IBM Smart Planet Research Reaches Out to South America

Smarter planet solutions to natural-resource management, energy, transportation and semiconductor devices will be the focus of IBM Research-Brazil, the company's ninth research lab worldwide and its first in South America.


IBM Research-Brazil will be a new permanent research lab that adds about 100 South American scientists to the 3,000 IBM scientists worldwide who are already dedicated to smarter planet solutions...IBM Research-Brazil hopes to demonstrate smarter transportation, smarter crowd control and smarter people-management technologies at both the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016...Other initiatives that IBM Research-Brazil may pursue include smarter transportation, smarter health care and smarter agribusiness...
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