by Angela Guess A new article out of IBM reports, “IBM Research today announced plans for a multi-year collaboration with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to create the Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) which will be housed within the College of Engineering on the Urbana campus. Opening in the summer of 2016, the […]
IBM CEO on the Role of Cognitive Computing in Healthcare
by Angela Guess Mark Hagland recently wrote in Healthcare Informatics, “In a wide-ranging keynote address that included aspirational statements, updates, and announcements, Ginni Rometty, the chairwoman, president, and CEO of the Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, on Tuesday morning shared her vision of cognitive computing with attendees at the World Health Care Congress, being held this week […]
American Cancer Society and IBM Collaborate to Create a Virtual Health Advisor
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “IBM and the American Cancer Society (ACS) today announced a partnership to create the first advisor for people fighting cancer, powered by Watson cognitive computing. The initiative, announced at the 13th Annual World Health Care Congress, aims to provide cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers […]
Where Cognitive Computing Meets Chip Design
by Angela Guess Ann Steffora Mutschler recently wrote in Semiconductor Engineering, “Cognitive computing. Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. All of these are concepts [that] aim to make human types of problems computable, whether it be a self-driving car, a health care-providing robot, or a walking and talking assistant robot for the home or office. R&D teams […]
How an Artificial Intelligence Headset Lets a Blind Developer See
by Angela Guess Adrian Bridgwater reports in Forbes, “Saqib Shaikh is a software developer from London, England who is currently working for Microsoft on the firm’s Bing search engine. Shaikh lost his sight when he was seven years old. In the pursuit of the freedoms that sighted people all take for granted every day, Shaikh […]
Microsoft Introduces Several New and Improved Machine Learning Bots
by Angela Guess Michelle Fitzsimmons reports in TechRadar, “As someone on Twitter said, if ‘bots’ was on your Build 2016 drinking game card, you’d be long dead. But while Microsoft is all about getting developers to create intelligent app companions to make our lives easier, is there any impressive machine learning the Redmond firm is […]
Making Your Business More Resilient with Cognitive Computing
by Angela Guess Hugo Moreno recently wrote in Forbes, “Watson’s tremendous knowledge base is now being trained to answer complex questions and is able to present extensively researched scenarios and probabilities in fields such as oncology. The power of cognitive computing is its ability to illuminate what was previously invisible—patterns and insight from the unstructured […]
Preventing Data Breaches with Cognitive Computing
by Angela Guess Rhonda Childress of IBM recently wrote in Forbes, “There’s been no shortage of companies in the news for data leaks in the past decade as a result of hacking, inside jobs, poor security and other reason. My personal credit card information was compromised twice in 2015 because of data breaches, and in […]
Open Source Analytics Penetrating Deeper into the Internet of Things
Click here to learn more about James Kobielus. The Internet of Things (IoT) is evolving into globe-spanning utility that incorporates open-source componentry down to its lowest level. The open-sourcing of IoT is a well-established trend, as amply attested by this and other sites. There is a dizzying range of open-source IoT industry initiatives. However, I […]
Expert System Establishes Advanced Cognitive Computing Research Labs in the US
by Angela Guess According to a new article out of the company, “Expert System, the leader in multilingual cognitive computing technology for the effective management and exploitation of unstructured information, today announced that it has expanded its footprint in the United States with the addition of two new research and development labs. The new Cogito […]