Project dreams of helping doctors find a cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease, other challenges

Biologists
push theory to experiment with the wisdom of crowds.



Seven
years ago, IBM Research scientist Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky’s team was looking
for a way to better-understand the accuracy of the biological results yielded by
the network reconstruction algorithms they were developing at IBM. In other
words, how could Stolovitzky improve the evaluation of their reverse
engineering efforts to

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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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