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Tesco’s Top Shelf Energy Reduction Plan
At Tesco reducing our impact on the environment is not only an essential part of our overall commitment to be a responsible business, but it is also a way to increase our resilience to risk, help secure the supply of our products and provide opportunities to save money, such as energy. Over the last few […]
The Rise of Cognitive Business
When the original Watson won on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011, it was one computer tucked away in a room at IBM Research. Now it’s in our cloud, available anywhere. Back then, Watson consisted of a single software application powered by five core technologies. Today, it includes 28 cognitive services. Each represents a […]
Letter from the Editor: Welcome to THINK
Seven years ago IBM launched the Smarter Planet blog as a place to share stories from researchers, scientists, business leaders, academics and government officials about how each was leveraging innovation to create a more connected, intelligent, and instrumented world. A Smarter Planet. Little has changed on the blog over the past seven years. Meanwhile, the […]
The Watson Ecosystem: Bringing Smart Software to Market Fast
I was recently describing inno360′s new software release and enhanced functionality to a c-suite executive at a global consumer packaged goods company. He was intrigued by the fact that our latest software, thanks in part to IBM’s Watson technology, has the ability to learn and push more relevant information to employees as they interact with […]
Watson: An Incubator for Startups and Innovation
IBM has long played a major role in Silicon Valley. We built a manufacturing plant there in 1943 and opened our IBM Research lab in San Jose in 1956–since then producing a string of technology breakthroughs including the first disk drive, the first data mining algorithms and essential advances in nanotechnology. My dad got his […]
Ushering in an Era of Bring-Your-Own-Cloud-Apps
A few years back, companies began listening to employees who wanted to bring their own devices (BYOD) to work. They established security policies to allow the use of personal devices for accessing company information anytime, anywhere. Not surprisingly, the workforce continues to look outside the corporate walls for new ways to get their jobs done and one go-to technology […]
Taking the New Era of Computing to Healthcare
When biomedical companies develop and test new products, they are required by law to employ management systems that prove that everything they do follows the rules concerning safety, quality and privacy. That includes the computers and software they use. Because of the strict requirements, these industries have found it difficult to take advantage of one of […]
Data & Analytics Take Center Court at US Open 2015
It’s that time of year again: the US Open begins today in Queens, and tennis fans — and New York City — may be buzzing even more than in years past. This year is Serena Williams’ year to write history. She’s going for a calendar year Grand Slam and her 22nd Grand Slam title, which […]
Word Analysis Proves Effective Pre-Psychosis Diagnosis
Patterns are everywhere. Benoit Mandelbrot found them in nature, and gave us fractals. And now computer systems and algorithms find them in data, like how Watson teases out relevant information in just about anything. Machines can even find patterns in speech to accurately predict psychosis onset in high-risk youths, as colleagues and I explain in […]
Using Data in the Fight Against Diabetes in Mexico
Almost a sixth of the adult population in Mexico suffers from diabetes and that number is only expected to grow. The diabetes epidemic in Mexico holds massive implications. It profoundly impacts the health of individual Mexicans and negatively affects the country’s socioeconomic development. The Mexican government is working hard to not only combat the diabetes, […]