IBM Research – Australia

IBM Research – Australia is one of twelve research laboratories comprising IBM Research.^[1] Located in Melbourne, it is involved in social media, interactive content, healthcare anaylitics and services research, multimedia analytics, and genomics. The lab is headed by Vice President and Lab Director Joanna Batstone. ^[2]

According to the Australian Trade Commission IBM Research – Australia will be the company’s first laboratory combining research and development in a single organisation.^[3]

IBM has had a presence in Australia since 1936, and is investing in a laboratory expected to feature a staff of 150 to help Australia better compete in the emerging digital economy.^[3] The lab has received an injection of $22 million in Australian Federal Government funding and an undisclosed amount provided by the government of the state of Victoria.^[4]

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History	History of IBM Mergers and acquisitions Think (motto) Operating Systems

Products	Cell microprocessor Mainframe Personal Computer IBM Power Systems Information Management Software Lotus Software Rational Software SPSS ILOG Tivoli Software: Service Automation Manager WebSphere alphaWorks Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History Mashup Center PureQuery Redbooks FlashSystem Fortran Connections

Business entities	Cloud computing Global Services jStart Research International subsidiaries

Facilities	Towers 1250 René-Lévesque, Montreal, QC One Atlantic Center, Atlanta, GA Software Labs Rome Software Lab Toronto Software Lab IBM Buildings 330 North Wabash, Chicago, IL Johannesburg Seattle Research Labs Africa Almaden Center Austin Laboratory Australia Brazil China Laboratory Haifa Laboratory India Laboratory Ireland Thomas J. Watson Center, New York Tokyo Zurich Laboratory Facilities Hakozaki Facility Yamato Facility Cambridge Scientific Center IBM Hursley Canada Head Office Building IBM Rochester Somers Office Complex

Initiatives	Academy of Technology Centers for Advanced Studies: CASCON Deep Thunder IBM Fellow Pulse conference The Great Mind Challenge DeveloperWorks: Develothon Linux Technology Center IBM Virtual Universe Community Smarter Planet

Inventions	Automated teller machine Electronic keypunch Hard disk drive Floppy disk DRAM Relational model Selectric typewriter Financial swaps Universal Product Code Magnetic stripe card Sabre airline reservation system Scanning tunneling microscope

Terminology	Globally Integrated Enterprise Commercial Processing Workload Consumability Technology dividend e-business

CEOs	Thomas J. Watson (1914–1956) Thomas Watson Jr. (1956–1971) T. Vincent Learson (1971–1973) Frank T. Cary (1973–1981) John R. Opel (1981–1985) John Fellows Akers (1985–1993) Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (1993–2002) Samuel J. Palmisano (2002–2011) Ginni Rometty (2012–present)

Board of directors	Alain Belda William R. Brody Kenneth Chenault Michael L. Eskew David Farr Shirley Ann Jackson Andrew N. Liveris James McNerney James W. Owens Samuel J. Palmisano Virginia M. Rometty Joan E. Spero Sidney Taurel Lorenzo Zambrano

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