Recently, netizen @马力 broke the news in Zhiqun that the IBM China Research Institute was closed. The main reason is the internal adjustment, the original big boss retired, after all, the research institute itself is difficult to make a profit .
When the IBM China Research Institute is in full swing, various government departments are competing for subsidies. Who could have guessed that the current IBM is also in decline, with technical bottlenecks and stock declines, and it will never escape the fate of bankruptcy.
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Once the "iron rice bowl" in Zhongguancun, the dream company in the hearts of countless people
The IBM China Research Institute was established in 1995. It is one of the 12 largest IBM research institutions in the world and the first research institute in a developing country . It is located in the northwest corner of Beijing Shangdi Information Industry Base, located in the Zhongguancun Software Park. It was once a "holy land" for students from Beijing universities.
Because the research field spans a large area, and the key research topics include big data analysis, cloud computing, Internet of Things and cognitive computing technology innovation and applications , the vast majority of people who can hold IBM’s "iron rice bowl" have first-class in China and even the world. University doctorate and master's degree.
In the heyday of IBM, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "the dream company of countless students from prestigious schools" when the Qing and Northern Dynasties resumed diplomatic relations.
"Watson" can be called the light of AI, once made IBM shine
Since its establishment, the IBM China Research Institute has had many years of research and accumulation in the field of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing. The subject of artificial intelligence was first established at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956, and IBM was the main participant in this conference.
Among the many well-known scientific and technological achievements it has developed, the most famous one is the well-known artificial intelligence program "Watson" in the field of cognitive computing , which was born in 2011 and named after the founder of IBM .
IBM founder: Thomas John Watson The "Watson" program is an application of open question answering technologies such as advanced natural language processing, message retrieval, knowledge representation, automatic reasoning, and machine learning. Integrating technologies from multiple fields into one system structure to understand human natural language is also its power.
At that time, there were also technicians from research institutes in the United States and Japan who participated in the research and development of Watson. After 4 years, the birth of "Watson" was finally ushered in. According to researchers, Watson can process 500GB of data per second, which is equivalent to reading 1 million books in 1 second. In 2011, the system defeated two human champions on the American TV quiz show Jeopardy! (Dangerous Journey!) and became famous ever since.
This research has been optimistically used as a medical assisted artificial intelligence system. It is said that only the patient's personal information needs to be entered into the system, and the system will recommend suitable treatment plans based on a large amount of information such as medical research, medical guidelines, and clinical trials for doctors' reference.
Microsoft, Facebook, and Flax have been crushed all the way, and IBM's glory is no longer the closure of the IBM China Research Institute. Why can it cause the turmoil in the science and technology circle? It must start with the impact of IBM on mankind. Some people say that IBM, which was established in 1911, has the first 1/2 of the history of computers and the Internet . For more than 100 years, IBM's scientific and technological achievements have surpassed most countries, and its employees have also won 6 Nobel and Turing Prizes with high gold content . Therefore, IBM is also known as the "Blue Giant" . 
Why did such a technology giant suddenly close the China Research Institute? Among them, the biggest reason is that the IBM China Research Institute actually conducts a large number of basic research, that is, it does not produce much direct economic benefits by itself . The most important thing is that IBM's own staggering steps will directly affect the subsidy. Amount. In the era of personal computers, IBM lost to Microsoft; in the era of the Internet, it is inferior to the cloud computing of Facebook and Amazon. IBM's revenue has continued to reduce production for a long time, and its stock price has also fallen all the way. Looking at IBM, the "big blue" seems to have been unable to conceal its decline.
Regarding the closure of the IBM China Research Institute, many netizens said they missed this once glorious "dream workplace", and some people regretted it. No matter what, say: Goodbye to the once brilliant IBM China Research Institute! With the fall of the tech tycoons, there is bound to be the rise of new tycoons. At present, Oracle has become the world's largest enterprise-level software company. Some netizens said that the dismal end of the IBM China Research Institute, I wonder if it will bring some experience and lessons to Oracle.