Big Data
The storage capacities of laptop and desktop computers has been growing rapidly, but the growth may not be fast enough. According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. Perhaps quintillions of bytes are not meaningful to most of us, but it is the growth rate that is staggering — 90% of […]
Smarter Cardio Care
More than 25% of deaths in the United States are caused by heart disease. There are many statistics on the subject but to me the stunning one is that between 1,500 and 2,000 people die of heart disease every day. Most people would assume that heart disease is the leading cause of death for men […]
IBM Happenings: March – April 2010
The months of March and April were busy ones at IBM with the usual flurry of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. See the complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) here. The major focus of the company remains on a “smarter planet and the dimensions of this thrust continue […]
Fraud Reduction Could Fund A Chunk Of Healthcare
On February7 we will be discussing Computational Biology at Demo. No doubt we will hear about some potential breakthroughs in healthcare. One thing we know for sure is that new healthcare solutions are costly. How will people afford them? There are many issues associated with this and one of them is the fraud that occurs […]
