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 Armonk:
Over the years, IBM has received international recognition
for its discoveries and has produced 38,000 patent —
more than its nearest competitor. Innovations at IBM have
led to five of its researchers being conferred the Nobel
Prize and 11 years of patent leadership through its pool
of around 3,000 scientists, working in the company''s eight
research laboratories.
But
what''s more important than the statistics is the effect
these discoveries and patents have in the marketplace
and that is what makes something "innovative."
IBM
Research has played a critical role in the development
and application of new technologies that have revolutionised
information technology and science. Its continued innovation
from some of the sharpest, creative minds, has had an
indelible impact on the global IT industry.
IBM''s
rich history of discovery and innovation has brought international
recognition. In addition to five Nobel prizes, IBM researchers
have been recognized with four US national medals of technology,
three national medals of science and 19 memberships in
the National Academy of Sciences. IBM Research has more
than 46 members of the National Academy of Engineering
and well over 300 industry organization fellows.
Some
leading innovations that IBM Research has pioneered, illustrates
the scientific and technological advances of the company
during the past fifty years.
- Carbon
nanotube technology
- Copper
chip technology
- Giant
magnetoresistive head (GMR)
- Deep
blue
- Speech
recognition technology
- High-temperature
superconductivity (Nobel prize)
- Fractal
- Scanning
tunnelling microscope (STM) (Nobel prize)
- Formula
translation system (FORTRAN)
- Reduced
instruction set computer (RISC) architecture
- Magnetic
disk storage
- One-transistor
dynamic RAM (DRAM)
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