Building with Watson - Conversational Apps: What We've Learned and Where We'r...IBM Watson
Watch the webinar replay here: http://www.ibm.com/watson/building-with-watson-webinar.html
Watson has dedicated themselves to improving the technology available and the experience around building conversational applications. On this webinar, learn from developers who have worked with the services about the challenges involved in building a conversational application and get a look at some of the breakthroughs in conversation technology, that are removing the roadblocks in this process.
Building with Watson - Enhancing the Results of Your BI DashboardIBM Watson
Get a technical look at implementing a BI Dashboard for Social Media Monitoring results, complete with code examples for incorporating Watson Vision APIs and Twitter. View the on-demand version of the webinar and register for other Building with Watson Webinars: https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/building-with-watson-webinar.html
Building with Watson - Conversational Apps: What We've Learned and Where We'r...IBM Watson
Watch the webinar replay here: http://www.ibm.com/watson/building-with-watson-webinar.html
Watson has dedicated themselves to improving the technology available and the experience around building conversational applications. On this webinar, learn from developers who have worked with the services about the challenges involved in building a conversational application and get a look at some of the breakthroughs in conversation technology, that are removing the roadblocks in this process.
Building with Watson - Enhancing the Results of Your BI DashboardIBM Watson
Get a technical look at implementing a BI Dashboard for Social Media Monitoring results, complete with code examples for incorporating Watson Vision APIs and Twitter. View the on-demand version of the webinar and register for other Building with Watson Webinars: https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/building-with-watson-webinar.html
IBM Watson overview presented by Mike Pointer, Watson Sr. Solution Architect, at Penn State's Nittany Watson Challenge Immersion event on January 19-20, 2017.
This presentation provides demonstrations of Watson API Services utilized in various Big Data and Analytic applications and was presented at Penn State's Nittany Watson Challenge Immersion event on January 19-20, 2017.
Is your love of technology impossible to hide? Do you aspire to do more than what's expected? Do you live to code? Do you love social media? Are you really involved on your campus? Then this opportunity is made for a student like you.
Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) are social and friendly students who like to meet new people. MSPs are the game changers of the future. They think and act boldly.
Come build your skills, ignite your career.
Become a Microsoft technology leader on your campus.
Impact Of The Cloud For It Managers (Isb204 Guest) - Presentation from TechEd 2009 that covers the impact of moving to cloud computing for IT Managers.
What the App? : A Modernization Strategy for Your Business ApplicationsJohn Head
Presented at IBM Connect 2016: It's 2016 – your application portfolio is being reviewed and scrutinized. Email and application platforms are being separated. Users' expectations of their work experiences are higher than ever. But you're invested in your Notes & Domino applications – what do you do? Looking through the lens of IBM ESS solutions, we will answer that question by providing a roadmap and experiences to help you choose the best path. We will deep dive into the five aspects of Application Modernization: User Experience, Social, Cloud, Mobile, & Modern Workflow. See demos of actual application transformations and the impact they have within an organization. Learn how new functionality in the products will make your journey easier.
Ten Things Every Tech Savvy Exec Should KnowDeltinaU
A guide for COOs, CEOs, CFOs, or any exec looking to become tech savvy. Ten Things Every Tech Savvy Exec Should Know features information on Social Media, Cloud Computing, Mobile Apps, Advanced Analytics, Customer Relations Managers, Collaborative Technologies, Tablet Computers, E-Readers, Smart Phones, and more.
Access Your Desktop Anywhere, Anytime with Amazon WorkSpacesTechSoup
Now more than ever, nonprofits employees and volunteers are working remotely.
Instead of building and operating your own infrastructure, your organization can deploy desktops on demand with Amazon WorkSpaces, a desktop as a service (DaaS) solution on AWS. With DaaS, you manage your images and users while the infrastructure is managed for you by AWS.
During this webinar, attendees will
- Learn what makes Amazon WorkSpaces unique
- Understand how DaaS can help nonprofits leverage the cloud for remote work and volunteering
- Hear lessons learned and best practices from nonprofits using Amazon WorkSpaces
- Start your proof of concept
Additional resources:
- Multiple resources
- Enabling today’s workforce with cloud desktops
- WorkSpaces website
- DaaS on AWS
Builder: A human-assisted AI platform that lets you build, run, and scale sof...Amazon Web Services
Builder empowers anyone to create, operate and scale the lifecycle of digital projects. We do so with three products: BuilderStudio. Build your next software project using an assembly-line platform implemented with the assistance of human-assisted AI and a vast network of global technical resources. BuilderCare. BuilderCare guarantees your bespoke software stays up-to-date, and continues after third-party libraries such as Facebook APIs are updated. BuilderCloud. Leverage AI and machine learning to effortlessly maintain the scale of your cloud infrastructure.
Speakers:
Varghese Cherian, Managing Director & SVP, Builder.ai
Visual story of how LinkedIn Engineering scaled it's architecture, infrastructure, and operations to support its 400+ million members.
Blog version of slidedeck: https://engineering.linkedin.com/architecture/brief-history-scaling-linkedin
Learn about LinkedIn's early history, its technology, and lessons on how to scale web architectures.
Full slide deck for day long discussion of microservices topics. Why use microservices, what options exist and how to migrate to them and address common problems.
Building a Data Cloud to enable Analytics & AI-Driven Innovation - Lak Lakshm...Daniel Zivkovic
Learn how Google Cloud addresses the key challenges when building an Agile Data & AI platform. This lecture is important regardless of the Cloud you are (will be) using because most businesses face the same 6 challenges:
1. High-quality AI requires a lot of data
2. AI Expertise is in high demand
3. Getting the value of ML requires a modern data platform
4. Activating ML requires surfacing AI into decision UIs
5. Operationalizing ML is hard
6. State-of-the-art changes rapidly
The lecture recording with Q&A is at https://youtu.be/ntBEQdD1IeQ
IBM Watson overview presented by Mike Pointer, Watson Sr. Solution Architect, at Penn State's Nittany Watson Challenge Immersion event on January 19-20, 2017.
This presentation provides demonstrations of Watson API Services utilized in various Big Data and Analytic applications and was presented at Penn State's Nittany Watson Challenge Immersion event on January 19-20, 2017.
Is your love of technology impossible to hide? Do you aspire to do more than what's expected? Do you live to code? Do you love social media? Are you really involved on your campus? Then this opportunity is made for a student like you.
Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) are social and friendly students who like to meet new people. MSPs are the game changers of the future. They think and act boldly.
Come build your skills, ignite your career.
Become a Microsoft technology leader on your campus.
Impact Of The Cloud For It Managers (Isb204 Guest) - Presentation from TechEd 2009 that covers the impact of moving to cloud computing for IT Managers.
What the App? : A Modernization Strategy for Your Business ApplicationsJohn Head
Presented at IBM Connect 2016: It's 2016 – your application portfolio is being reviewed and scrutinized. Email and application platforms are being separated. Users' expectations of their work experiences are higher than ever. But you're invested in your Notes & Domino applications – what do you do? Looking through the lens of IBM ESS solutions, we will answer that question by providing a roadmap and experiences to help you choose the best path. We will deep dive into the five aspects of Application Modernization: User Experience, Social, Cloud, Mobile, & Modern Workflow. See demos of actual application transformations and the impact they have within an organization. Learn how new functionality in the products will make your journey easier.
Ten Things Every Tech Savvy Exec Should KnowDeltinaU
A guide for COOs, CEOs, CFOs, or any exec looking to become tech savvy. Ten Things Every Tech Savvy Exec Should Know features information on Social Media, Cloud Computing, Mobile Apps, Advanced Analytics, Customer Relations Managers, Collaborative Technologies, Tablet Computers, E-Readers, Smart Phones, and more.
Access Your Desktop Anywhere, Anytime with Amazon WorkSpacesTechSoup
Now more than ever, nonprofits employees and volunteers are working remotely.
Instead of building and operating your own infrastructure, your organization can deploy desktops on demand with Amazon WorkSpaces, a desktop as a service (DaaS) solution on AWS. With DaaS, you manage your images and users while the infrastructure is managed for you by AWS.
During this webinar, attendees will
- Learn what makes Amazon WorkSpaces unique
- Understand how DaaS can help nonprofits leverage the cloud for remote work and volunteering
- Hear lessons learned and best practices from nonprofits using Amazon WorkSpaces
- Start your proof of concept
Additional resources:
- Multiple resources
- Enabling today’s workforce with cloud desktops
- WorkSpaces website
- DaaS on AWS
Builder: A human-assisted AI platform that lets you build, run, and scale sof...Amazon Web Services
Builder empowers anyone to create, operate and scale the lifecycle of digital projects. We do so with three products: BuilderStudio. Build your next software project using an assembly-line platform implemented with the assistance of human-assisted AI and a vast network of global technical resources. BuilderCare. BuilderCare guarantees your bespoke software stays up-to-date, and continues after third-party libraries such as Facebook APIs are updated. BuilderCloud. Leverage AI and machine learning to effortlessly maintain the scale of your cloud infrastructure.
Speakers:
Varghese Cherian, Managing Director & SVP, Builder.ai
Visual story of how LinkedIn Engineering scaled it's architecture, infrastructure, and operations to support its 400+ million members.
Blog version of slidedeck: https://engineering.linkedin.com/architecture/brief-history-scaling-linkedin
Learn about LinkedIn's early history, its technology, and lessons on how to scale web architectures.
Full slide deck for day long discussion of microservices topics. Why use microservices, what options exist and how to migrate to them and address common problems.
Building a Data Cloud to enable Analytics & AI-Driven Innovation - Lak Lakshm...Daniel Zivkovic
Learn how Google Cloud addresses the key challenges when building an Agile Data & AI platform. This lecture is important regardless of the Cloud you are (will be) using because most businesses face the same 6 challenges:
1. High-quality AI requires a lot of data
2. AI Expertise is in high demand
3. Getting the value of ML requires a modern data platform
4. Activating ML requires surfacing AI into decision UIs
5. Operationalizing ML is hard
6. State-of-the-art changes rapidly
The lecture recording with Q&A is at https://youtu.be/ntBEQdD1IeQ
Ajit Jaokar, Data Science for IoT professor at Oxford University “Enterprise ...Dataconomy Media
“Enterprise AI - Artificial Intelligence for the Enterprise."
AI is impacting many areas today. This talk discusses how AI will impact the Enterprise and what it means in the near future. The talk is based on my course I teach at the University of Oxford.
Watson DevCon 2016 - The Flu Fighters: Using IBM Cognitive Computing to Fight...IBM Watson
Presentation given by Jeff Goodhue and Dave Wakeman at Watson DevCon 2016.
Can cognitive technology really detect and track outbreaks using social media and save lives? Absolutely! The technology of Watson APIs, the Bluemix platform and IBM Operational Decision Manager can be combined into a powerful solution that uses Twitter data, natural language processing and situational awareness to detect patterns in social media to track disease and health outbreaks as they spread.
The real-time situation detection capabilities of the “Flu Fighters” solution can provide advanced warning to doctors, hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical providers and others so that preventative measures can be taken to protect at-risk patients before the outbreak reaches their area. In this session you will learn how a prototype of such solution was developed using IBM Watson Services and IBM Bluemix.
IBM Watson Health: How cognitive technologies have begun transforming clinica...Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Cite as: Kamel Boulos MN. IBM Watson Health: how cognitive technologies have begun transforming clinical medicine and healthcare (Oral session IV – Patient safety tools, Thursday 19 May 2016, 15:45-16:45, Hotel Puijonsarvi, Kuopio). In: Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Conference on Research in Patient Safety and Quality in Healthcare (NSQH2016), Kuopio, Finland, 18-20 May 2016 (organised by University of Eastern Finland), p.29. URL: http://www.uef.fi/NSQH2016 (In: Nykanen I (ed.). The 4th Nordic Conference on Research in Patient Safety and Quality in Healthcare. Kuopio, Finland, May 18-20, 2016. Program and Abstracts. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Report and Studies in Health Sciences 21. 2016, p.29 (of 119 p.). ISBN: 978-952-61-2130-7 (nid.), ISSNL: 1798-5722, ISSN: 1798-5730.)
IBM Watson health: how cognitive technologies have begun transforming clinical medicine and healthcare
Maged N Kamel Boulos
ABSTRACT
Background: IBM Watson Health (http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/health/) belongs to a new generation of smart cognitive computing technologies (a type of artificial intelligence) that are poised to transform the way healthcare is delivered, and to vastly improve clinical outcomes, quality of care and patient safety.
Objectives: Our goal was to collect and document the huge potential of a range of emerging and exemplary uses of IBM Watson in healthcare in both developed and developing country settings.
Methods: A survey of current peer reviewed and grey literature has been conducted, looking for reports and case studies involving the use of IBM Watson in different health and healthcare applications.
Results, conclusions and clinical implications: With its ability to make sense of unstructured medical information by analysing the meaning and context of natural language, and uncovering important knowledge buried within large volumes of data and information, including medical images, IBM Watson is exceptionally well suited for clinical and healthcare decision support, where there are often elements of ambiguity and uncertainty. It has been (or is currently being) successfully deployed in many developed countries in the West, as well as in developing countries, such as India and South Africa. IBM Watson unlocks a complex case by acquiring information from multiple sources, e.g., accessing the electronic patient record, then parsing all related medical evidence at up to 60 million pages per second. After processing all of this information, Watson offers relevant and prioritised suggestions to the decision-maker, e.g., helping clinicians identify the best diagnosis and treatment options in complex oncology cases, and providing hospital managers with new operational insights. The ultimate goals are to reduce cost, medical errors, mortality rates, and help improve patients' quality of life.
Watson DevCon 2016: Myca - My Career Advisor: Providing Individualized Career...IBM Watson
Cognitive computing can be used to advise users on topics as diverse as wine selection to wedding style, and now, career advice. Myca, the cognitive career advisor, interviews users, understands their needs, and provides instant, personalized career advice, from job opportunities to learning recommendations, mentoring options, and more. View the app in action, and learn how this team of developers used Watson cognitive APIs to take it from idea to functional demo in just 20 days!
Building with Watson - Serverless Chatbots with PubNub and ConversationIBM Watson
PubNub helps you manage your streaming data, and now it is easy to add Watson-powered machine intelligence to those streams with BLOCKS. In this Building with Watson webinar, Josh Marinacci, Head of Developer Relations at PubNub, demonstrates how he used the Watson Conversation PubNub BLOCK to build a geology themed chatbot, Mr. Rockbot.
apidays LIVE London 2021 - API Horror Stories from an Unnamed Coworking Compa...apidays
apidays LIVE London 2021 - Reaching Maximum Potential in Banking & Insurance with API Mindset
October 27 & 28, 2021
Future of API Design
API Horror Stories from an Unnamed Coworking Company
Phil Sturgeon, DevRel at Stoplight
https://getnobullshit.com/
Nous savons tous développer une API mais avons-nous bien intégré toutes les problématiques?
Son aspect organisationnel et humain, sa gouvernance, ses contraintes business et d'opérabilité (SLA, SLO, SLI), son release management, ses méthodes de requêtage, sa sécurité (ses performances, sa mise à l'échelle), ses différents types de test, sa documentation, son versioning (compatibilité, changelog), son monitoring — et bien plus encore — de cette API une fois en production ?
Durant ce talk, c'est plus de 30 points d'attentions rarement évoqué que je vous propose d'aborder, à la lumière de retours d'expériences provenant de tech-leader comme Uber, Stripe, Facebook et Google mais aussi d'entreprise française de la petite startup à la PME.
Slides from the Softwerkskammer Chemnitz meetup on Tuesday, 14th of September on
- chaos engineering
- software resilience
- resilience patterns
- execution of chaos experiments
- creation of chaos backlog
- finding weaknesses in your service landscape
- dark debt
- grey failure
Take Mobile and Web Apps to the Next Level with AWS AppSync and AWS AmplifyAmazon Web Services
In this session, learn how the latest features of AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify enable you to use GraphQL for real-time data streams to client apps, along with advanced caching and offline operations. See the latest techniques for automatic backend provisioning and discover capabilities for advanced querying.
Presented by Vivek Thuravupala, Software Engineer @ Postman in joint meetup in Walmart on 28th April, BLR.
Abstract: We'll talk about the exploding usage of APIs and why security shouldn't be an afterthought when it comes to designing and building APIs. We'll also run through some concrete examples illustrating common pitfalls encountered while design/building.
About the speaker: Vivek builds stuff for the web, and he's been swimming around in various tech ponds since he was a kid. At Postman, he keeps an eye on a bunch of the user-facing products.
The Internet is full of Web Services, everyday more and more. Some services offer API (application programming interface) that developers use to build new applications (mash-ups). One of the most known and used technology for the machine-to-machine communication is SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) but in the last years we can use another paradigm, ReST (Representational State Transfer). How does it work?
Guest Lecture _ Python Basics _ Alexa Skill Dev _ by Shivam Dutt SharmaShivamDuttSharma
On August 22, 2019, I was invited by my Alma Mater - Amrapali Group of Institutes to deliver a guest lecture on the basics of Python and my then ongoing project on Alexa Skill Development for my then employer - Ferns N Petals.
ArcReady - Architecting Modern Distributed ApplicationsMicrosoft ArcReady
Nearly every application we build today has dependencies to other systems. How do we design them to work together to meet our goals? How do we decide what to build and what to buy? Do we host it ourselves or in the cloud? With a bewildering array of choices, the biggest challenge we face today is how to architect robust applications with the right technologies to meet our user’s needs and integrate nicely into our existing IT ecosystems.
Join our Central Region Architect Evangelists for a great discussion on architecting distributed applications using all the latest technologies and best practices.
Session 1: Blueprints for Success. In this session, we will survey the modern architecture landscape from the ground up, including infrastructure, application, and client solution choices. We’ll discuss how current industry trends are shaping our architectures and present an innovative architecture mapping technique for analyzing our customer’s needs and aligning them to today’s technologies and solution patterns.
Session 2: Making It Real. In this session, we’ll take a look at several case studies to learn how to apply the mapping technique from Session 1 to architect real world solutions that add true business value. We’ll examine applications we use every day and take a walk through a Microsoft reference architecture that explores many of the decisions we face when building modern distributed applications.
Easily Deploy your Chat Bot to Multiple Channels with StamplayIBM Watson
Stamplay makes it easy to chain services and deploy to messaging platforms with little to no code. See how Watson Conversation can be quickly integrated into chat platforms such as Facebook Messenger and Slack.
Application Developer Predictions 2017 - It's All About CognitiveIBM Watson
Watch the video recording: https://youtu.be/NmlM1SdYFFo
You’ve heard the buzz around cognitive technologies. You may have even experimented with them on your own, but you’re not sure how they fit in your app development toolbox. Sound familiar?
Don’t let another year pass without unlocking the true potential in your unstructured text, speech, images, and more. In this webinar, James Governor of Redmonk and Marcus Boone of Watson will share their predictions for what will be hot (and not) when it comes to application development in 2017. From massive data growth to conversational commerce and beyond, learn why cognitive app development is poised to accelerate in 2017 and how Watson cognitive APIs can help you successfully build your own breakthrough cognitive app.
Building with Watson - Advanced Integrations with Watson ConversationIBM Watson
Watson Conversation provides the engine for your chat bots, and it's most powerful when integrated with messaging and chat platforms. In this webinar, we'll talk about the best practices for connecting your Conversation setup with third-party interfaces, with a deep-dive into a Watson-powered Slack bot.
Watch the full webinar and view upcoming webinars here: http://www.ibm.com/watson/building-with-watson-webinar.html
Highlighting the value of Watson Equipment Advisor: Enables connectivity & data collection from a myriad of devices, sensors and equipment; Provides early warning for operational issues, impending failure \ breakage; Mines maintenance logs, equipment manuals, technician unstructured data to assist with diagnostics via an interactive dialog to make repair recommendations with the highest probability of success including parts and tooling; Constantly evaluate its current operating performance looking for alternate settings or operations to improve throughput, quality and availability. - Jay Di Silvestri, IBM Watson Cognitive Solutions Technical Lead
Highlighting how Refinery Advisor enhances decision making by oil & gas professionals by applying the organizations collective knowledge to large complex data sets, in context. -Scott Kimbleton, Associate Partner, Chemicals & Petroleum Global Business Services
Overview of Watson Cognitive Reservoir Analytics, highlighting how cognitive technologies are ready to address the challenges of the Oil & Gas industry and to transform practices in the industry, in face of data overload, new frontiers, workforce and skills shortage. -Renato Cerqueira, Sr. Research Manager and Technical Team, IBM Research Brazil
A brief overview of Watson Cognitive solutions and an introduction into how they can be incorporated into the oil & gas arena. Dave Haake, Global C&P Solutions Executive, IBM Watson
Watson DevCon 2016: Why Audience Intelligence Requires a Modular AI ApproachIBM Watson
Presentation given by Francesco D'Orazio at Watson DevCon 2016.
Not all data is created equal. Different datasets, industries, audiences, and use cases require different techniques to make sense of the data and help craft insights beyond simple analytics. At Pulsar, we deal with complex and varied social and behavioral datasets that require a very diverse range of data mining techniques—and there’s only so much a single company can do to keep up with the level of specialism needed to make sense of it all.Pulsar has built a modular system for AI solutions. Integrating Watson has been essential in helping to support a wide range of research use cases – from image analysis to topic extraction and emotion analysis. Come explore different Watson-enabled use cases and hear plans for future integrations.
Watson DevCon 2016 - Watson Beat: Making Music CognitiveIBM Watson
Presentation given by Janani Mukundan and Richard Daskas at Watson DevCon 2016.
As AI advances, scientists are pushing the boundaries of computational creativity. IBMers from Research are teaching Watson to compose original music based on human emotion. Using machine learning algorithms, the Researchers are teaching artificial neural networks to understand music theory, structure (pitch, time signature, key signature), and emotional intent to co-create music with a human partner. "Watson Beat" generates new and unique musical song combinations based on the beat played by the individual and the emotional tone the human chooses. Here’s how it works.
Watson DevCon 2016 - Do More with Less Code: Enriched Communications with Twi...IBM Watson
Presentation given by Devarshi Shah at Watson DevCon 2016.
Watson add-ons pre-integrated with Twilio’s APIs allow developers to extract insights from SMS & Voice Calls. This session will discuss the future of composability, why Twilio decided to create a marketplace that opens our developer community to partnerships, and how their focus on the developer experience has built such a loyal following. Devarshi shares upcoming offerings and future plans to grow the marketplace.
Watson DevCon 2016 - The Future of Discovery: Deep Insights with Cognitive APIsIBM Watson
Presentation given by Elliot Turner at Watson DevCon 2016.
Finding actionable insights in the ever-growing volume of public and private data is an increasingly complex challenge. The problem is compounded when much of the available data is unstructured. In this session, you’ll see the current state and a glimpse into the future of Watson’s tools for data insights, and you’ll learn how these services can help you make sense of unstructured data, improve business intelligence, eliminate risk, and take action.
Watson DevCon 2016 - Engage and Be Engaging: Building Compassionate and Perso...IBM Watson
Presentation at Watson DevCon 2016, given by Rama Akkiraju.
Getting to know each other, tailoring our communication style, conversing with each other naturally — humans do this everyday. Now, with the advent of cognitive technologies, computers can, too. Find out how you can create apps that can engage and delight users with APIs that predict personality from writings, analyze linguistic tones from communications, and automate conversations. See firsthand how easy it can be to make digital interactions at massive scale personal and productive.
Watson DevCon 2016 - From Jeopardy! to the FutureIBM Watson
Spotlight talk given by Eric Brown and Rob High at Watson DevCon 2016.
Since the beginning of the computer age, scientists have been working to improve the ways computers understand us, reason through problems, and essentially ‘think’— ideas that represent the heart of artificial intelligence. In 2011, IBM took a giant leap forward with Watson, a cognitive computing technology that could answer Jeopardy! questions with the same level of skill as a human grand champion. Since then, Watson’s capacity to understand, interact, reason, and learn has grown exponentially. Here’s an insider's look at the origin of Watson— and its future.
Get More From Your Messages with Twilio + Watson Add-OnsIBM Watson
In this Building with Watson webinar, learn how the Message Insights and Message Sentiment Add-ons, available from the Twilio marketplace, can streamline your mobile application building process. The natural language processing capabilities tied with the SMS messaging capabilities of Twilio make it easier than ever to understand input from your customers.
Webinar replay: http://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1264584/04021735338B41F7C4B212F898755C42
5 Reasons to Attend the Upcoming Watson Developer ConferenceIBM Watson
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, continuous learning, innovating and networking is essential for keeping up. At the upcoming Watson Developer Conference, discover new content, connect with industry experts and influence the future of this cognitive era, together. Hear from some of our featured external speakers who will share why they're excited for the November 9-10 conference in San Francisco.
Visit the conference website to learn more about the event: http://www.ibm.com/watson/developer-conference/index.html
Application Starter Kits for Developers - Building with WatsonIBM Watson
In this episode of Building with Watson, get a demonstration of two new Application Starter Kits, pre-built sample applications aimed at giving you a headstart on approaching specific business applications of Watson services.
Watch all of the Building with Watson sessions here: https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/building-with-watson-webinar.html
Cognitive Business: Where digital business meets digital intelligenceIBM Watson
Ravesh Lala, Vice President, IBM Watson Solutions provided a high level overview of IBM Watson on Monday August 22, 2016 at the Electronics event in NY. Ravesh shared insights into what Watson is, and how organizations have leveraged the power of Watson to advance their place in the market.
What Does It Mean To Be A Cognitive CompanyIBM Watson
Steve Gold, IBM Watson CPO, shares education and insights on what it means to be a cognitive company. Also learn how you can take steps to lead your company into the cognitive era.
Custom Image Classifier with Visual Recognition: Building with Watson IBM Watson
In this Building with Watson presentation, learn how to train a classifier to identify images relevant to you and your company. View the on-demand version of the demonstration and listen to the Q&A with our Watson Vision engineers. http://www.ibm.com/watson/building-with-watson-webinar.html
Thank you for your interest in the recent NY Outthink breakfast on July 19th at the Rainbow Room. Presentations shared highlighted how cognitive computing is being applied today in a variety of business situations, in many industries, and across multiple business functions. See the presentation by Beth Smith for steps to becoming a cognitive business!
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
🔍 Increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats.
🔍 Escalation of state-sponsored and criminally motivated cyber operations.
🔍 Active dark web exchanges of malicious tools and tactics.
Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
7. Disrupt SF 2015
A.I. = Increasingly Embedded Everywhere
Monitoring your credit card
transactions for fraud…
Recommending products on
retail websites...
Understanding your voice on
your mobile phone…
Analyzing your tax returns…
Reading your handwriting on
personal checks…
Blocking spam in your inbox…
8. Disrupt SF 2015
Using A.I. Cloud APIs - No PhD Required
Speech Recognition Machine Translation
Computer Vision Natural Language
Processing
Question Answering Automated Dialog
Vast array of A.I. technologies, one HTTP call away. Even a Raspberry Pi can use it!
9. Disrupt SF 2015
Watson Developer Cloud
IBM is democratizing “Full Stack A.I.” via the Watson Developer Cloud
10. Disrupt SF 2015
Building an A.I.- enabled Hack
"Is this
poisonous?"
Example app: "Voice + visual
assistant for hikers in any
country"
Intended use case:
Answer verbal and visual
questions about plants
and animals encountered
on a hike
“Es esta
venenosa?"
11. Disrupt SF 2015
Cloud APIs provide speech recognition capability to
any network-enabled device, across many different
spoken languages.
What you can do: respond to spoken commands,
transcribe audio and video files, search audio
streams for specific key phrases ...
Moving beyond the keyboard: Speech Recognition
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Integrating Speech Recognition into your App
● APIs support analyzing audio files or streaming audio data in real-time
● Innovators include IBM Watson, Nuance, Google, and AT&T
● IBM Watson speech API info available at:
○ https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerclou
d/speech-to-text.html
Speech recognition example:
curl -k -u “username:password” -X POST --limit-rate 40K
--header "Content-Type: audio/flac” --header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
--data-binary @audio.flac
“https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-
text/api/v1/recognize?continuous=true”
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{
"results": [
{
"alternatives": [
{
"confidence": 0.8691191673278809,
"transcript": “this is some transcribed speech"
}
Integrating Speech Recognition into your App
curl -k -u “username:password” -X POST --limit-rate 40K
--header "Content-Type: audio/flac” --header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
--data-binary @audio.flac
“https://stream.watsonplatform.net/speech-to-
text/api/v1/recognize?continuous=true”
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Giving machines sight: Computer Vision
Cloud APIs provide the ability to recognize objects
(buildings, cars, ...), logos, and faces contained
within photographs.
What you can do: drive search in your application
with camera-phone images, automatically organize
photo libraries, "visually" index video files, filter
inappropriate content ...
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Integrating Computer Vision into your App
● APIs tag photos with what they contain, recognize faces, read signs
/product labels, and more
● Innovators include IBM Watson, AlchemyAPI, Google, Baidu, and others
● IBM Watson + AlchemyAPI computer vision API info available at:
○ http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/alchemyvision
○ http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/vi
sual-recognition.html
Computer Vision 1-liner:
curl --data-binary @photo.jpg ”http://access.alchemyapi.com/image/
ImageGetRankedImageKeywords?imagePostMode=raw&apikey="$API_K
EY
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Cloud APIs provide automatic translation of text
across many different languages.
What you can do: automatically translate foreign-
language content for your users, real-time
translation of forum posts or chat sessions, search
within foreign language documents ...
Breaking language barriers: Machine Translation
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Integrating Machine Translation into your App
● APIs automatically translate between many different languages.
● Innovators include IBM Watson, Google, and Microsoft
● IBM Watson translation API info available here:
○ https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerclou
d/language-translation/api/v2/
Language Translation example:
curl -u “username:password“ -H "content-type: plain/text“ -X POST -d "text=Hello world.“
"https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/language-
translation/api/v2/translate?source=en&target=es"
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Integrating Machine Translation into your App
"translations": [
{
"translatedText": ”Where is my hotel?"
}
]
“¿Dónde está mi
hotel?"
curl -u “username:password“ -H "content-type: plain/text“ -X POST -d "text=¿Dónde está mi hotel?"
"https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/language-translation/api/v2/translate?source=es&target=en"
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Cloud APIs provide the ability for computers to
derive "meaning" from text (documents, web pages,
tweets, …)
What you can do: tag documents by topic, drive
content recommendation engines, contextually
target advertisements ...
Reading like a Human: Natural Language Processing
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Integrating Natural Language Processing
into your App
● APIs automatically tag documents, extract facts and events, ...
● Innovators include IBM Watson, AlchemyAPI, Google, and others
● IBM Watson + AlchemyAPI language API info available here:
○ https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/
services-catalog.html
○ http://www.alchemyapi.com/
Named entity tagging + sentiment analysis 1-liner:
curl "http://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/text/
TextGetRankedNamedEntities?apikey=$API_KEY&sentiment=1&text=Woohoo
+I+am+coming+to+San+Fran!"
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"language": "english",
"entities": [
{
"type": "City",
"relevance": "0.33",
"sentiment": {
"type": "positive",
"score": "0.325672"
},
"count": "1",
"text": ”San Fran",
"disambiguated": {
"name": ”San Francisco",
"website": "http://www.sfgov.org",
"dbpedia": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/San_Francisco",
"freebase": "http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m.0d61p"
”Woohoo I am coming to San Fran! #TCDisrupt"
Integrating Natural Language Processing into your App
curl "http://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/text/
TextGetRankedNamedEntities?apikey=$API_KEY&sentiment=1&text=Woohoo
+I+am+coming+to+San+Fran!"
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Expert in a box: Question Answering
Cloud APIs provide the ability to answer natural
language questions, such as "Who invented the
Segway?"
What you can do: leverage questions like "was this
company acquired?" to trigger processes in data
pipelines or GUI displays, automatically answer
questions from your own corpus of data ...
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Integrating Question Answering into your App
● APIs automatically answer questions posed in plain language
● Innovators include IBM Watson, AlchemyAPI, Google, and others
● IBM Watson question answering API info available here:
○ https://www.ibmdw.net/watson/docs/
IBM Watson Example API Call JSON:
{
"question":{
"questionText":"His 1983 hit "Beat it" featured Eddie Van Halen on guitar."
}
}
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Integrating Question Answering into your App
"answers": [
{
"id": 0,
"text": "Michael Jackson",
"confidence": 0.42276
}
{
"question":{
"questionText":"His 1983 hit "Beat it" featured Eddie Van Halen on guitar."
}
}
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Putting it all together: Sample A.I. App Workflow
Use Watson Speech API to accept speech input
Use Watson Translation API to convert to English
“Es esta venenosa?"
"Is this poisonous?"
Take a picture of the item the question is about
Use AlchemyVision API to interpret the photograph
"fly agaric"
Use Watson Q&A API to answer the question
Is this poisonous + fly
agaric
Example app: "Voice + visual assistant for international hikers"
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Getting Started: Watson + Alchemy Resources
Sign up for Bluemix (Get API keys!)
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/registration/
GitHub (Sample code!)
Watson: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud
AlchemyAPI: https://github.com/AlchemyAPI
App Gallery (Get inspired!)
http://devpost.com/software/built-with/ibm-watson
Ask for help! Just look for someone wearing a Watson shirt.
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Hackathons: Where great ideas are born!
• I’ve been sponsoring and judging hackathons for the past 5
years
• Seen multiple teams raise funding, build companies, have
successful exits
• We hold internal hackathons monthly and frequently see
innovations pushed into production
• If your startup isn’t doing internal hackathons yet – get going!
They’re *awesome*
Let’s go build something amazing. Change the world. Use A.I. to make it happen!
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Thanks for listening! Questions ?
Elliot Turner
Director of Alchemy, IBM Watson
CEO & Founder, AlchemyAPI
eturner@us.ibm.com