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Watson Brings the Promise of Precision Medicine to the Fight Against Cancer
Today marks a very important milestone for our work in cancer with the launch of Watson Genomics from Quest Diagnostics. Helping doctors fighting cancer is a key part of our mission at IBM Watson Health, and it’s a challenge we’ve been helping the medical community tackle for nearly five years. But the overarching goal was […]
Siemens Healthineers, IBM Team on Population Health Management
As any provider will tell you, a myriad of forces are dramatically shifting the healthcare landscape today. An aging and increasingly chronically ill population, the rapid growth of health data, and the continued digitization and consumerization of the industry are all part of healthcare’s new reality. Additionally — and perhaps most importantly — alternative, value-based […]
Resiliency Meets New Complexities in a Hybrid World
Most of us have grown accustomed to using our smartphones to deposit checks, and have never given a second thought to glancing at our wrists to learn the number of calories we just burned during that spin class. We often take for granted the accessibility and practicality of the technology we use in our everyday […]
Find Your Positivity with Chevrolet and Watson
A positive, never-give-up attitude has been a driving force for Chevrolet for more than a century – thanks in large part to the determination and competitive nature of our founder, Louis Chevrolet. Louis’ desire to win on the track, led to innovations to make a more competitive car. And for more than a century the […]
IBM and Cisco Team on Cognitive and Edge Analytics
Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of interconnected devices and sensors are gathering vast amounts of real-time data about the world in which we live. In fact, according to experts, IoT is set to become the single greatest source of data on the planet. The question now is, how does businesses gain insight […]
How Cognitive Computing Can Drive Sustainability
Around the world, sustainability is increasingly being adopted as a social objective and a political need. Though approaches and pace differ from region to region, nearly every nation is starting to focus on making electric supply more sustainable. How sustainability is embraced as a core business element in the electric industry varies globally and ranges from […]
How Cognitive is Tackling New Challenges, from Conservation to Customer Service
Cognitive application development is taking off around the world and across industries. In the past year alone developers in Japan, the Middle East, Latin America and most recently, Korea, have begun building with cognitive technologies in their native languages. With such energy behind the technology, IDC predicts that by 2018, half of all global consumers […]
Blockchain: Securing the Financial Systems of the Future
Eighty years ago, IBM helped the United States government create the Social Security system, which, at the time, was the most complex financial system ever developed. Today, as financial transactions become increasingly digital and networked, government and industry must once again combine forces to make the financial systems of the future more efficient, effective and […]
Watson Learns to Understand Korean Life and Language
This week, IBM and SK Holdings & CC, a leading Korean IT services company, announced plans to introduce Watson cognitive services to Korea. The significance of this milestone agreement is two-fold. For SK Holdings & CC and Korean organizations, access to market-ready artificial intelligence services comes at a critical time of change and an increasing appetite […]
Retail’s Store of the Future Will Run on Cloud
While e-commerce has attracted customers with a broader selection of products, lower prices and convenience, the importance of stores and store associates cannot be undervalued – especially when 85 percent of consumers still prefer to shop at physical stores. In-store innovations—such as technology enabled associates, location based services including display specific offers, digital content such […]
Weaving Cognitive into Couture: Watson and Marchesa Collaborate for the Met Gala
Throughout history, we’ve seen traces of technology enabling humans to create – from Da Vinci’s use of the camera obscura to Caravaggio’s work with mirrors and lenses. Today, cognitive systems like Watson are giving artists, designers and creative minds the tools to make sense of the world in ground-breaking ways, opening up new avenues for […]
How To Provide Secure And Trustworthy Blockchain Networks in the Cloud
While many people have heard of the crypto currency called bitcoin, what’s more interesting is the underpinning technology that makes bitcoin work, known as blockchain. Industry analysts are calling blockchain “revolutionary.” Blockchain allows industries, organizations and their customers, partners and suppliers to build dynamic new business networks for conducting transactions of all kinds. Blockchain can […]