How Cognitive Computing Can Drive Sustainability
Around the world, sustainability is increasingly being adopted as a social objective and a political need. Though approaches and pace differ from region to region, nearly every nation is starting to focus on making electric supply more sustainable. How sustainability is embraced as a core business element in the electric industry varies globally and ranges from […]
Discovering What Really Matters to Health
Most of us spend time researching the quality of a product or service before we agree to buy it. We want to make sure we’re getting the best product we can for our money. Likewise, producers of those products depend on consumer feedback to make the best products or services consumers could buy. Yet, when […]
Weathering Hurricane Season with Cognitive, IoT
The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1. This year could be the most active in four years, with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes and three major hurricanes forecast during the coming season, according to The Weather Company, an IBM Business. We’re a country used to Mother Nature showing us a wide variety of severe weather. […]
How Cognitive is Tackling New Challenges, from Conservation to Customer Service
Cognitive application development is taking off around the world and across industries. In the past year alone developers in Japan, the Middle East, Latin America and most recently, Korea, have begun building with cognitive technologies in their native languages. With such energy behind the technology, IDC predicts that by 2018, half of all global consumers […]
Blockchain: Securing the Financial Systems of the Future
Eighty years ago, IBM helped the United States government create the Social Security system, which, at the time, was the most complex financial system ever developed. Today, as financial transactions become increasingly digital and networked, government and industry must once again combine forces to make the financial systems of the future more efficient, effective and […]
Unlocking the Full Value of Business Resiliency in the Enterprise
The one sure thing about Mother Nature is its unpredictable, even fierce disposition. A scan of recent news provides the evidence. Tornadoes, heavy rains and hail have dealt significant destruction to the Midwestern United States, causing great personal and economic damage. In Europe, a new study shows that certain areas of the continent will face […]
Watson Learns to Understand Korean Life and Language
This week, IBM and SK Holdings & CC, a leading Korean IT services company, announced plans to introduce Watson cognitive services to Korea. The significance of this milestone agreement is two-fold. For SK Holdings & CC and Korean organizations, access to market-ready artificial intelligence services comes at a critical time of change and an increasing appetite […]
Retail’s Store of the Future Will Run on Cloud
While e-commerce has attracted customers with a broader selection of products, lower prices and convenience, the importance of stores and store associates cannot be undervalued – especially when 85 percent of consumers still prefer to shop at physical stores. In-store innovations—such as technology enabled associates, location based services including display specific offers, digital content such […]
The Dawn of Quantum Computing is Upon Us
In 1981, at a conference co-organized by MIT and IBM, the famously brilliant and irreverent physicist Richard Feynman urged the world to build a quantum computer. He said “Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, […]