Category Archives: Technology

IBM Challenges Mobile Developers to Bring the Power of Watson to the Palm of Your Hand

Challenge to Spur Innovation and Accelerate Mobile Apps on Watson

BARCELONA, SPAIN – (MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS) – 26 Feb 2014: IBM today launched the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, a first of its kind, global competition to encourage developers to create mobile consumer and business apps powered by Watson. IBM announced the challenge at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the company is demonstrating its mobile and Watson capabilities.  (more…)

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

ARMONK, N.Y. – 24 Feb 2014: IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps.  

Cloudant will extend IBM’s Big Data and Analytics, Cloud Computing and Mobile offerings by further helping clients take advantage of these key growth initiatives. Financial terms were not disclosed. (more…)

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IBM Research and Thiess Use Data ‘Vital Signs’ to Predict Mining Equipment Health and Drive Business Performance

First-of-a-kind program infuses Big Data, advanced analytics and modeling to merge mechanics, field knowledge and diverse data sources to increase operational performance in mine production

SAN JOSE, Calif., and Queensland, Australia – 20 Feb 2014: IBM today announced a new collaboration with Thiess, one of the world’s largest contract miners, to use Big Data to improve machine availability and operational productivity utilizing predictive analytics and modeling technologies. This initial collaboration focuses on Thiess’ Mining haul trucks and excavators, and will help unify asset management and business operations.  (more…)

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IBM Predictive Analytics to Detect Patients at Risk for Heart Failure

Big Data Solution Identifies 8,500 Patients at Risk for Heart Failure Using Insights from Electronic Medical Records

ARMONK, N.Y. – 19 Feb 2014: IBM today announced that Virginia health system Carilion Clinic has indentified 8,500 patients at risk for developing heart failure in a pilot project that could lead to early intervention and better care for these patients.  (more…)

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AT&T And IBM Join Forces To Deliver New Innovations For The Internet of Things

Cities, Utilities and Other Industries to Benefit from Interconnected, Intelligent Devices

ARMONK, NY and DALLAS, TX – 18 Feb 2014: AT&T* and IBM today announced a new global alliance agreement to develop solutions that help support the “Internet of Things.”  The companies will combine their analytic platforms, cloud, and security technologies with privacy in mind to gain more insights on data collected from machines in a variety of industries. (more…)

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Im Schlaf gemeinsam Gutes tun

Samsung Österreich und die Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften der Universität Wien haben heute den Startschuss für eine großangelegte nationale Initiative gegeben: Unter dem Namen “Power Sleep” wollen die beiden Partner Smartphone- und Tablet-User in ganz Österreich dazu anregen, die Forschung im Kampf gegen Krankheiten wie Alzheimer oder Krebs voranzutreiben. Erreicht werden soll dies über eine eigens entwickelte Android-App: Sie erlaubt die nicht benötigte Prozessorleistung der mobilen Endgeräte der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zu spenden – etwa während man schläft. 

“Technologie kann nur in den Händen der Menschen Großes vollbringen. Was Thomas Rattei und sein Team an der Universität Wien in der Proteinforschung mit IT-Unterstützung und wissenschaftlichem Know-how leisten, hat uns inspiriert. Unsere Anerkennung dafür – und gleichzeitig unser Beitrag für den Kampf gegen Alzheimer oder Krebs – heißt Power Sleep”, erklärt Martin Wallner, Senior Director IT & Mobile bei Samsung Electronics Austria.  (more…)

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Q&A: What studying networks can tell us about the world and ourselves

There was an opening ceremony on Feb. 5 for the Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS), dedicated to exploring fundamental properties of networks as they appear throughout the biological, physical, and social sciences.

The interdisciplinary institute will be led by co-directors Nicholas Christakis, the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, and Daniel Spielman, the Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics.

Christakis and Spielman recently met with YaleNews to discuss the nature of networks and the institute’s mission. The following is an edited version of the conversation. (more…)

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Die Ankunft der Netzpolitik im Bundestag

Diese Woche wurde der netzpolitische Diskurs klar durch die offizielle Einsetzung des Ausschusses für Digitale Agenda durch den Deutschen Bundestag dominiert. Die Erwartungen an den neuen Ausschuss sind groß. Unsere Presseschau beinhaltet darüber hinaus einige Themenschwerpunkte, die auch im neuen Ausschuss diskutiert werden müssen. Peter Schaar appelliert etwa an die Verantwortung der Politik zur Wahrung der Grundrechte im digitalen Zeitalter. Die Idee eines „deutschen Internets“ soll auch im Ausschuss diskutiert werden, wie CDU und SPD betonten. Hannes Grassegger überlegt, ob wir bald mit Visum surfen müssen.

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