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Optimizing capabilities to drill for petroleum Applied mathematicians from IBM Research, such as Andrew Conn, are working with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to maximize oil exploration in the North Sea.
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Taking IBM Research expertise to emerging markets IBM researcher and manager Sarah Knoop used her technical expertise to help IBM forge ties with Sochi, Russia, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Simpler tools for more complex systems Optimization solutions are already used to solve work shift scheduling, transportation or finance problems -- and now, says Gabi Zodik, they will be used to automate the systems engineering design process. [IBM Research Blog]
Fifteen years after Deep Blue's chess victory Research scientist Murray Campbell reflects on fifteenth anniversary Deep Blue "man vs. computer" match -- and its relationship to the Watson supercomputer. Also: A Smarter Planet blog post. [IBM Research Blog]
IBM's pioneering text mining research effort honored in Japan TAKMI -- Text Analysis and Knowledge Mining -- looks for unknowns by mining data such as email, product reviews on the Internet, memos, and other written documents. [IBM Research Blog]
IBM researcher Dr. Dimitri Kanevsky honored as White House Champion of Change Speech and language algorithms researcher has led education and employment efforts in STEM for Americans with disabilities. Also: Deafness is no disability for IBM Master Inventor Dimitri Kanevsky
Bringing STEM learning to life President and director of the Museum of Science in Boston lauds Minds of Modern Mathematics free iPad app. [A Smarter Planet Blog]
Welcome to the era of cognitive systems Increasingly, computers will offer advice, rather than wait for commands, says John Kelly III, IBM senior vice president and director of IBM Research. [A Smarter Planet Blog]
Bonnie E. John and co-authors receive Best Paper Award at CHI The IBM researcher and two IBM Software colleagues have received a CHI Best Paper Award for a paper about predictive human performance modeling in a real-world design project.
Songyun Duan co-authors 2012 ICDE Best Paper Award on time-sensitive behavioral targeting framework Paper focuses on combining a time-oriented data processing system with a MapReduce framework.
IBM Research announces winner of 2011 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship Daniel Wichs receives annual IBM fellowship to pursue research in cryptography.
Pat Goldberg Best Paper Awards for 2010 announced Winning papers focus on double patterning lithography, the distinct elements problem, discrepancy minimization and nested virtualization.
Last updated on May 16, 2012