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Improving health care with connected analytics technology
At ZSL, a global technology integrator and solution provider with 20 years of experience, we’ve observed two trends that are transforming healthcare today: data analytics and connected health. Most healthcare firms have collected volumes of data from varied sources. We often help them with data integration, transmission, security and analysis to make sense of it. […]
WaterBot: How to know if your water is safe to drink
How can you tell if your water is safe to drink? Most Americans worry about their drinking water, with good reason. News reports regularly expose high levels of PFCs, PFASs and other contaminants found around the nation. In 2014, we heard that the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, was discolored with dangerous contamination. Over the […]
Turning startup innovation and passion into business success
Taking a good idea and transforming it into a thriving business is not swift or easy. Roughly 90 percent of startups fail. In 2015, I established Cognition Foundry with the aim of helping talented, skilled people with innovative ideas better navigate this transformation. We primarily work with startups and independent software vendors (ISVs) moving their […]
Safely connecting kids to the digital world
We’ve all heard the expression “When one door closes another opens.” That’s what happened at my company, Dynepic, which started as a developer of social smart toys. Today we have pivoted to provide the iOKids Platform, a secure, social gateway to enable kids’ connection to the digital world under the watchful eyes of parents. Protecting […]
The era of exponential impact
Someday, I want to tell my grandchildren about the work I’m doing now. I want to tell them that I was on a team that helped pioneer the cognitive era. Because I think that creating the mind—creating intelligence—might be the ultimate invention. For me, that’s the Holy Grail. And I am competitive. When I played […]
The future of worksite safety: How social helps save lives
Emergencies every day — Blerter is all about human safety. We began with our Alerter product, which helps government agencies notify people about natural disasters and other emergencies. But we wanted to be able to help people on a daily basis too. So we did some research into where people need better systems for ongoing […]
SparkCognition on why cognitive business is booming, part 3
Amir Husain is the founder and CEO of IBM Business Partner SparkCognition. Matt Young, IBM Client References program director, recently interviewed Amir about Cognitive Business. The following is the last in a three-part series on the interview. We’ve heard about Amir’s background, and his take on cognitive computing in security and the Internet of Things […]
SparkCognition on why cognitive business is booming, part 2
Amir Husain is the founder and CEO of IBM Business Partner SparkCognition. Matt Young, IBM Client References program director, recently interviewed Amir about Cognitive Business. The following is the second in a three-part series on the interview. First, we heard about Amir’s background and his take on cognitive computing. Now, we pick up with where […]
SparkCognition on why cognitive business is booming, part 1
Amir Husain is the founder and CEO of IBM Business Partner SparkCognition. Matt Young, IBM Client References program director, recently interviewed Amir about Cognitive Business. The following is the first in a three-part series on the interview. The Cognitive Era is underway, and we already have some brilliant stories to tell. But what about our […]