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- Quantum Outlook 2020
2020 will be a watershed year for the Quantum Revolution. There will be surprising early applications, though previously over-hyped timelines may leave some disappointed. Geopolitical considerations will be hard to ignore as major national programmes set out their stalls. The chill winds of a quantum winter may threaten some, but ... read more - Quantum Hardware Outlook 2020
2019 saw Google finally demonstrate quantum supremacy. Competitors such as IBM reminded us that this was just an opening skirmish in what will be a long campaign. In 2020 we will see paths divide as competing companies and technologies face-up to the quantum chasm blocking the way to large scale ... read more - Quantum Algorithms Outlook 2020
Contrary to many reports there are set be immediate applications even for early devices. Some will be controversial. However in other areas timelines look over-hyped. 2020 will be a key year to prove the naysayers wrong. Will clients see early value? Despite all the fuss, quantum processors actually run more ... read more
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- IBM Releases Novel AI-Powered Technologies to Help Health and Research Community Accelerate the Discovery of Medical Insights and Treatments for COVID-19IBM Research has been actively developing new cloud and AI-powered technologies that can help researchers across a variety of scientific disciplines accelerate the process of discovery. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, we continue to ask how these technologies and our scientific knowledge can help in the global battle against coronavirus. ... read more
- Meet the women in IBM Research securing your digital futureThis is our fifth and final blog post in a series for Women’s History Month 2020 focused on women innovating the future of IBM Research. Previously, we’ve met women developing AI, quantum, cloud computing, and next generation systems. They’re developing technologies that promise to transform entire industries, from medicine to ... read more
- Parquet Modular Encryption: Developing a new open standard for big data securityFinding the best way to protect sensitive big data is an issue that is top of mind for businesses and enterprises. Many storage solutions can encrypt the data, but that could still leave it exposed to the whims of the storage administrator. This becomes even more complex in the cloud, ... read more
- Women in systems research transforming AI hardwareAfter 75 years of dramatic advances, the digital computer is bumping against its limits, constrained by its architecture and atomic physics. To continue making smarter, faster and more efficient machines, systems researchers at IBM are pioneering new technologies and approaches. In this blogpost, the fourth in our series dedicated to ... read more
- IBM Q Award Winners AnnouncedQuantum computing’s ability to fully realize its ground-breaking potential requires the support of an educated and motivated network of researchers, educators, students, programmers and businesses. IBM has been committed to cultivating such a network since making the first cloud accessible quantum computer available to the world in 2016. We are ... read more
- IBM at the Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and AIThe ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier venue where the human-computer interaction (HCI) community meets the artificial intelligence (AI) community. Work presented at IUI focuses on improving the interaction between humans and AI systems by combining HCI approaches with state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning (ML), natural ... read more
- Women in IBM Research progressing cloud computing from all anglesTalk to hybrid cloud researchers at IBM, and the conversations soon swing to AI, cryptography and loads of enabling technologies. It’s clear that cloud computing can’t be considered a single discipline, because clouds encompass virtually all the technologies—and the associated challenges—of computing itself. The three women featured here represent the ... read more
- What if Archimedes Had A Quantum Computer To Estimate Pi?An algorithm to calculate Pi on IBM’s quantum computers honors Pi Day—and helps us understand how a quantum computer works. Ever since Archimedes hit upon a value for Pi in the third century B.C., mathematicians have used a variety of methods and instruments to puzzle over it. And no wonder. ... read more
- Moving Beyond the Lab: IBM Research Powers Pipeline of AI Advances for the EnterpriseNatural language poses unique challenges for AI. Although language is governed by rules meant to dictate grammar use and spelling, these rules are not always followed, and different languages have different rules. Even when the rules are followed, the result can often have ambiguous meaning. For a natural language processing ... read more
- Female IBM Researchers Are Helping AI Overcome Bias and Find Its VoiceArtificial intelligence is not only the next evolution of computing, it is also helping to define the future of human knowledge and the possibilities of advanced cognition. This month, we are highlighting the work of four AI researchers at IBM who are pushing the frontiers of the technology. Their efforts ... read more
