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Harnessing Technology to Level the Educational Playing Field
As I write and email this from my laptop, my smartphone rests next to it. I could choose to use a tablet. I am on an airplane and all are working. These are technological advances unimaginable not so very long ago. The wow factor surrounding these devices reasserts itself with each new product that is […]
Discussing the Potential of the Circular Economy on Earth Day
How can we add $1 trillion to the global economy by 2025 and create 100,000 new jobs within the next five years? By progressing into a circular economy (CE), according to an analysis by McKinsey, an American multinational management consulting firm. A CE revolves around making, collecting, recovering and reusing as opposed to the linear […]
Digital Transformation: Mac’s Continued Rise in the Enterprise
Everywhere you look today proves that mobile technology and mobile work environments are allowing employees to more easily conquer their daily workloads from a laptop, the palm of their hand, or even a screen on their wrist. Finding yourself in the midst of a transforming work environment is enough to make anyone excited to go […]
What is Blockchain and Why do I Need it?
The history of bartering dates back to 9000 BC in Egypt. It was introduced by Mesopotamia tribes in 6000 BC and was later adopted by Babylonian’s where goods were exchanged for a wide variety of things. The barter system is similar to having an asset, trading it and recording that transaction on a little black […]
Propelling Online Video Forward, Fast
The online video revolution is rolling on, unabated and gaining momentum. Spurred by advances in streaming platforms, large file transfer and storage technologies, cloud-based video continues to disrupt the media & entertainment industry, while driving powerful new communications capabilities throughout the business world. These advances have led to an inflection point in the media & […]
Cognitive Storytelling in the 4th Dimension
Few artists could bring a story to life like Orson Welles. A powerful actor and director, Welles was also a technology innovator who pushed the limits – whether on radio or film – to deliver entertainment as an unforgettable experience. Welles’ realistic production of the “War of the Worlds” in 1938 featured simulated news broadcasts […]
IBM Health Corps: New Ideas for Solving the World’s Health Problems
Zithulele Hospital is a medical marvel. It provides quality acute and primary care for a community of 130,000 people scattered across part of the rural Eastern Cape of South Africa with just 146 beds and 13 fulltime doctors. Zithulele’s situation illustrates one of the major public health challenges in the world today: there aren’t enough […]
Q&A: Five Questions for IBM’s Chief Data Officer
Inderpal Bhandari, Ph.D., was named IBM’s Global Chief Data Officer in December, 2015. He began his career in IBM Research in the 1990s, then spent the next couple of decades working in data. He became a Chief Data Officer in 2006 for a healthcare company, the first in that field. The following topics and questions […]
How the Internet of Things Could Revolutionize Parkinson’s Disease Care
Growing up, I was surrounded by musicians, artists and writers. I have always been intensely interested in people and the human creative expression in art. It fascinated me to learn how people think and ultimately how and what they create. From teachers to preachers to artists, the people in my life have cultivated a deep […]
Cognitive Storage: Teaching Computers What to Learn and What to Forget
Close your eyes and think back to your last vacation. The memories you are recalling were captured because your brain automatically puts a high value on significant experiences, such as a beautiful sunset or an amazing dinner. Simultaneously, your brain also automatically puts a low value or forgets irrelevant things like waiting at a traffic […]
Empowering Developers with Self-Service AI
We are witness to the most important and exciting technology shift in more than a generation – the dawn of the cognitive computing era. Cognitive systems, which are most fully realized in IBM’s Watson, can ingest and learn from a wide variety of data, reason over it, and then interact with people in ways that […]
It’s Time to Catch Up and Deliver Customers the Shopping Experience They Want
The trend of “uberization” or industry disruption, a dominant concern of the C-suite this year, has extended beyond the corner office into what customers’ expect of their brick and click shopping experience. A new IBM study finds retailers’ strategies to innovate and meet those expectations are not keeping pace. The IBM 2016 Customer Experience Index […]