Apr 1, 2014
Durban has been awarded an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant valued at $500 000, to fund consultations with IBM experts and senior consultants. Consultants will work with the city leadership to develop a skills development roadmap aligned to eThekwini’s economic...
Mar 31, 2014
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have formed the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an open membership group focused on breaking down the barriers of technology silos to support better access to big data, with improved integration of the physical and digital...
Mar 25, 2014
IBM and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) have announced plans to research new treatment approaches to fight tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa. IBM’s big data analytics technologies will be put to work on bacterial genetics and...
Mar 24, 2014
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) and IBM have announced an initiative to accelerate a new era of genomic medicine with the use of IBM’s Watson cognitive system. IBM and NYGC will test a Watson prototype designed specifically for genomic research as a tool to help...
Mar 18, 2014
High-performing CMOs are integrating internal and external data to garner deep insights that, in turn, provide them with a much deeper understanding of their customers. A new IBM study entitled Stepping Up to the Challenge: How CMOs can start to close the aspiration...
