A complimentary tour of the IBM Industry Solutions Laboratory is being organized on Wednesday, August 2 from 1pm -6pm. A bus will leave the hotel at 1pm, and visitors will have two hours to experience the demos at the Laboratory. The bus will return to the hotel at 6pm. Seating is limited to 55 attendees, so please register early at the registration desk.
Contact person: Ravi Rao ravirao@us.ibm.com
Where Research Meets the Market: by Peter GwynneIBM's Industry Solutions Laboratories bring together customers and researchers in a unique and effective way.
IBM opened three Industry Solutions Laboratories (ISLs) in January 1997, with the vision of creating synergy between the future needs of its customers and emerging technologies from the Research Division. The laboratories in Hawthorne, New York; Stuttgart, Germany; and Yamato, Japan are giving companies from a wide variety of industries the opportunity to see how IBM's advanced technologies and solutions could impact their businesses, while IBM researchers obtain a market's-eye view of the ways in which their technology can be applied to real-world problems. The Research Division's involvement in the labs' activities gives customers a vision of the future that few competitors can match, and assures customers of IBM's commitment to creating innovative, state-of-the-art solutions.
The displays and demonstrations at the ISLs indicate the breadth of IBM's technology. They showcase prototypes from the company's First-of-a-Kind research projects developed for specific customers that can be replicated for others and feature more basic Research projects with market potential.
Some of the most popular technologies on display at the labs include data mining, supply-chain management and Internet and voice solutions.