The Payoff from the IBM-Google University Research Cloud

Scientists love it when their work has a direct impact on society, so Naphtali Rishe, director of Florida International University’s High Performance Database Research Center, is thrilled that much of his lab’s data is used by real estate professionals and urban planners. Check out one of his Web sites, which shows detailed maps of Miami-Dade County real estate sales data. Anybody who wants to

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IBM 5 in 5: Big Data & sensemaking engines start feeling like best friends

Edior's note: This IBM 5 in 5 post about Big Data and analytics is by Jeff Jonas, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Software Group's Chief Scientist of Entity Analytics. He blogs here, www.jeffjonas.typepad.com and can be found on Twitter @jeffjonas.


Click through rates for unsolicited advertisements range from near zero to roughly five percent. From the recipients’ point of view, just about

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IBM 5 in 5: Generating energy from unexpected sources

Editor's note: This
post about IBM's Next 5 in 5 prediction about future energy sources
is by IBM
Distinguished Engineer Harry Kolar.



It happens all the time; you forget your cell phone charger at home, and your smartphone battery runs out after hours of email and Angry Birds. But what if you could recharge your cell phone using power you’ve generated simply by walking?

Anything that

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IBM 5 in 5: Mobile is closing the Digital Divide

Editor's note: This post about IBM's Next 5 in 5 prediction about the future of mobile computing is by Paul Bloom, IBM's Chief Technology Officer for Telco Research.Think about what you can already do with your mobile smartphone – check your bank account, tweet, watch television, and oh yeah, make a call. But all of this access still depends on where you are, and you have to initiate the

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IBM 5 in 5: Biometric data will be the key to personal security

Editor's note: This IBM 5 in 5 prediction about biometrics is by IBM Fellow and Speech CTO David Nahamoo.

Everything we do online, or via a computer, requires authenticating who we are – user IDs and passwords are our safeguard. But the security isn’t foolproof. Our IDs and passwords can be stolen and our mobile devices can be lost or stolen.Over the next five years, your unique biological

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IBM 5 in 5: Mind Reading is no longer science fiction

Brown wearing the EPOC headset.
Editor's note:  This post about IBM's 5 in 5 prediction of mind reading technology is by Kevin Brown of IBM Software Group's Emerging Technologies.

One of the many great things about working with the Emerging Technology Services team is that I am always focused on “what’s next.”  For a long time speech recognition fitted into this category as the computing

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Dr. Lawrence Lippitt, author of "Preferred Futuring", Visits IBM Research - Zurich

5 questions with Dr. Larry LippittQ. What is "Preferred Futuring"?Larry Lippitt. Preferred Futuring is a way to engage everyone in the system to be able to communicate with each other. Communication is so important and so basic to operating as an organization effectively and, nowadays, it happens so very quickly, too. Preferred Futuring helps people come together and discuss “How on earth did we

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The Future of Healthcare

The introduction of so much new digital medical information is transforming the decision-making process in the healthcare ecosystem. Patients often seek out information before they speak to a doctor, and clinicians are using computers to help with diagnosis or with the selection of treatment options. In short, what used to be an intimate doctor-patient twosome has now become a threesome: the

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How to build computers of the future

Researchers at IBM are building computing devices of the future - but you're less likely to find them focusing on the slimmer, smaller, lighter, sleeker, sexier holiday gift-giving gift ideas. IBM's top computer scientists, physicists and chemists can instead be found improving compute power based on advanced physics discoveries; decreasing the size of transistors while improving performance; and

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Dave Ferrucci at Computer History Museum: How it all began and what's next

CHM President John Hollar

In front of what Computer History Museum president John Hollar called "the largest crowd for a Revolutionaries lecture" that he's ever seen, IBM Watson principle investigator Dave Ferrucci sat with Financial Times' Richard Waters on November 15th for a conversation about "A Computer Called Watson." To the audience of about 450 Silicon Valley techies, influencers,

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Modeling the planet's future

5 Minutes with Dr. Robert Bishop, President, International Center for Earth Simulation (ICES) Q. What is ICES?Robert Bishop: The acronym “ICES” stands for the International Center for Earth Simulation. We see this as a long-term issue. It’s a very ambitious mission to bring together all the sciences which are currently siloed separately. They don’t talk to each other enough. As a consequence I

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Portuguese IBM Scientific Prize Awarded

The IBM Scientific Prize 2010 was recently presented to Alexandra Silva, for her PhD research at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. Her paper is titled Quantitative Kleene coalgebras.

Silva received the prize during a ceremony in Braga, Portugal, with Education and Science Minister Nuno Crato and IBM Portugal President Jose Joaquim de Oliveira. The award consists of a charter

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Linking genes over generations

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Dr. Ajay Royyuru, the senior manager of IBM’s Computational Biology Center. We started the Genographic Project with National Geographic six years ago, and the first thing we worried about was how the general public would respond to our request for their DNA. There’s nothing more personal than that. Well, we ran out of our initial supply of 30,000 kits

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"It’s exciting when an experiment finally works"

IBM scientist Werner Escher received the 2011 HILTI Award for innovative research for his outstanding PhD thesis on new liquid cooling technologies for microprocessors. The renowned technical university ETH Zurich issues this award every year in recognition of a thesis or other research paper in the fields of physics or engineering that excels in combining extraordinary scientific research with

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The Next Grand Challenge in Computing

At the recent Frontiers of IT colloquium, IBM Aacdemy of Technology Chairman Emeritus Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger hosted a panel of industry and academic leaders who discussed what they consider today's grand challenges in computing.The Panelists: Jim Schatz, Department Head, Johns Hopkins Applied Information SciencesDavid Aronoff, Flybridge Venture CapitalErik Kruse, Marketing Strategist,

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The Future of Computing: Reuniting Bits and Atoms

Dr. Neil Gershenfeld, the director of The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, spoke about "how bits meets atoms" at the recent "Frontiers of IT" colloquium at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center."Projecting to exascale, we're heading toward 10-to-the-20 [operations per second]. The universe does 10-to-the-120 ops! There isn't a word for that. There's 10-to-the-100 head room we haven't reached.

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Transforming Health Care Through Data

Lori Beer, the executive vice president of Enterprise Business Services at WellPoint, spoke about how data -- and analyzing that data with systems such as IBM's Watson -- is transforming health care."If you look at [the health care industry], it's not that there's a lack of data. But if you look across the silos of the industry, whether it's pharmaceuticals, or medical devices, or medical

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Advanced Computing Systems for Energy

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