IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

Enterprise Tech IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation Karl Freund Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Founder and Principal Analyst, Cambrian-AI Research LLC Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. Got it! Oct 10, 2022, 05:24pm EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge.

We had a chance this week to hear how IBM Research goes about its mission of inventing the future. Instead of hiring the brightest scientists and locking them in an ivory tower with like-minded people, the organization strives to embrace collaboration and a full-stack scope of solutions. The different perspectives and contributions from clients, partners, and other research organizations can combine to produce the hardware, software, and systems needed to solve a problem with a superior solution.

The Benefits of the Full-Stack Approach If you are a chip designer, the solution to a problem is probably a new chip. But if you are a software designer, you sit down and start writing code that will run on an existing chip. But if you are IBM Research scientist, you get people together from all relevant domains and collaborate on a full solution to a problem, co-designing across various disciplines.

By co-designing with clients, partners, and technology pillars, a comprehensive approach will produce superior results compared to a piece-meal solution. A good example is how IBM Research has addressed the needs for in-line or real-time AI to prevent credit card fraud, ensure security, and validate transactions. IBM combined semiconductor design for reduced precision math operations with software, firmware, SoC design, and full systems engineering to solve these and other customer needs in business-critical transaction processing.

The IBM Research facility in Albany, NY. IBM Some people still think IBM got out of the hardware business. Yes, they exited hardware businesses that were commoditizing, like x86-based PCs and servers.

But they didn’t exit the high-value (and margin) business that remain above the commodity fray in the market place, and they remain in these business precisely to enable a full-stack solution to hard-to-solve problems. MORE FOR YOU Patrick Byrne Of Overstock Fame Says He Was Involved In Monthslong Effort To Overturn 2020 Election Supreme Court To Decide If California Can Ban Cruelty To Animals In Other States Ukrainian Marines Versus Russian Paratroopers. A Tough Fight Over One Village Is Shaping The Southern Front.

In this video, IBM VP of Hybrid Cloud, IBM Research, Mukesh Khare explains more. Conclusions IBM Research stands at the crossroads of technologies that can solve difficult problems, playing a pivotal role in fundamental technologies such as semiconductors, materials, manufacturing, quantum, hybrid cloud and analog computing. By adopting co-design principles, projects across IBM Research address the full stack of technology needed to meet challenging problems holistically.

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