IBM Research and ETH Zurich open a new era of innovation
Kim Martineau
IBM Research and ETH Zurich just signed a new research agreement, with the goal of creating the algorithmic underpinnings of the next era in computing. This partnership has been longstanding, with the IBM-ETH relationship dating back 70 years, to the very start of IBM’s presence in Zurich.
The Zurich lab’s inaugural director, Ambrose Speiser, was a young computer science professor at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), hired by Thomas Watson Jr. himself to build a premier European lab...