IBM Almaden Research Lab - San Jose, CA
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DougK
N 37° 12.663 W 121° 48.331
10S E 605988 N 4118953
IBM Almaden Research Lab in San Jose, California, is one of eight laboratories worldwide that make up IBM Research. The lab sits on 690 acres high in the Santa Teresa foothills above Silicon Valley.
Waymark Code: WMB67D
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2011
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Excerpted from the IBM
About Us webpage:
The major areas of research at Almaden are Science & Technology, including fundamental science, nanotechnology, spin physics and photoresists; Computer Science, with work in areas such content management, human-computer interaction, text analytics, services-oriented architectures and most recently healthcare informatics; Service Science Research, focusing on large scale, people-and information-intensive challenges and Storage Systems, from storage and file systems to server software and systems management. Additionally, technology licensing is a key element in our value creation strategy and a source of significant mutual benefits for IBM Research and its external partners.
There are two access roads that lead up to the facility, Harry Road and Bernal Road. Appointments to visit someone are the normal way through the gates. On the weekends bicycles and walkers can climb the access roads.