Editing IBM Research (section)

{{short description|Multinational research organization}}
[[File: IBM Yorktown Heights.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|IBM Research is headquartered at the [[Eero Saarinen]]-designed [[Thomas J. Watson Research Center]] in [[Yorktown Heights, New York]].]]
'''IBM Research''' is the [[research and development]] division for [[IBM]], an American [[Multinational corporation|multinational]] [[information technology]] company. IBM Research is headquartered at the [[Thomas J. Watson Research Center]] in [[Yorktown Heights, New York]], near IBM headquarters in [[Armonk, New York]]. It is the largest industrial research organization in the world{{cn|date=April 2025}} with operations in over 170 countries and twelve labs on six continents.<ref>{{cite web |title=Labs and locations |url=https://research.ibm.com/labs/ |access-date=28 December 2022 |work=IBM Research |date=9 February 2021 |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221032216/https://research.ibm.com/labs/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

IBM employees have garnered six [[Nobel Prize]]s, six [[Turing Award]]s, 20 inductees into the [[U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame]], 19 [[National Medal of Technology|National Medals of Technology]], five [[National Medal of Science|National Medals of Science]] and three [[Kavli Foundation (United States)#The Kavli Prize|Kavli Prizes]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/awards.shtml |title=Awards & Achievements |date=6 February 2007 |access-date=2012-05-23 |publisher=IBM |archive-date=2011-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629122453/http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/awards.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, the company has generated more [[patents]] than any other business in each of 25 consecutive years, which is a record.<ref>{{cite press release |title=IBM Breaks Records to Top U.S. Patent List for 25th Consecutive Year |url=https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/53581.wss |work=IBM |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=9 January 2018 |archive-date=13 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113055808/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/53581.wss |url-status=dead }}</ref>