Provides solid guidance for new and existing management structures Information technology (IT) and business, always closely intertwined, are now becoming virtually inseparable. While maintaining their traditional role of increasing organizational efficiency and effectiveness, IT departments are now often required to lead businesses into new industry structures and markets, most recently e-busin...

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The 'SpeechViewer' system, developed by IBM for using with their PS/2 microcomputers or compatibles, is meant as an aid for speech therapists while working with their clients. This paper reports about its speech training and analyzing facilities that are tested in practice to some extent. Using a hardware vowel generator, the accuracy of the detection of the speech features is tested as well. F...

The Modified Indirect Data Address Word (MIDAW) facility was introduced in the IBM® z9TM processor to improve FICON® performance, especially when accessing IBM DB2® databases. This facility is a new method of gathering data into and scattering data from discontinuous storage locations during an I/O operation. This IBM Redpaper is mainly intended for industry professionals who are interested in ...

Abstract Recently, IBM has made available a quantum computer provided with 16 qubits, denoted as IBM Q16. Previously, only a 5 qubit device, denoted as Q5, was available. Both IBM devices can be used to run quantum programs, by means of a cloud-based platform. In this paper, we illustrate our experience with IBM Q16 in demonstrating entanglement assisted invariance, also known as envariance, an...

The IBM translation models have been hugely influential in statistical machine translation; they are the basis of the alignment models used in modern translation systems. Excluding IBM Model 1, the IBM translation models, and practically all variants proposed in the literature, have relied on the optimization of likelihood functions or similar functions that are non-convex, and hence have multi...

Computing technology has evolved dramatically from the 20th century to the 21st century. This was a period of accelerating changes for the IT industry and all of its supporting technologies and industries, The IT industry has gone from isolated and complex computing system environments (glass rooms) to personal computing and mobile environments in a distributed fashion at a rapid rate through a...

IBM Mega Traffic Simulator (Megaffic) is an agent-based simulator of traffic flows with two unique features. First, Megaffic can build its model of simulation by directly estimating some of the parameters of the model from probe-car data. This capability is in contrast to existing agent-based simulators of traffic flows, where the values of their parameters are calibrated with iterative simulat...

The evolution of the writing machine from early eighteenth-century concepts to the modern electronic typewriter represents a rich history of innovative efforts by many individuals in several countries. This paper briefly highlights several significant early milestones and then draws particular attention to typewriter developments within the IBM Corporation. After entering the typewriter busines...