The Jefferson Project

Preserving Lake George with a cyberphysical system





Editor’s note: This article is by Distinguished Engineer
Harry Kolar from IBM Research.



New York’s Lake George is threatened by salt, algae, Eurasian
watermilfoil, Asian clams, and zebra mussels. And they’re affecting the fish
and vegetation that earned it the moniker “The Queen of the American Lakes.”
This encroachment of runoff and

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Creating the utility of the future

 Q&A with Dr. Dario Gil, the director of the Smarter
Energy Research Institute 




The Smarter Research Institute (SERI) was
publicly announced last October with the goal of creating the utility of the
future. Dr. Dario Gil, its director, described the institute’s partners as
“researching and developing techniques that improve the balance between energy
supply and demand using predictive

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IBM researchers receive IPSJ Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award 2012

At its annual meeting this month, the Information Processing Society
of Japan (IPSJ) recognized IBM Research – Tokyo's
Koichi
Takeda and Hiroshi
Kanayama with the 2012 Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award for
their achievements in the research and development of Question Answering (QA)
technology. The award, funded by a
donation from the family of the late IPSJ honorary member Prof.

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"Smart Machines" Preview

IBM Senior Vice President and Research Director Dr. John E.
Kelly III and IBM writer Steve Hamm have authored a book, Smart Machines:
IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing, which will be published by
Columbia University Press this fall. The book presents a comprehensive
perspective on the future of technology and calls for government, academia and
the global tech industry to help power

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