Brittany Greaner
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The ethics of AI and the need for technical education reform | #ibmwow
Most everyone agrees that advancements in the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and the like will change the world. What people may not agree on is to what degree it should be regulated and what constitutes ethical practices. But these are necessary conversations in order to prepare for such an unknown future, said Shannon Vallor, ...
From IT to education: Internet of Things impacting every field | #ibmwow
The TV show The IT Crowd played off of stereotypes on what it’s like to work in IT. Basically, it meant working in the basement, no one except the CEO remembering you exist, and impatiently asking people if they’ve tried turning the device off and on again. But the Internet of Things is changing all ...
Collaborative workspaces and digital handshakes | #ibmwow
DocuSign Inc. and IBM Corp. have formed a new and powerful partnership. For DocuSign, IBM’s Watson cognitive computing platform makes contracts smarter than ever, with an ability to evaluate and flag potential issues in contracts, according to Inhi Cho Suh, GM of Collaboration Solutions at IBM. On IBM’s side, the partnership with DocuSign is another ...
Behind the scenes of machine learning, AI and APIs | #ibmwow
IBM Watson, a machine learning platform, has been traditionally trained on a bank of questions, but when it comes to recommendations, no such bank of questions exists. “We can’t train Watson on every question possible when the users can ask anything,” said Pietro Mazzoleni, program director of Marketing Technology and Innovation at IBM Research. He ...
What does a Chief Digital Officer do? | #ibmwow
CDO is generally understood to stand for Chief Data Officer, but that isn’t how the Schaeffler Group sees it. Instead CDO stands for Chief Digital Officer. What’s the difference? “Data is the raw material. Digital is the additional value you create with data, … Digital means you bring both the data and mechanics together,” said ...
Weather and Watson: IBM anxious for brainy business insight | #ibmwow
Some people might have scratched their heads upon hearing plans for tech giant IBM Corp. to acquire The Weather Company. In fact, there are many ways the weather affects IBM’s clients. Golf clubs and air traffic control are two obvious industries that rely on early knowledge of temperature and precipitation levels, but contextualizing weather patterns can help predict unlikely ...
Cloud culture clash: The small steps to evolve big business | #ibmwow
Staples is one of the largest eCommerce businesses in the world, and it’s unique in that half of its customers are small-to-medium-sized businesses. While Staples is moving from the framework of the past to the cloud, it is also working to meet those customers where they are. “Anything you want can be done in store or on our apps,” ...
Erasing anonymity: How to prevent hacking with blockchain | #ibmwow
The recent distributed denial of service attacks has everyone talking. The responsible party managed to take down more than 80 sites, including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon. But IBM Corp. has a technology that is working to prevent hacks like that from happening, and also making it easy to trace were someone to try. Part of the problem ...
LinkedIn’s goals for women in tech, young engineers | #GHC16
LinkedIn Corp. is often thought of as a tool for employers to find employees and vice versa, but it’s also a company working toward change in the market. Part of LinkedIn’s efforts include a Women in Tech Initiative, a fully funded and supported program is led by two top-level professionals at LinkedIn — Erica Lockheimer and Sarah ...
With great coding power comes new records for women in tech | #GHC16
If you’ve ever wanted to break a Guinness World Record, now is a great time to be in Houston, Texas. Tomorrow, for eight hours, there will be an attempt to break the record of most people programming, and they will need more than 1,000 people to participate. What better place to try and beat a ...