Almaden Institute
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- Overview
- 2010 : Smarter Health through Modeling and Simulation
- 2009 : Scalable Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium Ion
- 2008 : Innovating with Information
- 2007 : Navigating Complexity: Doing more with less
- 2006 : Cognitive Computing
- 2005 : Transforming Healthcare with Information
- 2004 : Work in the era of the global, extensible enterprise
- 2003 : Symposium on Privacy
- 2002 : Autonomic Computing
- 2001 : Grand Challenges in Nanotechnology
Almaden Institute - 2002 : Autonomic Computing
The goal of the Almaden Institute is to encourage and broaden
activity at the forefront of science and technology around a specific
area of research. We are working to achieve this with a distinguished
annual conference at the IBM Research - Almaden that facilitates
collaboration among scientists and technologists at IBM Research
and those in academia, government laboratories, funding agencies
and other research institutions.
Autonomic Computing
Autonomic Computing represents an exciting new
research direction in computing. IBM believes that the spiraling
cost of managing the increasing complexity of computing systems
is one of the biggest single issues threatening to undermine the
future growth and societal benefits of information technology,
and proposes a solution inspired by the human body: autonomic
computing. The goal is to create computing networks and systems
that -- like the biological analog -- hide complexity from the
user and deliver much greater value than today's systems can.
These new systems need to be self-managing, self-configuring,
self-healing, self-protecting, and continuously self-optimizing.
The Autonomic Computing vision will require contributions from academic research labs, the industry, and government organizations. It will also require contributions from a variety of disciplines including systems management, distributed computing, networking, operations research, software development, storage, artificial intelligence, and control theory, among others. The goal of the Almaden Institute on Autonomic Computing is to bring together visionaries from a variety of backgrounds to explore specific research issues and create cross-disciplinary collaborations in this emerging field.