November 2011
Fabio Gandour Explains How Information Overload is... →
Fabio Gandour is a self-described provocateur. The chief scientist for IBM Research – Brazil was a pediatric surgeon before becoming a hospital CIO and then coming to IBM as a senior health…
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Changing Shopping Trends and Record Thanksgiving... →
By Yuchun Lee
Vice President and General Manager, IBM Enterprise Marketing Management Group
Thanksgiving has always fascinated me. It’s the one day a year that every American family is eating…
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Could Apprenticeships Replace College Degrees? →
With college costs skyrocketing and the number of jobs for new grads on the decline, it’s no wonder that students are questioning whether a degree is worth the investment. But given that the jobs of the future are projected to require some form of post-secondary education, a key question is how to provide academic knowledge and industry-specific training that will prepare students for the future....
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China’s Swift Trains Are a Boon to Development,... →
stoweboyd:
People worrying about the US losing its lead to China should stop the nonsensical talk about declining math SATs, and look to the difference in our investments in high speed rail. The know-nothing GOP have cut our investments to zero, but that’s lunacy:
Keith Bradsher via NYTimes.com
Just as building the interstate highway system a half-century ago made modern, national commerce...
Why Social Commerce Matters on Black Friday (and... →
By John Squire
Director, Product Management, Enterprise Marketing Management Group
IBM Industry Solutions
A couple of weeks ago when I wrote about online shopping trends and predictions for this…
Holiday Retailing Frenzy: How IBM Spots the Trends →
When it comes to mobile shopping this holiday season, there will be no place for the makers of smartphones and tablet computers to hide. Analysts will be able to detect not just the brand of the…
Join the Making the World Work Better book club →
When IBM began planning its centennial celebration more than two years ago, publishing a book was high on the corporate to-do list. But, rather than producing a traditional centennial book (a glossy…
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10 billion bits of data per second →
Developed by Jelena Vuckovic, associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, and Gary Shambat, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering, the nanoscale light-emitting diode (LED) can send data at 10 billion bits per second.
Vuckovic had earlier this year produced a nanoscale laser that was similarly efficient and fast, but that device operated only at temperatures...
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Stowe Boyd: Connected Kids →
I pulled some data from a presentation from the K5 Learning Blog. Kids today are amazingly connected, but less involved in the physical world:
More US kids aged 2-5 can play a computer game than ride a bike.
19% of kids aged 2-5 know how to play a smartphone app; 9% know how to tie their shoelaces.
More kids aged 2-5 can open a browser than swim unaided.
Kids aged 0-8 spend an average of 1...
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Profitero named 2011 IBM SmartCamp London winner →
Profitero has been named as the winner of the 2011 IBM SmartCamp London award. They help retailers maximise profits by analysing online competitive information on thousands of products and dozens of competitors, helping to build smarter retail solutions. Profitero was selected from more than 80 entries and won due to its outstanding technology, innovative business plan and alignment with...
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The Big Data Boom Is the Innovation Story of Our... →
While passive data gathering can be useful, measurement is far more valuable when coupled with conscious, active experimentation and sharing of insights. Likewise, the value of undertaking the experiments themselves is proportionately greater if the organization can capitalize on those experiments in more locations and at greater scale. In combination, these practices constitute a new kind of...
Getting to the “how” of Smarter Planet Leadership →
By Mary P. Murphy
IBM Leadership Series editor
There I was, in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, one of Europe’s busiest passenger airports, after 15 hours of travel from Syracuse to Detroit…
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The Industrial Internet: A Walk Through The... →
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visualoop:
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“A new model developed by scientists of the European Commission’s Joint...”
– Satellite data can help protect bluefin tuna | Physorg.com
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The Electric Vehicle Rebirth– Are we ready? →
by Kal Gyimesi, Automotive Leader IBM Institute for Business Value
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have been around since the beginning of the twentieth century. However, it isn’t until now we are…
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WatchWhere do fashion trends come from? A new IBM investigation of heel heights on women’s shoes demonstrates how social media mavens are using social networks to predict and influence important new fashion trends. Manufacturers and retailers who think that they control the trends need to start paying attention to a new category of influential tastemakers. Visit www.ibm.com/bao for more...
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WatchThis is a military perspective on adaptation and sustainability. Fantastic, fast-paced talk.
Naval Captain Wayne Porter and Col. Mark Mykleby of the Marines, military strategists working at the highest level of government, present highlights from their paper, “A National Strategic Narrative.” Their ideas—less military force, more social capital and more sustainable practices in energy and...
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“In 2003, a total of five exabytes of data existed.
Now we generate that every...”
– We are, literally, more creative than ever.
Google Think Quarterly
(via ideasthatgrow)
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Chris Anderson: Why the Internet of Things finally... →
After a decade of hearing about “the Internet of things”, where everything will have an IP address, I’m starting to finally believe it. What’s changed? The Open Hardware movement, which is doing for connected devices what the Web did for information. The old vision of the Internet of Things came to us from the likes of Cisco and Nokia, which were trying to promote...
Meet Igor Jurisica →
Another person for a smarter planet
Igor Jurisica, Ph.D, uses the power of World Community Grid to conduct his cancer research.
When Igor Jurisica started doing cancer research 11 years…
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Vote now for your favorite startup: IBM SmartCamp... →
IBM SmartCamp London
IBM SmartCamp London has just announced the Final 5 startups in this year’s competition.
Voting is now open. Polls close at 3 am ET on Thursday, November 17.
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Find Every Food Truck In The City With The...
Tired of tracking down each and every food truck on their own individual Twitter account? Yeah, it’s hard to keep track of all the Korean tacos and cupcakes and fancy grilled cheeses cruising around out there. That’s why Tweat.it was invented, and now, you can finally get it on the go.
Jess Eddy and Joel Potischman created the Tweat.it website last year as a way to help street...
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Shipping: Economies of scale made steel. The... →
ABOARD one of the world’s largest container ships, moving almost imperceptibly through the seas off Vietnam, it’s easy to appreciate the economies of scale that allow a T-shirt made in China to be sent to the Netherlands for just 2.5 cents.
The Eleonora Maersk and the other seven ships in…
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Tune E. coli to churn out biodiesel →
singularitarian:
Biodiesel can be made from plant oil or animal fat. Used cooking oil from restaurants is common, but for biodiesel to contribute significantly to reducing fossil fuel use, there needs to be a way to mass produce it from plant-derived raw materials. The problem is that synthesizing biodiesel is complicated. That’s where E. coli comes in.
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