IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Touts Watson, New ‘Golden Era of Technology’

Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, is about to become an advisor to research-oriented industries, says IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty

Speaking in San Francisco this week to the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association, she said that Watson is part of a third era of technology, in which computers learn.

In fact, given today’s confluence of cloud, mobile, social and big data technologies, future historians may regard this era as “a golden era of technology,” she said, because the vast amount of information being generated will change how individuals make decisions and how companies work. Read what else she had to say, in this article by Deborah Gage at The Wall Street Journal.

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Now Playing: IBM Scientists Create a Movie by Moving Atoms

“A Boy and His Atom” is the world’s smallest stop-motion movie. It can be seen only when  magnified 100 million times. It was made by a scanning tunneling microscope moving atoms.

And it was created by IBM Research.

Watch this remarkable 90-second film now:

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The Making Of: Check out this collection of photos from the scanning tunneling microscope lab at IBM Research – Almaden

How did they do it?

Exploring the limits of storage and moviemaking

Why Make the Atom Movie? To Get Kids Excited about Science and Technology

Learn more about atomic memory, data storage, and Big Data

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Greater IBM, what do you think?

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IBM Executives Broadcast May 15: Creating a Smarter Workforce

Mark your calendar – don’t miss this just-added broadcast with IBM executives and influential thought leader Patrick Wright of the Darla Moore School of Business, Wednesday, May 15 at 11 a.m. EDT. (When will this take place in my time zone?)

Register now for Creating a Smarter Workforce and learn about the IBM Smarter Workforce strategy, and how a smarter workforce can help you. Details:

Register and attend!

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How Consumer Trends Are Being Influenced by Social Media (Infographic)

Today’s consumer is likely to be on social media, and the activity on those sites affects their decision making when it comes to purchasing. In this infographic from Mashable.com, take a look at the statistics that support this trend.

from Mashable.com

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How has the rise of social media changed how you do business? Let us know in the Leave a Reply field below.

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New Webcast: Succeeding Faster with New Online Support

The new Service Request tool is here, and that means getting support from IBM has never been easier. To learn about using the SR tool create and track PMR in the Chinese language, be sure not to miss a new educational Webcast, April 19th: 4 a.m. EDT (New York).

The tool’s new online features can help users not only to locate the answers to known problems, but also to open a ticket faster and more easily. In fact, the tool enables users to summarize the problem, with details, and submit it – all through one single process. This means that IBM can perform a review of problem before contacting the user, and to involve other technical resources to help resolve more complex problems if necessary.

Attend this upcoming education to get the details you need on using these great new features of IBM Online Support. Let us help you succeed faster!

Just for Fun: Vintage Social Networking

Cartoon by John Atkinson – follow him on Twitter: @WrongHands1

To Close the Widening Skills Gap, Focus on STEM Must Intensify

“According to IDC, almost 1.7 million cloud-related jobs went unfilled in 2012 due to lack of training….Depending on how we react, this is either a tech industry crisis, or a tremendous economic opportunity.”

In this article from Citizen IBM, Fordham University computer and information science professor Frank Hsu assesses the changing frontier of information technology, arguing for STEM-focused curricula and hands-on learning to enable students to “build the intelligent and advanced infrastructure made possible by open cloud across mature and emerging economies, and truly build a smarter planet.”

Frank Hsu, Fordham University

The bottom line? If we are to close the widening skills gap caused by new technologies, then our focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education must intensify.  Read more.

Be sure to follow @citizenIBM on Twitter: https://twitter.com/citizenIBM

 

 

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Watson Helping Doctors to Fight Cancer

IBM, WellPoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have announced what they call the first commercially developed applications based on IBM’s Watson technology, including an advanced clinical decision support system for oncologists, and tools designed to accelerate and streamline health plan processes.

For more than a year now, IBM has partnered with WellPoint and Memorial Sloan-Kettering to train Watson. Throughout that time, clinicians and technology experts were teaching Watson how to process, analyze and interpret the meaning of complex clinical information, using natural language processing.

Watch a demonstration of how this works:

The product of the collaborative effort between IBM and Sloan Kettering is called Interactive Care Insights for Oncology. The core of this product is a Watson-based, “advisor” that’s expected to help oncologists and researchers identify the best treatment options for cancer patients. Learn more about how it works and what this could mean for you.

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Enterprise Transformation: IBM Senior VP Linda Sanford on the Company’s Decade of Change

IBM today has more than $100 billion in annual revenue and 430,000 employees in 170 different countries. Senior Vice President Linda Sanford, with the help of the IBM CIO organization and the business transformation team reporting to her, is orchestrating a massive transformation that has thus far yielded an $8 billion payback for the company.

In this interview, Sanford details the company’s decade of change and talks about why it’s critical for organizations to regularly transform their products, systems, and processes. She also explains IBM’s priorities, and the CIO’s office’s involvement in its overall transformation. Read the interview here.

Related video: Transforming Business through Collaboration and Innovation (interviews with IBM customers)

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About the expert:

IBM’s Linda Sanford

Linda Sanford serves as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Transformation, for IBM, and leads the strategy for IBM’s internal transformation to becoming the premier globally integrated, smarter enterprise. In this role, Ms. Sanford is responsible for driving the company’s ongoing reinvention spanning technology, operations and culture.

Sametime Tips and Tricks: Can’t remember who Sametime’d you?

There’s a fix for that, writes blogger/IBMer Bob Balfe.

“With over 400,000 employees, IBM can be considered a very large company,” he notes, “and too often I have accidentally closed a chat window or had to reboot and could not remember who I chatted with!”

If the same thing’s happened to you before, here’s what you can do about it.