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...fact, the perfect kind of question for test driving a brand-new tool that Gruhl and his colleagues at the storied IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., have developed. The new tool, called WebFountain, is a next-generation search technology that lets users ask specific questions, in complete sentences--something today's search engines have trouble handling. Powered by one of the world's fastest supercomputers, WebFountain can whittle down billions of pages of unstructured data from the entire Web in real time, rapidly retrieving and analyzing only the most relevant pages. Geared for corporate applications, WebFountain spots...
...Constellation Brands, whose Canandaigua Wine subsidiary was featured on our cover in October. Constellation is swallowing Australia's largest vintner, BRL Hardy, to form a global giant that will boast $1.7 billion in annual wine sales. Based in Fairport, N.Y., Constellation already owns such mass-market wines as Almaden and Inglenook and was running a joint venture with BRL before deciding to buy it for $1.4 billion. "There is no Coca-Cola, Microsoft or Nestle of the winemaking world," says BRL managing director Stephen Millar, who will run the combined wine operations. "We certainly intend to be just that...
...street sign and ships it over a wireless network to a remote computer that extracts the text and beams back a translation--all in less than 15 seconds. Haritaoglu is working on a similar service for GPS-equipped cell phones that would offer travel tips. INVENTOR IBM Almaden Research Center AVAILABILITY Prototype TO LEARN MORE www.almaden.ibm.com
...against the content of any site the user tries to see or simply blocking access to a list of sites ruled obscene or otherwise objectionable. In both instances, the filter will almost always work like a blunt instrument. If you tried to get to the home page of the Almaden Valley (California) Youth Soccer League and you had a filter, you would be blocked because the filter, tuned to look out for pedophiles, might have the phrase "Boys Under 12" on the proscribed list. If "sex" is labeled taboo, you can't read the poet Anne Sexton. Katherine Borsecnik...
...atoms wide. At very short distances, electrons can traverse the gap between the tip and the surface, a phenomenon known as tunneling. This generates a tiny current that can be used to move atoms and molecules around with pinpoint precision. Thus last year physicists from IBM's Almaden Research Center manipulated 35 xenon atoms on a nickel surface to spell out their company's logo. They have also fashioned seven atoms into a minuscule beaker in which they can observe chemical reactions at an atomic level, and they devised a working version of a single-atom electronic switch that...