Thomas J. Watson Research Center
The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters of IBM research with a total of eight laboratories in six countries.
It consists of three different locations with four building complexes. The headquarters is located in Yorktown Heights ( Westchester County , New York ), two more buildings in Hawthorne (New York) and one in Cambridge (Massachusetts).
The research center was named after Thomas John Watson senior and Thomas John Watson junior .
history
The IBM Research Center was established at Columbia University in 1945 as the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory. The original address was 116th Street in New York . In 1953 it expanded to 115th Street. In 1961 the research center was moved to Yorktown Heights and in 1984 moved to another building in Hawthorne.
research
Staff at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center were or are Benoît Mandelbrot , Maurice Karnaugh , Mihir Bellare , Gregory Chaitin , Rolf Landauer , James Cooley , Charles H. Bennett , Michael O. Rabin , Erwin Hahn , DK Ray-Chaudhuri , Richard Garwin (who was temporarily director), Dana Scott , Shmuel Winograd and Mark Russinovich .
The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is also known for the development of Blue Gene - supercomputers , such as the Blue Gene Watson baptized supercomputer with 20 Racks of 1024 processors (91.3 teraflops in the LINPACK benchmark).
Another well-known application from the Thomas Watson Research Center is the IBM Watson .
Web links
- IBM Watson Research Center (English)
Coordinates: 41 ° 12 ′ 36.7 " N , 73 ° 48 ′ 10.9" W.