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IBM tool aims to bring data sources together
News The technology, code-named MineLink and developed here at the company's Almaden research centre, uses heuristic techniques to identify data fields that contain related information even though they may be labelled differently.
[August 9, 2004, 17:00]
IBM plans open-source storage strategy
News IBM's goal is for the system to control as many as a billion files, said Jai Menon, an IBM fellow and storage research manager at Big Blue's Almaden Research Center. Big Blue is working with an undisclosed open-source group on the software and will...
[December 23, 2002, 7:56]
IBM stacks up storage bricks
News We're taking advantage of the third dimension," said Almaden researcher Robert Garner. By the first quarter of 2003, IBM hopes to have built a three-by-three-by-three-brick prototype with a total of 32 terabytes of storage capacity, said Jai Menon...
[December 17, 2002, 12:36]
IBM's diamond in the rough
News The answers to that objection by IBM's Almaden Research Centre are, however. The observation that there is nothing "personal" about personal computing is nothing new. A computer worn as jewellery is just one of the eye-catching ways researchers...
[July 31, 2000, 12:45]
Magnetic tape prototype makes data leap
News Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Fuji Photo have devised a prototype storage system utilising a dual-side magnetic tape that can hold 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch. Magnetic tape isn't dead, IBM and Fuji Photo would like...
[May 16, 2006, 9:05]
Humanity: Computing's biggest problem
News A team of computer scientists, academics and others gathered this week at IBM's Almaden Research Centre to swap ideas on how to understand better the ways in which humans interact with machines. Researchers are trying to get a grip on one of the...
[July 17, 2003, 10:10]
Infineon and IBM in Ovonic collaboration
News The work will take place at IBM's Yorktown Heights, New York, and Almaden, California, labs. Extending a longstanding technology alliance, Infineon and IBM have launched a programme to research phase-change memory, material that retains data by...
[May 24, 2005, 15:45]
Single electron image captured
News The result comes out of research performed by Daniel Rugar, manager of nanoscale studies at IBM's Almaden Research Center and others on a form of MRI called magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM), which can be 10 million times more sensitive...
[July 15, 2004, 8:05]
IBM allies with Stanford for spintronics
News It will be based out of IBM's Almaden Research facility in San Jose, California, and the nearby Palo Alto, California, campus of Stanford University. IBM and Stanford University on Monday will announce a joint effort to conduct further research...
[April 26, 2004, 10:30]
Intel promotes mobile location services
News Researchers at Intel are examining ways to triangulate an individual's location with Wi-Fi or cellular networks like GSM, said Ian Smith, a senior researcher from Intel Labs at the New Paradigms of Using Computers conference at IBM's Almaden Labs.
[July 13, 2005, 9:15]
Putting your brain on a microchip
News Now, cognitive computing - essentially, when computers process information the same way a brain does - is either "'not in our lifetime' or 'any moment now'", Hawkins said wryly to an audience at a conference of the same name this week at IBM's...
[May 12, 2006, 11:35]
US Report: Jini stuck in its bottle?
News At the same time, IBM posted information on its Web site on TSpaces, a project developed in IBM's Almaden Research Centre. Sun Microsystems Jini project brought oohs and aahs when it was unveiled to the national media last month.
[August 4, 1998, 12:11]
Researchers urge use of tech to protect privacy
News These were among the ideas that came up during a gathering of 150 academics and researchers this week at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California to explore ways of protecting privacy amid an explosion in the amount of personal...
[April 11, 2003, 8:49]
IBM leads charge on holistic computing
News Ganek spoke at the company's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, during a three-day conference dedicated to the new computing concept. Last year, IBM used its Almaden conference to highlight nanotechnology, which revolves around building chips out...
[April 12, 2002, 11:24]
Microsoft patents body power
News Some work has been done on near-field intrabody communications -- most notably by IBM's Almaden Research Labs, which at Comdex '96 demonstrated a prototype device that let two people exchange electronic business cards by shaking hands.
[June 23, 2004, 11:35]
IBM saves chipmaking kit from an early bath
News We can routinely do sub-30nm spacing," said Robert Allen, manager of lithography materials at the Almaden Research Centre, IBM Research. IBM Research has come up with a way to draw lines in silicon 29.9nm apart with existing chipmaking machines...
[February 20, 2006, 15:35]
IBM takes Linux to Hollywood
News Developed at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, the GPFS technology evolved from Tiger Shark, an enterprise computing system for video archiving introduced in 1996. As Hollywood goes ever more digital, IBM is gearing up to grab...
[September 17, 2002, 7:58]
Calendaring: The last great niche?
News IBM's Almaden Research Lab is also developing a sophisticated contact-event-networking program. Busy? A slew of technologists want to help you manage your time, by overhauling the wall calendar. That's the impression here at When 2.0, a one-day...
[December 8, 2005, 7:55]
'Noisy light' is new key to encryption
News Companies such as IBM, through its Almaden Research Center and NEC, with its NEC Research Institute, are well immersed in quantum cryptography research. Scientists at Northwestern University say they have harnessed the properties of light to...
[November 15, 2002, 14:48]
IBM makes molecular switch
News Meanwhile, scientists at IBM's Almaden laboratory in San Jose led by Andreas Heinrich have measured the ability of single iron atoms to hold a stable magnetic field (magnetic anisotropy), using a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM).
[August 31, 2007, 16:52]
