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Dr. Laura Haas
Distinguished Engineer and Director, Computer Science |
The Computer Science group at IBM's Almaden Research Center leads the next generation of research in information-based computing, user productivity, healthcare IT and the theoretical foundations of computer science. We invent new algorithms and architectures for finding, integrating, managing, analyzing and protecting information, and explore and prototype new modes of user interaction. We are creating the technical underpinnings for a national healthcare network and do fundamental research into game theory and mechanism design, lattices and the theory of semantic mappings. Our innovations have played a role in creating entirely new disciplines such as relational database management and have also led to novel research areas such as information mining, schema mapping, data disclosure management and activity management.
We explore these areas from theory to systems, and from the laboratory to practice. We apply our technology to problems faced by companies in a broad range of industries including finance, healthcare, telecommunications and retail, directly interacting with clients and leveraging IBM's unparalleled technical sales and services teams. We pursue a mix of medium- and long-term research, including high-risk/high-reward projects with the potential for disruptive and revolutionary business impact. We measure our success by our strong publication record and our impact on IBM’s business and the world. Our researchers are active and respected members of their scientific communities and collaborate with universities.
More information on computer science research can be found at IBM Research Computer Science.
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Almaden Computer Science Director's Contest Winners
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The Computer Science department hosts an annual contest for all Almaden summer interns for the "Almaden CS Director's Prize". The contest varies from year to year, but is always hosted by one of our research projects, and advances our research agenda. Last year's contest was hosted by the Avatar project.
The 2007 contest was to create data mashups using DAMIA (Data Mashup Fabric for Intranet Applications), a Web 2.0 based service for cataloging and combining data feeds, developed at IBM's Almaden Research Center in conjunction with a team from SWG. A jury of 5 members selected 3 winners based on innovation as well as skilled use of Damia features in the solution...
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CoScripter
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CoScripter is a system for recording, automating, and sharing business processes performed in a web browser. CoScripter lets you make a recording as you perform a procedure, play it back automatically in the future, and share it with your co-workers. Read More |
Impliance
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The goal of the Impliance project is to build a next-generation information management system that stores all structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data, is easy to manage, and analyzes data in a scalable way. The long-term vision of Impliance has been articulated in our 2007 CIDR Paper. In 2007, the goal of Impliance is to build a warehouse infrastructure that stores large amounts of data with text, extracts annotations through large-scale text analytics, and exploits annotations for semantic search and BI analysis. This infrastructure will be scalable, fault-tolerant, and easy to manage. Read More |
- Ido Guy, Michal Jacovi, Elad Shahar, Noga Meshulam, Vova Soroka, Stephen P. Farrell. Harvesting with SONAR - The Value of Aggregating Social Network Information, CHI'2008 - ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computer Resources, 2007.
- Tyrone Grandison, Christopher Johnson, Gerald Kiernan. "Hippocratic Databases: Current Capabilities and Future Trends." Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends. Ed. Michael Gertz,Sushil Jajodia. 2007.
- David Beymer, Daniel Russell, Peter Orton. An Eye Tracking Study of How Pictures Influence Online Reading, Interact 2007 - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2007.
- Audun Josang, Tyrone Grandison, Bandar Alfayyadh, Mohammed Alzomai, Judith Mcnamara. Security Usability Principles for Vulnerability Analysis and Risk Assessment, 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2007.
- Ioana R. Stanoi, George A. Mihaila, Themis Palpanas, Christian A. Lang. "WhiteWater: Distributed Processing of Fast Streams." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 19.9 (2007): 1214-1226.
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