It’s the first day of Think 2018, IBM Research’s flagship annual event and the innovation giant has spoken about everything that the smart world worried about. Today Arvind Krishna, head of IBM Research predicted five most promising technological innovations from IBM laboratories that may see the light in the next five years. Whether it is crypto-anchors, Blockchain, quantum computing, or lattice cryptography, IBM research team is concurrently working on addressing world’s few biggest allies like product fraud, cyber- attacks, and dirty water.
Under the program IBM 5in5, scientists are constantly working on fighting the world’s biggest issue, ‘product fraud’. Reportedly, there is an economic loss of approximately $600 billion per year, globally. While transporting a good from origin to destination, multiple layers in a supply chain make it difficult to protect it from tampering or counterfeiting. Looking at the scope of the issue, IBM Research is developing unclonable crypto-anchors like ink-dots that may embed into any product and get linked to Blockchain. As a product move from one hand to another, crypto-anchors can verify its source and ingredients and cross-check it with Blockchain data.
Moving on, IBM is developing a computer as tiny as a grain of salt to compute the information. Labeled as the world’s smallest computer, the device would cost less than 10 cents to produce.It has thousands of transistors fixed in it and can perform functions like supervise, investigate, correspond, and even act on data.
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