We are a division famous for our science and vital to IBM.

Our research activities span three disciplines: Computer science, electrical engineering and mathematics/business analytics. Each discipline contains associated research areas, or "professional interest communities" (PICs):

Computer Science

Algorithms & Theory

Artificial Intelligence

Communications & Networking

Computational Biology

Computer Architecture

Data Management

Distributed & Fault-Tolerant Computing

Graphics & Visualization

Human Computer Interaction

Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining

Medical Informatics

Mobile Computing

Multimedia

Natural Language Processing

Operating Systems

Performance Modeling & Analysis

Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Security & Privacy

Service Science

Services Computing

Storage Systems

Supercomputing

User Interface Technologies

Web

Electrical Engineering

Design Automation

Electrical Interconnect and Packaging

Signal Processing

Verification Technology

VLSI Design

Business Analytics/Mathematics

Algorithms & Theory

Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining

Operations Research

Statistics