IBM is a cloud platform and cognitive solutions company. Relentlessly reinventing since 1911, they have more than 350,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. With Watson, the data-driven AI platform for business, they are building industry-based solutions to real-world problems. For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 laboratories located on six continents.