This Month's Most Read

This Year's Most Read

Top Stories
Thursday, 21 March 2013

Related

View Video
2075 Views
Rated 2
Guest
View Video
10209 Views
Rated 2
Guest
View Video
8848 Views
Rated 2
root
IBM has announced plans to establish a new analytics center, dedicated to advancing research, development and skills training in the areas of analytics, big data and cognitive computing. The center could create 500 jobs in Columbus, Ohio over the next three years. The IBM Client Center for Advanced Analytics will seek public and private sector collaboration, including partnerships with The Ohio State University, JobsOhio, Columbus 2020 and other Columbus-based businesses, officials say. As part of the initiative, IBM will add as many as 500 new analytics consultants and research and development professionals to the center over three years, focused on initiatives such as creating new markets for Watson commercialization. IBM will also partner with Ohio State to develop job-ready graduates…
IBM has announced plans to establish a new analytics center, dedicated to advancing research, development and skills training in the areas of analytics, big data and cognitive computing. The center could create 500 jobs in Columbus, Ohio over the next three years. The IBM Client Center for Advanced Analytics will seek public and private sector collaboration, including partnerships with The Ohio State University, JobsOhio, Columbus 2020 and other Columbus-based businesses, officials say. As part of the initiative, IBM will add as many as 500 new analytics consultants and research and development professionals to the center over three years, focused on initiatives such as creating new markets for Watson commercialization. IBM will also partner with Ohio State to develop job-ready graduates…
DNA Behavior International announced the launch of Communication DNA on salesforce.com’s AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. Communication DNA is a customer engagement app that uses personality discovery to segment customers and match them to employees and solutions offered, enabling the real-time customization of marketing, sales and client service activities. By integrating into Salesforce, Communication DNA allows for validated behavioral intelligence to be operationalized at the fingertips of business leaders, sales teams, advisors, customer service and operations teams to deepen engagement in every human interaction and improve business performance. Built on the Salesforce Platform, the world’s leading cloud platform for social and mobile business apps, Communication DNA is now available for test…
The increasing role of computers in Wall Street trading has gathered wide attention, including a September hearing before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment. At that hearing, testimony cited a study — referring to it as “ground-breaking” — that a team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported as “the first paper to explore the impact of high-frequency trading in a nanosecond environment.” For this study, Mao Ye, assistant professor of finance, and Illinois colleagues Chen Yao and Jiading Gai used supercomputing systems through the National Science Foundation’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) program. Launched in July 2011, the program supports research by U.S. scientists and engineers in a diverse range of fields, and…
One of technology’s most pervasive buzzwords echoed in the ears of attendees at this year’s one-day HPC on Wall Street conference in New York City, as panel after panel addressed the challenges and opportunities that big data presents. From the opening remarks regarding Wall Street’s traditional concern of low latency, delivered by Cisco CTO Paul Perez, to the multiple open-ended discussions that took place in concurrent panels, the “big data” problem was a much-discussed topic. For this industry, however, the concerns around what the overall technology ecosystem is touting as big data are quite different. The exploding volume of data that other industries are dealing with is compounded in the financial space by regulations mandating massive, long-term storage. But the…

Next Event

JavaScript either reported a fatal error or is not running.