July 2009
20 Predictions of the Future (We're Still Waiting... →
juliasmola: Today we take a look at twenty predicted technological breakthroughs that never came to be, their origins and current status. To be fair, as you’ll see, we’ve certainly made progress in the right…
Jul 31st
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Student Insights on Smarter Cities →
Jul 31st
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“It should be clear to everyone that IBM’s intention is not to sell...”
– SPSS Is Not the Story; IBM’s Vision for Analytics Is | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog
Jul 31st
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NY Launches Online Student Loan Site →
Governor David A. Paterson announced the launch of the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation’s Student Loan Marketplace, a dynamic, interactive Web site that provides the first transparent, online information and comparison service for private student loans. “HESC Marketplace ensures that New York’s private student loan borrowers will have easy access to the...
Jul 31st
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IBM Academic Initiative: Smart Planet Jam →
Eight of 10 students want universities to revamp traditional learning environments while over 90 percent want to join or start a Green Advocacy group at their campus. 64 percent of students believe that the world has a chance to reverse carbon emissions by 2025, and 60 percent believe that education and efficient transportation offer the best hope for sustainability of our cities. These...
Jul 31st
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Wearable Wireless Sensor Market To Grow By 400...
Around the world multiple social factors are putting strain on existing healthcare operations, but a new wave of interest and investment in wireless body sensors will help healthcare providers to improve treatment as well as increase efficiency and cut costs. Key to these benefits is the development of wireless sensors to measure important body parameters and communicate the data to remote...
Jul 30th
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The Register: IBM iron predicts the future
Today, IBM trotted out the first of these specialized systems, which it calls the Smart Analytics System. It also provided a technology preview of an add-on appliance for its System z mainframes, called the Smart Analytics Optimizer, that Big Blue said will substantially speed up queries on those mainframes, thereby not severely impacting the performance of the applications and batch jobs that...
Jul 30th
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“I think IBM’s acquisition of SPSS will mark a seminal moment in that...”
– Global CIO: IBM’s Game-Changing Plunge Into Predictive Analytics — InformationWeek
Jul 30th
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Obama's goal is to turn around 5,000 schools →
President Obama’s intention of improving education started to take shape this week as the White House announced a goal of turning around 5,000 of the nation’s lowest-performing schools. The recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—the stimulus bill—allows for $13 billion to be funneled into the Title I program, which distributes money to schools with high percentages of...
Jul 30th
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Health care reform in Kentucky →
Jul 30th
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Are Your Good Instincts Good Enough? →
Smart business leaders are reconsidering their approach to information and decision-making. Instead of “checking their gut” they’re checking the facts by tapping advanced mathematics expertise for strategic analysis and optimization. Complex algorithms, previously the domain of academics, are now being used to solve formerly intractable business challenges.
Jul 30th
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Jul 29th
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Innovation in new product development for...
New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI) is possibly a Consumer Products (CP) company’s most critical business process, yet business process management and technology enablement are only now reaching R&D and Marketing. For CP companies, frequent and successful new product introductions are essential for organic growth and competitive differentiation. IBM - Point of view:...
Jul 29th
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Business analytics breakthrough
Use your information for business advantage A recent study by the IBM Institute for Business Value determined two out of three organizations surveyed recognize the value of business analytics and are moving to apply them for business value. Still, many continue to depend on personal experience and informed intuition to make decisions. Gain the insight you need with a pre-integrated, deeply...
Jul 29th
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Guest Post: University Jam 2009 →
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Jul 28th
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Building Smarter Oilfields via IBM Centre of... →
Norway’s offshore industry is considered a global leader.  Because of this, IBM has established a Centre of Excellence in Stavanger to develop solutions for the oil and gas industry.  Access to data from millions of measuring points on equipment and assets, such as pumps, valves, wells, etc, can realize NOK 300 billion over the next ten years according to a report from OLF.
Jul 28th
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Now is the Time for Enterprise IT to Take the... →
Jul 28th
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“Ireland’s Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) to...”
– Dublin Selects IBM for Citywide Smart Ticketing System - (via IBM Press)
Jul 28th
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“Industry Trends from Progressive Railroading: July 2009”
– Industry Trends from Progressive Railroading: July 2009
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“International Business Machines Corp. agreed to buy software developer SPSS Inc....”
– IBM Buys Software Firm for $1.2 Billion - WSJ.com
Jul 28th
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Live Webcast: IBM Smart Analytics System Launch →
Jul 28th
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Jul 28th
How It Works: Analytics →
Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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Building a more responsive, innovative learning...
Video featuring effort by IBM and Syracuse City School District to improve overall results by putting in place a framework for setting performance goals and assessing results based on rigorous standards. Smarter Education, Smarter Cities
Jul 27th
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Piecing together a crime in bits and bytes →
While forensics coaxes the details of a crime out of the physical evidence, analytics can coax the story of a crime out of the data; names, ID numbers, photos, videos, signatures, even information gathered decades ago. Take a look.
Jul 27th
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A million little computers focus on stronger rice
The University of Washington and IBM’s World Community Grid will study rice at the atomic level then combine that knowledge with traditional cross breeding techniques used by farmers throughout history. The goal is to develop stronger strains of the grain that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields. IBM - 16 May 2008 A million little computers focus on stronger rice...
Jul 27th
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"Cloud Computing Central" →
A great resource for developers interested in cloud computing.
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Stimulus funds could bring high-speed Internet to... →
If  Morgan County successfully taps American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus money, it could mean much more access to high-speed Internet in Morgan County and surrounding areas. Farmers could use wireless technology to monitor a tractor’s engine, transmitting information about its performance before it should fail due to a problem. Agricultural producers could also use a GPS...
Jul 27th
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“Much as meteorologists predict the path and intensity of hurricanes, Indiana...”
– Technology on way to forecasting humanity’s needs: physorg.com
Jul 26th
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Top 10 Water Management Techniques from the EPA →
EPA’s Sustainable Facilities Practices Branch developed the following list of top 10 water management techniques that have proven helpful in managing water use at facilities throughout the Agency. Meter/Measure/Manage Optimize Cooling Tower Upgrade Sanitary Fixtures (High-Efficiency Toilets and Urinals, Faucet Aerators) Eliminate Single-Pass Cooling Incorporate Landscape...
Jul 26th
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50 Percent of Food is Wasted Causing Water, Food... →
Jul 26th
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“Providing cost-effective technology solutions is an ongoing challenge for...”
– IBM Readies Cloud for Business
Jul 26th
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“As a Fortune 500 company, Sinochem has always had an innovative IT culture to...”
– IBM Readies Cloud for Business
Jul 26th
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“Business Process Management (BPM) software and services from IBM help...”
– Dynamic Business Processes and Models
Jul 24th
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African water sector evolving towards water for... →
Water sector development in Africa is evolving from its initial approach of classical engineering solutions to water for growth, which focuses on a holistic social, political and financial approach to water infrastructure.
Jul 23rd
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Stream Computing: For decades we've plugged...
A neonatal intensive care unit. A buoy tethered deep in the waters of Galway Bay. A space center in Sweden. All three are sites where stream computing is being tested as a powerful new way of processing data. IBM’s new middleware platform, also known as InfoSphere Streams, can ingest and analyze massive amounts of diverse data in real time and issue predictive bits of intelligence that can...
Jul 23rd
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