Building the future of computing, together

Ever since the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory opened on the campus of Columbia University in 1945, IBM has thrived in a symbiotic relationship with its university partners. That lab eventually evolved into what we know of today as IBM Research. And over that time, IBM has found that technology researchers, students, and faculty all benefit when we define and approach the next era of computing challenges together.

Now, IBM Research is strengthening its alliances with some of the world’s top science universities to advance the future of computing. Through three major, recently renewed partnerships with ETH Zurich, MIT, and the University of Illinois, we’re accelerating the development of what’s next in quantum and classical algorithms and applications. This move reflects IBM Research’s deliberate strategy to define the future of computing, with each partnership contributing to that approach, while aligning with a shared vision: defining the hardest problems in…