July 2010
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WatchCatch the replay of the July 29th vPanel Webcast on social entrepreneurs, millenials and the findings about future leaders, part of the results from IBM’s 2010 Global CEO Study.
The New Intelligence Video Studio: http://www.livestream.com/newintelligence
The Future Leaders Study: http://www.ibm.com/futureleaders
Carnegie Mellon builds lab for smarter planet... →
You name it. The faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University who are connected with the Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR) are busy applying smarter-planet technologies…
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What's a VPanel?
Join us for our next “web-cam-jam”…. four experts conversing via webcam on our Livestream channel, with interactive Q&As with viewers via chat and Twitter.
The dialogue extends the findings in our Future Leaders study, based on interviews with 3600 undegraduate and graduate students, that was part of the 2010 IBM Global CEO Study.
Our focus: the growing interest in young...
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IBM & Carnegie Mellon Univ: Smarter Infra Lab →
IBM and Carnegie Mellon University announce a partnership to create a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon
It would’ve been nice if municipal officials had advance warning that water mains on 25th Street in the South Side and Bower Hill Road in Mt. Lebanon were going to rupture on…
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Guest Post: Smarter buildings | a practical... →
Instrumenting and connecting objects like refrigerators, freezers or even coffee bars are allowing building managers to operate profitably.
Following is a guest post from David Bartlett:
Companies can measure and control energy consumption in ways previously impossible, through the combination of low-cost sensors/controls, robust wireless mesh networks and ubiquitous access to the internet....
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poptech:
In the midst of summer, an obvious question arises: How Will the Smart Grid Handle Heat Waves? Well, Massoud Amin didn’t mention heat during his talk on a smart grid for America, but apparently the grid will react pretty well, once the technology to automatically respond to peak demand and store renewable energy matures.
Expectations that utilities will keep their customers’ air...
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“Earth Day is a good opportunity to remember the tremendous discrepancies in who...”
– In Poor Neighborhoods, “Fresh” Produce Isn’t Always What it Seems | Poverty in America | Change.org
Yet another obstacle to getting fresh food into underserved neighborhoods.
-Julia Childhood
(via shutupfoodies)
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Fast Company | The Government’s Landlord Smartens Up and Goes Green
By now you’ve heard plenty about smarter cities and even a “decade of smart,” but what about a smarter courthouse? Or a smarter federal building?
Despite the flurry of deals signed by cities and even non-profits with the likes of IBM and Cisco (which announced a new pilot project around Akron, Ohio this week), the...
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WatchIBM on Mapping the Human Brain and the Future of Cognitive Computing |Gigaom
As [IBM’s Cognitive Computing group leader Dharmendra] Modha explains, the effort is an attempt to combine supercomputing, nanotechnology and neuroscience. He’s trying to apply the advances made in understanding the anatomy of the human brain by filtering it through a supercomputer, with the end goal of creating...
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CovJam sets city on route to become smarter →
Back in June I mentioned how Coventry was running the worlds first city-wide Jam to open up a conversation with residents and business to find innovative ways to make the city smarter.
A month…
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“The malaria parasite has been responsible for half of all human deaths since the Stone Age” is the quote that jumped off the page in a recent article by Sonia Shah in the Wall Street Journal.
Entitled “The Tenacious Buzz of Malaria” the article places malaria in a long term perspective:
Malaria has shaped our trade and settlement patterns, and our demographics. Today, it sickens 300...
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Reaching Bushmen in the Kalahari →
Source: Wikimedia Commons
In Namibia, they have a completely different understanding of the phenomenon of “mobile banking” than we do in the United States. For the past two years, the…
zEnterprise 196: What the hybrid means for... →
Karl’s note: The following is a guest post by Jim Porell, Distinguished Engineer and System z Evangelist.
Jim Porell, Distinguished Engineer
System zEnterprise – the…
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Big Iron Makes the Data Center Smarter →
Big Iron never dies. Forty-six years after the first IBM mainframe models were introduced, our company is launching a new generation of the machines today in New York City. The zEnterprise series…
Sun World: Pervasive Analytics Improves Efficiency... →
California fruit grower Sun World International isn’t among the giants of agribusiness, but it punches above its weight class in global markets thanks in part to its use of business…
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“Facing ever-changing variables in consumer trends, weather, labor, fuel costs...”
– Smarter Farming: California’s Sun World Transforms Produce Business with IBM Technology | TechnoloGeekO
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geopatterns Flu detector - tracking epidemics on... →
emergentfutures:
Flu detector uses tweets (i.e. posts on Twitter) to infer the flu rate in several UK regions. The applied methodology is described in the following papers:
1. Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the Social Web 2. Flu detector - Tracking epidemics on Twitter
Results are verified with official Influenza like Illness (ILI) rates from the Health...
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Fighting 'food deserts' with groceries at the...
utnereader:
From the Governing magazineIdea Center:
Two Baltimore libraries now have another service to offer their patrons: grocery ordering and pickup. The City Health Department’s Virtual Supermarket Project (VSP) lets patrons living in “food deserts”—areas without shops offering healthy food at reasonable prices—order and pickup groceries at the library. Once a week, library visitors...
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Building a Smarter Data Center →
Editor’s Note: The following post by Stephen L. Sams, vice president of site and facilities services for IBM, underscores the need for CIOs to more effectively manage growth in their data centers….
Africa: The Next Frontier for Info Tech →
Credit: Luca Galuzzi Wikimedia Commons
One of the notable messages to come from IBM’s quarterly earnings report today was the strength of demand for technology in developing markets….
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Beyond Social: Read/Write in The Era of Internet...
In 2010, we’re still struggling to digest all of what social media throws at us. However, a shift has been happening since 2009 which alleviates the problem. We’ve begun to realize that it’s not how much content we consume that is important - it’s what we do with all of the social and other data available to us. The social is still important, but the resulting data is...
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“Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas...”
– Water Monitoring in NYC - George Dearing dot com
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Scientists use computer algorithms to develop... →
singularitarian:
Defeating the flu is challenging because the virus responsible for the disease undergoes frequent changes of its genetic code, making it difficult for scientists to manufacture effective vaccines for the seasonal flu in a timely manner. Now, a University of Miami (UM) computer scientist, Dimitris Papamichail, and a team of researchers from Stony Brook University have developed a...
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