Thursday, 17 June 2010
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Rethinking the Mobile User Email Experience
Posted on 09:19 by Unknown
You're standing in line or at a conference so you quickly check your email on your smartphone. Basically, you want to know what's new; what needs to be handled immediately; what can be deleted now and what can wait until back in the office. If it's something that you can put off until later, you probably have some trick to remind yourself. Then, you get back to your desk and find yourself
Thursday, 3 June 2010
And the 2010 Kavli Award in nanoscience goes to....
Posted on 18:15 by Unknown
On September 28, 1989, IBM researcher Don Eigler moved a xenon atom back and forth between two defect sites on a platinum surface. In his lab notebook of that date, under the heading of “first atom to be manipulated under control”, Eigler wrote “Did it,” “Did it” and “Did it again! 3 in a row. On February 14, 1990, Eigler used a different method to manipulate single atoms: instead of dragging the
East Meets West : Analyzing Digital Medical Records to Understand Treatment Efficacy
Posted on 06:09 by Unknown
Eastern and Western medicine take very different approaches to the practice of medicine -- whether in prevention or disease treatment. And while, they may seem mutually exclusive, more and more clinicians are trying to understand how and when it may be best to integrate the two in order to prescribe the most effective, appropriate treatments for a patient.Combining data from Traditional Chinese
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Inventors' Corner U.S. Patent #7,689,595 -- Automatic travel content capture tool for address book entries
Posted on 08:55 by Unknown
Master Inventor, Rick Hamilton, explains how the invention associated with U.S. patent #7,689,595 works:
This patent describes an invention that automatically checks your cell phone or handheld's address book and calendar when traveling and, using GPS, automatically provides directions from your current location to nearby destinations. For example,if you're traveling on business and are
This patent describes an invention that automatically checks your cell phone or handheld's address book and calendar when traveling and, using GPS, automatically provides directions from your current location to nearby destinations. For example,if you're traveling on business and are
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Health is a complex system -- and understanding it requires a complex system too
Posted on 21:36 by Unknown
Tomorrow, IBM Research will kick off a new multi-year Grand Challenge project. The challenge is to build a platform that integrates multiple scientific models to create meaningful connections among different domains -- such as agriculture, transportation, urban planning and much more -- to better understand the ecosystem of influences on health, the health of individuals and the health of
Monday, 3 May 2010
Inventors’ Corner U.S. Patent #7,668,724 -- Method to use DMV web connection to process traffic tickets, appeals and court fines
Posted on 12:21 by Unknown
While nobody wants to receive a traffic ticket, the ensuing paperwork and time waiting to learn about your court date, fine, etc. can be both frustrating and unnerving. This patent describes an invention that improves the efficiency of handling traffic tickets by storing and processing traffic violation data automatically--as soon as a law enforcement official enters information via a portable
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