February 2011
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Our Office Buildings Are Talking To Us; Time To... →
By Dave Bartlett
At a recent staff meeting, a CFO asked his team why some buildings the company owned were more cost effective, with lower energy bills, than others. His employees started to throw out recommendations of how to address the high-cost buildings, including consolidating their…
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Amazon S3 is blowing up, will soon store more than... →
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Making cities smarter with technology →
Source: computing.co.uk
Populations in cities across the world, and in the UK especially, are growing. London is currently home to more than 7.5 million people, and that figure is expected to grow by more than a million by 2029, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Unsurprisingly, this growth further burdens municipal infrastructures, which are already creaking with over-use and...
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World's Least Liveable Cities: 2011 Economist... →
Harare residents may have the most challenging lifestyles on the planet, as the Zimbabwean capital ranked dead last among the new survey of the world’s most liveable cities.
As Reuters is reporting, Harare scored a paltry 37.5 percent in the 2011 Liveability Ranking and Overview by the Economist Intelligence Unit. This is the second time the city has claimed the bottom spot out of a...
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WatchIn the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it. One of them is Bloom Energy. Their invention? A little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard. You’ll generate your own electricity with the box and it’ll be wireless. The idea is to one...
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“The smart grid promises to bring a number of benefits to both consumers and...”
– Securing the smart grid no small task | Security - CNET News
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Food scientist develops 'rechargeable'... →
Using nano-scale materials, a University of Massachusetts Amherst food scientist is developing a way to improve food safety by adding a thin anti-microbial layer to food-handling surfaces. Only tens of nanometers thick, it chemically “re-charges” its germ-killing powers every time it’s rinsed with common household bleach.
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WatchQwiki is a startup pioneering the “information experience” via on-the-fly transformation of data into rich media narratives. Our mission is to improve the way the world consumes information by transforming it into a quintessentially human experience
BBC News - Google-backed Moon robot teams... →
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The final line-up of teams competing for the $30 million (£18.5m) robotic Moon-explorer prize has been confirmed. The prize will go to the builders of the first robot to send back video as it travels over 500 metres of the Moon’s surface. Competition organisers hope to spur the development of low-cost robotic space exploration. The Google-sponsored Lunar X-Prize will be fought...
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Computer Wins on ‘Jeopardy!’: Trivial, It’s Not
For I.B.M., the future will happen very quickly, company executives said. On Thursday it plans to announce that it will collaborate with Columbia University and theUniversity of Maryland to create a physician’s assistant service that will allow doctors to query a cybernetic assistant. The company also plans to work with Nuance Communications Inc. to add voice recognition to the physician’s...
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TEDTalks Sponsors | IBM Watson →
Final Jeopardy! and the Future of Watson
The IBM team who designed Watson has achieved another milestone in the history of computer science. After the Jeopardy! challenge concludes, the team faces the task of developing real world solutions based on this technology.
The impact of a machine like Watson will be felt throughout business, government and society. Join the conversation to...
Watson on Jeopardy! Day Three: What We Learned... →
The contest between man and machine on Jeopardy! was decided when IBM’s Watson computer landed on the second Daily Double on day three. The clue was: “This two-word phrase means the power to…
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WatchWinning App: Augmented Reality Developer Challenge 2010 (via Qualcomm Video Center - Winning App: Augmented Reality Developer Challenge 2010)
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Watson on Jeopardy! Day Two: The Confusion over an... →
Well, Watson beat the human champions in the first game of the Jeopardy! face off between man and machine, with a score of $35,734 to $10,400 for Brad Rutter and $4,800 for Ken Jennings. But…
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A: This Computer Could Defeat You at ‘Jeopardy!’... →
Science correspondent Miles O’Brien goes head-to-circuit board with IBM’s computer Watson on the game show “Jeopardy!” to explore the limits of language and artificial intelligence for machines.
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300 Exabytes: An Inventory of the World's... →
In the first examination of its kind, a new study calculated the total amount of information stored and communicated by the entire human race. Beware: These are some pretty big numbers.
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WatchIBM Apps: Smarter Planet & The Social Business ore presentations from Jack Mason.
