Unlocking a 140-Year-Old Secret Mystery in Physics
Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of today’s digital, electronic age, providing us a multitude of devices that benefit our modern life, including computer, smartphones…
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Scientists Observe Self-Healing of a Confined Phase Change Memory Device
A collaboration between the lab of Judy Cha, the Carol and Douglas Melamed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and IBM’s Watson Research…
“Silicon Nanophotonics” Integrates Optical Components with Electrical Circuits
IBM announced an advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals for information transmission in future computing applications. “Silicon nanophotonics” allows the…
IBM Supercomputer Simulates 530 Billion Neurons & 100 Trillion Synapses
At the Supercomputing 2012 conference last week, IBM Research-Almaden presented its next milestone towards fulfilling DARPA’s cognitive computing program, Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable…
Atomic Bond Types Clearly Discernible Thanks to Single-Molecule Images
A team from IBM in Zürich has released images they captured of single-molecules that are so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their…
Radio Telescope Square Kilometer Array Will be Powered by $43-Million IBM Supercomputer
The world’s largest telescope will be the Square Kilometer Array, and when it starts peering into radio waves emanating from the skies, it will generate…