SAN FRANCISCO — Here is how the venture capital game used to be played around here: A friend calls a friend who knows a guy. A meeting is taken. Wine is drunk (at, say, Madera lounge... Read more
Ushering in a new era of cognitive computing systems, IBM today unveiled the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor Delivered From the Cloud and Into the Hands of Mobile Consumers, Watson Provides Fa... Read more
Just as the industrial age produced the laws of thermodynamics, we need universal laws of complexity to solve our seemingly intractable problems As the world becomes increasingly complex and... Read more
Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation, which can ultimately result in man-made disaster... Read more
IN the 1960s, mainframe computers posed a significant technological challenge to common notions of privacy. That’s when the federal government started putting tax returns into those giant ma... Read more
I believe that the Information Age is winding down, just like the Age of Steam did and just as all “Ages” do. The notion that machines can be superior to humans at delivering ans... Read more
Engineers at the Big Blue Oval see sensor fusion, machine learning, and Big Data as some of the next-generation of R&D coming to market. As sensing, computing and communications systems... Read more
Giant network links all known compounds and reactions to create chemical Google on steroids Northwestern University scientists have connected 250 years of organic chemical knowledge into one... Read more
What Big Data is seeing now looks like the classic industrial curve The business of Big Data, which involves collecting large amounts of data and then searching it for patterns and ne... Read more
The swell of freely available official information, and its consequences A COMMON frustration with London’s subsidised cycle-hire scheme is that it can be insanely hard to find a bike in rus... Read more
Natural User Interfaces or NUI Trend watching has become a profession in recent years and there are sites dedicated to monitoring trends of all kinds. I spend a good deal of my time writing... Read more
GOOD with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking. Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technolog... Read more