IBM Tech Lab inaugurated by John Nash

NEW DELHI: Nobel Laureate Dr John F Nash Jr, inaugurated the 'Technology

Center,' part of the IBM India Research Laboratory (IRL). Also present on the

occasion were Nobel Laureate Dr Amartya Sen, and game theorists Lloyd Shapley,

Robert Aumann and Robert Weber. The center was formally launched by Abraham

Thomas, managing director, IBM India.

"Project Blue Gene, one of the programs currently under research, could

be as big a milestone in technology as man's first visit to the moon," Dr

Manoj Kumar, director, IBM India Research Lab, said. "The aim is to make

the program, running on a petaflop machine, perform 1000 trillion operations per

second, that is ten times faster than the fastest computer today," Kumar

elaborated. Other less ambitious projects under development by the Lab include

the 'search essence' project, a Bio Annotator, a Voice Recognition System and

E-commerce applications.  

"There is also a lot of work happening on the e-government front,"

adds Kumar. "Our industrial research lab is working on the platform,

deployment and interoperability of e-governance systems." IRL is also

working on cutting edge technology areas critical to IBM corporation like Grid

Computing, and Autonomic computing. The IBM India Research Lab is situated at

the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, and is one of IBM's 8 such

global research centers.

Source: CNS