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A new IBM supercomputer will help the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) with ocean modeling and weather forecasting, thereby improving maritime safety.

Visually impaired Web surfers now have an easy, collaborative way to improve Internet accessibility, thanks to IBM researchers. People with vision problems often rely on software that reads web pages to them. But the software won't work with every ...

Researchers at IBM's India Research Laboratory have developed advanced data masking technology that helps call centers protect that critical data without disrupting customer service or business operations.

Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory recently used a Blue Gene supercomputer to create the most extensive simulation real human bone structure to date. Their work gives doctors a heretofore ...

More and more, IT systems have to respond almost instantaneously to an event or a collection of events. For example, the systems aboard one of the U.S. Navy’s most modern warships, the DDG 1000 destroyer, must evaluate and respond to a missile attack ...

Canada's fastest research supercomputer is helping search for more effective cancer treatments at the Ontario Cancer Institute. The new IBM system analyzes millions of images of proteins to identify those related to the disease and help design better ...

The US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), chocolate maker Mars and IBM will pool scientific resources to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome. Understanding the cocoa genome may allow more efficient breeding of ...

As expected, a new supercomputer built by IBM for Los Alamos National Lab topped the latest list of the world's 500 fastest computers. Other IBM machines were the and third faster, and IBM computers accounted for more than 40 percent of the entire list.

The most powerful Windows-based computer in Europe is being installed in Stockholm's Umeå University. Nicknamed "Akka", the supercomputer incorporates IBM Power microprocessors, Cell Broadband Engines and Intel processors and is about 3,000 times faster ...

The IBM Center of Excellence for Water Management in Dublin, will help understand some of the environmental complexities of Ireland's Galway Bay. When it officially opens in a few weeks, the center will focus on research and services for monitoring, ...

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. (TOK) and IBM are teaming up to cut the cost of solar energy. IBM and TOK will focus on making CIGS (Copper-Indium-Gallium-Selenide) solar cell modules, a cost-saving alternative to silicon.

Congestion pricing in Stockholm, has reduced traffic in the Swedish capital by 18 percent, according to traffic authorities there. The fee-based approach, which began formally in August 2007, has also seen the proportion of green, tax-exempt vehicles ...

Kyoto University and IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory have developed a system that can simulate urban transport situations encompassing millions of individual vehicles in complex traffic interactions. A simulation can predict, for example, what will ...

A government computer in New Mexico is the first supercomputer to perform at one petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per ). Designed and built by IBM, the Roadrunner (named after the New Mexico state bird) is a hybrid machine, the world's first, ...

In IBM's labs, tiny rivers of water are cooling computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other. The design promises to increase the number of circuits on a chip and significantly reduce energy consumed by data centers.

IBM researcher Stuart Parkin received the Daniel E. Noble Award from the IEEE for his work on random access memory or RAM. Innovations from Dr. Parkin, an IBM Research Fellow, led to the revolution of the hard disk drive industry and are found in nearly ...

For decades science has inspired Hollywood, now IBM researchers are looking to Hollywood for new ideas too. Five top IBM’s scientists met recently with students and alumni of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, along with others from the entertainment ...

A new report says innovation in service systems is necessary for future prosperity and global competitiveness. It urges governments, businesses and universities to drive increased support and funding for service innovation.