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Anna Topol: Chief Technology Officer Gloabl Think Labs, IBM Industry Research
Rob High: IBM Fellow, VP, CTO IBM Edge Computing
IBM Research is a company focused on research and development.
IBM Research holds reseach products and developments such as innovative materials and structures, high-performance microprocessors and computers, analytical methods and tools, algorithms, software architectures, methods for managing, searching and deriving meaning from data. It also
plays a vital role in turning IBM's advanced services methodologies into reusable assets.
IBM Research's numerous contributions to physical and computer sciences include the Scanning Tunneling Microscope and high temperature superconductivity, both of which were awarded the Nobel Prize. IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the “Jeopardy!” television quiz show.
IBM Research was established in 1945 opening of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. It operates in twelve countries. Its clientele includes governments, universities, businesses, and others..
