IBM’s researchers are joining forces with speech technology specialist Nuance Communications to use IBM’s “Deep Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning capabilities” in conjunction with Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) solutions (not to mention its life-like speech synthesis) to provide hospitals, physicians and payers access to critical and timely information.
I’m really looking forward to watching the TV game show Jeopardy tonight, when “Watson,” a computer that’s been fine-tuned by the scientists at IBM’s R&D lab, takes on two of the best players in the history of the game.
Microsoft, Cisco and IBM are the three major IT infrastructure providers with potential to define how companies can encourage collaboration among employees, customers and business partners. In this advisory we provide a brief assessment of their latest product updates.
Lightbulbs are turning on all over the blogosphere and soon will provide sufficient illumination of a long-standing issue that will shape mobile access to social networks, financial institutions and corporate mail and message stores.
By introducing the “IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform”, Big Blue signals that it “gets it” when it comes to competing for its rightful share of enterprise spending on the amorphous idea of “cloud computing.
Aspirationally, Avaya’s Agile Communications Environment (ACE) is the essence of Recombinant Communications (RC) packaged as enterprise software.
Featured Research The R&D relationship between IBM and Nuance has reached its third stage, now that the two companies have entered a five-year joint research initiative. Their collective objective is to get to the next phase in speech processing, where… Read More ›
IBM completed acquisition of Cast Iron Systems, a “cloud computing specialists” with 75 employees and customers that include Allianz, NEC, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Dow Jones and others.
IBM’s Lotus-branded software has long had hooks into the social realm with products like Connections (a variant of Lotus Notes/Domino), Sametime and Quickr.
On the heels of Cisco’s announced acquisition of Tandberg ASA, IBM has announced a new “managed telepresence solution”.