Those technologies have been applied to IBM products and services: the first Chinese voice continuous recognition system in the world, ViaVoice the first Chinese Palmpilot in the world, WorkPad the first Chinese knowledge management toolkit in China market the first market intelligence information portal, and so on.Īdditional work being done in China includes the development of Chinese technological capital. In the past ten years, CRL has contributed more than 100 new technologies, from new analysis algorithms and basic theories to new industrial solutions. CRL focuses its research on the interaction of people, information, language, and culture key technology of future systems, service sciences, and enterprise solutions. Increasingly, research is directly engaging with clients through IBM business units having researchers on the ground locally in China with the combination of technical skills, as well as understanding of the culture, language, etc., helps IBM better serve this important-and growing-customer set.ĬRL was given important missions at the beginning of the lab: innovating world-class information technology, attending to Chinese IT development trends and needs, training and developing local technology talents and leaders with management ability and promoting the collaboration between Chinese academy and top universities. Another key reason for forming CRL was to have those technical talents on the ground in a very important emerging market for IBM. China definitely has a great number of talented professionals, based on its history, culture, and big populace. IBM built research labs around the world, because the company wants to attract the local talents as framers of IBM technology innovators. IBM research has eight research labs located in the US, Europe, and Asia.
More than 3,000 top talents at IBM research made this happen. In 2004 IBM patented dozens of accessibility-related technologies and opened 500 patents to the open-source industry in 2005. It owns more patents in the past 13 years than any other global enterprise. IBM invests $5 billion every year in technology research and development. What made IBM decide to build its first research lab in a developing country in 1995a hard time in IBM history? What made IBM choose to become the first multinational company to start a research lab in China ten years ago? 2005 is also IBM Research's 60th anniversary. Now there are hundreds of research and development labs started by multinational companies in China. As part of IBM China's development strategy, CRL was the first research lab that multinational companies set up in China ten years ago as a part of a commitment to the Chinese government.
IBM China Research Laboratory (CRL) celebrated its tenth anniversary on August 30, 2005.