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Dr. John Kelly Senior Vice President and Director, IBM Research

© 2013 International Business Machines Corporation 2

China

Watson Almaden

Austin

Tokyo Haifa

Zurich

India

Dublin

Melbourne

Brazil

IBM Research: The World is Our Lab

Kenya


Mobile Social

Cloud

Foundation for a Smarter Planet

Internet of Things


Big Data and Analytics across Industries

Healthcare for

the individual

Transactive Energy Management

Marketing Analytics

Natural Resources Optimization


Research Innovation in Support of Client Engagements


Eras of Computing

Tabulating Systems Era

Cognitive Systems Era

Programmable Systems Era


IBM Research: Leading in Key Technologies for Big Data

Software Defined Environments

Atomic and Nano-scale

Data-centric Systems

Visual Analytics and Interaction

Context and Learning 1

2

3

4

5


Context and Learning

Accelerated

Discovery Watson 1.0 Global Business Development Platform

1


Visual Analytics and Interaction

Modeling Human Heart

Ice Floe Forecast Security Analytics

2


Software Defined Environments Workload Definition Language Ad Hoc Analytics

3

Mobile Provisioning


Data-centric Systems

Active Memory Integrated Photonics Hadoop Graph Database

4


Atomic and Nano-scale – Memory

Atomic-scale Memory Phase Change Memory Racetrack Memory

5


Atomic and Nano-scale – Logic

Carbon Nanotubes

Silicon Nanowire Graphene Quantum

5


Eras of Computing

Tabulating Systems Era


Programmable Systems Era



Capabilities of Cognitive Systems

Watson 1.0 Watson 3.0

Memory

Learning

Judgment

Perception

Reasoning

Multi-modal

Watson 2.0


Cognitive Computing: Watson 2.0


Cognitive Computing Application: “Medical Sieve” Image anomaly detection and identification

Quickly filters

irrelevant images

Highlights disease-

depicting regions

Multi-modal

decision support

Shape Boundary Attenuation


Legal Suggest defense/prosecution arguments

Telemarketing Next generation – persuasive – call center

Healthcare Surface best protocols to practitioners

Finance

Enhance decision support

Cognitive Computing: Watson 3.0 Complex reasoning and interaction extends human cognition


Neuron and synapse-like computing model

Systems learn through analytics / experience

Advantages: Ultra energy-efficient, flexible, learning

Wiring diagram –

monkey brain ‘True North’ Character ID

Learning Pong

Cognitive Computing: SyNAPSE


Cognitive Computing: SyNAPSE Neurosynaptic Supercomputer

“Brain Cube”: 256 million “neurons” 64 billion “synapses” 100 watts

Human-Scale: 100 trillion synapses


The Human Brain Project Detailed Brain Model; Addressing Challenges of Modern Neuroscience

2005 – BlueBrain Project Launched – Partnership with EPFL and IBM

– Pioneered detailed biological simulation of the brain

using a BlueGene/P (56 Tflops)

2013 – Human Brain Project – Wins European Union Flagship Prize (28 Jan)

– €1 billion over 10 years

– 87 Partners: IBM is lead IT partner


The Expanding Universe of Data


These charts and the associated remarks and comments are integrally related, and they are intended to be presented

and understood together.

In an effort to provide additional and useful information regarding the company’s financial results and other financial

information as determined by generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), certain materials presented during this

event include non-GAAP information. The rationale for management’s use of this non-GAAP information, the

reconciliation of that information to GAAP, and other related information is included in supplemental materials entitled

“Non-GAAP Supplemental Materials” that are linked to the company’s investor relations web site at

http://www.ibm.com/investor/events/investor0213.phtml. The Non-GAAP Supplemental Materials are also included as

Attachment II to the company’s Forms 8-K dated January 22, 2013 and February 28, 2013.

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