Author Archives: Chelsea Lang
Chelsea Lang
MD Anderson Teams up with Watson for “Moon Shots”
October 21st, 2013
Today, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM have announced that Watson’s cognitive computing system will come to the facility to help put an end to cancer. Watson will be used to power MD Anderson’s Oncology ...
Ford Turns to Altair, Cray for Auto Engineering
October 21st, 2013
Kevin Tallio, a senior engine developer at Ford, is one of many engineers throughout the auto industry who’s taking advantage of computing power and computer-aided engineering to design parts that weren't before possible and in a way that's faster ...
MasterCard Translates Card Swipes to Consumer Know-How
October 18th, 2013
As the digital marketplace explodes Andy Mantis, group head of Business Solutions for MasterCard Advisors, says that retailers must work harder than ever to stake its claim to an ever-shrinking world of e-commerce. But as MasterCard shared at the ...
Lexmark Director Talks Key Trends for Retail
October 18th, 2013
With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated every day, retailers are asking themselves the question, ‘How do we get our arms around this information?’ “It’s out there—the problem is that it’s in a lot of different places,” says Paul ...
IBM Takes the Guesswork out of Holiday Shopping
October 18th, 2013
Shopping season may be stressful for shoppers hoping to beat the crowds and find the lowest price, but retailers are far from immune from the stresses of the holidays. Historically, the pressure has been to wait and see which ...
Watson Comes to Cleveland Clinic Patient Rooms
October 17th, 2013
When IBM’s Watson made his debut on Jeopardy!, the supercomputer’s makers were quick to point out that while its knowledge of trivia may be impressive, the real impact will come when Watson reaches its final destination - hospitals. Now, ...
Big Data Commands at Mount Sinai Hospital
October 17th, 2013
For the 160-year-old Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, organizing and making sense of its patient data has been a necessity to streamline its operations, but doctors are increasingly seeing ways in which it has opened the doors ...
EBay and Ellison Show Microgrids Gaining on Utilities
October 17th, 2013
Originally the small-scale central power systems known as microgrids were merely a solution to mitigate blackouts, but with recent announcements that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and eBay have adopted the technology, it’s clear that the technology is gaining momentum ...
YarcData and Selventa Align for Personalized Medicine
October 16th, 2013
YarcData has recently announced that it will join together with the systems diagnostics company, Selventa, to bring big data to Selventa’s push for personalized medicine. Through the collaboration Selventa will have access to YarcData’s Urika analytics appliance, which will ...
Deloitte PopulationMiner Digs into Healthcare Landscape
October 16th, 2013
To offer data analytics to life sciences researchers in need of information from broad patient populations to answer questions about complex disease and drug interactions, Deloitte has announced the upcoming release of PopulationMiner, which is schedule for release in ...
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