AI
A New Wave: Transforming Our Understanding of Ocean Health
Humans have been plying the seas throughout history. But it wasn’t until the late 19th century that we began to truly study the ocean itself. An expedition in 1872 to 1876, by the Challenger, a converted Royal Navy gunship, traveled nearly 70,000 nautical miles and catalogued over 4,000 previously unknown species, building the foundations for modern […]
Igniting the Dynamic Workforce in Your Company
In the rapid push to moving to remote work, we’ve seen digital strategies accelerate by years – transforming their workplaces, workstyles, and business processes forever. Overnight, remote workforces put advanced environments of multi-device mobility, dynamic connection points and robust cloud-based apps that ease communication and collaboration. A new normal is emerging, led by the companies aggressively adopting cloud […]
Lessons from Space May Help Care for Those Living Through Social Isolation on Earth
Since the Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on May 31, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have been busy—according to their Twitter posts, even working over the weekend to repair the ISS treadmill. They likely don’t have much time to think about being lonely and cut off from life […]
Reopening the Economy: How AI Is Providing Guidance
As communities take various measures to reopen for business while reducing the risk of further COVID-19 outbreaks, navigating the recovery is daunting. It’s a historic juggling of public health considerations with the need to revive the economy. Business and community leaders are struggling to pilot through a dense fog. For us at Wunderman Thompson, a […]
Paving the Way for Diversity in the Decade of Ubiquitous AI
It was 2:30 a.m., and I suddenly realized I had forgotten to close the parentheses—a crucial step in the code I’d been working on perfecting for the past five hours. By this point in my undergraduate career, the University of Texas at Austin computer lab had come to feel like home. But as I scanned […]
How AI and Weather Data Can Help You Plan for Allergy Season
Seasonal allergy sufferers care a lot about what goes on outside with allergens, pollen, air quality, and more. In fact, 68% of allergy sufferers surveyed use weather forecasts and information to help manage their seasonal allergies (Source: AdSales AI Health & Weather Impact Study, Sept 2019). As spring continues and summer nears, The Weather Channel […]
Accelerating Digital Transformation with DataOps
Across an array of use cases, AI pioneers are employing a core set of new AI capabilities to unlock the value of data in new ways. According to the 2019 IBM Global C-suite study, leaders are using data 154% more to identify unmet customer needs, enter new markets, and develop new business models. These leaders […]
How AI is Driving the New Industrial Revolution
AI adoption is growing faster than many had predicted. Research from a recent Global AI Survey by Morning Consult and commissioned by IBM indicates that 34 percent of businesses surveyed across the U.S., Europe and China have adopted AI. That number far exceeds estimates from market watchers last year, which put adoption rates in the […]
How IBM is Advancing AI Once Again & Why it Matters to Your Business
There have been several seminal moments in the recent history of AI. In the mid-1990s, IBM created the Deep Blue system that played and beat world chess champion, Garry Kasparov in a live tournament. In 2011, we unveiled Watson, a natural language question and answering system, and put it on the hit television quiz show, […]
Automotive Data Privacy: Securing Software at Speed & Scale
The superhighway of connected car systems is widening, and it’s yielding greater volume and velocity of information across intravehicle and intervehicle networks. But with speed and scale come new security concerns. Vehicles now boast more than 100 million lines of code, hundreds of task-specific microchips and multiple operating systems. With consumers increasingly prioritizing seamless service […]
On Privacy Day, Remembering How Much Work Still Lies Ahead
International Data Privacy Day is meant to raise awareness about how personal data is being used, collected and shared in today’s digital society. That’s critically important, as we know that data privacy is increasingly top of mind for so many of us. A recent Morning Consult poll of consumers in the U.S. and E.U. commissioned […]
On the Baroque Art Trail with IBM Watson
Art is a social and relational process. It involves interaction between the artist and the audience. It provides a dialogue, an exchange of impressions, feelings, knowledge and thoughts. This relationship can be complete, attractive, authentic and satisfactory, especially when the viewer fully understands as much as possible of the context and value of the artwork. […]