As part of the IBM Research brand team, we design a revolving catalogue of posters and artwork highlighting our work in labs across the world. Subject matter ranges from hardware specific, scientific concepts, how our innovations are shaping the world and expressive artwork.
Role: Design lead
Designed at IBM Research
Paul Benioff
Paul Benioff was an American physicist who helped pioneer the field of quantum computing. He was best known for his research in quantum information theory during the 1970s and 80s that demonstrated the theoretical possibility of quantum computers by describing the first quantum mechanical model of a computer. In this work, Benioff showed that a computer could operate under the laws of quantum mechanics by describing a Schrödinger equation description of Turing machines.
A figure from this 1980 paper illustrating the final mechanical model is represented in this poster.
Benioff’s figure from his 1980 paper, “The Computer as a Physical System.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Omnibus ex nihilo ducendis sufficit unum" which translates to, "everything can be derived from nothing, all that is needed is one."
Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics. In 1689, he invented the modern binary number system, the basis for binary code. The composition of this poster was derived from a sketch by Leibniz in a New Year’s letter to Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, in 1697 describing the binary system.
Leibniz’s sketch from 1697.
Quantum circuits
The quantum composer is a graphic user interface (GUI) designed by IBM to allow users to construct various quantum algorithms or run other quantum experiments. Circuits are created by dragging and dropping quantum logic gates onto the score, which is a horizontal line. Represented in the composer, the circuit takes on a musical, even whimsical appearance. The whimsy and flow in this poster was inspired by the great Franco Grignani.
Pushing miniaturization with transistor geometries
An illustration of architectures that will sustain Moore’s law for the near future by decreasing size, increasing density and performance, while greatly reducing energy consumption.