May 2011
rubbermaddox asked: Hello Smarter Planet,

I know it's not a question, more of a "hey look at this awesome thing" type of contact. I thought a story about outdated, laser disk using 80's computing hardware being replicated online would be right up your street...

The BBC is resurrecting one of their most ambitious projects in recent history, with Domesday Reloaded
May 31st
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“Properly used, big data could save the American health-care system $300 billion...”
– Schumpeter: Building with big data | The Economist
May 31st
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Top Coders: The Magic of Software →
Click here to view the embedded video. The annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest matches up the best of the best young software programmers in the world and evokes the magic of…
May 31st
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Cisco chief futurist: The Internet of Things is...
Shift to mobility is powering a change in the architecture of the Internet, Dave Evans says When futurists talk about technology to come, it’s easy to start imagining tales spun by the likes of Issac Asimov and William Gibson (or whoever your favourite science-fiction author happens to be), and that’s the case with Cisco Systems‘ chief futurist. However, some of what Cisco’s futurist talks...
May 31st
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IBM Expands Health Analytics Solution Center to... →
IBM today announced the expansion of its Health Analytics Solution Center. Located in Dallas, the center is adding new technology and has doubled the number of healthcare solution architects and technology specialists working at the center.  Teams there are working to help physicians connect smart phones, tablets and other devices to electronic medical records (EMRs) while also helping...
May 31st
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Carpe Datum “Seize The Data”:: The Big... →
By: Linda Ban, Global CIO Study Director, AIS Studies, IBM Global Business Services There is big business in big data. Indeed, information is exploding and we live in the era of data. This…
May 27th
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Industrial Design: ID For The City humanscalecities:
May 26th
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IBM to Invest $100 Million for Big-data Analysis... →
Sensing a greater need in big-data analysis tools, IBM will invest US$100 million to research advanced large-scale analytics, the company announced Friday. IBM also said it will have 20 new service offerings to help customers quickly analyze petabytes of data. “We think it’s a good time from a research perspective to double down on how we think about big data and how people can...
May 26th
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IBM’s Toronto Innovation Centre Workshops on Social Media, Collaboration and User Experience As part of the centennial celebrations, IBM’s Toronto Innovation Centre invited local non-profit agencies to participate in learning and mentoring sessions. Open Doors was designed to educate senior level non-profit professionals in the use of online tools to drive community and volunteer engagement. Watch...
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Emergency Response Center: Tackling Change In... →
By Steve White, President/CEO of UnifiedEdge An activated emergency management operations center is typically a busy, noisy and chaotic work environment. With radios blaring, phones…
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Freight Railroads Are Being Transformed by the... →
The digital revolution is coming to freight rail. Major railroads are installing digital communications, global positioning receivers, sensors and computerized controls on their trains and tracks. New systems can gather intelligence on locations, size and speeds of trains and make automated decisions about when the trains should stop or go. Digital cameras and microphones on the tracks are...
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Computers: Thinking Machines, or Not? →
On several occasions during his decades as an IBM executive, former CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. went out of his way to differentiate between human brains and computers. The goal of IBM, he…
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“Sound power can be used for various novel applications including cellular phones...”
– Charge Your Phone With Your Voice - Mobiledia
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Turning IBM's Watson Computer Into a Business →
People were impressed when IBM’s Watson question-and-answer computer beat the two former champions at the Jeopardy! TV quiz show. Now they’re asking: what else can it do? The company’s researchers…
May 21st
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“I like the analogy given by one cloud executive who likened these [cloud...”
– Central Penn Business Journal
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IBM SmartCamp Austin Picks Winners : Barcelona... →
A record number of applicants, reviewed and screened down to 5 finalists, mentored and judged by experts, including Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, a People’s Vote that allowed …
May 20th
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A Web App to Empower Urban Food Communities →
CITIES is a European urban research institute who, in late 2010, began work on a pilot project which aimed to ‘empower and support the creation of a local food system’. With the pilot deemed a… via thisbigcity:
May 19th
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Bob Metcalfe: Advice to Startup Entrepreneurs from... →
Startup entrepreneurs entering the healthcare marketplace in the United States face huge challenges. The market is mature; it’s dominated by large, established companies; and it’s under…
May 19th
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“With live speech analytics, banks will be in a position to know exactly what is...”
– Banks Can Save Millions by Using Speech Analytics Technology
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New York Stock Exchange to Track Traders Via RFID →
Within the next few weeks, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will be employing an AeroScout real-time location system (RTLS) to track the location of handheld computers and thereby ensure that traders do not pass from one trading floor to another with those devices and thereby potentially conduct an unauthorized transaction. The solution—says Lou Pastina, executive VP of operations for NYSE...
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2011 IBM Global CIO Study →
This year’s Global CIO Study asks the question: How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive and economic landscape? To find out, we spoke in person with 3,018 diverse CIOs worldwide, spanning 71 countries and 19 industries in five sectors. The study concludes that business intelligence and analytics...
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