The Hard Tech Revolutionizing Computing: A Guided Journey into IBM Research
Channel: IBM Research
Date: 2021-08-10

At IBM, we invest in and create the fundamental technologies that power the world of computing. Many of the modern digital technologies that you use today, running businesses, banks, airlines, digital commerce, in our devices originated in innovations created by IBM, many of them right here in this building. It would be impossible to tell the story of computing without IBM, and it would be equally impossible to understand the next computing revolution without the technologies that IBM Research is now pioneering.

This short film provides a glimpse of the innovations that we're building that will power computing today and for decades to come. First, we will look about what it takes to push the absolute limits of computing performance. You're going to be the first ones to see the world's first two nanometer node computer chip. Next, we'll check in with our quantum computing team to talk about how we have created machines that calculate as nature does. We will show you the latest advancements in quantum computing hardware and software, as we work towards building a thousand qubit plus machine in the next two years, and at the same time, make it as easy to program these powerful machines as it is to use today's programming tools. Our next stop will take us deep into the world of languages and AI. We'll see how natural language processing is being applied to not just human language, but to the language of our machines, the world of code and to the language of industries such as chemistry. And lastly, we will survey the world's largest computer, the cloud. We'll learn how the future of business will be made possible through a visionary serverless open architecture, aimed at making the massively heterogeneous and distributed computers that make up the hybrid cloud ultimately work as if it was a single infinitely powerful computer. It is an exciting journey into our hard tech projects that will change how you think about computing and the coming era of accelerated discovery. Let's get started.


0:00 - Start
05:34 - Computing with Unrivaled Performance
15:55 - Commanding the Power of Nature
28:48 - Automating the Languages of Discovery
40:38 - Building the World's Computer