Nine universities across the U.S. will divvy up a $1.85 million grant to study the effects of interactive games on health, cognitive ability and change behaviors for people with chronic conditions.
Disputing a great deal of counter-evidence, famed cognitive psychologist and linguist Noam Chomsky insists that email was invented in 1978 by a precocious 14-year-old.
A few issues ago, I mentioned an interesting experiment taking place at MIT's Media Lab. The Human Speechome Project aims to better understand early childhood cognitive development. In order to do this, a family has completely wired its house so as to enable the capture of all verbal communication that takes place within it, 24 hours a day.
I often like to introduce the concept of "cognitive dissonance" when describing the disconnect between what IT managers believe is true and what they actually do. The audience is usually IT managers who end up smiling and nod their heads in agreement.
IBM sees cognitive computing as the new frontier of computing and is positioning its Watson architecture as the way forward in this new landscape, for both the company and its customers.
While the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may get more money in 2015 to study sensors and robots for use in warfare, the hot area of cognitive computing research could lose out.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. If you, yourself, do not have a disability, consider yourself lucky. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 54 million Americans have some type of visual, hearing, mobility, or cognitive/learning disability. Worldwide, nearly 500 million people have a disability. One out of three Americans knows someone with a disability. What's more, as we age, we are more likely to develop a disability, such as loss of hearing or vision, or re
IBM continues to commercialize its Watson-branded cognitive computing technology, setting up a new Watson business unit and unveiling two new Watson-derived services.
Vonage and Nexmo can bring context to communications, and when paired with Watson, they can make it cognitive by bringing in elements of conversation and language.
The way a person uses devices, like rhythm of writing, and other cognitive patterns are going to be used for future identification. It marks the beginning of the end for classic methods, like passwords, and even advanced tools like iris ID.
As IBM welcomes an estimated 20,000 developers, customers and partners to Las Vegas this week for its InterConnect conference, a running theme throughout the three-day show is providing application builders with cognitive and analytical tools based off the company’s Watson platform.
IBM says the platform, called Project Intu lets Project Intu offers developers easily build cognitive or basically machine learning skills into a wide variety of operating systems – from Raspberry PI to MacOS, Windows to Linux devices. Devices using Intu can “interact more naturally with users, triggering different emotions and behaviors and creating more meaningful and immersive experience for users. Developers can simplify and integrate Watson services, such as Conversation, speech-to-text, Language
If anyone can make sense of the over 74,000 pages of the US tax code, IBM’s Watson can. Or at least that’s the plan as Big Blue has teamed up its Watson cognitive supercomputer with the tax return specialists at H&R Block to help customers with tax filing options.