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HOW hard can it be, as the joke goes, to speak Chinese? (Six-year-olds do it all the time.) Yes, it turns out that learning languages is one of those skills that humans, even relatively young ones, master seemingly magically.
Tags: I.B.M., fluent project, social networking, Cambridge, Dow Jones Industrial Average, IBM, Crowdsourcing, Social software, Labor, Social information processing, Collaboration, Online social networking, Technology Internet
Calif. — In an era when PCs perform like supercomputers, and supercomputers carry out inhuman feats of calculation, some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley say there are still crucial ways in which a computer can't match the problem-solving abilities...
Tags: Dharmendra Modha, human brains, IBM, cognitive computers, San Jose, Organs, Human brain, ACT-R, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Computer simulation, Central nervous system, Brain, Neuroanatomy, Technology Internet, Health Medical Pharma
SAS Institute , the world’s largest private software company, among the best places to work...There are the four company doctors and the dozen nurses who provide free primary care. The recreational amenities include basketball and racquetball courts,...
Tags: SAS Institute, Mr. Goodnight, New York, Special Air Service, IBM, 4GL, Business intelligence, SAS System, Technology Internet, Business Finance
For John Tolva, IBM's Chicago-based director of citizenship and technology, the value of his four-week assignment to Ghana last year really hit him during a game of Scrabble by candlelight. He and teammates from India, Germany, Brazil, and other countries...
Tags: IBM, John Tolva, Deere, Raj Kalathur, developmental assignment, Jeff Immelt, China, Beijing, Moline Illinois, General Electric, Jack Welch, Colgate-Palmolive, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Rockefeller Center, Deere & Company, Business Finance
When Steve Jobs announced that Apple has sold 30 million iPhones worldwide, Madison Avenue’s ears must have been ringing. Just as Apple’s game-changing phone upended the way we use mobile — giving us powerful pocket computers for emailing, Web surfing,...
Tags: IBM, Eric Bader, web sites, smart phones, app store, cell phones, Nestlé, mobile phones, iphone app, OgilvyOne Worldwide, France, Paris, Smartphones, Business software, Apple Inc., ITunes Store, IPhone, ITunes, Multi-touch, Technology Internet
Leo Mendoza is a typical IBM sales rep. Based in Chicago, he starts his day with a 5:45 a.m. swim at a local health club, then usually hits the road by 7:15 to see clients in Milwaukee or Racine...Maybe once a month, maybe less. "Going mobile like this...
Tags: IBM Clubs, Leo Mendoza, Chicago, Dow Jones Industrial Average, IBM, Telecommuting, Labor
The silicon chip requires a tiny drop of blood to test for various diseases, including cardiovascular disease. A tiny drop of serum or blood is drawn through the fast, portable chip and analyzed for the presence of disease markers. Sets of micron wide...
Tags: IBM Research, Switzerland, Zurich, Bioinformatics, Molecular biology, Proteomics, Integrated circuit, IBM, Technology Internet, Microarrays, Biotechnology, Biochip, Health Medical Pharma
Most large companies love to talk about developing strong leaders. But when it comes down to it, many of them don't know how to turn their words into action. So Fortune teamed with human resources consultants Hewitt Associates and the RBL Group to find...
Tags: Atlanta, Hewitt Associates, Fortune, General Electric, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Procter & Gamble, IBM
The study is based on a global survey of more than 2,500 CIOs including 100 from India. "Indian CIOs are more focused than their counterparts anywhere in the world," said IBM India-South Asia's chief technologist Guruduth Banavar. According to the study,...
But local HR managers have turned the debate on its head: they now prod employees to carry their office home. A raft of technology firms such as Hewlett-Packard, Nokia Siemens Networks, Dell, Cisco and IBM reckon that letting employees work from home...
Tags: IBM India & South, HP India, Dell India, Cisco, Nokia Siemens Networks, outside office, India, New Delhi, Dell, IBM India, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Telecommuting, Technology Internet, Siemens, Nokia, Cisco Systems, Labor