Westpac: Empowering Customers Through Digital Transformation
At Westpac we’ve set a goal of becoming one of the world’s great service companies, recognising that our customers compare us not just with the experience offered by local banks but by the global web-based businesses they conduct and experience every day. Customers of businesses across industries around the planet are empowered with greater knowledge, […]
Catch John Kelly’s Speech at the Cognitive Colloquium in San Francisco
IBM is hosting some of the leading thinkers in cognitive computing and artificial intelligence in San Francisco on October 13 at our annual cognitive colloquium. Tune in here starting at noon Eastern Time for a live blog–kicking off with live video of a talk about the future of computing by John Kelly, the IBM senior […]
Three Ways Cognitive Banking Will Help Manage Your Life
Computers have changed our lives over the past 50 years. Yet computing itself has not fundamentally changed, nor has banking. Until now. We’re entering a new era of computing, one we call Cognitive Computing. Cognitive Computing changes the way humans and systems interact. Cognitive systems have the ability to understand natural language in order to […]
Here Come the Drones: Creating Buzz in the Ag Industry
I have a cousin in Kansas who raises corn and sorghum on a 1400-acre family farm. He calls himself an old-time farmer because he likes to walk his fields to see how the crops are doing. But he sometimes climbs on a powered parachute, which looks like a tricycle with an aircraft engine and a […]
Learning How to Run Again with Mobile and Cloud
I had it all planned out. We’d hike to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite and I’d propose to my girlfriend, Sian, at the top. The only problem was, climbing up steep, rocky ledges when you’re blind is not the safest date activity. The rocks were slippery, and one small misstep could mean death. […]
Fulfilling the Promise of Smarter Cities
Amazing things are happening in Madrid, Spain. Government leaders in this city of 3 million people are transforming the way they manage and pay for city services provided by outside firms: services covering everything from street maintenance and irrigation of trees to garbage pickup. Instead of paying for effort, they’re paying for results. This big […]
Tesco’s Top Shelf Energy Reduction Plan
At Tesco reducing our impact on the environment is not only an essential part of our overall commitment to be a responsible business, but it is also a way to increase our resilience to risk, help secure the supply of our products and provide opportunities to save money, such as energy. Over the last few […]
The Rise of Cognitive Business
By John E. Kelly III When the original Watson won on the TV quiz show Jeopardy in 2011, it was one computer tucked away in a room at IBM Research. Now it’s in our cloud, available anywhere. Back then, Watson consisted of a single software application powered by five core technologies. Today, it includes 28 […]
The Rise of Cognitive Business
When the original Watson won on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011, it was one computer tucked away in a room at IBM Research. Now it’s in our cloud, available anywhere. Back then, Watson consisted of a single software application powered by five core technologies. Today, it includes 28 cognitive services. Each represents a […]
Letter from the Editor: Welcome to THINK
Seven years ago IBM launched the Smarter Planet blog as a place to share stories from researchers, scientists, business leaders, academics and government officials about how each was leveraging innovation to create a more connected, intelligent, and instrumented world. A Smarter Planet. Little has changed on the blog over the past seven years. Meanwhile, the […]
How Necessity Is Driving Invention, a TED@IBM Talk
By Deepak Advani What is it that separates homo sapiens from our fellow animals? Psychologists, anthropologists, artists, zoologists and many other “ists” have proposed many different ideas, but as they have not reached a consensus, I feel free to offer my own opinion: it is invention that sets humans apart. “Language” is a popular proposal […]
A Major Advance in Nanotechnology Could Extend Moore’s Law
By Dario Gil IBM Research scientists launched the nanotechnology revolution when they designed the scanning-tunneling microscope in 1981, and our researchers have achieved numerous nanotech breakthroughs since then–including being the first people in the world to move single atoms. Now comes an advance that delivers on the promise of nanotechnology–potentially extending the life of Moore’s […]