Tag: IBM

The danger of biased algorithmic systems and how to solve it

What you give is what you get. This saying seems to be perfectly applicable to the realm of AI systems as well. Or as IBM puts it (3), artificial intelligence is only “as effective as the data it was trained on” and, therefore, machine intelligence is “accurately reflecting the prejudices of the people it drew… Read more The danger of biased algorithmic systems and how to solve it

Trending in Cybersecurity Approaches

Cyber-attacks and cybersecurity has been a trending issue during the last year, with “WannaCry” ransomware making headlines. This attack caught attention because of its damage perimeter (affecting many people and important companies). However, cyber-attacks aren’t made up of only this ransomware and is starting to carry more and more importance as we and everything around… Read more Trending in Cybersecurity Approaches

Emotion recognition for good or evil?

In the 1970s Paul Ekman pioneered the study of facial expressions by creating a catalog of more than 5,000 muscle movements to show how expressions reveal hidden emotions (1). Today AI and machine learning teach machines to understand and react to our emotions. Vaish and Kumari defines emotion as “a psycho-physiological process triggered by conscious… Read more Emotion recognition for good or evil?

Will you have your own Personal Quantum Computer (PqC) any time soon?

PCs In 1947, Howard Aiken an American engineer predicted that only six computers would be needed to satisfy the computing needs of the United States. Today over  73% of US adults own a desktop/laptop computer and the number of computers in the world continues to increase. Since the first personal computer was introduced by IBM… Read more Will you have your own Personal Quantum Computer (PqC) any time soon?

The Quantum Leap

Quantum Gap During the presentation and class discussion with John Donovan of AT&T the topic of quantum computing and quantum networking was briefly addressed. It occurred to me that Jeff Welsler of IBM had also talked about quantum computing, and efforts to offer that capability to consumers via the cloud. As evidence by its prevalence… Read more The Quantum Leap

Driving Innovation: Corporations such as IBM have enabled access to their Cognitive Computing and AI algorithms

We all hear about the wonders AI and Cognitive Computing can bring to our lives, but how does this work? Do large corporations take responsibility to develop and research on potential applications? Thankfully, corporations such as IBM are allowing anyone to use their algorithms without publicly exposing the algorithms themselves. This access is provided through… Read more Driving Innovation: Corporations such as IBM have enabled access to their Cognitive Computing and AI algorithms

Quantum Computing: Understanding the qubit

Last Friday, Dr. Jeff Welser , Vice President of IBM research, came to class where he talked about IBM and their research program. In the end of his talk he addressed quantum computing (QQ) and quickly explained the idea and its applications. It was probably not the first time you heard about how powerfull QQ… Read more Quantum Computing: Understanding the qubit

Dude, where’s my server?

By 2020 one million new devices are expected to come online every hour (Source: Gartner). What impact will this have for how data is generated, stored, and accessed? The answer, huge. Jeff Wesler, Vice President and Lab Director – IBM Research, recently shared a few facts that can give insight into why our mobile habits… Read more Dude, where’s my server?

Rethinking Computing Itself

“The fundamental building blocks of our world are quantum mechanical, if you look at a molecule, the reason molecules form and are stable is because of the interactions of these electron orbitals. Each calculation in there, each orbital, is a quantum mechanical calculation” Dario Gil, VP for science and solutions at IBM Research [4] Since… Read more Rethinking Computing Itself

Cognitive Computing: Augmenting Human Intelligence

What Exactly Is Cognitive Computing?   Cognitive computing (CC) is the simulation of human thought processes in a computer model. It is a technology platform based on the scientific disciplines of artificial intelligence and signal processing. In summary, a cognitive computer ploughs through un/structured data, to find hidden knowledge and present data in an actionable… Read more Cognitive Computing: Augmenting Human Intelligence