Today, IBM announced the very first cognitive computing chips, designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. The technology could yield many orders of magnitude less power consumption and space than used in today’s computers, and give computers a sort of "right brain" capability to match their superior calculating abilities. Following Watson, it is yet another
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Building an inclusive society on the web
Posted on 06:04 by Unknown
In an effort to improve Web accessibility of public services for every Japanese citizen, including the elderly and disabled, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) developed Operational Models for Government Agencies and Municipalities: a manual that provides guidance and procedures that ensure accessibility for such tasks as municipality orders for outsourcing Web site
Monday, 1 August 2011
How IBM is digitizing the world's text
Posted on 08:00 by Unknown
The idea of digitizing all books and making them available on electronic libraries can be traced back to 1945, when Dr. Vannevar Bush wrote "As we may think" in the July issue of The Atlantic. His visionary description of an information centric application called "memex" influenced the development of the hypertext concept and the Internet. And projects in the 1970s – such as Michael Hart's
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Services Innovation Lab strengthens Research
Posted on 05:14 by Unknown
Today, IBM announced an initiative designed to link state-of-the-art IBM Research projects directly to the largest part of the company - services.The Services Innovation Lab (SIL), led by researchers with development and client experience in virtually every field of science and technology, will bring together researchers and services professionals to generate ideas, solve problems, capture
Monday, 25 July 2011
A Century of IBM Patents
Posted on 05:30 by Unknown
One hundred years ago, on July 25, 1911, IBM received its first patent for an invention related to punched card tabulation (U.S. Patent # 998,631). Since then, IBM inventors have been granted more than 150,000 patents globally for technological creations that have made a lasting impact on business and society.Patents and innovation are essential components of IBM's business growth strategy, and
Monday, 18 July 2011
Ponder This: A Q&A with puzzle master Oded Margalit
Posted on 10:39 by Unknown
Every month since May 1998, thousands of people match wits with the best minds in IBM Research by trying to solve Ponder This puzzles. The Ponder This puzzles began as a way for IBM researchers to increase productivity. Some employees found that when they got stuck on a problem, that immersing themselves in solving a completely different type of problem helped get them back on track.
Friday, 8 July 2011
Inventors' Corner: U.S. Patent #7,877,706 – Controlling a document based on user behavioral signals detected from a 3D captured image stream
Posted on 12:02 by Unknown
This patent describes a technique that enables an individual to use gestures and movements to search the Web or automatically create or update a document, spreadsheet, e-mail, etc.Similar to the technology used in gaming systems to capture a player's actions or movement, this invention is capable of seeing or detecting certain gestures or movements of computer users, which can be used to interact
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