IBM Makes Headlines with Dr. Jai Menon

October 18, 2011

BBC gives a nod to data-centric computing in its recent interview with IBM’s Dr. Jai Menon. “IBM bets on data-centric computing,” is the latest in a series of interviews with high-profile technology decision makers. IBM has garnered a great deal of popular attention stemming from Watson, and its focus on “self-learning” computers.Menon explains:

These new computers can extract and find information in data that can aid human cognition. When we created [supercomputer] Watson, it combined hardware and deep analysis software that we designed to work together. We are moving away from computers that compute, to computers that can extract information from the huge amounts of unstructured data – because every two days we generate more data than all data from the dawn of civilisation until 2003.

Menon goes on to expound on its practical applications, not just theoretical significance. Industries such as medicine, business, and communications will all be revolutionized by the successful implementation of this new technology. We will continue to follow data-centric computing and report on its future implications.

Our question, “When will the PR about Watson give way to some products and services we can use here in Harrod’s Creek. Marketing speak is not useful, although it can be entertaining.

Emily Rae Aldridge, October 18, 2011

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