Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES and IBM will be hosting a STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – Forum on Tuesday for school administrators, teachers and business leaders. The goal is to create partnerships among schools, businesses, research centers, universities and others to promote careers in science and technology…. Read More →
Good Thursday morning. Here’s a look at today’s opinion pieces: IBM’s Watson: Editorial We comment on news that Watson, IBM’s supercomputer in Yorktown Heights, will be used by WellPoint, Inc., the health-insurance giant, to diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments. We write: Watson no doubt will make medicine smarter and… Read More →
IBM Fellow and Vice President of Innovation, Bernie Meyerson, peers at some of the thousands of patents issued to IBMers during the past year for a wide range inventions that have the potential to improve and transform the way we work and live. One hundred years ago — on July… Read More →
Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-Mount Kisco, inserted the following statement into the Congressional Record honoring IBM’s 100th Anniversary, which is today: “Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the largest employer in New York’s 19th Congressional District, IBM, on their 100th anniversary of their founding. IBM employees, retirees, partners, and clients… Read More →
Hudson River HealthCare will partner with IBM and its employees tomorrow for IBM’s “Celebration of Service” day. The event will take place at 9:30 a.m. at HRHCare’s Peekskill headquarters and will include the unveiling of a mural created by AmeriCorps members at 55 Bank St. Then from 1:30 p.m. to… Read More →
An IBM analysis of social media suggests fewer Americans expect to cancel their Memorial Day weekend travels this year compared to a year ago. That’s in spite of the spike in gas prices over the last six months. IBM researcher applied analytics software to scan thousands of publicly-available social media… Read More →
“This is a global economy, and you’re going to be in competition with people from all over the world,” IBM engineer Bruno Bagala told students from the Business Information Technology Academy at The Tech Center during his annual visit to the campus this week. He brought two colleagues from IBM… Read More →
The Eastern New York Intellectual Property Law Association has awarded the 2011 Inventor(s) of the Year Award to International Business Machines (IBM) scientists Drs. Alfred Grill and Stephen M. Gates, and the honorable Vishnubhai V. Patel. The award is in recognition of the three inventors’ work that led to the… Read More →
Scientists and engineers from IBM will visit Anne M. Dorner Middle School in Ossining tomorrow, offering workshops throughout the day for seventh and eighth graders. Read below for more information from the Ossining school district on the event: Puff Mobiles and Paper Bridges will be created by students at Anne… Read More →
By JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press It’s the size of 10 refrigerators, and it swallows encyclopedias whole, but an IBM computer was lacking one thing it needed to battle the greatest champions from the “Jeopardy!” quiz show. It couldn’t hit a buzzer. But that’s been fixed, and today the hardware and… Read More →