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And yet I can list a lot of things that Bell Labs did that changed the World, and yet I am struggling to name even one that came out of IBM Research. I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying that work didn't resonate as strongly.

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Dynamic random access memory, RISC, relational databases, laser eye surgery.

Less mainstream but significant: scanning tunnelling microscope, high temperature superconductivity, fractal geometry.

Two back-to-back Nobel Prizes 1986-87. That's pretty cool.

SQL, cost-based database query planning, transaction locking, … — System R.

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