Category Archives: Technology

Columbia University and IBM Establish New Center to Accelerate Innovation in Blockchain and Data Transparency

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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…)

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Microsoft tests a datacenter under the sea

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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…)

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Memristors power quick-learning neural network

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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…)

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France’s Cloud Management Solutions Provider Cegid Builds New Cloud Services Capabilities with IBM

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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…)

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‘Wonder at scale’: How Johns Hopkins Medicine plans to change the face of disease

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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…)

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Startup Licenses UA-Invented Mining Sensor Network

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At the core of the system is the ability to sense a miner’s location and body temperature, predict potential problems and recommend steps to avert health risks.

University of Arizona startup GUIA has licensed a mining communication and sensor platform developed by faculty in the UA’s College of Engineering and Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources. While the team’s initial focus for this “internet of things” system is mining, the company is looking to apply the technology to a number of other environments. (more…)

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Mediaocean and IBM Partner to Integrate Blockchain Across the Media Ecosystem; New Blockchain Consortium Includes Kellogg, Kimberly-Clark, Pfizer and Unilever

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Advertising blockchain program to strengthen accountability throughout the digital advertising ecosystem

CANNES, FRANCE – Mediaocean, the foundational software provider of the advertising world, and IBM iX, one of the world’s largest digital agencies and global business design partners, today announced the launch of a blockchain consortium for the digital media supply chain. Bringing together some of the world’s largest advertisers, agencies and publishers, including Kellogg, Kimberly-Clark, Pfizer, Unilever and IBM Watson Advertising, the solution aims to provide transparency and build trust and accountability in the advertising ecosystem. (more…)

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