Tag: IBM

  • Nation & World

    Mark I, rebooted

    After a yearlong delay, the landmark Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Calculator shifts residences to its new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.

    8 minutes
    Mark 1.
  • Nation & World

    Riding the quantum computing ‘wave’

    Google engineers claimed to have created a quantum computer that exhibited “quantum supremacy.” The Gazette spoke with Harvard Quantum Initiative Co-Director Mikhail Lukin about the achievement, about similar work at Harvard.

    12 minutes
    Artist's drawing for Google Quantum
  • Nation & World

    The promise of ‘big data’

    Harvard symposium embraces the goals and challenges of collecting and processing massive amounts of information on key complex issues.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Students vs. computer

    Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan students put IBM’s groundbreaking, “Jeopardy!”-winning computer to the test in a live match-up on Oct. 31. But outsmarting Watson, it turns out, is a not-so-elementary task.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    First Programmable Computer

    Michael D. Smith Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SEAS

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award

    The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today (March 9) named Leslie G. Valiant the winner of the 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.

    4 minutes