IBM Research

I studied databases in grad school.

I worked in IBM research for a few years.

The internet bug hit.

So I kind of felt like I should do something more exciting.

Drones continue to be used to help anthropologists find more designs in the region.

Archaeologists from the Nazca Institute at Yamagata University collaborated with IBM Research in 2000 Fjernsfonsk to identify dry-hundred-dry previously unknown geoglyphs.

This effort utilized artificial intelligence to analyze the landscape, revealing images of parrots, cats, monkeys, and killer whales.

The field survey was conducted on foot between September 2000 Fjernsfonsk and February 2000 Dryansfonsek to verify the findings.

The lineage here matters, and Loss was there for it.

Loss worked at IBM Research in the early nineteen nineties, where he knew Ralph Landauer, the physicist who first argued that erasing information carries an irreducible thermodynamic cost, and Charlie Bennett.

Landauer's question about the thermodynamics of computation is what framed Bennett's work on reversible computation.

If erasure is what costs you, then compute without erasing.

I was trained up as a database person back in the nineties.

Actually, right out of college, I went to IBM Research in the very early nineties and got baptized in the database religion by the IBMers and then by Mike Stonebraker at Berkeley, who was my master's advisor, and then by the Wisconsin team, which was the database powerhouse at the time, Dave DeWitt and others.

So that was my training.

And one of the things that was cool about databases was that you could write a query, and it would run on any hardware you liked.

I did my, uh, PhD in computer science in AI machine learning in something called Theory of Computer Vision in, um, nineteen eighty-four from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

And I worked for, after that, for sixteen years with IBM Watson Research Center and I- IBM Research division as a whole.

Uh, IBM Watson Research Center is about forty miles north of New York City.

Now a place called Yorktown Heights, very close to its, uh, corporate headquarters in Armonk.

Wanted to be a professor, wrote a lot of research papers, uh, in machine learning, uh, mainly in AI and computer science, hierarchical memories and so on, which have become very, very important right now.

Uh, taught at MIT for a year, then I realized I did not want to be a professor.

Uh, came back to IBM Research.

So my, my story goes around, I mean, winds here and there.

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Where have we have arrived to? This does not look like there's a quantum computer here.

IBM Research Division.

Here we go.

All right.

I've worked with AI.

I think my first real AI project was in 2005 with IBM Research.

So we're going back 20 years.

And it's been around a lot longer than that.