Slide 1: Research and Future Trends
Research and Future Trends Arvind Krishna Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and Director, Research
Slide 2: IBM Research strategic imperatives
IBM Research strategic imperatives Reimagining Developing computing core AI Transforming industries Defining and through science and AI optimizing blockchain 2
Slide 3: Recent highlights
Recent highlights 14nm DOE Stochastic phase- Skin cancer Augmenting The IBM Quantum IBM blockchain commercialization supercomputing change neurons image analysis creativity Experience IBM containers Cognitive in-car TJ Bot Watson Beat Partnership on AI Olli Fighting Zika on Bluemix companion Pfizer
Slide 4: Widen IBM's leadership in core AI
Widen IBM’s leadership in core AI Now • Capable of ingesting 45 million articles to learn essential vocabulary of over 100,000 topics • Created world’s first cognitive movie trailer using audio-visual emotional analysis • Watson for Genomics absorbs 10,000 new medical articles and details from 100 c
Slide 5: IBM systems leadership is unmatched
IBM systems leadership is unmatched Now • World’s fastest commercial processor capable of handling 2.5 billion transactions/day • POWER8 has 4x more cache, memory bandwidth and threads per core than competition • 14nm IBM processor chips contain ~8 billion transistors operating at industry-leading 5
Slide 6: IBM Quantum Experience
IBM Quantum Experience Quantum computer at IBM Research IBM quantum bit device IBM Quantum Experience In May 2016, IBM made a quantum computing platform available via the IBM Cloud, giving students, scientists and enthusiasts hands-on access to run algorithms and experiments 6
Slide 7: Why quantum computing matters
Why quantum computing matters Hard Problems for Medicine & Machine Searching Classical Computing Materials Learning Big Data Easy Problems Quantum Possible Quantum computing will enable us to perform some computations that would take more than the age of the universe to do on a classical computer 7
Slide 8: Classical systems cannot accurately solve certain categories of problems
Classical systems cannot accurately solve certain categories of problems A laptop can simulate a molecule with 25 electrons, but to simulate one with 43 electrons, we’d need to use the most powerful supercomputer in the world No classical computer we could ever build could simulate a 50-electron sys
Slide 9: IBM building first universal quantum computers for business and science
IBM building first universal quantum computers for business and science On March 6, 2017, IBM announced industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems Leveraging IBM’s quantum research breakthroughs, IBM plans to deliver “IBM Q” quantum systems and serv
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