May 24, 2012
"After this technology becomes mainstream in health care, other realms await in the augmentation of sensory, motor, and cognitive capabilities in healthy subjects—a fascinating possibility for sure, but one that promises to unleash a big ethical debate. The world where we’re able to do a Google search or drive a car just by thinking will be a very different place."

— Quote found in an IEEE Spectrum article written by Jose M. Carmena, associate professor of electrical engineering, cognitive science, and neuroscience at the University of California.  The article is titled  “How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind”

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Filed under: bmi bci brain-computer-interface IEEE brain machine computer 
May 23, 2012
"Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity. The study participants — known as Cathy and Bob — had had strokes that damaged their brain stems and left them with tetraplegia and unable to speak. Neurosurgeons implanted tiny recording devices containing almost 100 hair-thin electrodes in the motor cortex of their brains, to record the neuronal signals associated with intention to move. In a trial filmed in April last year and presented with the paper, Cathy, who had her stroke 15 years ago and received the implants in 2005, used her thoughts to steer a robot arm to grasp a bottle of coffee and lift it to her lips. She drank and smiled"

— Quote found in an online article found on nature.com titled “Mind-controlled robot arms show promise”

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Filed under: bci brain-computer-interface nature sensors brain 
May 23, 2012
"Imagine transmitting signals directly to someone’s brain that would allow them to see, hear or feel specific sensory inputs. Consider the potential to manipulate computers or machinery with nothing more than a thought. It isn’t about convenience — for severely disabled people, development of a brain-computer interface (BCI) could be the most important technological breakthrough in decades."

— Quote sourced from an online article at HowStuffWorks titled  “How Brain-Computer Interfaces Work”

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Filed under: BCI brain computer brain-computer-interface 
May 23, 2012
"Innovating together with your partners is a win-win for both. At Shell, we not only deal with energy, we also need to focus on challenges such as water and food as they’re all interlinked. That’s why driving innovation together, also across industries, is extremely important."

— Quote by Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Dutch Shell.  Quote found in an IBM press release titled “IBM CEO Study: Command & Control Meets Collaboration

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Filed under: shell ibm innovation ceo ceostudy ceo-study collaboration 
May 21, 2012
"If you take the current global daily Internet traffic and multiply it by two**, you are in the range of the data set that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be collecting every day. This is Big Data Analytics to the extreme. With DOME we will embark on one of the most dataintensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research"

— Quote by Ton Engbersen, IBM Research - Zurich.   Quote found in an IBM press release “From Big Bang to Big Data: ASTRON and IBM Collaborate to Explore Origins of the Universe”

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Filed under: exascale big-data analytics ASTRON IBM DOME 
May 16, 2012
"I think we will never reach zettaflops, at least not by doing discrete floating point operations. We are reaching the anvil of the technology S-curve and will be approaching an asymptote of single program performance due to a combination of factors including atomic granularity at nanoscale."

— Quote by Dr. Thomas Sterling is a Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, a Faculty Associate at California Institute of Technology, a CSRI Fellow for Sandia National Laboraties, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.   Quote found at HPCwire: Thomas Sterling: ‘I Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops’

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Filed under: hpcwire exascale hpc petaflops 
May 7, 2012
"2012 State of Cloud Computing Survey shows adoption of public cloud on a consistent upward pace; just 27% of 511 respondents from companies with 50 or more employees aren’t in the market for these services."

— Quote from an Information Week article “2012 Strategic Security Survey: Pick The Right Battles”

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Filed under: Cloud Computing cloud survey 
May 3, 2012
"The energy requirements for electric vehicles will challenge the current power grid as plug-in vehicle counts continue to grow to an expected 2.9 million worldwide by 2017. This project has the potential to ease the infrastructure and consumer concerns associated with the mass adoption of EVs, by adding another layer of agility to the EV charging process. This level of intelligence will help make charging seamless for consumers, while ensuring the electricity source is reliable and the infrastructure is stable."

— Quote found in a Pacific Gas and Electric Company press release about a new pilot project that allows Utilities to communicate charging instructions directly to EVs based on Power Grid conditions.  The press release is titled “IBM, Honda, and PG&E Enable Smarter Charging for Electric Vehicles”

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Filed under: smart-grid energy sustainability electricity charging EV Electric-Vehicles HOnda IBM PG&E 
May 1, 2012
"In an IBM survey of more than 700 CIOs, three quarters said they are embracing a mobile strategy because a flexible workplace delivers a 20 percent improvement in employee productivity. The CIOs said they are significantly reducing the cost of doing business by decreasing dependence on email, improving social collaboration and adopting cloud technologies to reach mobile workers."

— Quote found in an IBM press release:  IBM Introduces New Foundation for Mobile Computing

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Filed under: mobile ibm cio 
April 23, 2012
"In the past, people have said, maybe it’s 50 years away, it’s (Quantum Computing) a dream, maybe it’ll happen sometime. I used to think it was 50. Now I’m thinking like it’s 15 or a little more. It’s within reach. It’s within our lifetime. It’s going to happen."

— Quote by Mark B. Ketchen, Manager, Physics of Information, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York on the topic of Quantum Computing.  Quote found in an online New York Times article titled  “I.B.M. Inch Closer on Quantum Computer”

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Filed under: Quantum Computing Quantum-Computing Quantum IBM Trends Emerging Technology 
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