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Smarter Energy

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Special Issue of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkcCE6wqRx1XsY1KAaK8qDZtgJjPlaxo8yaAF7vO0DoMGZQPLJVL1C5xVdKgOz_YbSrG8OXDDvK6CmOgzrvFguMYuKC5GhfzsmdMjMV7cYg9tIBPPBAjyufwAgivat4fdxg1TSayq6hyphenhyphenZ/s1600/jrd_frontcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkcCE6wqRx1XsY1KAaK8qDZtgJjPlaxo8yaAF7vO0DoMGZQPLJVL1C5xVdKgOz_YbSrG8OXDDvK6CmOgzrvFguMYuKC5GhfzsmdMjMV7cYg9tIBPPBAjyufwAgivat4fdxg1TSayq6hyphenhyphenZ/s320/jrd_frontcover.jpg" width="249" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">Current issue of IBM Journal of R&D</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">Large amounts of data are transforming industries, and this has a particularly important and significant effect in the energy domain. Energy stands at the nexus of areas relating to the environment, economic development, and national security. This crucial industry is also positioned at the tipping point of multiple disruptive trends. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">As noted by our guest editors IBM Fellow Chandu Visweswariah, director of the IBM <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/client-programs/seri/">Smarter Energy Research Institute</a>, and Brad Gammons, Jr.,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>general manager of IBM’s Global Energy and Utilities Industry, we also face an unprecedented amount of uncertainty in planning, managing, and orchestrating energy systems. For example, consider weather uncertainty, uncertainty in supply and demand, intermittency due to renewable energy adoption, an uncertain regulatory environment, and uncertainty in energy prices.</span><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">At the same time, we are drowning in data from SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) instrumentation, PMUs (Phasor Measurement Units), and smart meters—along with exogenous data like weather characteristics, energy usage, customer needs, vegetation characteristics, soil data, and so on. When curated and mined with the appropriate analytics, this data will help the industry to transition to clean energy, increase customer awareness and participation, and improve the resilience and efficiency of our energy systems.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">This issue</a> is devoted to the innovative application of cutting-edge analytics in the energy domain. A collection of 11 papers represent state-of-the-art tools that are delivering significant value in utilities around the world. This body of work demonstrates the importance of such topics to IBM as well the importance of analytics in the energy sector. IBM Research, in all its global labs, has embraced deep domain knowledge and industry eminence in the energy space, leading to innovations that are not just useful in the “back office,” but that will prove essential to the day-to-day operations of energy companies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://twitter.com/pickover" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">Clifford A. Pickover</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">Editor-in-Chief</span><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></i></div>

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Technologies for Educational Transformation

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Special Issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></i></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGiD0WLvXUoPLcH2hr4E4zXiqNzuthDDLfAc8GLxqlcjPVmxwNbmlkjdAIRZyXrkj2I7Kg6NIZ2HRIxH27oQoyy_WpDIjMCX4UnvP_nAStn36i5ABZ3RldtgrN2Kr37tBC2_MoJAHZmFb/s1600/rdjournal_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGiD0WLvXUoPLcH2hr4E4zXiqNzuthDDLfAc8GLxqlcjPVmxwNbmlkjdAIRZyXrkj2I7Kg6NIZ2HRIxH27oQoyy_WpDIjMCX4UnvP_nAStn36i5ABZ3RldtgrN2Kr37tBC2_MoJAHZmFb/s320/rdjournal_cover.jpg" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">Current issue of IB<span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif;">M</span> Journal of R&D</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Education worldwide is in a state of transition, enabling unprecedented levels of personalization. Additionally, devices used in learning settings are proliferating, and information is being digitally gathered. Worldwide demand for education often exceeds the capabilities of standard brick-and-mortar institutions, which increases the necessity of online and blended learning options.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As noted by our guest editors <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarabasson" target="_blank">Sara Basson</a>, <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-svn" target="_blank">Satya V. Nitta</a>, and <a href="http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=in-bsengupt" target="_blank">Bikram Sengupta</a>, the digitization of learning environments also creates opportunities to better gauge and improve student outcomes. Through advanced analytics regarding a student’s abilities, preferences, and learning styles, appropriate learning materials can be suggested to students. Learning materials can be automatically classified, clustered, and tagged to improve targeted learning and to eliminate redundancy.</span><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Language understanding and dialog-enabled systems can serve as automated tutors to provide additional training and game-like interfaces for students. Analytic tools can predict areas of future growth and opportunity, inform students about careers that are well suited to student abilities, and provide detailed guidance to help students to achieve career success. With the availability of digital student records, digital learning materials, and advanced analytics, personalized education is expected to change traditional educational models and improve educational success.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This special issue of the <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IBM Journal ofResearch and Development</i></a> present ways that learning environments are incorporating digital models—and explores the impact of analytics to increase personalization and improve performance. We note that this is the first special issue of our journal devoted to technologies for educational transformation, and this reflects the increasing importance with which IBM is viewing this transformation and the intent of IBM to help shape efforts in this area.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/pickover" target="_blank">Clifford A. Pickover</a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">Editor-in-Chief</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></i><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;"></span></div> </span> </div>

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IBM z13 Technology and Design

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Special Issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This special issue of the <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</i></a> describes the innovations and technology in the IBM z13, the latest mainframe with significant new capabilities, along with enhanced capacity, security, data serving, virtualization, reliability, and robustness. This new system is specifically designed for big data, analytics, mobile transactions, and cloud computing.</span></div><a name="more"></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMNUflZUH1iLHUbYMJ20coIowpnLVBmyupu8jjm4_GV1kp9JFkDe5jr-vi1kmYo8f6W5lFvXPdTxr76UhguFy_f5ICbeTLBGX34yMSRZlZnrEIjGfIyE23nIbN6pzNDYvS59ygyICHkkb/s1600/jrd-frontcover-2430516-proof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMNUflZUH1iLHUbYMJ20coIowpnLVBmyupu8jjm4_GV1kp9JFkDe5jr-vi1kmYo8f6W5lFvXPdTxr76UhguFy_f5ICbeTLBGX34yMSRZlZnrEIjGfIyE23nIbN6pzNDYvS59ygyICHkkb/s320/jrd-frontcover-2430516-proof.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As IBM Guest Editor and Chief Engineer of z System Hardware William Kostenko notes, "relative to prior generations of mainframes, significant new designs deliver much larger memory and caches, more processor cores, SMT (simultaneous multithreading), SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) computing, expanded encryption capability, a new Sysplex attachment, and a higher bandwidth I/O subsystem."</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The topics covered in this issue include the design of the microprocessor, caches, SMP (symmetrical multi-processing) fabric, memory, I/O subsystem, cryptography, packaging technologies, system design, firmware design, verification, advances in high-availability computing, resource management, and related advanced design methodologies that have made these new technologies possible. The IBM z13 is a trusted enterprise platform for integrating data, transactions, and insights. IBM z Systems provide the computing infrastructure for the new app economy, enabling high-speed mobile transactions, analytics, and security through the leading-edge designs described in this issue.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">Clifford A. Pickover</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">Editor-in-Chief</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></i></div>

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Multimedia and Visual Analytics

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Special Issue of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUtR9cHNixbZFL9m6jgsJDjFCrFFHE2Jan0YFSgxfko546N_t5vjsQAYYSkzNVa1Z49CcjnFvTHufZmmEN1qJbWxvgXmmKVl3Q6lx-Y22FMb9RGgaQrVbYzNuPiO5Kn1OW4Hw07NWsnkqO/s1600/jrd-frontcover-2412031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUtR9cHNixbZFL9m6jgsJDjFCrFFHE2Jan0YFSgxfko546N_t5vjsQAYYSkzNVa1Z49CcjnFvTHufZmmEN1qJbWxvgXmmKVl3Q6lx-Y22FMb9RGgaQrVbYzNuPiO5Kn1OW4Hw07NWsnkqO/s320/jrd-frontcover-2412031.jpg" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">Current issue of IBM Journal of R&D</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With the increasing growth of bandwidth and storage space, along with the proliferation of mobile devices, the information we generate and consume is becoming much more visual. On the content-generation side, multimedia data (image and video) is being generated and consumed at an extraordinary pace. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When consumed, one expectation is that complex information will be packaged and delivered visually and enable data scientists as well as business users to interact in real-time with the data. Additionally, visual analytics improves the comprehension, appreciation, trust in, and communication of analytics results and insights for both business and scientific users.</span><br /><a name="more"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As the IBM guest editors for this issue <a href="http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=il-AYAS">Aya Soffer</a> and <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-huisuibmres">Hui Su</a> note, innovative methods, technologies, and systems are needed to manage and extract meaningful insight from this data, due to this continued growth of multimedia content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similarly, in the area of visual analytics, new systems and techniques are needed to handle large datasets, to allow intuitive interfaces that enable users to explore and interact with Big Data and collaboratively develop new insights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our latest special issue of the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">IBM Journal of Research and Development</a></i> includes papers on a variety of analytics and graphical approaches that facilitate the management, processing, and understanding of multimedia and visual information. Specific topics highlighted in the issue include medical, retail, biometric, and social-network areas, as well as neurosynaptic cores and much more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://twitter.com/pickover" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">Clifford A. Pickover</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">Editor-in-Chief</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div>

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Special Issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development Current issue of IBM Journal of R&D With the increasing growth of bandwidth...