April 2010
7 tags
Smart Kitchens: Connected Households Could Be... →
mobilebehavior:
Like cities and cars, everyday appliances are surely becoming smarter. Technology for the Kitchen promises a connected household.
The idea behind the Future Kitchen…
13 tags
8 tags
Build it and they will come →
In the past 12 months alone, New York City office workers have spent the equivalent of 22.5 YEARS either waiting for an elevator or stuck in one, according to a new IBM survey. Why? Because office…
8 tags
MIT's John Sterman: A Call to Action to Take on... →
Click here to view the embedded video.
Data modeling and simulation are necessary tools for taking on society’s largest and most complex problems, including public health and climate change, but…
Attacking Poor Health With Good Data →
Healthcare is a complex topic, with many moving parts, including doctors, hospitals, clinics, the pharmaceutical industry, government policy, privacy, medical schools, etc. Now, take your thinking…
7 tags
8 tags
Five Ways To Make Eco-Efficiency Your Business →
by Rich Lechner
This week marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and organizations around the world are touting environmental stewardship and describing ways they’re going green. I applaud…
Smarter Leaders ::: IBM
As the world’s systems become intelligent, how is the business of leading become smarter? IBM conducts global, year-round research on the evolving role of c-level executives in the decade of smart Twitter:@smarterleaders Leader Links The 2010 Global CFO Study Global CEO Study The Center for CIO Leadership IBM Institute for Business Value Smarter...
Cutting the Matterhorn Down to Size →
Many of the most important advances in science occur at a scale so miniscule that their effects are invisible to the unaided eye. That’s why IBM scientists create unusual visual aids to help people…
Green Skills for Smarter Cities →
by Dr. Jack McGourty, Columbia University
Around the world, businesses, communities and governments are undertaking smarter cities transformation projects to make aging infrastructures such as…
5 tags
“Netflix’s transition from a DVD distributor to a streaming content...”
– Netflix: More than half of subscribers tap streaming video | CNET
7 tags
“IBM’s virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a...”
– How IBM’s World Community Grid is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger | Fast Company
5 tags
5 tags
5 tags
Acceptance or Denial? The New Era of Banking →
I recently moderated a panel at a private event we hosted in London and the biggest takeaway for me: the speakers seemed to have accepted the fact that things can not go back to the way they were….
Texting Saves Lives in Tanzania →
By Peter Ward, IBM SMS for Life Project Manager, Tanzania
1. What was the aim of the project?
Stock-outs of malaria treatments at the health facility level in many sub-Saharan African countries…
5 tags
5 tags
8 tags
6 tags
5 tags
“Last week industry thought leader Tim O’Reilly, the man widely credited with...”
– Wireless Sensor Networks » Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things
Check the videos here.
A Smarter Planet is made up of people →
by Martin Kelly, IBM Venture Capital Group
When we talk about a Smarter Planet our discussions usually move very quickly from the general to the specific. Take water management as an example. What…
7 tags
7 tags
5 tags
4 tags
Delivering on the Promise of Instant Traffic... →
This has happened to you. You’re motoring down the highway when you hear a bulletin from one of those all-news-all-the-time radio stations telling you there’s trouble ahead. A tractor…
5 tags
Watchsmartercities:
These 6 short films highlight some of the challenges UK cities face in some of those areas that will decide whether we stay or go, including transport, energy, education and healthcare. With interviews from senior leaders in the public and private sector, alongside IBM technology and business specialists, each gives their insights into the opportunities that exist to...
Is your city ready for the future? →
Is your city looking a bit rough around the edges? Do you wonder what it will be like in 20 years time? Does it even feel like your city?
Click here to view the embedded video.
After moving to…
3 tags
6 tags
Smarter Sustainability →
I recently sat down with Wayne Balta, IBM’s VP of corporate environmental affairs and product safety, to talk about a new program to advance sustainability across the company’s huge network of…
Improving Juvenile Justice for the State of... →
by: Mark Greenwald, chief of research and planning at the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
More than 2.4 billion individuals are locked in the nations’ prisons costing U.S. taxpayers roughly…
8 tags
WatchClosing the Tax Gap: IBM’s New Business Analytics Offering for Smarter Tax Collections
IBM is expanding its fraud and abuse management portfolio with a new offering aimed at optimizing the collection of delinquent tax debts for governments around the world. The IBM Tax Collections Optimizer uses new IBM patented analytics technology to help governments identify the most effective...
Help for The Tax Man →
Tax Collectors in Their Office
Source: Wiki Commons
Tax collectors. Not a popular bunch. Still, the job must be done, and it’s best to do it effectively and efficiently. For years, IBM…
6 tags
Watchsambasta:
Second Life Medical School is Open for Business
The future of medical education?
6 tags
3 tags
Smarter patient care →
As medical equipment grows smaller and moves closer to the patient, tracking thousands of items from wheelchairs to heart-lung machines can take valuable time away from patient care….
3 tags
Akamai’s Network Now Pushes Terabits of Data Every... →
infoneer-pulse:
Akamai, a Cambridge, Mass.-based content delivery network today said that at peak it was sending 3.45 terabits per second of data on Friday. This is the highest amount of data they have sent over the Akamai network ever. The traffic peak of 3.45 Tbps is roughly equivalent to the capacity needed to download the entire printed contents of the U.S. Library of Congress in less than...
6 tags
5 tags
9 tags
6 tags
5 tags
