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IBM has maintained a research laboratory in Switzerland since 1956, located on its own picturesque campus in the leafy suburb of Rüschlikon near Zurich since 1962 - the original location was in the neighboring town of Adliswil.

As the European branch of IBM Research, the Zurich Lab is proud of it multicultural and interdisciplinary research community, which includes a combination of more than 300 permanent research staff members, graduate students and post doctoral fellows representing 30 nationalities. Also located at the Zurich Lab is the Industry Solutions Lab, an executive briefing facility as well as a forum where IBM integrates and demonstrates leading-edge technology prototypes and solutions.

The IBM Research - Zurich is world-renown for its outstanding scientific achievements -- most notably Nobel Prizes in Physics in 1986 and 1987 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope and the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, respectively. Other key innovations include; the Trellis-coded modulation, which revolutionized data transmission over telephone lines; Token Ring, which became a standard for local area networks and a highly successful IBM product; the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) standard used for highly secure payments; and Smartcard JavaCard™ technology.

IBM Research - Zurich is dedicated not only to fundamental research, but also to exploring and creating innovative industry and customer-oriented solutions based on several key areas including; future chip technology; nanotechnology; supercomputing; security and privacy; risk and compliance as well as business optimization and transformation. The Zurich laboratory is involved in many joint projects with universities throughout Europe, in research programs established by the European Union and the Swiss government, and in cooperation agreements with research institutes of industrial partners. The lab is currently managed under the leadership of Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth.