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In 1965 the site formed an Operational Research Section at Port Sunlight, and their computers used PL/I and Fortran IV. In 1967 statisticians used control charts, timeseries analysis, multivariate analysis and stochastic processes. From early 1969 the consoles at the site were IBM 2780 with the MFT2 and HASPII operating systems. By 1969, new ...
Expenditures on R&D (billions of US$) 1 Amazon United States: Software and Internet 73.21 2 Alphabet Inc. United States: Software and Internet 39.50 3 Meta Platforms, Inc. United States: Software and Internet 35.34 4 Apple United States: Computing and Electronics 27.65 5 Microsoft United States: Software and Internet 26.63 6 Huawei China
Bryant & May's site in Garston was the last wooden match factory in the UK, closing in 1994 to become The Matchworks business centre off the A561 west of the former Speke airport. Cottonopolis was the industrial name for Manchester and the local area. Manchester at one time was the world's richest city.
For government and statistical purposes, Northern England is defined as the area covered by the three northernmost statistical regions of England: North East England, North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber. [5]
Few dedicated management models for R&D exist. Among the more popularized ones are Arthur D. Little's Third generation R&D management, [5] the Development funnel, [6] the Phase–gate model All these models are concerned with improving R&D performance and result productivity, managing R&D as a process, and providing the R&D function with an environment in which the inherent technological and ...
The roots of today's IBM Research began with the 1945 opening of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. [4] This was the first IBM laboratory devoted to pure science and later expanded into additional IBM Research locations in Westchester County, New York, starting in the 1950s, [5] [6] including the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1961.
The site is now called Jealott's Hill International Research Centre. [6] [7] In 2007, the site was recognised by the Royal Society of Chemistry as a National Chemistry Landmark and awarded a blue plaque in recognition of 80 years of scientific research which led to global developments in agriculture. [8] Jealott's Hill House Hawthorndale House
The company established a tradition of basic scientific research starting with hiring of Wallace Carothers in 1928 and his systemization of polymer science that led to the development of polyamides such as nylon-6,6 and polychloroprene (neoprene) in the early 1930s. [2]