The Hartree Centre is a UK collaborative research facility established in 2012, focused on high-performance computing and cognitive data science, aiming to enhance industrial competitiveness through innovation. It seeks to apply cognitive computing techniques that adapt, learn, and interact with users for improved decision-making and problem-solving. The centre leverages IBM's research capabilities and offers platforms like IBM Watson to enable organizations to harness big data and drive insights across various industries.

1. The Hartree Centre
The UK Centre for Collaborative
Research & Development
Dr Adrian Toland
12/5/2016 GM AHSN Design Group

2. Industrial gateway to
cognitive and data centric
computing
12/5/2016 GM AHSN Design Group

3. 2015 Major Investment in Collaborative
Research
• Data Centric & Cognitive Computing
• Embedded IBM Research Centre
• Extended industrial & scientific reach
The Hartree Centre
Establishment
2012 Creation of Hartree Centre as
industrial driver in HPC
• Investment from BIS
• Economic impact through
Software & Modelling
• Focus on industrial engagement

4. Industry
Public Sector
Academia Government
Science
What is the Hartree Centre?
Joint Centre for Collaborative R&D in the UK
Research
Innovation
Development
Deployment
IBM Research Division
IBM UK
Research
STFC Daresbury
Laboratory

5. Lenovo / Arm development system
• Expand use of Data Centric technologies across the UK
• Research into Cognitive techniques for use in industry and government
• Develop and deploy solutions with clients and partners
• Exploit embedded IBM Research Centre to benefit UK science
Our vision:
through our capabilities, know - how and talent, we want to be
the 'essential' and 'go to' partner for “UK PLC” R&D activities in
Data and Cognitive Science, by adding significant competitive
advantage.
The Hartree Centre Mission
Better products & services
delivered faster & cheaper
Deployment
Development and
prototyping
Research & innovation
through collaboration

6. What is cognitive computing?

7. • Makes new problems
computable
• Humans are gifted with
intuition but have difficulty
handling huge numbers of
possibilities
• Cognitive computing is a tool
for generating ideas and
learning from outcomes
Adaptive: Learn as information
changes, and as goals and
requirements evolve. Resolve
ambiguity and tolerate unpredictability
Interactive: Interact with users to
define needs. Interact with
measurement/experiment/data
uncertainty
Iterative: Aid in defining a problem by
asking questions or finding additional
sources
Third phase of the IT revolution after
mechanical calculators and
programmable systems

8. A cognitive business has systems that can
enhance digital intelligence exponentially.
REASON
They can reason, grasp
underlying concepts,
form hypotheses, and
infer and extract ideas.
UNDERSTAND
Cognitive systems
understand imagery,
language and other
unstructured data
like humans do.
LEARN
With each data point,
interaction and outcome,
they develop and
sharpen expertise, so
they never stop learning.
INTERACT
With abilities to see,
talk and hear, cognitive
systems interact with
humans in a natural way.

9. System
Intelligence
1900 2011
Tabulation
Cognitive
Punch cards
Time card readers
1950
Programmatic
Search
Deterministic
Enterprise data
Machine language
Simple outputs
Discovery
Probabilistic
Big Data
Natural language
Intelligent options
IBM Watson represents a bold step into the
new era of computing

10. Traditional Analytical methods of computing and data capture fail to keep pace with the
explosion of Big Data. We do not have the required time or resources to utilize unstructured data
and make it consumption-ready…
…therefore, we need a new and different approach to better detect and interpret the vast amounts
of unstructured data present in business environments today
Why cognitive computing now?

11. 2020
Percentage of
unstructured data
40 zettabytes
We are here
Today data is reshaping technology, business, and society
When will it impact society?

12. How you invoke insights from all data will determine your
digital intelligence.
Structured and active Unstructured and dark
Data that’s comingData outside your firewallData you possess ++

13. Exploration
Visually depict and
analyze data for
clear advice
Decision
Help users make
more informed
evidence-based
decisions
Discovery
Help people create
new insights by
synthesizing
information
Engagement
Helps organizations
build stronger
relationships with
constituents
Watson allows organisations to unlock capabilities in various domains to give
them a competitive advantage in the industry
Value Proposition

14. Thank You.

15. IBM Watson / Bluemix
A Platform For Cognitive Computing

16. Watson APIs / Bluemix
• IBM Watson famously won the Jeopardy Q&A game show
in 2011 winning $1million prize money
• Clafifcation:
– The Watson APIs are not a way to access/use a single mega-
computer called Watson.
– Over 100 different techniques were used behind the game-
winning Watson.
• The tech behind Watson was split into a set of reusable
APIs that developers can use to perform different
cognitive tasks (a developer toolbox).
• These cognitive tasks are those that humans are good at,
but which are extremely challenging to do with
computers.

17. Sample cognitive tasks:
– Image recognition
– Understanding natural language text
– Understand tone/sentiment behind text
– Extract intents, entities, keywords, relationships between
entities
– Build dialog/conversation based on above (chat-bots)
– ….more….
• Some services need to be trained for your domain.
• Training can be performed by non-developers (no coding).
• Training is iterative, refine and improve.
• Integrating the Watson services into an app/product
requires coding.

18. Language
Speech
Vision
Watson
Service
Portfolio