IBM is a globally integrated enterprise operating in 170 countries. IBM's R&D history in Israel began in 1972 when Professor Josef Raviv established the IBM Israel Scientific Center in the Technion's Computer Science Building in Haifa. Today, over 1000 individuals work at IBM R&D locations across Israel, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Rehovot, and the Jerusalem Technology Park. IBM research and development activities in Israel include a number of labs.
HRL handles projects in the spheres of cloud computing [1] [2], healthcare and life sciences, verification technologies [3] [4], multimedia, active management [5], information retrieval [6], programming environments [7], business transformation, and optimization technologies [8]. HRL is the biggest IBM research center outside the US.