Research & Innovation Executive, IBM Research - IBM Watson

The Mayflower’s AI Captain goes to sea

A prototype of the Mayflower’s AI Captain will soon take to the water on a manned vessel – the Plymouth Quest – a research ship owned and operated by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK. It will be managed by the Watson-powered ‘AI Captain’, which will enable the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) to self-navigate […]

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Breakthrough language technology now available for business

To support people in their daily work, AI must understand human language. The Natural Language Processing advancements achieved in IBM’s Research labs enable computer systems to learn, analyze, and understand human language with great accuracy as it understands sentiments, dialects, intonations, and more. With such insights in hand, organizations can radically improve everything from customer […]

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Norwegian Yara and IBM expand collaboration to advance sustainable food production

Last week at World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos, Yara International and IBM, launched an open collaboration for farm and field data to advance sustainable food production. An open invite to innovative industry players How do we ensure we can feed a growing world population in the new decade? This is one of the key […]

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IBM’s five predictions: How AI will evolve in 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) have experienced groundbreaking scientific advances in recent years. The development has been wide-ranging, thus it includes everything from significant improvements in processing power and computational efficiency to new insights into language, deep learning and object identification. IBM have been leaders in AI research for several decades and have helped push many of […]

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Climate change is here – is your company prepared?

Climate-related Financial Risk, Energy Transition & Resilience… a matter of economics and survival There is no doubt that climate is changing and that this will have severe impacts on several societal levels. For many companies, climate change may mean business opportunities but at the same time also a major business challenge and thus financial risk. […]

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The future of highways with AI

Highways connecting our nations are becoming digital, which is completely changing the future of travel. They are getting as interconnected as the people who use them. In a way, they are becoming a smart interface between the driver, vehicle and highway operator. DID YOU READ: Chatbots: The Modern Artificial Intelligence Helper Learn more about the […]

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Presenting the Mayflower Autonomous Ship: To resolve ocean plastics research obstacles

Every day, hundreds of articles about the tech industry’s favorite buzzwords are published. They are addressing topics from Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Computing to Quantum Computing and Blockchain. But only a few of them are concerned around solving the problems that face society as a whole. Instead, the objectives of the articles are […]

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Uniting industry, technology and human potential

Apply human determination and technological innovation to make a difference in the global community. In this 4th issue of Industrious, you will find an entire year’s worth of industry stories centered around the convergence of technology and human potential. Learn how inclusion and responsibility can transform the way we work and live and how inclusion […]

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IBM advances “Watson Anywhere” with new clients and innovations

 Innovations Make it Even Easier to Scale IBM Watson  Across Any Cloud   Recognizing that organizations are slow to adopt AI for many practical reasons, not least due in part to rising data complexities, we this week announced several new innovations that further advance our Watson Anywhere approach to scaling AI across any cloud. Already […]

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