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For more than three decades, IBM Research has produced important contributions to areas of data management. During the late sixties and early seventies, we developed the original relational database. Continuing our leading-edge research, we have substantially broadened data management to include digital libraries, and data mining.
Today's economy is driven by the creation of knowledge, and companies that can successfully manage their knowledge resources possess a distinct advantage. The challenge of extracting knowledge from data draws upon research in statistics, databases, pattern recognition, machine learning, data visualization, optimization and high-performance computing.
Sophisticated mining of the data from this research allows us to help customers solve specific business problems with increased accuracy. These technologies also help us develop precise ways to deal with the huge amount of information available on the Internet.
Featured concepts:
A tangled web of business information
WebFountain makes sense of it all. (January 2004)
Made to order
IBM makes sense of unstructured data (March 2002)
Getting the answers
IBM mines meetings for meaning (April 2002)
Natural selection
A wise computer program can sort through a mass of electronic documents, creating order from chaos. (April 2000)
Compressed memory
A fundamental breakthrough in computer design allows twice as much information to be stored in memory without compromising computer performance or data integrity. (April 2000)
Capture the moment
Analyzed and indexed automatically, video will soon be as easy to search as text. (July 1999)
Web hounds
Doggedly searching the Internet, the Clever algorithm and its offspring can find the most useful sites and spot emerging communities. (July 1999)
Buried treasure
Data mining sifts the nuggets from the mountains of data collected by supermarkets, credit agencies and other businesses. (July 1999)
COVER STORY: The business of knowledge
Creating tools to turn tacit knowledge into a corporate asset and give everyone better access to information. (December 1998)
Labeling the Web
By attaching rating labels and metadata to documents on the World Wide Web, it is becoming possible to separate the cyberwheat from the chaff. (July 1997)
Information on the fast track
A new research project collects and summarizes digital information from all over and actively makes it available to users based on their preference. (July 1997)
Putting pen to smart paper
A pen-based computing tablet captures writing, drawings and doodles for posterity simultaneously on ordinary paper - and as digital data that can be transferred to a personal computer. (July 1997)
Speeding of a sort
How inspired thinking led to a dramatic increase in the speed at which computers can sort data. (July 1996)
Querying by image content
A powerful new search technology makes it possible to catalog and retrieve images using color, shape and texture. (July 1996)
Libraries without roofs
Digital libraries - vast databases of text, images, video and audio - have been assembled and are being adapted to serve academic, research and commercial needs. (January 1996)
Movies, karaoke, news for a demanding audience
Innovations are providing the basis for an advanced video-on-demand trial in Tokyo (December 1996)
Putting composers in control
A pen-based input system makes fast work of composing on a computer. (December 1996)
Digging for data
Data mining, a term that encompasses an array of techniques, can make the most of individuals' and companies' data. (April 1996)
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