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Byline: Steve Lohr He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing. Robert H. Dennard, an engineer who [...]

He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing. Robert H. Dennard, an engineer who invented the silicon [...]

The company will assume the legal risk of businesses that use its A.I. systems and will publish the technology's underlying data. There is no shortage of excitement in corporate America [...]

The company will assume the legal risk of businesses that use its A.I. systems and will publish the technology’s underlying data. There is no shortage of excitement in corporate America [...]

The company said the layoffs were a final step after asset sales rather than a sign of weakness in its business. IBM joined the wave of layoffs by technology companies [...]

Byline: Steve Lohr David Ferrucci, who led the team that built IBM's famed Watson computer, was elated when it beat the best-ever human 'Jeopardy!' players in 2011, in a televised [...]

Byline: Steve Lohr Customer service chatbots may finally become more intelligent, more conversational and more helpful. This article is part of a new series on artificial intelligence's potential to solve [...]

Byline: Steve Lohr A decade ago, IBM's public confidence was unmistakable. Its Watson supercomputer had just trounced Ken Jennings, the best human 'Jeopardy!' player ever, showcasing the power of artificial [...]

A decade ago, IBM's public confidence was unmistakable. Its Watson supercomputer had just trounced Ken Jennings, the best human ''Jeopardy!'' player ever, showcasing the power of artificial intelligence. This was [...]

ACQUISITIONS Credit Karma Paves Way For Its Sale to Intuit Credit Karma agreed to sell its tax business to the payments company Square in an effort to win approval from [...]

The split-up strategy reflects how decisively computing has shifted to the cloud. IBM, throughout its 109-year history, hasn't often led technology trends. But it has adapted and eventually prospered time [...]

Arvind Krishna, who has led the company's cloud computing business, was named the new chief executive. Ginni Rometty, the longtime face of IBM and one of the country's most prominent [...]

Communicating with employees is a bit like building a bank account, according to Alex Gorsky, the chief executive of Johnson & Johnson: making contributions over time, developing a reservoir of [...]

IBM has tried multiple ways to stay relevant in the technology world. But it has often been outgunned by rivals like Amazon and Microsoft. On Tuesday, IBM outlined its latest [...]

Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world.It was big and still quite profitable, but the company had lost its luster, failing [...]

IBM is making a big move to bring more software developers under its wing by acquiring Red Hat, the largest distributor of the popular open-source operating system Linux, for $34 [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR Corrections Appended Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who helped usher in the personal computing revolution and then channeled his enormous fortune into transforming Seattle into [...]

Byline: CADE METZ and STEVE LOHR SAN FRANCISCO -- A match between an Israeli college debate champion and a loquacious IBM computer program demonstrated on Monday new gains in the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A match between an Israeli college debate champion and a loquacious IBM computer program demonstrated on Monday new gains in the quest for computers that can hold [...]

IBM reported revenue growth for the first time in five and a half years on Thursday, ending a streak of 22 consecutive quarters of shrinking sales. The gain was modest [...]

Steven Mollenkopf, the chief executive of the chip maker Qualcomm, views the company's recent patent dispute with Apple and antitrust scrutiny from regulators worldwide as elaborate price negotiations. His company, [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR First there were individual offices. Then cubicles and open floor plans. Now, there is a 'palette of places.' New office designs are coming to a workplace near [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. -- A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in [...]

Frank Yiannas has spent years looking in vain for a better way to track lettuce, steaks and snack cakes from farm and factory to the shelves of Walmart, where he [...]

Byline: NATHANIEL POPPER and STEVE LOHR Frank Yiannas has spent years looking in vain for a better way to track lettuce, steaks and snack cakes from farm and factory to [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR The science fair has been an annual rite of education for generations of students, going back to the 1940s. But even the term 'science fair' stirs stereotypical [...]

In its first steps toward commercialization, IBM's Watson took on grand, science-laden challenges like helping doctors diagnose cancer. But that is changing as IBM strives to build its artificial intelligence [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on. Now data -- [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR Watson, can you grow into a multibillion-dollar business and become the engine of IBM's resurgence? IBM is betting its future that the answer is yes. Its campaign [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWatson, can you grow into a multibillion-dollar business and become the engine of IBM's resurgence? IBM is betting its future that the answer is yes. Its campaign to commercialize [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR IBM has delivered a quarterly performance that shows the steady headway it is making in new businesses led by cloud computing and data-analysis software, like its Watson [...]

IBM delivered a quarterly performance that shows the steady headway it is making in new businesses led by cloud computing and data-analysis software, like its Watson artificial intelligence technology. But [...]

Byline: JOHN MARKOFF and STEVE LOHR SAN FRANCISCO -- The resounding win by a Google artificial intelligence program over a champion in the complex board game Go this month was [...]

Byline: JOHN MARKOFF and STEVE LOHR SAN FRANCISCO -- The resounding win by a Google artificial intelligence program over a champion in the complex board game Go this month was [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR When IBM's Watson computer triumphed over human champions in the quiz show 'Jeopardy!' it was a stunning achievement that suggested limitless horizons for artificial intelligence. Soon after, [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR In 2010, Kris Hammond, an experienced artificial intelligence researcher, and a few partners founded Narrative Science. The Chicago start-up's software ingests and interprets numbers for things like [...]

When IBM's Watson computer triumphed over human champions in the quiz show ''Jeopardy!'' it was a stunning achievement that suggested limitless horizons for artificial intelligence. Soon after, IBM's leaders moved [...]

In 2010, Kris Hammond, an experienced artificial intelligence researcher, and a few partners founded Narrative Science. The Chicago start-up's software ingests and interprets numbers for things like investment holdings, billing [...]

Computer code is incomprehensible to anyone without programming skills, but Apple argued in a court filing on Thursday that code is a form of speech. So, the company contends, the [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR IBM is looking to enhance the growth of its Watson Health business with the $2.6 billion purchase of Truven Health Analytics, which has data on the cost [...]

IBM is looking to enhance the growth of its Watson Health business with the $2.6 billion purchase of Truven Health Analytics, which has data on the cost and treatment of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIBM delivered fresh evidence on Tuesday of the financial challenge it faces in navigating a difficult transition to new technology businesses. Yet the company's leaders insisted its performance also [...]

Apple and Google Top Innovation List Innovation is an essential yet elusive ingredient in corporate success, and one that is notoriously difficult to measure. But for the last decade, the [...]

Byline: STEVE LOHR Phil Gilbert is a tall man with a shaved head and wire-rimmed glasses. He typically wears cowboy boots and bluejeans to work - hardly unusual these days, [...]

Phil Gilbert is a tall man with a shaved head and wire-rimmed glasses. He typically wears cowboy boots and bluejeans to work -- hardly unusual these days, except he's an [...]