A local police department in Minnesota will use analytics software from IBM to assist in police prevention and investigative programs, IBM announced Wednesday. The Rochester Police Department will use incident patterns produced by the software to forecast crime hot spots and allocate resources. IBM’s InfoSphere Identity Insight software is used to determine the identity of a person [...]
IBM announced today it will contribute a massive chemical database to the National Institutes of Health for use in worldwide cancer and drug discovery research. According to IBM, the database includes more than 2.4 million chemical compounds extracted from around 4.7 million patents. The company also said it contains 11 million biomedical journal abstracts from 1976 to [...]
Five hopeful companies have made the IBM SmartCamp in Brazil finalist list after preliminary selections across eight Brazilian cities based on technology solutions they’ve developed to address issues such as food safety, traffic and healthcare.The winner will be announced on Nov. 11 in Rio de Janeiro. Camp attendees, including start-ups and senior government and business leaders from progressive [...]
IBM will provide the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with professional, administrative and management support services, according to a Washington Post report. The Post reports that the company will complete the work on a $5.5 million contract. It provided no other details.
IBM recently reported that it will be distributing its first solar-power array. It is designed specifically to run high-voltage data centers by integrating AC-and DC-based servers, water-cooled computing systems and additional related electronics. The array covers more than 6,000 square-feet of rooftop over IBM’s India Software Lab in Bangalore and is capable of generating [...]
IBM has opened a new branch office in Indore, Madhya Pradesh in central India as part of the company’s initiative to increase its presence in key growth markets. IBM now has 15 branches in the country and plans to establish footing in more than 40 Indian cities by 2013. This branch will strengthen IBM’s ability to deliver [...]
IBM and the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland are developing groundbreaking research to lessen the environmental effect of converting wave energy into electricity. This project is one of the first in-depth studies on how to utilize the ocean as a new renewable energy resource as well as determining potentially harmful wave energy devices. “Underwater noise is a [...]
