IBM Blockchain: What Can We Solve Together?
About three weeks ago, Dutch authorities learned that 20 percent of the eggs coming from the Netherlands were unsafe. European authorities are now in a dash to pull the bad food from the shelves. Five months earlier, 3,000 school children in Egypt became ill in the early afternoon. Ambulances were dispatched to elementary schools, as […]
The Ultimate Fan Experience: Turning Fans into Advocates
In today’s sports and entertainment world, fans rule. Much like an individual to a brand, fans are a sports and entertainment firm’s greatest asset — loyal, daily advocates for their team and/or performer. Sports and entertainment firms are working diligently to know their fans and address their evolving desires and expectations. Do they attend events […]
Adapting to Wholesale Change in the Prime Brokerage Industry
The combination of changing financial regulations, capital and leverage requirements, shifting structure across the hedge fund industry and a global search for alpha amid low interest rates have placed enriched financial data at a premium. Unless investment banks and securities firms adapt their business models to these market forces, their prime brokerage businesses will feel […]
A Parable: “The Blind GPUs and the Elephant”
“…Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the elephant based on their partial experience and their descriptions are in complete disagreement on what an elephant is.” – The Rigveda This parable is helpful describing the problem that we […]
Do Doctors Fear AI? Not the Hundreds I Work with Around the World
Headlines abound about doctors cowering from AI. The reality: not so much. I’m a physician, and don’t think that’s a realistic concern. Rather, I envision a future in which AI-enabled insights help health and medical experts deliver patient-centered, personalized, value-based care. The future is here. For those of us at IBM, we are augmenting experts’ […]
Clarifying the Complex with a ‘Simpler Voice’
As smart as the phones in our pockets are, they’re not built to interpret the written word. Low-literate adults, of whom there are 757 million worldwide, including 32 million in the United States, instead rely on visual cues for recognition and comprehension. So, as part of IBM Research’s Science for Social Good initiative, our team […]
The Impact of the Cloud in Healthcare, Today and Tomorrow
In a world of increasingly connected patients and devices, the global healthcare and life sciences community has a renewed – and some would say sharpened – focus on improving patient engagement and health outcomes. As a result, many are exploring how an enterprise health cloud can support these efforts. What are they looking for? Health […]
How Watson is Helping More Puppies Become Guiding Eyes for the Blind
Guide dogs help to provide people with vision loss with independence, safety, and, perhaps equally important – companionship. These puppies with a purpose change lives for the better in many, many ways. I volunteer as a puppy raiser for Guiding Eyes for the Blind because I saw first-hand how my late husband’s vision loss affected […]
Committed to Technology Equality for People with Disabilities
The year 2017 will be remembered as a major milestone in the relationship between technology and equality. Earlier this year, updates were finally approved to the Section 508 Amendment of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that transformed turn-of-the-century accessibility guidelines for procurement and services of the U.S. federal government to encompass modern challenges and […]
The CDO: Helping to Harness the Power of Data
Data used to be viewed by businesses as exhaust — a necessary but relatively useless output of projects that became a nuisance to store and maintain. Advances in analytical, and more recently cognitive, technology have changed that mindset for good. Data is now an asset that can be applied to benefit all aspects of an […]
How AI and Machine Learning are Aiding Schizophrenia Research
In the U.S. about 20 percent of adults suffer from a mental health condition, ranging from depression to bipolar disorder to schizophrenia, and about half of those with severe psychiatric disorders receive no treatment. While early identification, diagnosis, and treatment for patients with psychosis tends to mean improved outcomes, there continues to be significant barriers […]
Reimagining Technology Support with Autonomous IT
The vast amount of unstructured data from servers, networks, and social media, along with highly-personalized mobile devices and “always-on” IT expectations, requires a higher standard of support – support that can seamlessly transition between environments to identify, evaluate, and resolve issues consistently. However, today’s conventional IT support still relies on plenty of manual analysis and […]