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And yet I can list a lot of things that Bell Labs did that changed the World, and yet I am struggling to name even one that came out of IBM Research. I'm not sa
by PaulRobinson 1y ago
And yet I can list a lot of things that Bell Labs did that changed the World, and yet I am struggling to name even one that came out of IBM Research. I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying that work didn't resonate as strongly.
- scrlk 1y agoDynamic random access memory, RISC, relational databases, laser eye surgery. Less mainstream but significant: scanning tunnelling microscope, high temperature superconductivity, fractal geometry.
- xhkkffbf 1y agoTwo back-to-back Nobel Prizes 1986-87. That's pretty cool.
- pmcjones 1y agoSQL, cost-based database query planning, transaction locking, … — System R.