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“…this is also a time when we are seeing critical masses of customers—including...”
–  As IBM Accelerates Analytics Business, Can Anyone Keep Up?
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“A new survey reveals CEOs view their IT departments as the best thing they have...”
– Want innovation? Look no further than IT, say CEOs | ZDNet A Harris Interactive survey of the attitudes of 304 Fortune 1000 executives toward enterprise innovation.  IT is viewed as having been the most innovative function within executives’ own companies during the past 10 years (44...
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Barton Seaver: Sustainable seafood? Let’s get smart | Video on TED.com Chef Barton Seaver presents a modern dilemma: Seafood is one of our healthier protein options, but overfishing is desperately harming our ocean. “Forget nuclear holocaust, it is the fork we should worry about” Seaver says. In this talk, he presents an interesting proposition on how to go around this dilemma. 
Oct 28th
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Picture Story: Information and Analytics →
Today information pours in faster than we can make sense it. It’s being authored by billions of people – and flowing from a trillion intelligent devices, sensors and all manner of instrumented…
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Oct 27th
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How to Save Stroke Victims by Analyzing Data in... →
Remember that cool IBM TV ad about using real-time data management technology to monitor the vital signs of preemies in a Toronto hospital? Well, it looks like the same technology could be…
Oct 27th
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Smarter Leaders vPanel | Ready for the Social Workplace? Catch the new 15-minute highlights version of our interactive webcam panel: Experts from the Center for Creative Leadership, the Sovos Group and IBM explore how social computing is transforming the way employees collaborate and work together. Live on the IBM New Intelligence Channel Description: The 2010 IBM Global Chief Human...
Oct 26th
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First All-Digital Science Textbook Will Be Free | Wired Science | Wired.com Textbooks designed to be all-digital and interactive from the start (as opposed to simply converting print books) could bring not only salvation to schools because they’re easily updated, but also a revolution in how students learn science.
Oct 26th
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When your computer sits there ... it doesn't have... →
editorcorneronee: If you’re like me, you turn your computer on each morning and leave it on all day even when you might be out of the office temporarily attending a meeting or at lunch. And, even when you’re at your desk, you are probably rarely taxing your laptop or desktop computer’s processing power to any great extent. This unused computing horsepower could be put to a useful purpose,...
Oct 26th
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“When NASA wanted to look for water on the moon, it used a MEMS-enabled near-IR...”
– Water on the moon? NASA MEMS-based Phazir spectrometer chat with Steve Senturia - Small Times MEMS are very small devices used in sensors such as automobile airbags, smartphones and location and movement aware objects such as the remotes used in the Wii and Playstation game systems.
Oct 25th
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IBM says software helps predict natural disasters... →
IBM says it has patented a natural disaster warning system, which uses analytic techniques that accurately and precisely conducts post-event analysis of seismic events, such as earthquakes, as well as provide early warnings for tsunamis, which can follow earthquakes. The invention also provides the ability to rapidly measure and analyze the damage zone of an earthquake to help prioritize...
Oct 25th
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The incredible growth of the Internet since 2000 →
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The Social Bicycle System (by Ryan Rzepecki) The Social Bicycle System (SoBi) is a public bike share system that uses GPS, mobile communications, and a secure lock that can attach to almost any bicycle and lock to any regular bike rack
Oct 22nd
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Older workers drive social networking in the... →
Think those young workers, fresh out of college, all shiny and idealistic are driving the use of social networking at your company? Well, think again. The youngest workers in the office aren’t the driving force behind social networking in the enterprise. It’s Generation X - people between 29 and 49 - who are taking to these new tools, according to a Forrester Consulting study. ...
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Smarter Leaders vPanel | Ready for the Social Workplace? Catch the Replay of our latest interactive webcam panel: Experts from the Center for Creative Leadership, the Sovos Group and IBM explore how social computing is transforming the way employees collaborate and work together. Live on the IBM New Intelligence Channel Description: The 2010 IBM Global Chief Human Resource Officer Study found...
Oct 21st
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Enterprise 2.0 and Human Psychology |... →
When you ask business leaders what is needed to survive and thrive in today’s complex economic and global marketplace, the list is long – leadership, creativity, collaboration, innovation, motivation, trust, teamwork, partnerships, learning organizations, rationality, quality decision-making and problem solving skills, accountability and resiliency. But even though there is often consensus on...
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“On a typical day, when about 43 million tons of goods are carried on U.S....”
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Oct 18th
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Are You Ready For the Social Workplace?  →
smarterleaders: Are You Ready For the Social Workplace? Experts from the Center for Creative Leadership, the Sovos Group and IBM explore how social computing is transforming the way employees collaborate and work together. Live on the IBM New Intelligence Channel Description: The 2010 IBM Global…
Oct 18th
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Social Business Design | Dachis Group
Challenges to Organizational Transformation Legacy Structures New trends, no matter how revolutionary, must still overcome the limitations of the past before becoming fully adopted. In organizations, legacy systems and platforms, cultural elements, and governance requirements all work to limit the willingness to experiment and innovate. Information Should Empower: Increased openness and better...
Oct 18th
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The Thinking LMS →
In an effort ambitiously dubbed the “Learning Genome Project,” the for-profit powerhouse says it is building a new learning interface that gets to know each of its 400,000 students personally and adapts to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their “learning DNA.” Unlike analog forms of student profiling — such as surveys, which are only as effective as the students’ ability to diagnose their own...
Oct 17th
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Stemming the tide with smart water grids →
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Cameron Brooks, director, Smarter Water Management, IBM Big Green Innovations. Science has made some pretty impressive advancements with…
Oct 16th
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