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Tag Archives: ibm
On the Internet of Things IBM Tracks Your Pork From Farm to Fork. Starting with China
IBM has set out to prove it can revolutionize the food industry with data, starting with China. Six industrial slaughterhouses [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health
Tagged ibm, Internet of Things, pig, pork, Smarter Planet
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From Jeopardy! to Insurance – IBM’s Watson AI Hired by WellPoint For Medical Expertise
Ever feel like the people reviewing your claims at the insurance company are a bunch of faceless, mindless drones? Well [...]
Posted in AI, Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged ai, healthcare, ibm, insurance, watson, WellPoint
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IBM: PCs Are Yesterday’s Technology. China: Sure, But Give Us Millions More.
“My primary computer now is a tablet.” — Mark Dean CTO of IBM Middle East and Africa, 2011 Here’s a [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Video Central
Tagged China, Global Computing, ibm, Lenovo, PC, Personal Computer
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IBM Celebrates Its Centennial By Unveiling Revolutionary Memory Technology
Scientists at IBM Research have created a relatively new type of memory that’s so fast and stable it may allow [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Gadgets, Singularity
Tagged computer memory, eth zurich, ibm, ibm zurich, nanotechnology, phase-change memory
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Experience The Civil War As It Unfolds In A Daily Newspaper With New iPad App (video)
I opened up the newspaper this morning to find out that the president was in D.C. to witness a demonstration [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged App, Civil War, history, ibm, ipad, iPad App, The Civil War Today
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Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors With Medical Knowledge
The trainee was sequentially presented the details of a fictitious patient: there’s an eye problem; vision is blurred; the family, [...]
Paging Dr. Watson: AI Jeopardy! Soon To Be Physician’s Assistant
Will you ever be treated by Dr. Watson? Not Sherlock Holmes’s right-hand man, but the AI Jeopardy! champion who’s poised [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged AI Physician, columbia university, Decision Support, ibm, ibm watson, mayo clinic, Nuance Healthcare, Qualibria, University of Maryland, watson
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It’s Showtime: IBM’s Watson To Make History On Jeopardy!
Today, February 14, 2011, IBM’s Watson computer system is slated to take on the world’s best humans in a televised [...]
Watch the Watson Computer Kick Jeopardy’s Ass (video)
Today is the day computers took over…game shows. In a brief exhibition match in upstate New York, IBM’s pure language [...]
IBM’s ‘Watson’ Takes on Jeopardy! You Can Challenge the Computer to a Trivia Duel
Back in 1997, IBM made history when its computer Deep Blue defeated Grandmaster Garry Kasporov in a game of chess. [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged Blue Gene, Clive Thompson, David Ferrucci, Deep Blue, DeepQA, ibm, jeopardy, language processing, New York Times, question answering system, watson
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IBM’s Virtual Mirror Brings Augmented Reality to Makeup Counters (video)
Mega-corp IBM has teamed up with Israel-based EZface to create a “virtual mirror” that allows you to see what makeup [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged AR, augmented reality, cosmetics, EZface, ibm, makeup, virtual mirror
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IBM Creates Nano-sized 3D Map of Earth in Less Than 3 Minutes! (Video)
What do you do after 20 years of leading the world in microscopy? Apparently you show off a little. IBM [...]
The Brain According to Henry Markram (Video)
Once you start building a brain in a box you get two things: admission into the Mad Scientists’ Club, and [...]
IBM Hypes DNA Transistor, Genomes for Less than $1000
Sequencing your genome is going to be such big business that everyone wants to get in on it, even if [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Genetics
Tagged CMOS, DNA electronics, DNA Transistor, Genetics, human genome, ibm, sequencing, SNP Dr.
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IBM Celebrates 20 Years Since First Manipulating an Atom
It was twenty years ago when Don Eigler, a fellow at IBM, made history by moving individual atoms for the [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged 1989, 20 year anniversary, atoms, Don Eigler, ibm, manipulating, scanning tunneling microscope, STM
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Henry Markram’s Artificial Brain in a Computer (Video)
Many of you, like me, are excited about the possibilities of modeling and simulating the human brain. The Blue Brain [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Singularity
Tagged Blue Brain Project, design series, Henry Markram, ibm, modeling, seed magazine, simulation
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Microscope Sees Molecules for First Time
Imagine trying to read braille printed on wet tissue paper. That’s what it’s been like trying to take a picture [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Longevity And Health
Tagged AFM, atomic force microscope, ibm, microscope, molecule, pentacene, quantum computing
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Boom! Question Answering Engines Take Off. IBM Sets Sights On Jeopardy, Wolfram Alpha
Boom! That is the sound skittering across the information industry landscape this week as IBM has suddenly stepped into the [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces
Tagged ibm, ibm watson, jeopardy, question answering engine, watson, wolfram alpha
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Birth of nanotechnology documented by this historic IBM photo
From the IEEE report on the singularity I found a cool reference to the birth of nanotechnology in the article [...]