Seeing is preventing.  

IBM Research Australia is exploring ways to help stop glaucoma, the ‘silent thief of sight’ by teaching Watson to detect it. After learning from 88,000 retina images, Watson can understand what a healthy eye looks like, and, in research settings, identify potential abnormalities that may indicate the onset of eye diseases like glaucoma for a doctor’s consideration. In the future, this early detection technology could help doctors keep glaucoma out of sight for millions.

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7 years ago

Amplified quantum - IBM Patent 9455392

We’re making quantum computing a reality. Patent 9455392 improves our ability to dramatically scale up the number of superconductor quantum bits that make really powerful quantum computers really, really, really powerful. So powerful, that no other supercomputer can even compete with it. Not now and not ever.

This is just one of the record-breaking 8,000+ patents IBM received in 2016. Explore the latest IBM patents. →

7 years ago

More understanding machines - IBM Patent 9384450.

What if we could learn from questions the same way we learn from answers? Patent 9384450 improves AI’s ability to answer what are called “open domain questions”, or questions that ask information outside of a machine’s previous knowledge. Machines may have a lot to learn, but now we can teach them to understand us better.

This is just one of the record-breaking 8,000+ patents IBM received this year. Explore the latest IBM patents. →

7 years ago

Contamination-seeking drones - IBM Patent 9447448.

Stay back and let the drones do the dirty work. Patent 9447448 makes cognitive drones able to inspect and decontaminate places so humans don’t have to. The drones’ on-board AI system can collect and analyze samples, so it can identify and clean up any bacteria or outbreak. Meanwhile you get to hang back, safely out of harm’s way.

This is just one of the record-breaking 8,000+ patents IBM received this year. Explore the latest IBM patents. →

7 years ago

Unflappable clouds - IBM Patent 9329908

People depend on the cloud for pretty much everything. But clouds get busy. Now when you’re uploading all those videos from vacation, Patent 9329908 will help by spreading the work around so no one part of the cloud is overloaded. So yeah, go ahead and sync those playlists. Which playlists? All of them.  

This is just one of the record-breaking 8,000+ patents IBM received this year. Explore the latest IBM patents. →

7 years ago

Driving assistants - IBM Patent 9296395

Artificial intelligence will make roads safer, by making sure drivers are focused behind the wheel. Patent 9296395 allows built-in cognitive systems to learn about conditions both inside and outside the car, and take actions if they sense your state-of-mind just isn’t where it needs to be. Whether you’re cruising, commuting or driving cross-country, cognitive will make sure you never ride alone.      

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8 years ago

8,000+ reasons to celebrate.

Here’s to another record-breaking year for IBM. Let’s count the reasons we’re raising our mugs in celebration today. 24 years as the top earner of US patents with 8,088 patents awarded in 2016—the most received by any group ever. This is all thanks to the ingenuity of 8,500 IBM inventors across 47 countries working on world-changing inventions day after day. From microbe-fighting drones to advancing quantum computing, these patents add up to some exciting innovations for 2017 and beyond.

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8 years ago

Watson & Meeka help you tie the knot. 

A new Watson-enabled app, MEEKA, can help you have that dream wedding. The cognitive app learns from tons of data to keep an eye on the budget, find venues, sift through the guest list, pick out flowers and even suggest cake flavors for you. So do you, take this Watson to be your wedding planner?

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8 years ago

Take us home, Olli. 

The next generation of self-driving cars is one you can talk to. Local Motors, creators of the world’s first 3D-printed cars, just launched Olli, the first talking shuttle bus to use cloud-based IBM Watson IoT for Automotive as a brain.

A combination of four Watson APIs (Speech-to-Text, Natural Language Classifier, Entity Extraction and Text-to-Speech) gives Olli the ability to recognize and react to things like “let’s go downtown” or “what’s good to eat around here?” as you and up to 11 other people go from point A to B.

If you’re looking to catch a ride with Olli, you can find it making the rounds in Washington, D.C. Next stops: Miami and Las Vegas.

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8 years ago

A laser, a pack of gum and IBM.

Every time you hear that beep at checkout, you hear a little bit of IBM. 42 years ago today, a pack of Juicy Fruit at a grocery store in Ohio became the first item swiped using a UPC barcode, technology IBM helped invent. Now that same beep is heard billions of times a day, all over the world.  

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8 years ago

The toothbrush gets a power-up.

Chase monsters. Groom pets. Conduct music. With Grush, the gaming toothbrush, brushing teeth isn’t just about bristles anymore. It’s now a cognitive-powered game built on IBM Bluemix. The toothbrush connects brushing data to a cloud-based sister app, and that data is analyzed by cognitive technology to control gameplay and unlock rewards for good habits. Now brushing is just good, clean fun.  

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8 years ago