About us

IBM Research - Almaden is IBM's Silicon Valley innovation lab. Scientists, computer engineers and designers at Almaden are pioneering scientific breakthroughs across disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, healthcare and life sciences, quantum computing, blockchain, storage, Internet of Things and accessibility.

This work builds on a rich history of breakthroughs at Almaden’s unique campus in San Jose, California that include the distributed relational database, the ability to position individual atoms, the first data mining algorithms and innovations in data storage technology.