Digital Reinvention

Paul Allen, IBM and MS-DOS; How the alliance set the course of Personal Computing

Paul Allen is no more. Allen was more of a visionary, and less of a businessman. He could visualise the future of technology, ahead of most his peers. He could foresee that computers would change the world in the immediate future. Bill Gates remembers that as early as in Seventies Allen was able to predict […]

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Digital Destiny of Automotive Industry

I was sitting in the car on my way to office, being peak hours, the road ahead was full of vehicles. I was obviously sitting helpless. To make good use of my time, I started mentally running through my days’ task. I then remembered that I had a deadline, among many others, from my daughter, […]

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Paul Allen, IBM and MS-DOS; How the alliance set the course of Personal Computing

Paul Allen is no more. Allen was more of a visionary, and less of a businessman. He could visualise the future of technology, ahead of most his peers. He could foresee that computers would change the world in the immediate future. Bill Gates remembers that as early as in Seventies Allen was able to predict […]

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Give AI Fairness a Fair Chance

Last week, I had an opportunity to talk about AI and Fairness to 100+ Business and Technical Leaders at IBM THINK Event at Mumbai. Today IBM announced launch of Trust and Transparency Cloud Services and Open Sourced AI Fairness360 Toolkit (github link), I thought this is a good time to share what I talked at […]

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Have you OUTGROWN your operating model?

Have you had the feeling that why do I take a couple of months to launch a new scheme, when my competitor reacts much faster? We are always too busy and key initiatives take very long to complete? We always have need for further hiring whereas, intuitively I feel that I already have a large […]

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IBM India & Tech Mahindra: Partners in Telco Innovation

In Conversation with Tech Mahindra With the Right partnership at the Right time, you can put Smart to Work. Watch Mukund Kannan, VP & Global Competency Head For Artificial Intelligence, Tech Mahindra, and Kapil Mehta, Cloud Technical Sales Leader, India/ South Asia, IBM highlight why IBM is Tech Mahindra’s partner of choice to work on […]

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Farmer Platform: Towards a Better Future for a Kisan

Backdrop: Agriculture is single largest livelihood contributor in India India is the largest producer of spices, pulses, milk, tea, cashew and jute; and the second largest producer of wheat, rice, fruits and vegetables, sugarcane, cotton and oilseeds. At 157 million hectares, India holds the second largest agricultural land in the world. Gross Value Added by […]

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How Colombia saw a 3x jump in contextual recommendations with smarter NLP

Mobile has changed everything. Thanks to phenomenal smartphone penetration and democratization of data, more and more consumers are getting online and consuming content like never before. Indeed, forecasts predict India’s internet users will number 829 million by 2021.1 What’s more interesting to note is the rapid growth of Indian language internet users. By 2021, the […]

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How AI can enhance shoppers experience for Retail Industry?

Consumer Brands and Retailers are faced with both tremendous growth opportunity and substantial market challenges, resulting from changing demographics, economy and regulatory environment in India. One key challenge is the changing shopper profile with the rise of millennials, exposure to global choices and trends and the in-flux diversity across the country. In this context, brick […]

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IBM Q: an introduction

Quantum computing is emerging as a key technology that is likely to have a significant impact in the years to come. It is fundamentally different computation model that is built on quantum physics. This field has moved from the back-water of physics, to a key area of research in physics, and now is at the […]

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