BANGKOK and ARMONK, N.Y., July 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Krungsri (Bank of Ayudhya PCL), one of Thailand’s largest financial institutions with 8.6 million credit cards, sales finance, and personal loan accounts, today announced a five-year US$140M engagement, to support the bank’s future roadmap for growth and focus on digital banking. (more…)
Hyperledger Iroha project notes that this work heavily inspired their protocol
Blockchain—a technology used for verifying and recording digital transactions—blasted into public consciousness with the rise of Bitcoin. But this tool could also transform the way governments, global industries and even science research operate. In fact, several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information. (more…)
NEW YORK, July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Columbia University and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new Center devoted to research, education, and innovation in blockchain technology and data transparency. To advance compelling new ways to apply blockchain and help address growing demands around data transparency, the Center will also include an innovation accelerator to incubate business ideas from entrepreneurial students, faculty and members of the startup community. (more…)
Even Wikipedia, the open source encyclopedia has a CEO.
Justin Vendetta is the lead Verge developer and in fact, till to-date the main ‘face of Verge’. (more…)
Microsoft is leveraging technology from submarines and working with pioneers in marine energy for the second phase of its moonshot to develop self-sufficient underwater datacenters that can deliver lightning-quick cloud services to coastal cities. An experimental, shipping-container-size prototype is processing workloads on the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Microsoft announced today. (more…)
ANN ARBOR — A new type of neural network made with memristors can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans. The network, called a reservoir computing system, could predict words before they are said during conversation, and help predict future outcomes based on the present. (more…)
IBM enterprise services agreement gives Cegid greater access to hybrid cloud-based applications and services
PARIS, July 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cegid, a leading provider of performance-enhancing cloud management solutions, today announced an enterprise services agreement to enhance Cegid’s service delivery in a hybrid IBM Cloud environment. (more…)
The data is big. Its potential to find cures: even bigger.
At Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, scientists and physicians are collecting and tapping vast amounts of data from clinical care, genomics – even wearable devices – to better predict disease progression and pinpoint individual treatments. (more…)
