#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.
A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
#IBM's new computer chip can think like a human brain IBM's latest brain-like computer chip may not be"smarter than a fifth-grader,
and physiology,"said study leader Dharmendra Modha, manager and lead researcher of the cognitive computing groupat IBM Research-Almaden in San jose, California.
In contrast, IBM's new chip architecture resembles that of a living brain. The chip is composed of computing cores that each contain 256 input lines
Building a brain IBM researchers aren't the only ones building computer chips that mimic the brain.
the IBM chip can simulate the same number of neurons with only a single chip,
but the new IBM system integrates both computation and memory on the same chip, which minimizes the time needed to transmit data,
called the IBM chip"a very impressive achievement."("Several of Boahen's colleagues on the Neurogrid project have gone on to work at IBM,
he said.)The IBM team was able to fit more transistors onto a single chip,
while making it very energy efficient, Boahen told Live Science. Greater energy efficiency means you could compute things directly on your phone instead of relying on cloud computing,
IBM created the chip as part of DARPA's Synapse program (short for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.
Still, the IBM chip is a far cry from a human brain, which contains about 86 trillion neurons and 100 trillion synapses."
IBM accidentally creates the first new polymer in 30 years When you leave a key ingredient out of a recipe,
That's what happened at an IBM laboratory recently when research chemist Jeannette M. Garcia missed a step while mixing and heating a batch of chemicals.
IBM said the materials could even potentially be used in airplanes, where their strength, light weight,
IBM Research's James Hedrick, who co-authored the new paper, said in a news release that"new materials innovation is critical to addressing major global challenges, developing new products and emerging disruptive technologies.
This is unique to IBM and allows us to address the complex needs of advanced materials for applications in transportation, microelectronic or advanced manufacturing."
"In addition to the hard material that IBM says could be used for airplane wings, they also developed an elastic gel that is mostly liquid
IBM says the dissolving qualities of the gel could also allow it to be used as a mechanism to delivery pharmaceuticals to the body h
"according to a press release by Nvidia, one of the manufacturers of the new computers'components. Summit, however, will be made available to researchers worldwide who can apply for time with the powerful technology.
Now Intel has introduced the Compute Stick, a complete computer that runs Windows 8. 1 (or Linux) that you can plug into the HDMI port of your big TV.
Intel calls it solution with plenty of storage and performance needed for light productivity, social networking, web browsing,
In the Economist Autodesk head of sustainability Emma Stewart writes about how the smart thing to do is to figure it out before you build.
condom-reinventing Microsoft cofounder didn actually drink human excrement Sedro-Woolley-produced sewage sludge at its finest.
when researchers at IBM manipulated individual xenon atoms on a nickel plate to spell out the letters'IBM'across a space just a dozen nanometres wide2.
The second team2 was led by Daniel Rugar, manager of nanoscale studies at IBM s Almaden Research center in San jose, California.
#'Hologram-lite'idea for 3d phone displays Now physicist David Fattal and his colleagues at Hewlett-packard Laboratories in Palo alto have developed a sort of'hologram-lite'approach.
or Microsoft's Bing images to obtain evidence to support their case. Why would they need space detectives?
and Asus has a quantum dot notebook. nd there nothing in between that quantum dots can address,
William Hewlett who earned an SM degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1936 was cofounder with David Packard of the Hewlett-packard Company a multinational information technology company y
A five-year stretch at Boeing as an engineer for the U s. military A160 Hummingbird UAV and as a commercial pilot put Downey in contact with drone manufacturers, who,
and Microsoft DOS paving the way for personal computers in the 1980s. Before those components became available,
and IBM, as well as government agencies and academic institutions, such as Harvard university Graduate school of Design. Architects and real estate firms are also using the system for structural designing.
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video.
In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof Glass in other experiments,
Michael Rubinstein of Microsoft Research, who did his Phd with Freeman; and Gautham Mysore of Adobe Research.
Reconstructing audio from video requires that the frequency of the video samples the number of frames of video captured per second be higher than the frequency of the audio signal.
Last month Witricity signed a licensing agreement with Intel to integrate Witricity technology into computing devices powered by Intel.
The camera is based on ime of Flighttechnology like that used in Microsoft recently launched second-generation Kinect device, in
Mattias Engdegård, an engineer at Intel, is one of the developers who found Stack online
Generally determining an object s orientation entails trying to superimpose a geometric model of the object over visual data captured by a camera in the case of Glover s work a Microsoft Kinect camera
and their co-authors at IBM T. J. Watson Research center, Hong kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Minnesota.
Phaedon Avouris, a researcher at IBM and co-author of the paper, says, he combination of these two materials provides a unique system that allows the manipulation of optical processes. he combined materials create a tuned system that can be adjusted to allow light only of certain specific wavelengths
a researcher at IBM and the University of Minnesota, says, ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand. nother potential application,
Last a technique known as anisotropic ion beam milling (IBM) is used to etch through the mask to make an array of holes creating the nanoporous metal.
and IBM's T. J. Watson Research center have developed a prototype DNA reader that could make whole genome profiling an everyday practice in medicine.
and Asus has a quantum dot notebook. nd there nothing in between that quantum dots can address,
and IBM Almaden Research center focuses on block copolymers a special class of polymers that under the proper conditions, will segregate on a microscopic scale into regularly spaced"domains"of different chemical composition.
Just recently, Intel Corp. announced that it had in production a new generation of chips with a 14-nanometer minimum feature size.
working with IBM, demonstrated a new measurement technique*that uses low energy or"soft"X rays produced by the Advanced Light source at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs to probe the structure of the BCP film from multiple angles.
High-speed vision can provide control data at the same sampling rate as that of the servo controller used for the robot actuators.
#Microsoft pays 5m CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research.
Over five years Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT research projects.
Microsoft researchers will also work closely with the scientists at the two universities. Microsoft has been investing in Swiss research for years
and now the US technology company is renewing its longstanding collaboration with EPFL and ETH Zurich.
Microsoft will provide one million Swiss francs per year in funding for IT-related research projects at the two universities over a period of five years.
For his project he and Dr. Shahram Izadi from Microsoft Research are investigating how flying robots can work
and other scientists from Microsoft Research in Cambridge to develop new applications for this system known as Scale-out NUMA A
It has been developed by RCAST at the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Microsoft Japan and is available from assist
The team uses Adobe Connect to capture the audio and the Powerpoint slides.""That's a fairly simple way to get something on the ground
#Skype's Real-time Translator Now Open to All Microsoft-owned Skype has cleared the way for anyone to use a new feature that translates video chats or instant messages in real time.
or tablets running on the latest version of Microsoft's operating software, according to Kahn. Skype Translator preview debuted late last year,
and the software firm Autodesk to print customizable smart materials. raditional smart materials are exciting,
He notes that IBM is creating such a kit for its semiconductor foundry in Burlington, Vermont.
The Wifi Calling service will be limited to pay monthly subscribers using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S5 phones and Microsoft's new Lumia 640."
and Pushmeet Kohli of Microsoft Research Cambridge. For their experiments, they created a probabilistic programming language they call Picture,
"Dell wants to become the old IBM Corp, a one-stop shop for corporate clients.
While IBM Corp, Cisco systems Inc and Hewlett-packard Co could theoretically be potential suitors for EMC,
With Intel set to release a 72-core high-performance chip in the near future, that a more than hypothetical advantage.
says Christopher Hughes, a principal engineer at Intel Labs, ut at least to my knowledge, they tend to use physical time.
Rice university, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National institutes of health and IBM-shared University Research Award supported the research.
in the same way that Microsoft latest Xbox Kinect sensor works. The time of flight camera sends out bursts of microwaves
as part of corporate social responsibility programs when they worked for Intel and ARM. In schools they were using the MIT graphical programming language Scratch,
It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
The edict that Microsoft has enterprise on lockdown is dissipating. Huge enterprise player Cisco and Apple announced a ast Lanefor ios enterprise users,
But Intel new Realsense/Project Tango phone concept shows there is still more valuable data to be captured:
Breaking 3d Out Of Hollywood Intel isn the only one at the party. Apple recently confirmed acquiring 3d-sensor manufacturer Linx for $20 million.
The IDF15 keynote had Intel CEO Brian Krzanich quickly calculating storage space needed for objects by scanning them with a 3d sensor.
Intel Realsense, like Microsoft more famous Kinect cameras, work by projecting a signal (a laser
Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pouring billions into VR/AR research and acquisitions, and dominate headlines with each new build.
The technology was among the top award winners in the Texas instruments Innovation Challenge this past summer.
The technology, developed in collaboration with Texas instruments, represents a growing interest in the development of high-tech sign language recognition systems (SLRS) but unlike other recent initiatives,
There's the charismatic Satya Nadella in charge at Microsoft. There's the 10-year-strong reign of Shantanu Narayen at the top of Adobe.
And more recently, Sundar Pichai took over as chief executive of Google-a role many said had been years coming.
In 2011, Microsoft bought up more than 660,000 IP ADDRESSES from Nortel for $7. 5 million US ($11. 36 each.
Security researchers at Symantec recently uncovered the computer virus which they say is sweeping Australia. The hackers style themselves as real-life Walter Whites,
'writes Symantec on its blog.''The malware arrives through a malicious zip archive, which uses the name of a major courier firm in its file name.'
During 2013, the number of attacks each month rose from 100,000 in January to 600,000 in December, according to a report last year by Symantec, the maker of antivirus software.
24, from the Intel Clinic. It is fitted with sensors that monitor brainwaves, eye movement, oxygen levels and the wearer's body temperature before sending this information to an app on their connected phone.
Controversial tech boss and presidential candidate John Mcafee recently warned a'doomsday'electronic weapon could wipe out 90%of Americans
Mcafee, who recently announced he is running in 2016, wrote in a blog for International Business times:'
'Mcafee says this is a huge issue being ignored. He hit out at President Obama's focus on gun control.
'Mcafee said he was confused initially by the statement.''Frantically searching again for my benzodiazepines, and certain that rabid squirrels would imminently emerge from my wristwatch
#Intel looks into crystal ball Intel has been looking into the near future at its Future Showcase 2015looking to get into homes,
said Intel. o if youe got a Nest thermostat and Philips Hue lightbulbs, for example, the Home Gateway will provide the link between the two. he system is based on NFC tags that track people in the home to adjust devices accordingly as they move around re-streaming a film from living room TV to kitchen tablet whilst
grabbing and even smiling at it said Intel. Beyond this it is hoping the technology will be used not just to add gesture recognition into tablets and phones,
said Intel, which showed a 3d photo of someone in a block of glass. At longer range, it proposes Realsense as a way to give drones a local 3d map for object avoidance.
Current products on-show included the Intel NUC Compute Stick (PC with HDMI connector), Galileo Gen 2 (Arduino-style board with X86 processor) and Edison on an Arduino-style board n
Intel CPU clock speeds have remained mostly flat for years, while AMD FX-9590 and its R9 Nano GPU both illustrate dramatic power consumption differences as clock speeds change.
we covered IBM Aquasar cooling system back in 2012, which uses microfluidic channels tiny microchannels etched into a metal block to cool the Supermuc supercomputer.
This is why Intel specifies lower turbo clocks if youe performing AVX2-heavy calculations. By etching channels directly on top of a 28nm Altera FPGA, the research team was able to bring cooling much closer to the CPU cores
The amount of effort required to etch a design like this into an Intel or AMD CPU would be non-trivial,
Having sold its mobile handset division to Microsoft last year for $7. 2 billion, Nokia has focused since primarily itself on network equipment manufacturing,
which at its core accuses Google of favoring its own shopping services over those of third parties like Tripadvisor, Microsoft and Streetmap,
since regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tangled with Microsoft beginning in the late 1990s
#Can Apple And IBM Change Health care? Five Big Questions Today, at a glitzy press conference at IBM new Watson headquarters in Manhattan swank Silicon Alley, IBM IBM and Apple Apple announced that they are partnering with Japan Post,
which is among other things the largest health-and life-insurance company in Japan, to start a project that will provide ipads to millions of senior citizens with the aim of improving their health and their lives.
Apple and IBM chief executives Tim cook and Ginni Rometty were both present at the press conference, emphasizing its importance to both firms. ombined with Japan post we are going to build a service that not only can all be proud of
and teach them how to use a suite of IBM-designed applications focused around the areas of health, family, and community.
The app will remind patients to take their medicines (the fictional anecdote used by IBM executives to explain that used a woman who kept forgetting her blood pressure medicine
but the Japan Post effort differs in its scale Nishimuro said that the plan was to roll this out to millions and in its reliance on Apple and IBM technology.
an IBM spokesman said. There will be a limited roll out, and testing for functionality, before the project can move full tilt.
In the fictional case study IBM used to explain this effort to the press, the patient high blood pressure would mean that getting her to take her medicine more often would improve her life.
Obviously, Japan Post will be collecting huge amounts of data that, with IBM analytics, it will use to try to learn about how to keep people healthy.
It wasn clear what kind of data collection IBM, Apple, and Japan Post will be doing to prove that this works.
Apple and IBM say they are trying out a huge number of pilot studies, including one related to home health care that is being done by Express Scripts Express Scripts.
IBM and Apple deserve huge congratulations for the way they are taking on the problem of improving health care for seniors especially
Apple and IBM are moving into new territory here, and theye going to have to do something that is always hard for anyone,
Technology markets have shown the ability to shift a lot faster than many people expected, leaving some painful losers in their wake (Dell, HP, Sun microsystems, Yahoo, etc.
and Microsoft have not decided to jump in as of yet. MJ Freeway was created out of necessity.
if Microsoft wants to play and will kiosks be needed if Bank of america decides cannabis won get them in trouble with the Feds.
The biggest mobile money makers of Electronic arts right now are the ancient Simpsons and Simcity franchises
the University of Toronto is working with Christian Blind Mission a non-governmental organization that helps people with disabilities in developing countries as well as software supplier Autodesk ADSK+0. 17%and the Corsu rehabilitation hospital in Mpigi, Uganda.
#Depth sensor could bring Kinect games outdoors A new imaging technology could address a major drawback of depth-sensing cameras, such as Microsoft Kinect controller:
#IBM sets new tape storage record For many people, tape memory is a dead technology found only on reel-to-reel computers in old 1960s movies.
and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji Film has produced a low-cost particulate magnetic tape with a record density of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch,
The new IBM tape has an areal density 110,000, 000 times greater than IBM s first tape drive,
IBM compares this to 220 million books that would need 2, 200 km (1, 367 mi) of bookshelf.
IBM sees the new tape technology as having applications in big data and cloud computing at a cost of pennies per gigabyte.
The video below discusses the new IBM storage tape. Source: IB B
#Modified Salmonella eats away at cancer, without a side order of food poisoning Though generally a bacteria we'd associate with a severe bout of food poisoning,
#IBM's Watson does some culinary computing for its first cookbook These days, it seems like every celebrity comes out with a cookbook at some point,
and IBM's Watson supercomputer is no exception. The newly released Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson includes 65 recipes, developed with the help of
"is the result of a three-year collaboration between IBM Research and chefs at the Institute of culinary education (ICE).
"IBM says that Cognitive Cooking is not only a compendium of recipes, but also discusses the evolution of Chef Watson.
According to IBM, what works with food also works with other things, like creating new pharmaceuticals and cancer-fighting proteins.
#Acer's Cloudbooks offer Windows 10 from just $169 Acer has announced a pair of new laptops that are set to provide access to Windows 10 at a very reasonable price point.
Both the 11 and 14-inch versions of the Aspire One Cloudbooks are powered by Windows 10, with Intel Celeron processors, 2 GB RAM and 1, 366 x 768 LED
Acer's Cloudbooks on the other hand, run the more power-hungry Windows 10. While that opens the door to much more local functionality,
Microsoft and Google have invested all in Deep Learning technologies in the past five years p
#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,
and Microsoft has starting pooling resources into virtual-reality research. n addition to the major business Eyenetra is doing for prescriptions,
and IBM Research in Zurich, reports Ars Technica. It's called the Solar Sunflower, and like its namesake,
To counteract this, the Sunflower makes use of a hot water cooling system invented by the project's IBM collaborators.
and scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated now what may be an important step toward commercializing this next generation of computing technology.
"IBM has been a pioneer in the area of CMOS integrated silicon photonics for more than 12 years,
"said Bert Offrein, manager of the photonics group at IBM Research-Zurich.""In addition to the silicon technology advancements at the chip-level, novel system-level integration concepts are required also to fully profit from the new capabilities silicon photonics will bring,
Offrein and his IBM colleagues from Europe the United states and Japan instead proposed an integration scheme in which the silicon photonic chips are treated similarly to ordinary silicon processor chips
the IBM research lab Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) demonstrated a radically new approach to manipulate the light emission of quantum dots.
including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The decision is the culmination of a case that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems brought against Facebook in 2013 for participation in US mass surveillance.
Last year, a system using IBM Watson AI technology, called The Knowledge Integration Toolkit (Knit),
IBM says Knit is automated now fully to work without human oversight. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US is also working on technology
and with the potential collaboration of key chip-making partners like Intel, Sony, Samsung and TSMC.
Under development by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, the Hypercam uses both visible and near-infrared light to peer beneath the surface
and Microsoft Research that reveals details that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye.
"said Mayank Goel, a University of Washington doctoral student and Microsoft Research graduate fellow. Compared to an image taken with a normal camera (top),
However, for one group of computer experts, better known as IBM, venturing into this foray is par fort the course.
He the Director of Science and Technology at IBM Research and has a passion for taking the computerized world to new heights.
Just ask Facebook, Google and Microsoft. With its promising application to video games and other in-real-time experiences, its no wonder the biggest tech players in the field are eager to explore AR possibilities.
Chess-playing computers aren't new of course-IBM's Deep Blue scored the first AI triumph over a human world champion by beating Garry Kasparov in 1997-but Lai's approach works differently.
such as Microsoft's Kinect controller for video games, have become widely used 3-D sensors. Now, a new imaging technology invented by Carnegie mellon University and the University of Toronto addresses a major shortcoming of these cameras:
The technology was among the top award winners in the Texas instruments Innovation Challenge this past summer.
The technology, developed in collaboration with Texas instruments, represents a growing interest in the development of high-tech sign language recognition systems (SLRS) but unlike other recent initiatives,
and Pushmeet Kohli of Microsoft Research Cambridge. For their experiments, they created a probabilistic programming language they call Picture,
In turn, it could model how a specific treatment would interact with the patient. heyl be the Microsofts and Googles of biomedicine,
Dell compute nodes using next-generation Intel Xeon processors, 27 racks of compute nodes totaling 1,
#A New Type of Memristors for Less Rigid Computing Two IT giants, Intel and HP, have entered a race to produce a commercial version of memristors (the fourth basic component of electronic circuits alongside resistors,
. the investment fund of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allenas solved the long-enough problem. Making the plasma hot enough is the next key challenge.
Adobe crunched the numbers and reported that on Black Friday in the US last year consumers spent a record-breaking $2. 4 billion-up an extraordinary 24%on the previous year.
According to IBM, Black Friday sales were 63.5%higher than Thanksgiving day sales -but last year they were 70%.
In the US, IBM reported that while overall sales were up, the average order value was down across both Black Friday and Thanksgiving.
It focuses on the first and clearest of a number of complaints filed in 2009-10 by various Google competitors-from other giants, such as Microsoft, to small, struggling or defunct web businesses.
Andy Stanford-Clark, distinguished engineer in IBM global internet of things team, pointed out that we can now pull in all sorts of data:
it is still not possible to engineer a way of turning the lights green as you pull up. t easy to change the traffic lights, ssays IBM Standford-Clark. ut...
says IBM Stanford-Clark. The best way to achieve it may not be via smart, reactive traffic lights,
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011