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| 2008 | |
| University of St.
Gallen publishes study on the reputation of European research
organizations IBM Zurich Research Laboratory identified as premiere industrial research lab |
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| 25 Apr 2008. A recent study conducted by the University
of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland revealed that in central
Europe the German Fraunhofer Institutes, the Max Planck Society
and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory are perceived as the
three premiere institutions in research and development (R&D),
ahead of the R&D departments of Siemens and Philips. For
this study, 112 European R&D managers were surveyed and
asked to rank 33 public and industrial organizations. More » |
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| Lorenz Meier erhält Preis der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft | |
| 28 Mar 2008. Im Rahmen der diesjährigen
Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
(SPG) in Genf wurde Lorenz Meier gestern mit dem SPG Preis
für hervorragende Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der kondensierten
Materie der Schweizerischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (SPG),
ausgezeichnet. Der SPG-Preis würdigt im Besonderen die
in Zusammenhang mit seiner Doktorarbeit gewonnenen grundlegenden
Erkenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Spintronik und deren Bedeutung
für die künftige Informationsverarbeitung. Seine
Dissertation mit dem Thema „Manipulation of electron
spins in quantum wells with magnetic and electric fields" erarbeitete
er während der letzten drei Jahre im Rahmen einer Forschungskollaboration
zwischen der ETH Zürich und dem IBM Forschungslabor
in Rüschlikon. More » |
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| EU funds project to pioneer privacy and identity management solutions in Web 2.0 | |
| 27 Mar 2008. “PrimeLife“ – Privacy
and Identity Management in Europe for Life – is a new
three-year research project, funded by the European Union’s
7th Framework Programme with 10 million euros. Coordinated
by IBM’s (NYSE:
IBM) Zurich Research Laboratory and involving 14 other partners,
its objective is to empower users to manage and control,
throughout their entire lifetimes, their personal data and
privacy whenever they participate in Web 2.0 technologies,
such as social networks or virtual communities.
More » E | D |
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| Karrierestart im IBM Forschungslabor in Rüschlikon. IBM sucht die besten Nachwuchs-Programmier/innen der Schweiz | |
| 25 Mar 2008. IBM Schweiz startet einen Programmierwettbewerb
für Berufseinsteiger, Studentinnen und Studenten an Schweizer
Universitäten und Fachhochschulen. More » |
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| 3D avatar improves patient care | |
| 3 Mar 2008. Researchers at IBM's Zurich
Research Laboratory in Switzerland have developed the first
prototype of a new kind of visualization software for electronic
patient information. The ASME (Anatomic Symbolic Mapper Engine)
system allows the medical data of a patient to be recorded
and retrieved quickly and easily through a virtual map of
the human body (avatar), resulting in significantly improved
patient care. At the CeBIT tradefair, IBM will demonstrate
for the first time the integration of this software with
the Lotus Notes 8 Client, thus presenting the added collaboration
features. More » E | D |
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| Intelligent use of heat emissions in data centers of the future | |
| 3 Mar 2008. At the CeBIT 2008 tradefair scientists
from IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Zurich Research Laboratory will present
for the first time a pioneering concept of a zero carbon
emission data center achieved by the direct reuse of waste
heat. The first prototype is not only extremely energy-efficient,
but allows three-quarters of the IT operating energy to be
redirected to such uses as to heat buildings. This is environmentally
friendly and lowers overall operating costs. A powerful new
kind of water cooling system embedded on the chip is the
basis of this innovation. More » E | D |
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| IBM unveils a green optical network technology prototype | |
| 28 Feb 2008. IBM researchers
today unveiled the fastest and most highly integrated optical
data bus ever developed. The prototype technology could bring
massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy-efficient way to
all kinds of machines—from cell phones to supercomputers.
This could revolutionize the way we access, use and share
information across many different applications. More » |
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| Breaking the performance barrier of 22-nm CMOS technology: Are high-mobility, non-silicon channel materials the answer? | |
| 19 Feb 2008. A major initiative has been
launched in Europe with a top-ranked project called DUALLOGIC, Dual
channel CMOS for (sub)-22 nm high performance logic. Co-funded
by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program
(FP7) in Information and Communication Technologies, DUALLOGIC
is the flagship of CMOS R&D in FP7. Mobilizing key European
semiconductor IC and equipment manufacturers, top technology
development laboratories, research centers and universities,
the DUALLOGIC project is an endeavor to shape future CMOS
generations beyond today’s 22-nm technology by achieving
breakthroughs in nano-electronic materials, equipment, processing
and device integration on silicon. More » |
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| 2007 | |
| OSMOSIS project: Light speed communications for supercomputers | |
| 17 Dec 2007. The performance of tomorrow’s
supercomputers will be dictated by their ability to exchange
large volumes of data instantly between the hundreds of thousands
of processors of which they are built. Using optical networks
to transfer data throughout the system using light, researchers
at IBM and Corning Inc., under a project sponsored by the US
Department of Energy/NNSA, have succeeded in demonstrating
the world’s most advanced and powerful optical packet
switch. This novel switch is capable of transmitting 2.5 Terabits
of data—equivalent to 20 high-definition movies—in
a single second. More » |
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| ZRL announces winners of "Great Minds" student internship initiative | |
| 10 Dec 2007. The Zurich Research Laboratory—the
European branch of IBM Research—has selected six students
from Ukraine, Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic for its
first “Great Minds” internship program 2008. The
new initiative was launched last summer to offer students from
across Central and Eastern Europe the chance to win an internship
at the reknowned research laboratory. More » |
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| Talent for innovation event raises interest in careers at IBM Research | |
| 13 Nov 2007. Sixty-five students from universities
in Switzerland, France, Germany, and even as far afield as
the US and India attended the career information event of the
Zurich Lab's Computer Science department. This event gave students
the opportunity to gain insight into some of our current computer
science projects. Meeting with researchers as well as graduate
and undergraduate students currently working at the Zurich
Lab gave our young visitors a first-hand impression on what
research at the Zurich Lab is like. More » |
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| Jo van Nunen receives Faculty Award from ZRL | |
| 8 Nov 2007. Jo van Nunen, professor of Logistics and
Information Systems and chairman of the research department
Decision and Information Sciences at RSM Erasmus University
receives a Faculty Award from the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory.
The award honors his outstanding work in the field of Services
Sciences in integrated supply chain management. More » |
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| IBM Research unveils 3D avatar to help doctors visualize patient records and improve care | |
| 26 Sep 2007. IBM researchers today unveiled
a prototype visualization software that allows doctors
to interact with medical data the same way they interact
with their patients: by looking at the human body. More » |
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| IBM-Forscher Tobias Kraus mit dem SSOM-Preis 2007 ausgezeichnet | |
| 13 Sep 2007. IBM-Forscher Tobias Kraus
wurde gestern auf der Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft
für
Optik und Mikroskopie (SSOM) in Basel für seine Arbeiten
über Anordnung und Drucken von Mikro- und Nanopartikeln
ausgezeichnet. In Zusammenarbeit mit der ETH Zürich entwickelte
Kraus eine vielseitige „Druck“-Methode für
die effiziente Integration einer grossen Anzahl kleinster,
funktionaler Partikel in mikrotechnisch gefertigte Bauelemente. More » |
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| Novel nanoprinting technique may lead to advances in biomedicine, electronics, and future chips | |
| 11 Sep 2007. IBM researchers in collaboration
with scientists from the ETH Zurich have demonstrated a new,
efficient and precise technique to print at the nanoscale.
The method could advance the development of nanoscale biosensors,
of lenses that can bend light inside future optical chips,
and the fabrication of nanowires that might be the basis of
tomorrow’s computer chips. More » |
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| "Great Minds" student-internship initiative launched at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory | |
| 11 Sep 2007. Today, at the Moscow State
Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman (MSTU), Matthias Kaiserswerth,
Director of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory announced the
"Great Minds" initiative. The program offers students
from across Central and Eastern Europe, the chance to compete
to win an internship at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory,
the European branch of IBM Research. More » |
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| IBM unveils two major nanotechnology breakthroughs as building blocks for atomic structures and devices | |
| 30 Aug 2007. IBM today announced two major scientific
achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one
day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from
a few atoms or molecules. Although still far from making their
way into products, these breakthroughs will enable scientists
at IBM and elsewhere to continue driving the field of nanotechnology,
the exploration of building structures and devices out of
ultra-tiny components as small as a few atoms or molecules.
Such devices might be used as future computer chips, storage
devices, sensors and for applications nobody has imagined
yet. More » |
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| Durchbruch in der Analyse der Spin-Bahn-Wechselwirkung in Halbleitern | |
| 13 July 2007. In der nächsten Ausgabe von Nature
Physics wird eine Arbeit publiziert, in der die kontrollierte
Manipulation von Elektronenspins mit elektrischen Feldern
demonstriert und die relevante Wechselwirkung zum ersten Mal
vollständig charakterisiert wird. Dieses Resultat ist
ein wichtiger Schritt in Richtung der Nutzung des Spins für
Logikanwen-dungen in der Informationsverarbeitung. Die Forschungsarbeit
entstand in einer Zusammenarbeit der IBM-Forscher Lorenz Meier
und Gian Salis mit Ivan Shorubalko, Silke Schön, Emilio
Gini und Klaus Ensslin von der ETH Zürich innerhalb
des NCCR Nanoscience. More » D |
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| PRIME project releases new White Paper | |
| 27 June 2007. Privacy and Identity Management
in Europe
– the PRIME Project has just released the second version
of its White Paper. The document serves as an introduction
into and overview of the PRIME Consortium’s findings
shortly after entering the final phase of research. More » E | D |
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| IBM milestone brings MRI technology to the nanoscale | |
| 26 June 2007. IBM today announced Blue
Gene/P, the second generation of the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
Blue Gene/P nearly triples the performance of its predecessor,
Blue Gene/L—currently the world’s fastest computer—while
remaining the most energy-efficient and space-saving computing
package ever built. More » |
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| Using self-assembly to create airgap microprocessors | |
| 3 May 2007. IBM today announced the first-ever application
of a breakthrough self-assembling nanotechnology to conventional
chip manufacturing, borrowing a process from nature to build
the next generation computer chips.
The natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells,
snowflakes, and enamel on teeth has been harnessed by IBM
to form trillions of holes to create insulating vacuums around
the miles of nano-scale wires packed next to each other inside
each computer chip. More » |
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| IBM milestone brings MRI technology to the nanoscale | |
| 23 April 2007. IBM today announced that
researchers at its Almaden Research Center have demonstrated
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to visualize nanoscale
objects. This technique brings MRI capability to the nanoscale
level for the first time and represents a major milestone in
the quest to build a microscope that could "see"
individual atoms in three dimensions. More » |
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| IBM moves Moore's Law into the third dimension | |
| 12 April 2007. IBM today announced a breakthrough
chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that
paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend
Moore's Law beyond its expected limits. The technology —
called "through-silicon vias" — allows different
chip components to be packaged much closer together for faster,
smaller, and lower-power systems. More » E | D |
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| Dritte Science Week weckt Begeisterung für Forschung | |
| 5 April 2007. Sechs Schulklassen und eine
Lehrergruppe aus Zürich und den Nachbarkantonen haben an der dritten
"Science Week" des IBM Forschungslabors in Rüschlikon
vom 3. bis zum 5. April teilgenommen. Neben der Nanotechnologie
bildete in diesem Jahr die Wissenschaft der Computer- und
Internetspiele ein weiteres Schwerpunktthema. More » |
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| IBM's Peter Dill receives Mentor Graphics Award | |
| 29 Mar 2007. Continuing its tradition of promoting
and recognizing printed circuit board (PCB) designer excellence,
Mentor Graphics Corporation yesterday announced the winners
of its 19th Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards at the
PCB Design Conference West in San Jose, USA. Among the winners
for the longest running international competition of its kind
for PCB designers in the IT industry was Peter Dill from IBM's
Zurich Research Laboratory. More » |
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| IBM researchers demonstrate world's fastest optical chipset | |
| 26 Mar 2007. IBM scientists reveal a prototype of
an optical transceiver chipset capable of reaching speeds
at least eight times faster than optical components available
today. The breakthrough could transform how data is accessed,
shared and used across the Web for corporate and consumer
networks. The transceiver is fast enough to reduce the download
time for a typical high definition feature-length film to
a single second compared to 30 minutes or longer. More » E | D |
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| IBM researchers unveil details of chip cooling breakthrough | |
| 22 Mar 2007. At the IEEE Semi-Therm Conference 2007,
IBM researchers unveiled details of a new technique to significantly
improve capabilities to cool computer chips. More » |
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| IBM supercomputing simulations support chip breakthrough | |
| 26 Feb 2007. IBM researchers announced
an advancement in computer-based simulations that is helping
to drive chip technologies to new heights of performance and
function. A team of scientists at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory
for the first time used advanced supercomputer-based models
to more deeply understand and master the complex behavior of
a promising new material—hafnium dioxide—in silicon
transistors, the fundamental building blocks of computer chips. More » E | D |
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| ZRL researcher Emanuel Lörtscher receives Swiss Physical Society award | |
| 22 Feb 2007. Emanuel Lörtscher of IBM's Zurich
Research Laboratory received the 2007 Applied Physics Award
of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) for his outstanding achievements
in the field of molecular electronics—a hot new prospect
for future information processing. More » E | D |
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| IBM Forschungslabor Zürich erhält Top 5 Auszeichnung für Innovationsmanagement | |
| 5 Feb 2007. Das IBM Forschungslabor in
Zürich
erhielt vom Institut für Technologiemanagement der Universität
St. Gallen eine Top-Five Auszeichnung als "Successful
Practice" Unternehmen. More » |
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| IBM's new transistor to spawn next generation of chips | |
| 27 Jan 2007. IBM today announced it has
developed a long-sought improvement to the transistor – the
tiny on/off switch that serves as the basic building block
of virtually all microchips made today. More » E | D |
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| IBM software safeguards consumer identity on the Web | |
| 26 Jan 2007. IBM today announced software
that allows people to hide or anonymize their personal information
on the Web, ensuring protection from identity theft and other
misuse. Developed by researchers at IBM's laboratory in Zurich,
Switzerland, the software—called Identity Mixer—will
enable consumers to purchase goods and services on the Internet
without disclosing personal information. More » |
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| 2006 | |
| DIADEM firewall tightens the net against attacks | |
| 6 Dec 2006. The EU project DIADEM Firewall
is a prototype of a novel architecture to block attacks against
large-scale networks—an increasingly severe threat in
this IT era where businesses are becoming ever more networked
to provide goods and services on demand. Together with their
project partners, scientists at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
have developed a hardware module for large-scale, high-speed
business networks. The technology gives businesses and network
service providers entirely new capabilities to offer their
customers secure, high-speed broadband services, thereby guaranteeing
business-critical network availability at all times. More » E | D |
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| ZISC Workshop of Europe's leading cryptographers | |
| 28 Nov 2006. The instant, worldwide exchange of information
is an integral part of today's global economy and society.
But this flow of information can be forged, falsified, misappropriated,
abused or deleted by unauthorized persons. To protect information
from unauthorized access, it must therefore be encrypted.
This is especially true for online banking, e-payments with
credit cards, transmission of confidential data, and electronic
voting via the Internet. Cryptography—the
mathematical discipline of developing methods to encrypt
data— is
therefore becoming increasingly important. More » E | D |
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| IEEE European Conference on Web Services 2006 | |
| 18 Nov 2006. The entire Web Services World
pilgrimages to Zurich to exchange the latest information on
Web services, both from a practical, business-oriented as well
as a research point of view. Participants will examine how Web
services allow businesses to unlock the full power of their
IT systems by coupling and thus leveraging the information they
already possess. More » |
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| IBM Research, Varioprint, and IntexyS bring optical data transmission closer to realization | |
| 13 Nov 2006. At this year's Electronica
trade fair in Munich, IBM Research, Varioprint AG, and IntexyS
Photonics are displaying a jointly developed optical interconnect
system prototype that brings optical data transmission in computer
systems closer to reality. Thanks to integrated optical technology,
the processor-to-processor interconnect bandwidth can be increased
significantly, which is a major requirement for future computing
systems. The industry partners are presenting a complete novel
board-level optical interconnect solution that features low-cost
standard mass-manufacturability of the components and assembly. More » E | D |
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| IBM licenses Clipped Tag RFID technology to Marnlen RFiD | |
| 8 Nov 2006. Privacy-enabled radio frequency
identification labels now available for wide-scale deployment.
IBM today announced it has completed a licensing agreement with
Marnlen RFiD to produce IBM's Clipped Tag, which is now immediately
available. The Clipped Tag, developed at IBM's Watson Research
Center, allows consumers to tear off the majority of an RFID
tag's antennae, reducing the tag's read range to just a few
inches, ensuring consumer privacy while maintaining the benefits
of the technology, such as product authentication or recalls. More » E | D |
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| Heineken, IBM, Safmarine and University of Amsterdam launch wireless "Beer Living Lab" | |
| 26 Oct 2006. A new intelligent wireless
project called the "Beer Living Lab" will track cargo
container shipments of Heineken beer from Europe to the United
States using satellite and cellular technology. The goal is
to create paperless documentation through better system interoperability,
resulting in faster deliveries and reduced costs for international
trade. More » |
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| IBM researchers develop next-generation chip-cooling technologies | |
| 26 Oct 2006. IBM researchers have presented
an innovative approach for improving the cooling of computer
chips, an increasingly urgent need given the large amount of
heat released by today's more powerful processors and the additional
energy required for removing that heat. More » E | D |
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| IBM Forscher mit renommiertem Schweizer Wissenschaftspreis ausgezeichnet | |
| 13 Oct 2006. Emmanuel Delamarche erhielt
den diesjährigen Werner-Preis der Schweizerischen Chemischen
Gesellschaft für seine innovativen Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der
Oberflächenchemie. Weitere Informationen » D |
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| IBM & Genome Institute of Singapore collaboration may lead to better understanding of cell process regulation | |
| 22 Sep 2006. IBM, in collaboration with
the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) revealed results from
a joint research study that could potentially alter our views
of how cell processes are regulated. The two teams have discovered
that microRNAs, small molecules that are an important regulatory
component in the machinery of living cells, likely exert their
influence much more widely than previously thought. More » |
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| RFID clipped tags among top technology innovations of 2006 | |
| 13 Sep 2006. Among the runners-up for
this year's Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation awards
are the privacy-enhancing RFID clipped tags developed by IBM
researchers Paul Moskowitz and Günter Karjoth. Clipped
tags allow consumers to partially tear off the antenna, preventing
long-range RFID readers from detecting and reading them, thereby
putting consumer privacy back in the hands of the consumer. More » |
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| IBM researchers look beyond silicon technology and investigate molecules for the future of information processing | |
| 4 Aug 2006. Scientists at the IBM Zurich Research
Laboratory have demonstrated how a single molecule can be
switched between two distinct conductive states, which allows
it to store data. As published today in SMALL, these
experiments show that certain types of molecules reveal intrinsic
molecular functionalities that are comparable to devices used
in today's semiconductor technology. This finding is yet another
promising result to emerge from IBM's research labs in their
efforts to explore and develop novel technologies for the
post-CMOS era. More » |
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| International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology in Basel | |
| 4 Jul 2006. Will Basel become the “Woodstock”
of nanoscience on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of
the scanning tunneling microscope, the instrument that
in 1981 unlocked the nanoscale universe? The forthcoming
International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology
(ICN&T
2006) in Basel, Switzerland, from July 31 to August 4,
has all the ingredients to write nano history. More » |
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| Matthias Kaiserswerth appointed Director of the Zurich Research Laboratory | |
| 23 Jun 2006. Matthias Kaiserswerth has been named
director of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (ZRL) and Vice
President Systems Management and Compliance. He succeeds Krishna
Nathan, who is moving to the Technology and Intellectual Property
organization of IBM as Vice President, Technology. More » |
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| IBM scientists image orbital reorganization upon bond formation | |
| 26 May 2006. Researchers at IBM's Zurich Research
Laboratory have succeeded in obtaining direct images of the
orbital reorganization that takes place when a gold atom and
a pentacene molecule form a complex on a surface. Apart from
its scientific beauty, the atomic-scale precision in this
single-molecule chemistry experiment breaks new ground in
the contacting possibilities of single molecules, which could
be of importance for future electronics. More » |
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| IBM researchers set world record in magnetic tape data density | |
| 16 May 2006. IBM researchers today announced they
have demonstrated a world record in data density on linear
magnetic tape, a dramatic indication that one of the computer
industry's oldest and still most affordable data storage technologies
has the potential to provide increased capacity for years
to come. More » E | D |
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| IBM researchers demonstrate new method for rapid molecule sorting and delivery | |
| 1 May 2006. IBM researchers have demonstrated a new
nanoscale method that both rapidly separates very small numbers
of molecules and also delivers them precisely onto surfaces
with unprecedented control. When fully developed, the new
technique has the potential to improve such diverse applications
as medical lab tests and future nanoelectronic circuit manufacturing. More » |
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| IBM extends enhanced data security to consumer electronics products | |
| 10 Apr 2006. IBM today announced a new
technology designed to greatly increase the security of consumer
products, medical devices, defense systems and digital media.
Developed by IBM Research and code-named “Secure Blue,” the
new technology helps enable mainframe-inspired security typically
only available in data centers. More » |
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| IBM launches services to combat worm and virus threats | |
| 27 Mar 2006. IBM today announced new intrusion detection
capabilities to help clients detect, prevent and analyze hacker
attacks. More » E | D |
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| Enhancing semiconductors through nanotechnology | |
| 24 Mar 2006. IBM today announced that
its researchers have built the first complete electronic integrated
circuit around a single "carbon nanotube" molecule,
a new material that shows promise for providing enhanced performance
over today's standard silicon semiconductors. More » |
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| IBM Research demonstrates path for extending current chip-making technique | |
| 20 Feb 2006. IBM researchers announced they have found
a way to extend a key chip-manufacturing process to generate
smaller chip circuits, potentially postponing the semiconductor
industry's high-risk conversion to an extremely expensive
alternative. More » |
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| IBM scientists demonstrate chipset to boost wireless communications | |
| 6 Feb 2006. IBM scientists today announced that they
have created a small, low-cost chipset that could allow wireless
electronic devices to transmit and receive ten times faster
than today's advanced WiFi networks. More » |
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| Zurich Research Lab celebrates its 50th anniversary | |
| 3 Feb 2006. Looking at the history of IBM's Zurich
Research Lab, it becomes clear that innovation has constituted
an integral part of its philosophy since the very beginning.
This is illustrated by the broad range of research breakthroughs
and other successes that have been achieved here in the past
50 years. And innovation will continue to be the driving force
of future research. Thus it was only natural to choose the
slogan "Celebrating Innovation - 50 Years IBM
Zurich Research Lab" for the lab's anniversary
activities that will take place throughout 2006. More » |
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| 2005 | |
| Silicon photonics: IBM scientists harness "slow light" for optical communications | |
| 3 Nov 2005. IBM today announced its researchers have
created a tiny device that represents a big advance toward
the eventual use of light in place of electricity in the connection
of electronic components, potentially leading to vast improvements
in the performance of computers and other electronic systems. More » |
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| Technologieschub Pervasive Computing: Dialog über Chancen und Risiken in Rüschlikon | |
| 29 Sep 2005. Die Auswirkungen der allumfassenden,
sich selbst organisierenden Vernetzung von intelligenten Objekten
und IT-Systemen sind grundlegend: Das so genannte Pervasive
Computing berührt sämtliche Grundlagen des wirtschaftlichen,
politischen und sozialen Zusammenlebens. Auf der Tagung "The
Future of Business and Society in an intelligent World"
diskutierten am 29. September in Zürich namhafte Wissenschaftler
und Manager im "Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue"
Szenarien und Handlungsoptionen. Die Tagung stützte sich
auf Ergebnisse einer Expertenzusammenarbeit zwischen Swiss Re,
IBM Research und dem "Zentrum für Technologiefolgen-Abschätzung
Schweiz". Weitere Informationen » D |
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| IBM and Maersk Logistics provide real-time cargo monitoring for global supply chain optimization | |
| 20 Sep 2005. IBM and Maersk Logistics
announced today an initiative to bring real-time, enhanced visibility
to global supply chain operations by improving the quality of
container tracking, thus providing greater security for transported
goods. The solution includes highly intelligent wireless tracking
devices and an advanced technology network for use by manufacturers,
retailers, logistics providers, carriers, and governments to
share real-time cargo information. More » E | D |
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| IBM researchers receive technology award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation | |
| 15 Sep 2005. The 2005 Technology Award
of the Eduard Rhein Foundation will be awarded to two researchers
of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. Together with Professor
Hisashi Kobayashi of Princeton University, IBM's Drs. François
Dolivo and Evangelos Eleftheriou will receive this prestigious
prize for their pioneering contributions to the data-recording
technology in hard-disk drives, which enabled significant increases
in recording densities and data rates for many decades. More » E | D |
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| Ultra-Breitband: Neuer Megamarkt für drahtlose Kommunikation | |
| 5 Sep 2005. Die neue drahtlose Übertragungstechnik
"Ultra-Breitband" steht unmittelbar vor der Markteinführung.
Das zeigte die "2005 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband"
(ICU 2005) Anfang September an der ETH Zürich mit einer
Reihe von Fachvorträgen, Expertendiskussionen und Demonstrationen.
Weitere Informationen » D |
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| PRIME privacy and identity management project releases White Paper | |
| 19 Aug 2005. Privacy and identity management
are the central topics of PRIME. The project, in which IBM's
Zurich Research Laboratory has the technical leadership, has
just released the initial version of its White Paper to launch
a debate on these issues. The document focuses on groundbreaking
solutions needed to protect the privacy of individuals against
the risks emerging inm in the context of powerful technologies.
More » E | D |
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| BlueGene supercomputer installed at ZRL | |
| 11 Aug 2005. A new supercomputer enables
IBM scientists to conduct true-to-life simulations for the design
of microchips. It allows the computer-based design of novel
materials that may eventually be used in the next generation
of supercomputers. More » E | D |
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| New "micropipette" enables the exploration of single living cells | |
| 2 Aug 2005. Scientists at the IBM Zurich
Research Laboratory have developed a ground-breaking device
that opens new possibilities for biochemical analysis and diagnostics
on the micrometer scale. The device's major breakthrough is
its ability to manipulate biomolecules and single cells in their
native cell-culture environment - which holds great promise
for cell research in medicine and biology. More » E | D |
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| ZRL researcher receives Swiss Physical Society award | |
| 14 Jul 2005. Heike Riel of IBM's Zurich
Research Laboratory has received the 2005 Applied Physics Award
of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) for her outstanding scientific
achievements in the field of organic light-emitting devices
(OLEDs) for display technologies. More » E | D |
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| Marketing Science prize for IBM Research | |
| 17 Jun 2005. IBM's CELM solution has won
the 2005 INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize,
that recognizes the fusion of marketing theory and practice.
CELM, developed at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and jointly
introduced with Finnair, is an innovative approach that leverages
customer data to better understand customer lifecycles and determine
current and potential future value of customers for optimizing
marketing policies. More » E | D |
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| IBM/EPFL Blue Brain project | |
| 6 Jun 2005. IBM and The Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) announced a major
joint research initiative—nicknamed the Blue Brain Project—to
take brain research to a new level. Over the next two years
scientists from both organizations will work together using
the huge computational capacity of IBM’s eServer Blue Gene
supercomputer to create a detailed model of the circuitry in
the neocortex—the largest and most complex part of the
human brain. By expanding the project to model other areas of
the brain, scientists hope to eventually build an accurate,
computer-based model of the entire brain. More » E | D |
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| Evangelous Eleftheriou named IBM Fellow | |
| 25 May 2005. IBM announced that five employees
will be named IBM Fellow—the company's most prestigious
technical honor, among them Dr. Evangelos Eleftheriou of the
Zurich Research Laboratory. The five honorees drive innovation
in areas as diverse as nanotechnology, computer design and data
storage. More » |
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| IBM creates new academic curriculum to improve services innovation | |
| 23 May 2005. IBM announced that it is
making available to universities through the IBM Academic Initiative
program a new academic curriculum called Services Sciences,
Management and Engineering (SSME). The new course is designed
to develop the skills required in the world's increasingly services-based
economies. More » E | D |
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| First IBM "Science Week" sparks thirst for knowledge | |
| 15 Apr 2005. Eleven school classes from
throughout the canton of Zurich participated in the first "Science
Week" hosted from 11 to 15 April by IBM's Zurich Laboratory.
This gave youngsters hands-on exposure to selected science and
technology projects. More » E | D |
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| "Millipede" small-scale prototype shown at CeBIT | |
| 3 Mar 2005. Given the rapidly increasing
data volumes that are downloaded onto mobile devices such as
cell phones and PDAs, there is a growing demand for suitable
storage media with more and more capacity. At CeBIT, IBM will
for the first time show the prototype of the MEMS* assembly
of a nanomechanical storage system known internally as the "millipede"
project. Using revolutionary nanotechnology, scientists at the
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland, have made it to
the millionths of a millimeter range, achieving data storage
densities of more than one terabit (1000 gigabit) per square
inch, equivalent to storing the content of 25 DVDs on an area
the size of a postage stamp. More » E | D |
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| 2004 | |
| IBM Privacy Faculty Award 2004 | |
| Dec 2004. Carnegie Mellon University academic
Lorrie Cranor named winner of 2004 award. More » |
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| European Information Security Award 2004 for Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) | |
| 30 Nov 2004. The winners of the European
Information Security Award 2004 were announced at the RSA Conference
in Barcelona. In the category Research & Development, the
award went to Jan Camenisch and Roger Zimmermann of the IBM
Zurich Research Laboratory, who developed the Direct Anonymous
Attestation protocol (DAA) in cooperation with researchers from
HP and Intel. More » |
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| IBM / ETH Center for Advanced Silicon Electronics (CASE) receives EEEfCOM Innovation Award 2004 | |
| Nov 2004. IBM / ETH CASE has received
the Gerotron / Rohde & Schwarz / Agilent EEEfCOM (Electrical
and Electronic Engineering for Communication) Innovation Award
2004 in the category Universities. The value of the award is
€40,000 for equipment to be used within CASE. More » |
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| IBM's PaxFlow Simulator streamlines airport procedures | |
| Nov 2004. A sophisticated and dynamic
system to forecast passenger volumes at airports aims to transform
the travel experience. More » |
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| Sharp and IBM Japan collaborate on development of large-capacity IC card | |
| 20 Oct 2004. The IC card uses JCOP, a
new embedded operating system developed at IBM's Zurich Research
Laboratory. More » |
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| IBM scientists receive The Economist Innovation Award | |
| 14 Sep 2004. Three scientists of the IBM
Zurich Research Laboratory have been awarded this year’s
Economist “No Boundaries” Innovation Award. The prize
was bestowed to Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer and Christoph Gerber
for the invention and development of the Scanning Tunneling
Microscope (STM), which marked the birth of nanoscience and
nanotechnology. The Economist Annual Innovation Summit &
Awards celebrate the individuals and best practices that drive
the most successful innovations that transform our global economy. More » |
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| MAFTIA project short-listed for EU Descartes Prize 2004 | |
| Sep 2004. The MAFTIA (Malicious and Accidental
Fault Tolerance for Internet Applications) project has been
short-listed in the field of information sciences for the annual
EU Descartes Prize for Outstanding Scientific and Technological
Achievements Resulting from European Collaborative Research. More » |
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| IBM scientists control the charge state of an individual atom | |
| 23 Jul 2004. Scientists of the IBM Zurich
Research Laboratory and of Chalmers University of Technology,
Gothenburg, have succeeded in manipulating and controlling the
charge state of individual atoms. With this experiment, a new
dimension of manipulation has been achieved. More » |
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| ZRL scientists win award for Privacy Enhancing Technologies | |
| 27 May 2004. Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias
Schunter and Michael Backes of ZRL's Computer Science department
received the 2004 Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy
Enhancing Technologies.
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| Winners of Swiss Olympiad in Informatics 2004 announced | |
| 18 May 2004. The winners of the 9th Swiss
Olympiad in Informatics, a competition for young computer enthusiasts,
are NAMES from PLACES. More » E | D |
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| Interview with ZRL Nobel laureate Gerd Binnig in IEEE Spectrum | |
| May 2004. An article entitled "A
Beautiful Noise" by Harry Goldstein appeared in the May
2004 issue of IEEE Spectrum. It includes an interview
with ZRL Nobel laureate Gerd Binnig, who discusses current issues
in the field of nanotechnology. More » |
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| 1st ZRL Alumni Convention a success | |
| 7 May 2004. ZRL hosted its first Alumni
Convention. Former graduate students had been invited back to
ZRL to meet not only their former colleagues but also the current
generation of so-called pre-docs. The event provided the aspiring
young scientists with information and career ideas for “life
after IBM” as well as an opportunity to network with alumni.
More » |
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| EU launches PRIME project for privacy and identity management | |
| Mar 2004. PRIME—Privacy and identity
management for Europe is a 4-year project whose objective is
the research and development of solutions to empower individuals
in managing their privacy in cyberspace. More » E | D | F | NL | PL |
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| Swiss Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin visits ZRL | |
| 30 Mar 2004. Hosted by Peter Quadri, General
Manager of IBM Switzerland, and ZRL Director Krishna Nathan,
Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin and his team came to hear
about the latest trends in IT. More » |
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| Zurich Laboratory awarded health and well-being prize | |
| 12 Mar 2004. IBM's Zurich Laboratory was
awarded the 2004 Zurich Prize for the Promotion of Health and
Well-Being at Work in the category of large enterprises. More » |
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| EU Research Commissioner visits Zurich laboratory | |
| 1 Mar 2004. Philippe Busquin visited the
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon on March 1
to get a personal impression of the scope of work pursued here.
Busquin is the member of the European Commission responsible
for research programs within the EU. More » |
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| Optical technology program for supercomputers | |
| Nov 2003. IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory is involved in a $20 million project between Corning Incorporated, IBM, the US Department of Energy, and the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop high-speed, optically switched interconnects for supercomputers. More details are provided in a joint press release. | |
| Remote monitoring of health conditions | |
| 31 Oct 2003. IBM researchers, working
with medical device manufacturers and mobile phone handset manufacturers,
have created a unique solution to track vital health signs.
The IBM technology, if adopted, could help limit a patient's
health risk, increase his or her comfort level, reduce the number
of check ups as well as time spent in hospital and enhance the
effectiveness of pharmaceutical field tests. The solution includes
a so-called "pill box" and a home-based blood pressure
monitor that resembles a large wrist watch. More » |
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| New IT security center at the ETH Zurich | |
| 24 Sep 2003. The Zurich Information Security
Center (ZISC) is taking shape at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, in collaboration
with an industry consortium currently comprised of Credit Suisse,
IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, and Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
The ZISC initiators aim to forge closer links between fundamental
research and practical applications and thus lay the groundwork
for the secure systems that are essential to a functioning information
society. More » |
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| Zurich scientist Heike Riel named top young innovator | |
| Sep 2003. Heike Riel, a member of the Display
Technology group at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, has been
elected to TR100, the annual list of the world's 100 Top Young
Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation.
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| Das Schweizer Team für die Internationale Informatikolympiade 2003 steht fest | |
| 24 Jun 2003. Nach Abschluss der 8. Schweizer
Informatikolympiade für Jugendliche steht fest, wer die
Schweiz bei der 15. Internationalen Informatikolympiade in den
USA vertreten wird. Dies sind Jonas Wagner aus Boll bei Bern,
Simon Felix aus Klingnau (AG), Anthony Bagwell aus Dully (VD)
sowie Nicolas Cepeda aus Zürich-Altstetten. More » |
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| Supercomputer donation to University of Zurich | |
| 19 Jun 2003. After IBM's Zurich Research
Laboratory (ZRL) recently installed Switzerland's fastest computer
at its site in Rüschlikon, it has now donated its previous
supercomputer—a system of four towers with a total of 128
processors operating in parallel—to the Organic Chemistry
Institute (OCI) of the University of Zurich. This donation will
also support the planned collaboration between the OCI and the
computational biochemistry effort at ZRL. More » |
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| IBM awards technology to Stanford University for computational photonics project | |
| 22 Apr 2003. IBM has donated a powerful
computer system to Stanford University in CA/USA to support
its groundbreaking work in modeling photonic material structures
in collaboration with IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. More » |
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| IEEE honors Zurich LAN pioneers | |
| 14 Apr 2003. The IEEE has named Werner
Bux, manager of the Communication Systems department at IBM's
Zurich Research Laboratory, and Hans Müller, retired senior
researcher of the same department, as recipients of the 2003
IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. The award recognizes the two IBM
scientists for their contributions to the design, development
and standardization of the Token Ring local area network (LAN).
The legacy of the technology can be seen in today's high-speed,
fault-resistant fiber optic LANs and Ethernet. More » |
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| World's largest OLED display | |
| 13 Mar 2003. Chi Mei Optoelectronics has
announced the world’s largest organic light-emitting diode
(OLED) display driven by amorphous silicon thin-film transistors
(TFTs). Core pieces of the underlying technology have been developed
at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory as well as at IBM research
labs in the US and in Japan. Chi Mei’s press
release on the subject and a photo of the novel display
are available on Chi Mei’s Web site. More » |
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| Heart rate monitor calls cell phone for help | |
| 19 Dec 2002. Zurich researchers, together
with colleagues from IBM's Engineering Technology Services and
IBM Corporate Design, have developed a small, portable, wireless
device that measures heart rate and is able to sense when its
wearer is in distress, then calls a cell phone for immediate
help. More » |
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| Switzerland's fastest computer installed at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory | |
| 12 Dec 2002. Switzerland's fastest computer
has been installed at IBM's Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon
near Zurich. Ranked 70 among the world's top 500 computers,
the system works at a top speed of more than a trillion operations
per second. The computer will be used by IBM scientists to advance
research in computational biochemistry and material sciences. More » |
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| IBM awards technology to University of Karlsruhe for grid computing research | |
| 13 Nov 2002. The Chair for Information
Management and Systems of the Department of Economics and Business
Engineering announced it has been awarded 34 computers worth
more than 200,000 euros from IBM to build an infrastructure
for experiments in electronic market engineering and grid computing. More » |
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| IBM Investing in Voice Summit | |
| 5 Nov 2002. IBM's Industry Solutions Lab
will host customer event to present Voice Solutions and key
partner applications. More » |
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| Zurich Extreme Blue project a success | |
| 22 Oct 2002. The team of four students
from Australia, India, Italy, and Poland did an outstanding
job of creating a working prototype of a traffic prediction
system within three months of intensive work at IBM's Zurich
Research Laboratory in summer 2002. More » |
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| New director of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory | |
| 11 Jul 2002. Effective August 1, 2002,
Krishna Nathan has been named Director of IBM's Zurich Research
Laboratory. He succeeds Matthias Kaiserswerth, who has been
appointed Managing Director for IBM's Asea Brown Boveri (ABB)
customer account. More » |
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| Extreme Blue team to develop "car data booster" | |
| 11 Jul 2002. A team of four students from
Australia, India, Italy and Poland has started a three-month
research effort at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory this week.
Their ambitious goal is to develop a fully functional prototype
of a traffic control subsystem by the end of September. More » |
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| IBM's "Millipede" project demonstrates trillion-bit data storage density | |
| 11 Jun 2002. Using an innovative nanotechnology,
IBM scientists have demonstrated a data storage density of one
trillion bits per square inch — 20 times higher than the
densest magnetic storage available today. More » |
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| Optical time multiplexer | |
| Mar 2002. IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory
announced the development of a miniature, low-loss optical 10
to 40 Gbit/s time-division multiplexer based on its novel planar
optical waveguide technology at the 2002
Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) held in Anaheim, California/USA,
on March 19 - 21. More » |
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| Zurich Technology at 2002 Optical Fiber Conference | |
| Mar 2002. IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory
will present dynamic gain equalizers and chromatic dispersion
compensators based on its novel planar optical waveguide technology
at the 2002 Optical
Fiber Conference (OFC) held in Anaheim, California/USA,
on March 19 - 21. More » |
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| First IBM Workshop on Protein Science in Europe | |
| Feb 2002. On March 15 and 16, 2002, the
IBM Blue Gene protein science project of IBM Research and the
UK National e-Science Center will host the Protein Science Workshop
"Blue
Gene 2002" to be held at the National e-Science Institute
in Edinburgh. The first Blue Gene workshop on Protein folding
was held in 2001 at San Diego, California, USA. More » |
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| IBM launches privacy and data protection initiatives | |
| Nov 2001. IBM has announced the formation
of the Privacy Institute, an IBM Research organization, and
the Privacy Management Council to focus exclusively on privacy
and data protection challenges facing its enterprise customers
and the marketplace. Visit the Privacy Institute Website for more information on this important
initiative in which IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory plays a
leading role. More » |
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| Investigation of novel materials for continued electronic chip miniaturization | |
| 21 Sep 2001. INVEST research consortium
formed by nine partners, including IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory.
Its ambitious goal is to develop the use of new materials at
the core of microelectronic chips, which will be crucial for
continued miniaturization well beyond the foreseeable limits
of today's technology. More » |
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| Switch chip based on Zurich's Prizma switch architecture moves network traffic four times faster | |
| Sep 2001. IBM announced a new packet routing
switch (PRS) based on the Prizma Switch architecture developed
at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. The new chip, PowerPRS
Q-64G, performs four times faster than the previous generation,
yet does so with a far more compact design. More » |
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| "Bio-printing" — an efficient new method in biotechnology | |
| 1 Sep 2001. Scientists at IBM's Zurich
Research Laboratory and the University of Zurich have developed
a new printing method that may greatly improve the ability to
extract molecules from fluids and to place them in arbitrary
patterns on surfaces, which is widely required for investigation
and analysis in biotechnology. More » |
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| IBM and ETH open competence center in advanced communication technologies | |
| 30 Aug 2001. IBM and the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich open a new center at
ETH for the design of novel high-frequency analog circuits crucial
to the advance of wired and wireless communication technologies. More » |
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| IBM Best Student Competition awards 2001 | |
| Jul 2001. IBM conducted a Best Student
competition award for the first time in Switzerland this year.
Eligible to compete were students of Computer Science, Electrical
Engineering, and Business Computer Science. More » |
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| IBM develops Java card for Migros Bank | |
| 12 Jul 2001. Migros Bank has issued chip
cards with digital certificates for Internet banking to 1,000
selected customers. This pilot program allows customers to access
their accounts by means of a modern Java smart card that contains
a personal certificate. This eliminates the need for a strike-off
list of additional passwords. More » |
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| "Extreme Blue" at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory | |
| 11 Jul 2001. Research marathon for students.
This week, two international teams of students have embarked
on a three-month research marathon at IBM's Zurich Research
Laboratory. Their goal: to produce functional software prototypes
by October. More » |
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| More efficient network traffic engineering | |
| May 2001. Dramatically increasing data
traffic on the Internet calls for the best possible use of network
resources in an ever more complex environment. These requirements
are met by drawing on more and more intelligence provided by
network processors. More » |
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| Mobile Solution Innovation Center at Zurich—Mobile e-business institute to coordinate research initiatives | |
| 5 Dec 2000. IBM has announced a network
of Mobile e-business Innovation Centers in Europe to help
customers and partners develop the next generation of mobile
e-business solutions. More » |
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| Major smart card industry players support price breakthrough for OpenPlatform smart cards | |
| 12 Oct 2000. A major program to offer Visa
member banks a family of low-cost multiapplication smart cards
has been launched by Visa International, together with IBM and
Philips Semiconductors, supported by four major smart card manufacturers. More » |
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| Censio Internet insurance based on Zurich's virtual marketplace technology | |
| 29 Aug 2000. IBM, Siebel Systems, and Internet
insurance broker Censio have jointly developed a new, integrated
e-commerce system that for the first time ever makes it possible
to use the Internet to compare the quality of different insurances
instead of merely comparing prices. More » |
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| Zurich signal processing technology in IBM's 1 GB Microdrive | |
| Jul 2000. Performance of the world's smallest
hard disk drive, IBM's Microdrive that now carries up to 1 GB
of data on a disk 2.7 cm in diameter relies on noise-predictive
maximum-likelihood (NPML) detection for reliable recovery of
data from readback signals. More » |
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| Leading-edge smart card technology meets sophisticated watch technology | |
| Jul 2000. IBM, Philips Semiconductors and
Junghans have created an exciting new type of watch, worn exactly
like a standard wristwatch, but one which provides far greater
functionality than just time measurement. More »t |
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| Significant extension of IBM's Zurich Laboratory completed | |
| 15 Jun 2000. A handsome new building on the campus of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory is a tangible manifes | |