Weaving Cognitive into Couture: Watson and Marchesa Collaborate for the Met Gala
Throughout history, we’ve seen traces of technology enabling humans to create – from Da Vinci’s use of the camera obscura to Caravaggio’s work with mirrors and lenses. Today, cognitive systems like Watson are giving artists, designers and creative minds the tools to make sense of the world in ground-breaking ways, opening up new avenues for […]
How To Provide Secure And Trustworthy Blockchain Networks in the Cloud
While many people have heard of the crypto currency called bitcoin, what’s more interesting is the underpinning technology that makes bitcoin work, known as blockchain. Industry analysts are calling blockchain “revolutionary.” Blockchain allows industries, organizations and their customers, partners and suppliers to build dynamic new business networks for conducting transactions of all kinds. Blockchain can […]
Harnessing Technology to Level the Educational Playing Field
As I write and email this from my laptop, my smartphone rests next to it. I could choose to use a tablet. I am on an airplane and all are working. These are technological advances unimaginable not so very long ago. The wow factor surrounding these devices reasserts itself with each new product that is […]
Discussing the Potential of the Circular Economy on Earth Day
How can we add $1 trillion to the global economy by 2025 and create 100,000 new jobs within the next five years? By progressing into a circular economy (CE), according to an analysis by McKinsey, an American multinational management consulting firm. A CE revolves around making, collecting, recovering and reusing as opposed to the linear […]
Digital Transformation: Mac’s Continued Rise in the Enterprise
Everywhere you look today proves that mobile technology and mobile work environments are allowing employees to more easily conquer their daily workloads from a laptop, the palm of their hand, or even a screen on their wrist. Finding yourself in the midst of a transforming work environment is enough to make anyone excited to go […]
Tapping Technology to Take on Veterans’ Brain Injuries
I’m sensitive to the sacrifices made by wounded warriors because members of my family have served in practically every war the United States has fought going back to colonial times. My father was a P-38 fighter-bomber pilot over Europe in 1944 and suffered a serious brain trauma when one of the bombs from his plane […]
What is Blockchain and Why do I Need it?
The history of bartering dates back to 9000 BC in Egypt. It was introduced by Mesopotamia tribes in 6000 BC and was later adopted by Babylonian’s where goods were exchanged for a wide variety of things. The barter system is similar to having an asset, trading it and recording that transaction on a little black […]
Propelling Online Video Forward, Fast
The online video revolution is rolling on, unabated and gaining momentum. Spurred by advances in streaming platforms, large file transfer and storage technologies, cloud-based video continues to disrupt the media & entertainment industry, while driving powerful new communications capabilities throughout the business world. These advances have led to an inflection point in the media & […]
Cognitive Storytelling in the 4th Dimension
Few artists could bring a story to life like Orson Welles. A powerful actor and director, Welles was also a technology innovator who pushed the limits – whether on radio or film – to deliver entertainment as an unforgettable experience. Welles’ realistic production of the “War of the Worlds” in 1938 featured simulated news broadcasts […]
IBM Health Corps: New Ideas for Solving the World’s Health Problems
Zithulele Hospital is a medical marvel. It provides quality acute and primary care for a community of 130,000 people scattered across part of the rural Eastern Cape of South Africa with just 146 beds and 13 fulltime doctors. Zithulele’s situation illustrates one of the major public health challenges in the world today: there aren’t enough […]
Q&A: Five Questions for IBM’s Chief Data Officer
Inderpal Bhandari, Ph.D., was named IBM’s Global Chief Data Officer in December, 2015. He began his career in IBM Research in the 1990s, then spent the next couple of decades working in data. He became a Chief Data Officer in 2006 for a healthcare company, the first in that field. The following topics and questions […]
How the Internet of Things Could Revolutionize Parkinson’s Disease Care
Growing up, I was surrounded by musicians, artists and writers. I have always been intensely interested in people and the human creative expression in art. It fascinated me to learn how people think and ultimately how and what they create. From teachers to preachers to artists, the people in my life have cultivated a deep […]