IBM isn’t resting on its laurels as the newly-crowned second-most valuable technology company in the world.
Big Blue is working hard to make sure that the next decade is its biggest yet in computing advances, with projects in the works to create the world’s most powerful supercomputer and one with the same number of nodes as the human brain.
“Computer systems are becoming more bioinspired,” said John Kelly, IBM’s senior vice president and director of research at a briefing on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Kelly pointed out that IBM’s famed WATSON artificial intelligence system, which this year went from beating human game-show champ Ken Jennings in Jeopardy to beginning to help health insurer WellPoint diagnose compex cases, “took up half the size of a room and required 85 kilowatts of electricity.” via TPM Idea Lab
October 5, 2011
