Inside the Silicon City exhibit:
“Good design is good business.”

Yep, there’s an art to reinventing how the world works for over a century.

9 years ago

“Thinking Blocks”
HOW Poster Design Awards,
Reader’s Choice nominees

IBM Designers Matthew C. Paul & Patrick Chew on design thinking:

“Thinking is often the hardest work of all. It is important that we embrace thinking as well as making. We challenge ourselves to design solutions that make sense at a 5th-grade level, and embrace the simple building blocks that make it all possible.”

9 years ago

THINK EXPERIMENTS
Man with Machine comes alive      

“The idea came from old contact sheets.” I tried to come up with something that was simple, graphic and incorporated a clearly human element to represent and link to the technological aspect of the quote. The idea came from old “contact sheets”—which are the proofing process for rolls of film. From their graphic pages and repetitions and variations, I got the idea that filmstrips could represent the community.The original pencil sketch I did actually mimics the final result quite closely!

Jake Chessum
Celebrity Photographer
on THINK poster No. 14 →

9 years ago

Man with Machine:
AI is changing everything

We’re using it to turn our bodies into game controllers. To translate our speech into real time. And even create self-driving cars. Everything we do, AI is helping us do it better. By helping us be better teachers, pilots and judges, augmented intelligence is actually making us smarter. And most surprisingly, making us redefine who we are and what it means to be human. Read more about how AI is bringing sci-fi dreams to life and making us better humanoids →

9 years ago

Man with Machine:
Great Minds Think Differently  

Although IBM Researchers are ambitious, Brad Becker claims that scientists don’t want Artificial Intelligence to be a replication of the challenging and mysterious wonder that is the human brain. As he said “nature’s done that just fine.” Instead, researchers hope that A.I. will offer humans a new set of skills, so when the two forces are working together, more is accomplished in a shorter amount of time. That’s what happened at the Baylor School of Medicine where IBM Watson sifted through 70,000 articles on a protein related to cancer—allowing doctors to focus on a much narrower pool of information for their research

Read more about how machines are supplementing doctors →

9 years ago

Man with Machine
INSIDE THE CREATIVE MIND
Gwen Vanhee & Wim Vanhenden
on THINK Experiment No 13:

“Our process has literally been a collaboration between man and machine”
The quote for our poster immediately triggered the idea of ‘generative machines’, where we designed the rules and a computer decides on the outcome. A large amount of time goes into fine-tuning and trying stuff out. We love to fiddle around with parameters, so getting some visual output fast is very important to us. We ended up with 60 explorations, of which half went into post-processing. Quantity breeds quality.

9 years ago