ROCHESTER, Minn – 08 Mar 2018: Mayo Clinic and IBM Watson Health (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled results from early use of the Watson for Clinical Trial Matching, an IBM cognitive computing system. Use of this system in the Mayo Clinic oncology practice has been associated with more patients enrolled in Mayo’s breast cancer clinical trials. (more…)
Quantum computing is many things: important, revolutionary and confusing. Who better to explain this monumental technology in understandable terms than a 19th Century Austrian cat? (more…)
If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately handle an egg while cooking you an omelet — it needs to be able to sense when objects are slipping out of its grasp. (more…)
Die Forschungsplattform BAU KUNST ERFINDEN der Universität Kassel hat einen Roboter zur Beschichtung und Sanierung von Gebäudefassaden entwickelt. Der sogenannte Plotbot/Crawler dient vor allem dazu, den Solarstrom-Beton „DysCrete“, einen Baustoff, der zugleich eine Solarzelle ist, auf Fassaden aufzutragen und zu erneuern. Er wird vom 20. bis zum 23. Februar am Stand der Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau auf der Baufachmesse Bautec in Berlin vorgestellt. (more…)
In an unmarked, windowless building at a confidential location, bad things happen to good hardware.
Surface Pens are forced to scribble nonstop for months. Packaged Surface devices crash hard inside a “shock tower.” And Surface laptops endure a grievous gauntlet – tests mimicking a lifetime of exposure to high heat, deep cold, rain, humidity, dust, fog, chemicals and ultraviolet radiation. (more…)
• Young adults lax on passwords, more comfortable with biometric and multifactor authentication
• People now prioritize security over convenience when logging into apps
CAMBRIDGE, MA – 29 Jan 2018: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security today released a global[1] study examining consumer perspectives around digital identity and authentication, which found that people now prioritize security over convenience when logging into applications and devices. Generational differences also emerged showing that younger adults are putting less care into traditional password hygiene, yet are more likely to use biometrics, multifactor authentication and password managers to improve their personal security. (more…)
Julie Dorsey is a Computer Science professor at Yale and the founder of Mental Canvas, a software company that is developing a new class of graphical-media-design system that lies between 2D drawing and 3D computer-aided design. The Mental Canvas technology was used in an animated spatial sketch of the coming new building for the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY). Below, Julie talks about her vision, her process and encouraging innovative thinking in students. (more…)
German reinsurance company Munich Re has been collecting and analysing data on natural catastrophes for over forty years, building up a unique knowledge base. (more…)
