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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tracking Every Pill, Every Piece Of Food – The Internet Of Things Cometh

IBM may be a big scary corporation, but there are bigger and scarier worries out there. Among them is counterfeit [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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