| Demonstration |
Description |
| Advanced Digital Image
Processing (ADIS) |
Image
application with "faithful" digital images of objects.
Visible or invisible watermarks to protect intellectual property. |
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| Advanced e-mail Threading |
In the information age, it has become increasingly
difficult for people to cope with e-mail overload. The Collaborative
User Experience (CUE) research group has taken a multifaceted
approach to understanding and designing solutions to the problem.
The concept shows new and innovative uses of threads, collections
of messages, sources of information, as well as visualization
techniques to help users handle their e-mail more efficiently.
Since e-mail-related activities also involve collaboration, a
set of other research technologies (e.g., Loops, e-cards) have
been incorporated to offer such functionality. |
|
| Advanced
Inventory Management (AIM) |
A tool that
allows analyzing and optimizing inventories by using novel inventory
classification schemes and adaptive algorithms for calculating
safety stock levels (patent pending). |
|
| alphaWorks |
A rich collection of free advanced IBM software
from the research and development labs. |
|
| Arctic
II |
A prototype
wireless device that incorporates low-power PowerPC technology,
a high-resolution screen, and advanced stereo audio features
in a PDA form factor running an embedded version of the Linux
operating system. This device is targeted at displaying advanced
multimedia content and supports MPEG4 video. |
|
| Athena |
Mobile Learning for Retail. A solution focused
on two concepts – training and sales – that makes learning
part of the sales process by delivering product information to
employees through pervasive devices. Each retail sales employee
carries a wireless handheld device to scan item bar codes to
learn more about a particular product or take a training module
on it. |
|
| Atoms
where you want them |
An atomic
force microscope (AFM) allows a single atom to be moved in another
place of the world over the Internet. |
|
BedSide
(Personal Care Connect subsystem) |
A wireless companion for medical personnel to
facilitate access to patient data in the hospital room: patient
history, lab results, assistance for prescriptions, allergy warnings,
and electronic transmission of the prescription can be shown. |
|
| BillyScope |
The BillyScope
application is a stand-alone, Java-based, real-time demo of the
IBM worm detector. BillyScope receives events from the BillyGoat
detection system when worm attacks take place on the network.
The generated events contain detailed information (IP address,
time, etc.) about each attack. With the help of a database, BillyScope
finds the physical locations of the attackers and places them
on a world map to allow visual tracking of attacks over time. |
|
| BlueEyes |
A smiling robot that detects your eyes and tracks
your gaze. |
|
| BlueSpace
and Everywhere Displays |
An
"office of the future" prototype characterized by the
integration of the physical workspace with the digital world
through advanced communication and display technologies, and
sophisticated human-machine interaction techniques. The goal
is the development of new work environments and office paradigms
that lead to improved comfort, better personalization, and higher
productivity, resulting in greater office worker satisfaction
and effectiveness. |
|
| BOSS |
BOSS is a NextGen Web site creation tool that
allows non-technical customers to Web-enable their business.
It's both easy to use for non-programmers, yet powerful enough
to push application development into the domain of the business
units, leaving IT specialists to provide a centralized run-time
infrastructure. |
|
| CDL
Paron |
A wireless
PDA with fingerprint reader for secure mobile transactions. |
|
| CELM – Customer Equity and Loyalty
Management |
Mathematical modeling and optimization algorithms
are applied to data collected by an airline to predict the eventual
value a customer represents and to forecast a frequent flier's
potential travel decisions. This results in higher customer satisfaction
and reduced marketing costs while increasing marketing response
rates. CELM was one of the innovation highlights in the IBM Annual
Report. |
|
| CrossFlow |
More and more
companies are forming dynamic partnerships. CrossFlow enables
this collaboration to take place dynamically across organizational
boundaries and allows management and control of the linked workflow.
A European research project for virtual enterprises. |
|
| Customer Prospect Optimization (CPO) |
A marketing and sales solution to obtain new
business for insurance agents. Data mining and Web technologies
deliver optimized prospect lists. |
|
| CyberMed
and OSGi |
A prototype
of a gateway Web server to connect smart consumer and small business
appliances (e.g. attaching medical equipment to the Web). |
|
| Deep Computing
in Materials Science and Biochemistry |
Computer simulations of basic atomic properties
provide new insight in materials science and allow the design
of new materials. |
|
| Delphion
Patent Server |
A global public
service as well as a business solution to search for patents
across the industries. A place for e-commerce of technical information.
Delphion is an IBM spinoff. |
|
| Display Technology |
The highest-resolution, flat-panel computer monitor,
enabling photograph-quality imaging for business-critical tasks. |
|
| EasyBank |
This demo
combines several technologies (JCOP smart card, biometrics and
accessibility techniques) to show how a bank Web site can be
more responsive to people with special needs. When the smart
card is inserted in the reader, the Web page is personalized
for a visually impaired user: larger font, better color contrast,
text-to-speech reading. The person is also greeted by name, and
their identity is verified through a fingerprint scan, based
on the biometric information stored on the card. |
|
| e-Mail Categorization |
This solution uses a compact tailored expert system
to analyze and categorize incoming e-mail at a customer's in-mail
system. |
|
| e-Search
for Self-Help Services |
A Web-based
multilingual knowledge management retrieval system used for building
and searching question and answer (Q&A) knowledge bases.
Reduces the cost of customer help services. |
|
| e-Seminar |
Automated ingest, search and integrated replay
of talks, including streaming video synchronized with the slide
show presentation. |
|
| Field
Force Automation |
This demo
suite shows various scenarios for field force personnel using
different technologies. All scenarios are based around a delivery
services company. |
|
| Fluid Computing |
A new software technology to synchronize an application
across a couple of devices, e.g. a mobile PDA and a PC. The application
can seamlessly be started on one device and continued on a second. |
|
| GlassEngine |
A navigational
framework for large data sets that allows one to search and explore
nearly all of composer Philip Glass' recorded works via a wide
range of attributes. |
|
| Integrated Digital Medical Records (IDMR) |
A hospital-wide integrated picture archive and
communication system for patient folders —
filmless and paperless. |
|
| Idemix |
This is the
first practical and provably secure system that implements anonymous
credentials with strong privacy properties. It supports certificate
revocation, attribute certificates, anonymity revocation in case
of misuse, and prevention of certificate lending. This demonstrates
a privacy technology where business can be performed at various
levels of anonymity. IDEMIX was also a research project by the
European Community in which the Zurich Lab participated. |
|
| Intelligent Device Discovery (IDD) |
An asset discovery and inventory tool for hardware
and software in a heterogeneous, unknown systems and networking
enterprise environment. |
|
| JCOP Smart Card |
Allows people to carry out everyday tasks anytime,
anywhere. Combined with Java™ technology, the same cards
can be used across multiple applications. |
|
| Mapuccino |
Graphical method for mapping and navigating interrelated
concepts such as Web sites. |
|
| MetaPad |
A portable
computer core running Microsoft Windows XP® software and
all its attendant applications. It quickly transforms itself
into handheld, desktop, laptop, tablet, and wearable formats
depending on the user's needs. |
|
| Millipede |
An alternative storage technology made possible
by advances in the field of nanomechanics (video and sample). |
|
| mySpace |
mySpace is
a portal solution that provides personalized, role-based access
to people, assets, and applications. It creates an interactive
visualization of a building, displaying information at the floor,
room or device level. It integrates localization information
with other key sources of enterprise data and communication applications.
The goal of this project is to allow localization of assets,
support team collaboration, as well as improve the ease and efficiency
with which users access information and communicate with team
members. |
|
| NameVoyager |
The NameVoyager software presents a new way of
performing dynamic queries on time series. It allows prospective
parents to visualize in an interactive way name choices in America.
Starting with a timeline of nearly 5,000 names, the user can
then zoom in to focus on how those names have been used over
the past century. Each stripe is a timeline of one name, with
its width reflecting the name's changing popularity over the
years. Similar visualization techniques can be used to explore
large datasets ranging from sales data for a large company to
the prevalence of different topics in e-mail histories. |
|
| Network Usage Profiling |
IBM Network
Usage Profiling enables a network manager to quickly identify
the congestion periods in the profiling history via a Web interface.
A zoom report that the network manager generates on demand provides
a breakdown of traffic patterns during congestion periods. The
breakdown clearly shows the causes of heavy traffic and enables
the network manager to make an informed decision on how to remedy
the problem in a timely fashion. |
|
| Palm Pirate |
Advanced storage technology such as the IBM Microdrive
allows hundreds of MB on a palm device. Pirate is a Research
technology from Haifa delivering advanced search functionality
and indexing for fast information retrieval for PDAs. |
|
| Patent Tracking System |
The global Lotus application used within IBM to
create and manage inventions from the idea to the license. |
|
| Personal Care Connect (PCC) |
Application of mobile and wireless technologies
to provide a range of solutions for patients, health care providers,
and pharmaceutical companies. The demonstration shows that being
able to monitor patient physiological data remotely is valuable
for managing chronic conditions and also for collecting data
in clinical trials. |
|
| Personal Speech Assistant (PSA) |
A palm pilot
with embedded speech recognition engine that provides a spoken
interface for the PDA. |
|
| Pinehurst |
The wireless handheld device used by traders on
the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was custom-designed
by IBM E&TS to meet specific client needs for speed, mobility,
security, power, ease-of-use, and durability. Exchange traders
needed a reliable portable wireless device to access buy-and-sell
orders. The handhelds are built to speed communication by providing
sub-second response times for users. They also improve accuracy,
which is important when more than 2,700 companies are trading
every day on the NYSE, the world's largest equities market. |
|
| Protein Bonding |
A life sciences research project with applications in the pharmaceutical industry
(video simulation). |
|
| ReachOut |
An application that monitors activities on selected
newsgroups, notifies the user when events occur in a discussion
thread and enables group dialog. |
|
| Retail self-checkout |
A self-checkout system for stores based on RFID technology. |
|
| Sign & Go |
A technology that uses dynamic signature verification
to allow, for example, a customer to pay for items without a
wallet or photo ID. |
|
| Smart Surveillance System |
A new kind of security system with video-based
behavioral analysis capabilities, which allows automatic and
smart data analysis of video sequences either in real time or
from recordings. The system distinguishes between vehicles, people,
and groups of people, thereby making it possible to search video
data for behavior patterns. It recognizes, for example, an abandoned
item, such as a suitcase in an airport terminal. Other possible
uses include traffic monitoring in tunnels or other accident-prone
areas and compiling statistics for traffic management systems
or shoppers’ habits in malls. |
|
| Somadic Computing: Stand up and Walk |
A chip to help paraplegic people walk again. (Video
only). |
|
| Speech Technology |
Speech recognition
and telephony applications in natural language, e.g. for directory
services and traffic information, with multilingual support. |
|
| STEM |
The Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM)
tool is designed to help scientists and public health officials
create and use spatial and temporal models of emerging infectious
diseases. These models could aid in understanding
– and potentially preventing – the spread of such diseases.
The application has builtin Geographical Information System (GIS)
data for every county in the United States. It comes with U.S.
census data about county borders, populations, shared borders
(neighbors), interstate highways, state highways, and airports.
STEM is designed to make it easy for developers and researchers
to plug in their own models. |
|
| Storage Tank |
The Storage
Tank demonstration focuses on two key advantages of a virtualized
storage infrastructure: storage and data management. Storage
Tank allows distributed storage resources to be integrated seamlessly
at the network level. The demo shows a Linux client machine playing
a movie while one of the volumes of the storage pool in which
the movie has been stored is being decommissioned. This results
in transparent data relocation across the network among the distributed
volumes, without interrupting streaming access to the movie. |
|
| SwiftFile |
An experimental adaptive categorizer for your
personal mail. |
|
| TamNoon |
Recent trends in commercial search engines are
geared towards addressing our growing need to locate information
on our hard drives, including our mail files. TamNoon is a desktop
search tool that indexes most popular file formats and can analyze
Lotus Notes mail (including archives and attachments not handled
by Google desktop search). TamNoon uniquely integrates with intranet
search results. After initially "crawling" through
existing data, TamNoon indexes content almost instantaneously
as it becomes available. The user interface is browser-based,
and results can be sorted by date or relevance, as well as narrowed
by document type and source. |
|
| Tempus Fugit |
An integrated active calendar prototype for communities,
e.g. for all employees of a company. |
|
| The State Hermitage Museum |
A digital portrait of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg using advanced image
processing, kiosk, and Web software. Also via Internet at www.hermitagemuseum.org. |
|
| TrustTakeAway |
A self-contained certification authority designed
for closed user groups. It is easy to install and offers secure
remote management. |
|
| Underwriting
Profitability Analysis (UPA) |
Helps an insurance
company develop the most competitive rules and rates. |
|
| Veggie Vision |
A computer vision system used for object recognition
(e.g. identifying fruits and vegetables in the produce section
of a supermarket). |
|
| VIVA (Voice Identification and Verification Agent) |
Here speech technology is used to identify a person and verify his or her
identity for an application, e.g. for access to e-mail. |
|
| WatchPad (Linux
Watch) |
A wrist watch computer running embedded Linux,
fitted with Bluetooth for wireless communication and sensors
that make it possible to remotely control other devices. |
|
| Wearable Computers |
We show IBM's
light prototype of a wearable computer including an IBM microdrive
storage and a head-mounted color display, as well as the Xybernaut
Mobile Assistant IV, a robust wearable product. |
|
| Web Guide |
Categorization techniques and natural language
analysis allow a much better customer dialogue with a Web site
than with conventional search machines. |
|
| Web Lectures |
Allows the distribution of learning material to
students using the Internet quickly and cost-effectively. Lectures
can be attended using a computer or a handheld device. |
|
| WebSphere Matchmaking Environment (WME) |
ViMP is a set of tools that allows the easy development,
management and support of a distributed automated matchmaking
space for complex products and services. |
|
| Web Translation On-The-Fly |
Translates English content of the Web to a target
language of your choice. The translation can take place on the
Web site server or on your personal computer. |
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