Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine! For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings: …One Week Ago …One Month Ago …One Year Ago Or for quintessential quantum experience, try the Random button to sample one of the more than 4000 posts about All Things Smarter since we started three years ago in November, 2008. You are welcome to like or reblog your favorites to feed our collective intelligence on those posts that best reflect how the world’s systems can become more sentient and senseable. Of course, you can always browse through the misty mountains of Smarter Time via the Archive. Or for a real time warp, scroll through all the Time Machine posts. Want to hold Smarter Planet in your hand? Get the mobile apps for iOS and Android. (about the image) Vials of quantum dot nanocrystals tuned to fluoresce at different wavelengths of light blended with a high resolution image of the Moon, the latest in the nanocosmos series, part of the nanotechno project

Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine!

For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings:

Or for quintessential quantum experience, try the Random button to sample one of the more than 4000 posts about All Things Smarter since we started three years ago in November, 2008.

You are welcome to like or reblog your favorites to feed our collective intelligence on those posts that best reflect how the world’s systems can become more sentient and senseable.

Of course, you can always browse through the misty mountains of Smarter Time via the Archive. Or for a real time warp, scroll through all the Time Machine posts.

Want to hold Smarter Planet in your hand? Get the mobile apps for iOS and Android.

(about the image)

Vials of quantum dot nanocrystals tuned to fluoresce at different wavelengths of light blended with a high resolution image of the Moon, the latest in the nanocosmos series, part of the nanotechno project

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Step into the Smarter Planet Time Machine! For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings: …One Week Ago …One Month Ago …One Year Ago Or for quintessential quantum experience, try the Random button to sample one of the more than 3800 posts about All Things Smarter since we started three years ago in November, 2008. You are welcome to like or reblog your favorites to feed our collective intelligence on those posts that best reflect how the world’s systems can become more sentient and sensable. Of course, you can always browse through the misty mountains of Smarter Time via the Archive. Want to hold Smarter Planet in your hand? Get the mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Step into the Smarter Planet Time Machine!

For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings:

Or for quintessential quantum experience, try the Random button to sample one of the more than 3800 posts about All Things Smarter since we started three years ago in November, 2008.

You are welcome to like or reblog your favorites to feed our collective intelligence on those posts that best reflect how the world’s systems can become more sentient and sensable.

Of course, you can always browse through the misty mountains of Smarter Time via the Archive. Want to hold Smarter Planet in your hand? Get the mobile apps for iOS and Android.

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Meet iCow! the best African Mobile Apps

More than ever before, technology is transforming Africa and unlocking its potential. As the rest of the world leapfrogs in technological innovation, African software developers are doing the same. They’re creating ground-breaking, cutting-edge mobile technologies to solve African problems in communities closest to them. The Best African Mobile Apps will be a regular feature in which I will profile the best mobile apps from Africa – just like iCow.

In 2010 the U.S Department of State sponsored Apps 4 Africa,  an East African regional competition designed to highlight the talent of local developers and to leverage the power of mobile technology to help solve some of Africa’s most nagging problems. The region has a lot of savvy developers and tech geeks, so as expected, several hundred applications flowed in.

The winning App was iCow- the world’s first mobile phone cow calendar!

So, what is iCow?

iCow is an SMS (text message) and voice-based mobile phone application for small-scale dairy farmers in Kenya.  It’s something of a virtual veterinary midwife, helping farmers track the estrus stages of their cows, while giving them valuable tips on cow breeding, animal nutrition, milk production efficiency and gestation. Each text message costs about 10 Kenyan shillings, or 10 U.S. cents.

According to iCow’s website, the app “Prompts farmers on vital days of cows gestation period; helps farmers find the nearest vet and AI providers;  collects and stores farmer milk and breeding records and sends farmers best dairy practices.” The text messages and voice prompts are sent to customers within the 365-day cow cycle, and the app is designed to run on both low-end and high-end mobile phones.

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One of our new favorite apps for iOS and Android devices is Pulse, a beautifully designed news reader.

Not only does it organize your favorite news and feed sources into an easy to scan format, but you can easily customized it. For example here you see how we’ve added the Smarter Planet Tumblr site to the Pulse Mix. Simply click the Settings icon, choose Manage Sources, and Search on “Smarter Planet Tumblr” to pull in this feed.

Enjoy. Speaking of apps, the Smarter Planet app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices has been updated with improved performance and a new feature: Pic Stories, a photo album based on IBM Chris Luongo’s great How it Works series of videos and posters.

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IBM Relaunches Smarter City Initiative With An Innovative Portal - HorizonWatching

IBM has relaunched it’s Smarter City initiative and the website portal is something you should visit to experience.  It is truly an immersive, interactive experience designed to show how cities all over the world are using advanced technology to help address some of the biggest problems facing our planet.

www.thesmartercity.com

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The Many Reasons Why IBM/OpenPages Makes Sense | NetworkWorld.com Community

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 capability. Now that this expertise is in place, IBM has an analytics foundation to look at just about any type of data-centric issues. With OpenPages, IBM can combine risk management and analytics products with its existing IT and vertical industry strengths for new product and services sales. 2. Information security. Over the past 10 years, information security has slowly evolved from tactical threat management to regulatory compliance controls. Given the global cybercrime wave, this is no longer enough — large organizations need real-time IT visibility and solid threat management analytics. IBM can combine OpenPages with the compliance management assets it purchased from Consul as well as its traditional Tivoli security products. If customers need help here, IBM Global and Managed services will be happy to chip in. 3. “Smarter planet” projects. IBM has always told a great story around “smarter planet” projects like health care networks and next-generation smart grids. True, these visionary initiatives can cut cost and improve efficiency but what happens to the smart grid in the event of a Category 5 hurricane or a cyber supply chain attack that makes 1 million “smart toasters” part of a global botnet? With OpenPages, IBM can now build a “smarter planet” while keeping an eye focused on increasing risks.

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YouTube - IBM and the Jeopardy Challenge

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Using advanced computing and emerging technology, IBM is building a natural language processing computer code-named Watson to compete in the game show Jeopardy.

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Michael Rhodin - IBM Business Analytics

Rhodin, senior vice-president, IBM Software Solutions Group, discusses IBMs commitment to delivering new business analytics investments, solutions and services to help clients become smarter and more efficient

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Join us on May 18th for a global dialogue on the IBM 2010 CEO Study. We’ll be hosting a series of live webcasts over 24 hours, with  IBM expert guests joining by webcam from around the world.

Before and during the webcast you and your clients can join in the discussion by posing questions and post comments on:

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What are Complex Adaptive Systems? Complexity Theory Gradually as scientists of all disciplines explored these phenomena a new theory emerged - complexity theory, A theory based on relationships, emergence, patterns and iterations. A theory that maintains that the universe is full of systems, weather systems, immune systems, social systems etc and that these systems are complex and constantly adapting to their environment. Hence complex adaptive systems. Complex Adaptive Systems These can be illustrated as in the following diagram. The agents in the system are all the components of that system. For example the air and water molecules in a weather system, and flora and fauna in an ecosystem. These agents interact and connect with each other in unpredictable and unplanned ways. But from this mass of interactions regularities emerge and start to form a pattern which feeds back on the system and informs the interactions of the agents.

What are Complex Adaptive Systems?

Complexity Theory

Gradually as scientists of all disciplines explored these phenomena a new theory emerged - complexity theory, A theory based on relationships, emergence, patterns and iterations. A theory that maintains that the universe is full of systems, weather systems, immune systems, social systems etc and that these systems are complex and constantly adapting to their environment. Hence complex adaptive systems. Complex Adaptive Systems These can be illustrated as in the following diagram.

The agents in the system are all the components of that system. For example the air and water molecules in a weather system, and flora and fauna in an ecosystem. These agents interact and connect with each other in unpredictable and unplanned ways. But from this mass of interactions regularities emerge and start to form a pattern which feeds back on the system and informs the interactions of the agents.

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IBM unveiled a new Smarter Planet experiential exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort, which invites guests to discover the possibilities of building a smarter planet. The exhibit is powered by a new Smarter Data Center, providing a real-life demonstration of optimized computing that reduces energy costs by up to 25 percent.

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