Comment by com

IBM apparently still does a lot of interesting fundamental research, in their PR it looks like they've got a focus on materials science for storage and medicine and they do interesting data-driven work around health, population genetics work (out of Africa hypothesis as one example) etc.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressreleases/finder.wss?t...

It might not be Xerox Parc stuff, and a lot of the PR looks like fluff, but it looks like there's real stuff going on there...