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
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Monday, 19 December 2011
IBM 5 in 5: Big Data & sensemaking engines start feeling like best friends
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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
IBM 5 in 5: Generating energy from unexpected sources
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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
IBM 5 in 5: Mobile is closing the Digital Divide
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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
IBM 5 in 5: Biometric data will be the key to personal security
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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
IBM 5 in 5: Mind Reading is no longer science fiction
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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
Monday, 12 December 2011
Dr. Lawrence Lippitt, author of "Preferred Futuring", Visits IBM Research - Zurich
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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
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
The Future of Healthcare
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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
Monday, 5 December 2011
How to build computers of the future
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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
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Dave Ferrucci at Computer History Museum: How it all began and what's next
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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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