Making research more personal with IBM’s science slams

I always enjoy a good personal story. It’s a nice way to get to know people, and retelling such stories is my favorite part of journalism. So I enjoyed moderating the first IBM Science Slam talks at the recent celebration of the 30th anniversary of the IBM Almaden Research Center.
Almaden, one of 12 IBM Research facilities, is the birthplace of technologies like the relational database, nanotechnology (the ability to position individual atoms), the first data mining algorithms, and th