Dispatches from Dublin:

Honk if you find a cat 

A cat goes missing. It’s getting late. Parked cars sense the signal from from Mr. Mittens’ radio tracking collar. His family pinpoints his location and drives out to pick him up. This is one of many cognitive applications researchers at IBM’s research lab in Dublin are testing to make our cars’ built-in GPS systems, motion sensors, rear view cameras and onboard computers useful even when we’re not driving them. By connecting parked cars across a city, the combined network could provide us with information to help find pets, locate parking spots, detect gas leaks, record break-ins and more.

8 years ago

Dispatches from Dublin:

If the walls could talk

We have smart cars, smart phones, even smart appliances And now, researchers at IBM’s research lab in Dublin are applying cognitive technology to help buildings adapt to the way we use them. In other words, data collection systems and sensors will allow buildings to ”think,” so they can learn from daily activity, self-adjust for comfort and optimize for productivity – all while being energy efficient. Soon the buildings we live and work in will be mindful enough to dim the lights… guide us to a warmer room… or turn off the TV – if we forget for the millionth time.

8 years ago

Dispatches from Dublin:

Cloudy with a chance of watts

How do we predict the unpredictable? Well, when it comes to the weather and energy consumption, researchers at IBM’s research lab in Dublin are working on an answer. It’s an algorithm that learns to moderate power supply by relating weather patterns to power usage. Power grids with this cognitive technology will help energy companies better predict how much power residential areas need to compensate for changes in the weather, and how much the weather will affect what they can generate from wind, solar and other renewable sources. So we’ll always have the gigawatts we need.

8 years ago

Shhhhh! Atom-movers at work.  Inside science’s quietest room →

(Photos via Urs Siegenthaler)

9 years ago

“All of the problems of the world, could be settled easily, if men were only willing to think.”

100 years ago, Thomas J. Watson Sr. delivered a speech on the power of thinking. The words stuck. Especially the last one. Think became an enduring challenge for excellence. Today you’ll still find the motto beckoning innovation across our research labs, design studios, artwork and films. And during this weekend’s telecast of the big golf tournament, you can hear the very first IBMer in his own words  →

9 years ago

Well-Read Just for You

You’re a lawyer searching for a needle in a research haystack to stitch up your case.  But sifting through thousands of legal journals, case files and other research documents to find that insight can be the equivalent of a life sentence. Enter Watson, a prodigious new legal assistant that can analyze the legal haystack, learn what’s important to a given case and find the missing thread.  A process that could very will take a lifetime to complete, Watson does in a matter of seconds.  Catch up on Watson’s work to transform legal research in the Atlantic→

9 years ago

What’s Watson got that search engines don’t? Confidence.

Watson literally gets smarter by learning from you. So the more you talk to it— which you’ll be able to do very, very soon— the more it learns about your lifestyle, and the better it becomes at finding exactly what you like.

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