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On any given day, IBM researchers and scientists are hard at work developing new technologies and applying them in imaginative and innovative ways.

But before many of these innovations see the light of day as market-ready products, they get tested on the front lines as part of a unique program called First-of-a-Kind (or FOAK), which pairs IBM researchers with clients to bring incredible discoveries and possibilities into view . . .

Here’s a video that tells the wonderful tale about how IBM researchers and clients came together to create an innovative solution for a hospital based on clever stream computing software.

As the FOAK projects are proving, it is the dynamic nature of this close interaction with IBM clients and the changing forces of the real world that drives our innovation and brings it to market at an ever-quickening pace.

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