Now Playing: IBM Scientists Create a Movie by Moving Atoms

“A Boy and His Atom” is the world’s smallest stop-motion movie. It can be seen only when  magnified 100 million times. It was made by a scanning tunneling microscope moving atoms.

And it was created by IBM Research.

Watch this remarkable 90-second film now:

More:

The Making Of: Check out this collection of photos from the scanning tunneling microscope lab at IBM Research – Almaden

How did they do it?

Exploring the limits of storage and moviemaking

Why Make the Atom Movie? To Get Kids Excited about Science and Technology

Learn more about atomic memory, data storage, and Big Data

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Greater IBM, what do you think?

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IBM Executives Broadcast May 15: Creating a Smarter Workforce

Mark your calendar – don’t miss this just-added broadcast with IBM executives and influential thought leader Patrick Wright of the Darla Moore School of Business, Wednesday, May 15 at 11 a.m. EDT. (When will this take place in my time zone?)

Register now for Creating a Smarter Workforce and learn about the IBM Smarter Workforce strategy, and how a smarter workforce can help you. Details:

Register and attend!

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IBM, Airbus Launch Airline Big Data Partnership

from ExecutiveBiz.com

An Airbus 380-841 aircraft in flight (Photo, copyright Alberto Riva)

IBM and Airbus are partnering to help airlines use information technology services as they manage aircraft and customer service.

The partnership aims to help operators use big data and combine Airbus’ aircraft manufacturing experience with IBM’s knowledge in analytics and big data, Airbus parent EADS said. Read more.

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Greater IBMer Renee Weisman on What Makes a Great Boss

In this article from her site, Greater IBMer, engineer and author Renee Weisman talks about what characterizes a truly great manager.

Renee Weisman giving a lecture

“In my 40+ year career,” she writes, “I have had a number of supervisors and I have to agree, I was considerably more productive, creative and energized under certain managers. And there were a handful who made going to work every day a drag. What made the difference?”

Get her list of the key distinctions between the GREAT bosses and …the rest.

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More from this author:

Women Who Want to Succeed? Quit Doing These 5 Things

Hate to Brag? How to Self-Promote to Advance Your Career

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Renee’s site

Buy the book: Winning in a Man’s World: Advice for Women Who Want to Succeed and the Men Who Work with Them 

- Posted by Regan Kelly, Editor/Community Manager, The Greater IBM Connection

Twitter Chat April 25 4:30 EDT: Education and the THINK Exhibit

How do you inspire your students to be innovators in their daily lives? Join today’s discussion to chat about an effort underway to build an integrated educational experience that includes exhibitions, apps, and lesson plans. The IBM THINK exhibit, which recently opened at Epcot in Walt Disney World, extends globally into free, hands-on lesson plans for middle and high school teachers.

Photo credit: Terry Cuffel, Corporate Visual Services

Using the IBM THINK app, students explore how progress is shaped through a five-step process and participate in hands-on lessons to help them become innovators in their own right and to take actions that can help them become forward-thinking citizens of the world. Get all the details, including Guest Experts and Topic List, for today’s event.

Related:

The THINK App (Flickr set of photos)

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IBM’s Robot Sidekick to Aid Field Engineers

- From bbc.co.uk

A robotic sidekick could soon be helping field engineers fix faulty equipment in remote locations. IBM has developed the robotic helper, whose projector can overlay information on equipment to guide repair work performed remotely.

The IBM MRO helper. The projector can display information to guide repair work.

Supervisors and experts back at base can also look and talk through the projector to oversee repairs. Get the story.

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Related:

IBM Research

More on augmented reality

 

 

 

 

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Leaders: Here Are The Top 9 Things That Motivate Employees to Succeed

When you wake up in the morning, what fuels you to begin the day? Are you passionate about your work? The triggers that motivate people to achieve are unique for everyone; for some it’s money; for others, it’s wanting to make a difference, writes Glenn Llopis in Forbes.com.

Motivation has been studied for decades, and leaders often use motivational books and other tools to get employees to increase their performance or get them back on track. But if you’re a leader, it’s critical to get to know your employees, and to be specific about how you help each of them achieve their goals, desires and aspirations. To help one another and to accomplish that, you must identify those motivating factors. In this piece from Forbes.com, see the nine things that ultimately motivate employees to achieve.

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Greater IBM, what do you think of these nine motivators? Please share your own story and perspectives by commenting.

 

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Infographic: IDC Names IBM the Market Share Leader in Social Software for 4th Year Running

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that for the fourth consecutive year, IDC ranked IBM number one in worldwide market share for enterprise social software.* Social networking adoption continues to soar as businesses look to transform their organization into a smarter enterprise that is capable of empowering a global workforce and transforming client experiences.

According to IDC, the worldwide enterprise social market segment reached 1.0 billion in 2012, representing growth of 25 percent over 2011.*

Leading IBM social business clients include Prudential Insurance, Fluor Corporation, Lowe’s Home Improvement, LeasePlan and Electrolux. Read more.

* Source: IDC Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, 2H 2012

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IBM Social Business

 

 

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On Earth Day, IBM Is Collaborating to Harness the Power of 2,000 Suns

Because of safety concerns, today’s solar collectors can concentrate only so much energy: too much in one place means enormous risk. But IBM is collaborating on developing a new collector dish that could avoid that – and it’s a major step forward in solar power efficiency.

The new collaboration between IBM, Airlight Energy and Swiss university partners 
will develop an affordable photovoltaic system capable of concentrating, on average, the power of 2,000 suns, onto hundreds of 1×1 cm chips. Read more from IBM Research.

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What do you think of this exciting news, Greater IBM? Let us know in the Leave a Reply field below.

Mobile Business Isn’t Your Devices, It’s What’s BETWEEN Them

Mobile business is more than devices; it’s what you can do with the data between them.

In other words, the mobile world is open for business. Learn more.

Related:

IBM Mobile First

See it in action

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