IBM Research
The Eero Saarinen-designed Thomas J. Watson Research Center, headquarters of the division | |
| Company type | Research and development division |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer science |
| Predecessor | Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory |
| Founded | 1945 |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 170 countries; 12 laboratories; six continents (2021) |
| Parent | IBM |
| Website | www |
IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, near IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York. It is the largest industrial research organization in the world with operations in over 170 countries and twelve laboratories on six continents.
IBM employees have garnered six Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, 20 inductees into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame, 19 National Medals of Technology, five National Medals of Science and three Kavli Prizes. As of 2018, the company had generated more patents than any other business in each of 25 consecutive years.