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AI: Analytics Innovators

This web video series features examples of groundbreaking companies, services and products that epitmize the age of smarter analytics, pervasive computing and new intelligence that IBM’s new Business Analytics & Optimization Services was created to advance.

See more BAO content and clips at the Global Business Services New Intelligence Video Studio.  Know of other analytics innovators we should feature? Share in comments here!

Episode 2:

  • RecycleBank a kind of “frequent recycling” rewards program
  • Earthmine a 3D city mapping service based on Mars Rover technology
  • FitBit Tracker a $99 wearable health monitoring device that measures your bodily activity and sleep patterns

“Virtual space technology will never replace good, old face-to-face meetings, added Craig Becker, an IBM Master Inventor who serves as tech lead for virtual space events — “but virtual spaces *are* a good deal more immersive, compelling, and engaging than a phone conference,” he said. “One thing we’ve found is that if you and I talk on the phone, we’ll wake up the next morning, and if we think about it, we’ll remember it as ‘talking on the phone.’ But if we meet inside of a virtual space like Second Life … we’ll remember it as an actual *meeting*,” Becker explained. “This sense of ‘meeting’ with other people is a subtle but very powerful advantage that virtual spaces offer.”

Linux News: Virtual Worlds: The Business Case for Virtual Business, Part 2 (via smarterplanet)
smarterplanet: One heavily studied device is an armband made by Pittsburgh-based BodyMedia Inc. The device, worn by contestants on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” reality show, is sold as GoWear fit by BodyMedia and as the bodybugg by health-club company 24 Hour Fitness Inc.’s Apex Fitness Group unit. The armband detects not just motion but also skin temperature, heat flux, or the amount of heat leaving the body, and galvanic skin response — a measure of electrical conductivity that changes when you sweat. The information is fed into mathematical equations programmed into the device and aimed at estimating your total daily calorie burn. (via Burn Notice: How Accurate Are Devices That Track Calories Used? - WSJ.com) High-res

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One heavily studied device is an armband made by Pittsburgh-based BodyMedia Inc. The device, worn by contestants on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” reality show, is sold as GoWear fit by BodyMedia and as the bodybugg by health-club company 24 Hour Fitness Inc.’s Apex Fitness Group unit. The armband detects not just motion but also skin temperature, heat flux, or the amount of heat leaving the body, and galvanic skin response — a measure of electrical conductivity that changes when you sweat. The information is fed into mathematical equations programmed into the device and aimed at estimating your total daily calorie burn. (via Burn Notice: How Accurate Are Devices That Track Calories Used? - WSJ.com)
smarterplanet: Janet Marchibroda is the chief health care officer of IBM “As President Obama and Congress take on what the president in his American Medical Association speech called the “ticking time bomb” of health care costs, they need to know that they can’t succeed without harnessing the massive data generated by modern medicine. Getting the best information into the hands of doctors and patients, while protecting patient privacy, is not just a desire but an overriding need if we are to get a handle on spiraling costs and also improve care. “(read the rest @ There Can Be No Health Care Reform Without An Information Revolution - Forbes.com)

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Janet Marchibroda is the chief health care officer of IBM

“As President Obama and Congress take on what the president in his American Medical Association speech called the “ticking time bomb” of health care costs, they need to know that they can’t succeed without harnessing the massive data generated by modern medicine. Getting the best information into the hands of doctors and patients, while protecting patient privacy, is not just a desire but an overriding need if we are to get a handle on spiraling costs and also improve care. “(read the rest @ There Can Be No Health Care Reform Without An Information Revolution - Forbes.com)

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Cloud Computing: Why choose IBM (via IBMCloud)

IBMers and customers speak about how leveraging cloud computing can optimize businesses. Cloud computing infrastructure allows businesses to access virtual resources, like automated software and new applications, and then are able to package cloud offerings to create cost-effective, repeatable services that can help them be more productive.