For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that a relatively new memory technology, known as phase-change memory (PCM), can reliably store multiple data bits per cell over extended periods of time.

Hanover, Germany, 1 Mar 2011

Energy consumption poses a critical challenge in the development of next-generation supercomputers and IT systems. Within the next 10 years, IBM scientists and developers aim to build computers featuring exascale computing performance, but with an absolute energy consumption that is not much higher than that of today's largest systems. Exascale computers are capable of reaching a performance 300 times faster than today's fastest supercomputer.

Preserving privacy in school community portal and privacy protecting electronic university course evaluation | Danish | Dutch | | Greek | Spanish | Swedish Frankfurt, Germany, 28 January 2011—Today, on Data Privacy Day, a major research initiative was announced to pilot cryptographic technologies that enable European citizens to better protect their privacy and identities.

Scientists will resolve privacy and resilience limitations of public cloud infrastructures in a new project called Trustworthy Clouds (TClouds) English | German Zurich, 22 November 2010—Today, a European consortium including IBM; and Sirrix

English | German - Lugano and Rüschlikon, Switzerland, 22 October 2010—Today IBM announced a Shared University Research (SUR) award, in the form of a modern high-end server, to Professor Dr. Walter Binder of the University of Lugano.

IBM and ETH Zurich to open the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center located on the campus of IBM Research - Zurich. The facility is the centerpiece of a 10-year strategic partnership in nanoscience between IBM and ETH Zurich where scientists will research novel nanoscale structures and devices to advance energy and information technologies.

Zurich, Switzerland, 1 Mar 2011—Energy consumption poses a critical challenge in the development of next-generation supercomputers and IT systems. Within the next 10 years, IBM scientists and developers aim to build computers featuring exascale computing performance, but with an absolute energy consumption that is not much higher than that of today's largest systems. Exascale computers are capable of reaching a performance of one ExaFLOP/s, which corresponds to 10 18 floating point operations per second. This is about 300 times faster than today's fastest supercomputer.

Zurich, Switzerland, 22 Feb 2011 —In 1956, IBM chose to establish its European lab in Zurich for several reasons, including close access to some of the best talent and skills in the world. IBM's lab director at the time, A.P. Speiser, knew that being only 10 minutes from world-reknowned universities such as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and the University of Zurich would drive innovation for decades to come.

IBM silicon nanophotonics uses optical signals to connect chips faster and with lower power | - Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, 1 December 2010—IBM (NYSE: IBM ) scientists today unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light (instead of electrical signals), resulting in smaller, faster and more power-efficient chips than is possible with conventional technologies.

European Union research initiative aims to increase electronic device efficiency by 10× and eliminate power consumption of devices in standby mode Scientists will apply nanotechnology to lower electricity consumption and extend battery life of electronic devices Lausanne, Switzerland, 27 October 2010—Today, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéra

ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award for seminal research in privacy-enhancing cryptography English | German - Chicago, IL, 7 October 2010—At the 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, held in Chicago, IL, ACM's Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) has awarded its top honors to Jan Camenis