science Science Physics Science
Science & Business &
Engineering Management
Technology Business
Innovation Innovation
Social Demand
Innovation Innovation
Social & Economics
Cognitive & Markets
Sciences
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9. IBM Research
Research Strategies – Bring Our Disciplines Together
Technology
Technology Systems
Systems BAMS*
BAMS* Software
Software Services Industry
Industry
Services Solutions
Solutions
Exploratory Science
Exploratory Science
* Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences
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10. IBM Research
Innovating How We Do Our Work
Radical
Joint Projects Collaboration
IBM Divisions, The World is Now Our Lab
Isolated Research Clients, Universities
’50s — ’90s
Hardware ’90s — ’00s
+ Software & Services ’00s …
+ Smarter Planet
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11. IBM Research
Tools to Predict Technology and Business Trends
InnovationJam:
Collaboration between companies, organizations and family members to yield first-
of-a-kind opportunities
Global Technology Outlook Global Innovation Outlook
Identify emerging technology Start a dialogue about innovation,
trends significant to industry in business transformation and
the next 3 to 7 years societal progress
Has a direct influence on IBM’s Collaboration across a global
technical strategy ecosystem of experts
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12. IBM Research
Innovation Jam Outcomes
(Emerging Business Opportunities – EBOs)
Real-time Simplified Intelligent
Translation Business Utility 3D Internet “Digital Me”
Services Engines Networks
Smart Electronic
Branchless Healthcare Intelligent Health
Big Green Banking for Payment Transportation Record
Innovations the Masses Systems Systems System
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13. IBM Research
Global Innovation Outlook
Identifying and Acting on Major Issues
Affecting Business and Global Society
Healthcare, Government,
GIO 1.0
Work/Life Balance
Future of the Enterprise,
GIO 2.0
Environment, Transportation
GIO 3.0 Media & Content, Africa
Security & Society,
GIO 4.0 Water & Oceans
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14. IBM Research
2010 Global Technology Outlook
Industry
Transformation
1. Enabling Technologies for Healthcare Transformation
Evidence-based medicine, payment-for-outcomes
Analytics &
Optimization 2. Orchestrating the Smarter Planet
Models and model orchestration enable integrated operation and
optimization
Software &
Services
3. Software Technology Trends
New development models, tools and methods transforming the SW industry
4. Future of Legacy
Tools & services to “Identify, Improve and Operate” legacy
Systems &
Infrastructure
5. Convergence of IT and Wireless Infrastructure
IT enabled wireless infrastructure optimizations
6. Workload Optimized Systems
HW, SW co-design, integration, optimization
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15. IBM Research
Setting a Strategic Framework
Grand Challenges
Strategic Initiatives
Big Bets
Corporate Milestones
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16. IBM Research
2010 Focus
Strategic Initiatives Strategic Initiatives
Business Analytics and Science & Technology
Mathematical Sciences Big Bets
Healthcare Transformation
Software
Industries Smarter Cities
• Smarter Healthcare
• Smarter Energy Service Quality
• Smarter Risk Mobile Web Systems
• Smarter Cities
• Smarter Engineering
Massive Scale Analytics
Cloud Computing
Next Gen. Computing
Workload-Optimized Systems
Services Nanotech
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17. IBM Research
Grand Challenges
Deep QA
DNA Transistor
CyberSecurity
Exascale Computing
Automatic Machine Translation
Cognitive Computing
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18. IBM Research
Areas of Innovation at IBM Research - Almaden
Science &
Computer
Technology
Science
Storage Systems
Services Research
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21. IBM Research
DARPA Grant
Cognitive Computing via
Synaptronics and Supercomputing
Stanford Columbia University of Wisconsin
Cornell University UC Merced
University Madison
Understanding and Building a Brain
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22. IBM Research
What Is The Mind?
Collection of processes: The mind can integrate ambiguous information
– Sensation from
– Perception, – Sight,
The goal of Cognitive Computing is to develop a coherent,
– Action, – hearing,
– Emotion – touch,
unified, universal mechanism to engineer the mind, with an
– Cognition – taste, and
– smell;
ultimate objective of building intelligent business machines.
It can form spatio-temporal associations and abstract concepts
It can make decisions and initiate sophisticated coordinated actions
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26. IBM Research
STEM
An open source extensible Spatial and Temporal Epidemiological Modeling
system, providing a framework for:
Developing new computational models
Incorporating population & geographic data
In Order To
Understand disease dynamics
Test and plan responses
Assess economic consequences
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27. IBM Research
Beyond Real Time Monitoring
Evaluating the efficacy of Public Health responses
Masks
HCN/HL7 No Air Travel
Weather
Air Traffic
Vaccinations
Masks/No Air
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28. IBM Research
Healthcare = Complex “System of Systems”
Many systems have been studied individually by domain
experts,
using statistical and simulation models.
Recreational
Climate Advertising Transportation facilities Community
Agriculture
Health care Healthcare
Health care network
Education Payers practices
Providers Health care
Demographics Disease models Clients Comparative
Pharma effectiveness
Government Economics
policy Treatment companies Hospital
and clinic
Immigration standards Cultural and
operations
Social influences
Supply Patient perception
Chain and satisfaction Consumer/patient …and more
behavior
Need a platform and processes for integrating models and
simulations for healthcare-related policy, investments, and
planning.
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29. IBM Research
Smarter Planet Platform for Analysis and Simulation of Healthcare
A platform and service to “mash up” data, models, simulations
Support complex decision-making for healthcare policy, planning, and
investment
Share, integrate, correlate deep-domain models and data with those of
others
Exploit the tools, models, simulations, data and analytics of others
Benefits
Significant new insights
from mashing up proprietary
and open models from
multiple disciplines.
High quality results from
collaboration, interoperability,
and integration.
Rapid exploration of a
large number of alternative
inputs and outcomes.
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