Author Archives: Adam Gartenberg

IBM announced today that it is establishing the IBM Watson Group, which will receive more than $1 Billion in investment to continue developing the capabilities of Watson and to make new cognitive applications and services available. Included in the $1B figure is $100M available for venture investments in the ecosystem for cognitive applications powered by Watson.Continue reading “IBM Invests $1B in new Watson Group”

BM yesterday unveiled two new Watson-related projects in collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.  WatsonPaths will provide medical students with a visual navigation through Watson’s analysis of a given case, providing possible diagnoses based on information it has extracted from an exhaustive set of reference materials and guidelines.  The WatsonContinue reading “IBM Research Unveils Two New Watson Related Projects”

IBM, Sutter Health and Geisinger Health System announced today that they have received a $2M National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to apply big data analytics towards the early detection of heart failure. From the press release: SACRAMENTO, Calif., DANVILLE, Pa. and YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. – 09 Oct 2013: Today,Sutter Health, IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) and Geisinger Health System announce theContinue reading “$2 Million Awarded to Sutter Health, IBM and Geisinger Health System to Study Heart Failure Prediction”

“Every year, nearly 7 million children under age 5 die from illnesses like pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria despite the availability of life-saving medical solutions.” Last week IBM and Boston Children’s Hospital announced the OPENPediatrics forum, a global education portal designed to connect healthcare providers around the world so that they can share information and resources, workingContinue reading “OPENPediatrics: Collaborating to improve medical care for critically ill children”

One of my favorite weekly diversions – the XKCD spin-off “What if” – this week answers the question “If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google’s data warehouse be?” It’s worth reading the whole post for the trail of logic that gets him here, but the answer boils down to the following: “15 exabytes of punchContinue reading “We’re going to need a bigger shoebox”

Ad Age interviews Rich Rodts, IBM’s manager for solution specialists and global academic programs, regarding the work IBM is doing to ensure that companies will have a sufficient pool of data scientists to meet their needs.  (How IBM Is Schooling Tomorrow’s Data Scientists) “If we need to grow these skills, if we need to buildContinue reading “Ad Age: How IBM Is Schooling Tomorrow’s Data Scientists”

IBM today announced a new IBM Signature Solution for risk management, aimed at providing CFOs the visibility they need to improve customer profitability, manage the risk of loss, and make more informed capital management decisions. IBM was also recently named a leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) consulting according to a new IDC Marketscape on WorldwideContinue reading “New IBM solution provides CFOs with a single view of customer and credit exposure”

As I posted earlier in the day, IBM is making a number of announcements today, including new releases of DB2; PureData Systems; InfoSphere BigInsights, Streams and Entity Analytics; and Informix TimeSeries.  What they have in common is that they are all centered around helping organizations benefit from Big Data. Today’s announcements include: BLU Acceleration, a breakthrough setContinue reading “IBM Announces New Innovations to Help Organizations Benefit From Big Data”

Michael Osterman has posted his thoughts and observations on the IOD 2009 conference, some of which I’ve pulled in below.  (On a personal note, after reading and citing his work for a while now, it was good to finally meet him in person as we both waited for the IOD press conference to begin.) ThoughtsContinue reading “Michael Osterman – Info Mgmt and Lotus observations from IOD2009”

I’m still catching up on the events of last week’s IOD 2009 conference.  Those of us participating in the inaugural blogger program were treated to several “behind the scenes” meetings with executives, developers and IBM customers on a variety of topics, one of which was stream computing and in particular how it’s being used  byContinue reading “IOD2009 – InfoSphere Streams”