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'''IBM Research''', a [[division]] of [[IBM]], is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects.  Its origins can be traced to the establishment in 1945 of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University.[http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/watsonlab.html]

Some major activities include the invention of innovative materials and structures, high-performance microprocessors and computers, analytical methods and tools, algorithms, software architectures, and methods for managing, searching and deriving meaning from data.

Among their most famous past developments are the [[Data Encryption Standard]] (DES), the classical computer language ''Formula Translation System'' ([[FORTRAN]]), the [[Fast Fourier Transform]] (FFT), [[Benoît Mandelbrot|Benoît B. Mandelbrot's]] paper introducing [[Fractal]]s, Magnetic disk storage ([[Hard Disk]]s), ''One-transistor dynamic RAM (DRAM)'' ([[Dynamic random access memory]]), ''Reduced Instruction Set Computer'' ([[RISC]]) architecture, [[Relational database]]s, and the [[grandmaster]] level [[chess]] computer, [[Deep Blue]]. IBM Research's several contributions to physical sciences include the [[scanning tunneling microscope]] and [[high temperature superconductivity]].  Both these achievements were rewarded with [[Nobel Prize]]s.