July 2011
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Analyze This – How Watson Could Impact the Airline... →
By Air Canada President & CEO Calin Rovinescu
At Air Canada, we are exploring ways to bring Watson-like computer analytics to our flight scheduling and fuel reduction programs.
The daily…
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The Payoff from Smart: Going Deep on Key... →
Every tech company attempts to sell potential customers on the promise that its products and services will deliver a superior return on the customer’s investment dollars. That’s not a particularly…
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“You cannot have food, water, or energy security without climate security. They...”
– A section of UK Foreign Secretary William Hague’s remarkable speech, ‘The Diplomacy of Climate Change’, presented to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in 2010.
(Image credit: ABC News)
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IBM's New Services Innovation Lab Aims to Make... →
Research & Development is a line item on a corporate income statement, but, most often, the R and the D are distinct activities. Research is about inventing, and development is about bringing new…
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Icons at Work: Moon gazing and the everyman... →
“He’s on the road at 7 a.m. for the drive from Los Altos, California to the Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose.
He has his morning coffee. Runs the regularly scheduled meeting with his design…
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Solar Panels Keep Buildings Cool →
This’ll open up an entire new avenue of research for rooftop solar panels, and may help further tip the balance in favor of solar for helping the environment and your wallet.
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Those solar panels on top of your roof aren’t just providing clean power; they are cooling your house.. too, according to a team of researchers… Using thermal imaging, researchers determined that during the...
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Real-time data needs to power the business side,... →
In 2005, real-time data analysis was being pioneered and predicted to “transform society.” A few short years later, the technology is a reality and indeed is changing the way people do business. But Theo Schlossnagle (@postwait), principal and CEO of OmniTI, says we’re not quite there yet.
In a recent interview, Schlossnagle said that not only does the current technology allow...
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“Education is, today at least, a black box. Society invests significantly in...”
– How data and analytics can improve education - O’Reilly Radar (via infoneer-pulse)
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How to power homes with 100% clean and... →
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project.
After 10 years of battling incumbent utilities, Marin Clean Energy became California’s first operational community choice aggregation (CCA) authority in 2010. Already, local ratepayers can opt to get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable...
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Breakthrough in Quantum Computing: Researchers... →
A bit choppy, but here are some highlights from a recent paper on improving quantum computers - i.e. the mindblowing computers of the future. Just thought I’d post to remind everyone that this hasn’t gone away just because it’s not been in the headlines lately. Research is ongoing and improving our understanding and technology.
We’re getting closer.
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…Using high magnetic fields...
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The Payoff from Smart: Beyond Traditional ROI →
Two and a half years ago, when IBM launched its Smarter Planet strategy, it calculated that the move would expand its available market by 40%. Suddenly, the company was developing new…
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Preventing an epidemic hot zone of Olympic... →
Smarter Planet stories are everywhere. We just have to look and listen for them. Take my recent family vacation to Toronto, to visit my sister-in-law Amy Khan, her husband Kamran Khan and their…
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Anonymous asked: I wanted to make a business out of collecting e-waste (electronics) how would i go about it, as far as finding where to expose it and who would pay for the exposion of the material? Thank you for your time.
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How Finland became an educational leader →
How has one industrialized country created one of the world’s most successful education systems in a way that is completely hostile to testing? That’s the question asked — and answered — in a new documentary called “The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World’s Most Surprising School System.” Examining the nation with one of the most comparatively successful education systems on the planet, the...
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WatchAutomatic braking in cars helps cut down on crashes - USATODAY.com
Careening around even the simulated Bavarian mountains would be more daunting if the A6 weren’t equipped with all of the latest advanced safety technologies. You almost can’t crash during some maneuvers in this would-be video game, which Audi showed off recently at its headquarters here. Even when you do rear-end...
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Sensors to Drive Midtown Traffic - WSJ.com →
Manhattan driving may become somewhat less maddening this week, as the city brings online a new traffic-monitoring system aimed to reduce Midtown congestion.
Over the past year, crews have been outfitting Midtown streets with new hardware that detects traffic flow. Microwave sensors installed in the middle of blocks determine whether a line of cars is waiting at a stoplight, and EZPass...
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Personalizing Medicine with Genetics →
by Scott Megill, Chief Information Officer, Coriell Institute for Medical Research
What if your medical record contained your genetic data that made it possible to flag previously…
Milwaukee: An Emerging Model for Water (and food)... →
If you have any familiarity with Milwaukee, Wisconsin, you know that it’s on the shores of Lake Michigan, one of the largest fresh-water lakes in the world, and it’s located in the American midwest,…
Securing Grids for a Smarter Planet →
by Joseph Santamaria, Chief Information Officer for United Illuminating, a diversified energy delivery company serving a total of 690,000 electric and natural gas utility customers in 66…
Malta: How to Keep Sparks from Flying During a... →
Some of the early conversions to smart grid technologies in the United States prompted backlashes from consumers. Utility customers in California and Texas, for instance, complained that the meters…
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Smart Cities Investments to Skyrocket - Optimized... →
A new study on the growth of smart cities estimates that investments will increase fivefold over the next five years.
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IBM Develops Memory Better, Cheaper, and Faster... →
IBM scientists have perfected a memory technology that is faster, cheaper and more than flash memory, and which could be commercially available within five years.
The report, in PhysOrg, says the breakthrough in a technology called “phase-change memory” will allow computers and servers to boot instantaneously and significantly enhance the overall performance of IT systems.
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A Surprising Venue for Entrepreneurship: the... →
Government-owned businesses are often dismissed as being bureaucratic, slow and unentrepreneurial. The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and its president Bekalu Zeleke, left, explode that image….
