September 2010
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Video: Net Zero Homes
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What if the power company sent you a check every month instead of a bill? Sounds pretty good, but is it possible? For about 100 households in America, the answer is yes. They call them “net-zero houses,” and they produce more energy than they use and they could be the way we all live in the future.
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A City's Challenge: Invest for the Future or Fill... →
City leaders are typically re-elected based on how well they fulfill basic needs such as making the buses run on time and fighting crime. So how do you get them to pay attention to long-term…
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New Shanghai Bullet Train Is The Fastest Train in... →
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China, already outpacing the U.S., Japan and many European countries in the expansion of their railway system, has now broken the world train speed record, clocking in at 258.86 miles per hour during the trial run of a new high-speed train on Tuesday.
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WatchWidgetbox › Smarter Planet: Internet of Things Widget
Get the latest addition to our Smarter Planet Widget collection. The Internet of Things widget includes just those posts about how trillions of objects — from smartphones and cameras to cars, televisions and everything in between — are becoming internet-connected objects.
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System of Systems →
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In the spirit and style of the Internet of Things video from earlier this year, we have just released this new film, System of Systems. The video…
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WatchSylvia Earle’s TED Prize wish to protect our oceans | Video on TED.com
Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean — and shocking stats about its rapid decline — as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of the planet.
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Watch11th Hour
The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre André Senizergues, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures. Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May...
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The Better World by Design Challenge: Urban Food... →
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A Better World by Design, the internationally acclaimed student-run conference on reshaping the built environment, wants to your ideas for eliminating urban food deserts.
What is a food desert? Quite simply, it is a geographic area with limited access to fresh, nutritious, or…
Meir Statman on What Investors Really Want →
I wrote a couple of days ago about IBM’ researcher Mario Monti in a blog posting called Better Decision Making: How Analytics Can Counteract Emotion in Investing. Then along comes word of the…
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“It started with a $24.8 billion price tag and was supposed to be completed in 13...”
– High-speed rail: the long view — Metropolitan Planning Council
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Sensor-Equipped Spider Webs to Coat Aircraft →
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Aircraft could soon be covered in new technological cobwebs. Inspired by the gossamer strands of spider webs, scientists from Stanford University have created an ultra-fine mesh of strain and temperature sensors.
Wrapped around an aircraft, the sensors could help craft monitor their internal well-being. This added awareness could prevent microscopic cracks from developing into...
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Cyberwar Chief Calls for Secure Network →
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The new commander of the military’s cyberwarfare operations is advocating the creation of a separate, secure computer network to protect civilian government agencies and critical industries like the nation’s power grid against attacks mounted over the Internet.
The officer, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, suggested that such a heavily restricted network would allow the government to...
Talking Trash with MIT →
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IBM employees are curious. We try to seek out relationships that lead to expanding our knowledge in exciting areas of innovation and thought. When we…
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WatchSmarter Leaders vPanel: Social Computing & Urban Traffic on IBM Global Business Services: The Video Studio
Catch the on demand replay of our latest webcam-based dialogue. The focus of this vPanel: the challenge of urban traffic and how human behavior and social media can help remedy it.
Panelists:
Shaun Abrahamson, Founder and CEO, Mutopo
Sarah Goodyear, Cities Editor, Grist.org
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Readying Communications Networks for the Smart... →
Energy in America — and the world in general — doesn’t meet the tests of a true system. For one thing, today’s energy landscape is not truly connected. Second, many of the components and…
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“It’s not just the marketers that are throwing petabytes of information at...”
– Big business for big data - O’Reilly Radar
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The Realtime Business Analytics Revolution →
The real-time model of business intelligence, though, requires not just software, but a tight integration with hardware. I.B.M. has been working on this for years, namely with its System S technology for what is called “stream processing” - parsing data in streams rather than after it is stored in data bases. Most of the business intelligence companies are also working on so-called in-memory...
Better Decision Making: How Analytics Can... →
The powerful emotions of fear and greed have played havoc with markets throughout history–helping to create bubbles and crashes. Spurred by strong feelings that often trump rationality,…
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The Many Reasons Why IBM/OpenPages Makes Sense |... →
Acquisition can help align risk management with analytics across the business and IT
With OpenPages, IBM gets to throw its hat further into the risk management ring, but that’s not all. OpenPages provides IBM with strong synergies around other IBM business opportunities like: 1. Analytics. IBM has invested billions and dedicated thousands of people to create an advanced data analytics...
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Big Data Means Big Sales: IBM to Buy Netezza for... →
Netezza has been selling an appliance focused on data warehousing analytics and is finding a lot of traction with its products, mostly because most corporations are trying to find ways to make better sense of all the data locked in their data stores. EMC recently bought GreenPlum for similar reasons as well. And with sensor-based networks and data those networks produce making their way into data...
A Major Step Forward for Communications in Africa →
Source: Futureatlas.com, Wikimedia Commons
One of the most important trends of the past decade was the emergence of India, China, Brazil, and Russia–the so-called BRICs–as the major…
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The Associated Press: IBM pushing deeper into... →
IBM has struck an agreement to overhaul the back-office technological infrastructure of a major telecommunications operator in Africa. The 10-year deal being announced Friday with New Delhi-based Bharti Airtel Ltd. represents a major opportunity for IBM while helping expand access to reliable mobile phone service. It doesn’t have a published price tag. The agreement is expected to be...
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IBM hosts Twitterstorm on Smart Grids and Electric... →
IBM’s @smarterplanet will be hosting a Twitterstorm on Monday, September 20, from 12 – 1 pm PT.
This one-hour conversation will feature Andy Bochman, one of IBM’s smart grid experts and an…
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Ultra-Light Cars Reap Rewards of X Prize | The... →
Edison2’s Very Light Car won the $5 million top prize of the X Prize competition to build an uber-efficient car. The Virginia-based company was one of three who were awarded prizes Thursday morning at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
