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Living in a smarter planet oded cohn, ibm
The document discusses how everything is becoming instrumented, interconnected and intelligent as the world becomes a "Smarter Planet". It provides examples of how this is impacting various areas like manufacturing, supply chains, transportation, healthcare and more. Challenges are widespread but opportunities are broad. Analytics and new technologies will transform many domains and help address global issues around resources, healthcare and more to make our planet smarter.
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- 1. Oded Cohn Director, IBM Research ‐ Haifa Living in a Smarter Planet © 2011 IBM Corporation
- 2. In a Smarter Planet everything is becoming INSTRUMENTED INTERCONNECTED INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING IT CUSTOMERS WORKFORCE SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES INTERNET OF THINGS © 2011 IBM Corporation 2
- 3. Challenges are everywhere; opportunities are broad © 2011 IBM Corporation 3
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- 5. In the U.S., a typical carrot has traveled 1,600 miles, a potato 1,200 miles, a chuck roast 600 miles… … grocers and consumers throw away $48 billion worth of food every year with the cost of 1 grain of rice one can buy more than 100 transistors IBM and Matiq are developing a smarter food tracking solution, the first‐of‐its‐kind in the Nordics … … it uses RFID technology to track and trace meat and poultry from the farm, through the supply chain, to supermarket shelves © 2011 IBM Corporation 5
- 6. Smarter water management Leakage detection at the network level using analytics The average water loss level is 20% in EU countries London loses nearly 50% of its water due to leakage in aging pipelines Water loss reduction using dynamic pressure control Optimal valve placement for effective pressure management Link with asset management to enable rapid repairs and maintenance planning 6 © 2011 IBM Corporation 6
- 7. Analytics will affect personalized evidence based medicine Predicting Breast Cancer • Chemotherapy or hormonal therapy reduces the risk of distant metastases by approximately one‐third (30%) • Currently – treatment is been Will my disease recur? Do I need adjuvant treatment? given to about 80% of the patients • As a results – about 60% of the patients are been given unneeded treatment Our goal: Systemic adjuvant treatment for breast cancer patients © 2011 IBM Corporation 7
- 8. Growth markets deserve adequate technologies Spoken Web ‐ a parallel web for the masses Traditional web Post Web Search query Text Pages Web pages Spoken web Expert/ Farmer Hyperlinked Voice Sites Business info “Improved Post VOICE average Information yield output after Questions using pesticides I got to know from this Answers service” © 2011 IBM Corporation 8
- 9. Changing the way the world works Human assisted computing: via mobile phones Creek Watch – an iPhone app that helps report on creeks conditions (more in 5 x 5) “mobile sourcing” ‐ use spare cycles of cell‐phone users to do some useful work – Real time translation – Reading signs for the blind – Assist in books digitization – Your original ideas here ☺ © 2011 IBM Corporation 9
- 10. Want to play chess or just chat? • Chess (DeepBlue – Kasparov, 1997) –A finite, mathematically well‐defined search space –Limited number of moves and states • Human Language –Words gain meaning when grounded in human cognition –Computers can not bind words to human experience to derive meaning © 2011 IBM Corporation 10
- 11. IBM Research Hard Questions? Computer programs are natively explicit, fast and exactingin their calculation over numbers and symbols….But Natural Language is implicit, highly contextual, ambiguous and often imprecise. Structured Unstructured Where was X born? – One day, from among his city views of Ulm, Otto chose a water color to send to Albert Einstein as a remembrance of Einstein´s birthplace. X ran this? – If leadership is an art then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master painter during his tenure at GE. © 2011 IBM Corporation 11
- 12. The Jeopardy! challenge Automatic question answering along 5 key dimensions Broad/Open $200 Domain If you're standing, it's the direction you should look to check out the Complex wainscoting. Language High Precision $2000 Accurate Of the 4 countries in the Confidence world that the U.S. does not have diplomatic relations with, the one High that’s farthest north Speed © 2011 IBM Corporation 12
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- 14. Potential business applications Tech Support Healthcare and life sciences Enterprise knowledge management and business intelligence Government © 2011 IBM Corporation 14
- 15. Next Five in Five Innovations that will change the way people work, live and play over the next five years: • You'll beam up your friends in 3‐D • Batteries will breathe air to power our devices • You won’t need to be a scientist to save the planet • Your commute will be personalized • Computers will help energize your city http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anKiEoxkpxM © 2011 IBM Corporation 15