| Demonstration |
Description |
| Advanced Email Threading |
In the information age, it has become increasingly
difficult for people to cope with email overload. The Collaborative
User Experience (CUE) research group has taken a multifaceted
approach to understanding and designing solutions to the problem.
The concept shows new and innovative uses of threads, collections
of messages, sources of information, and visualization techniques
to help users handle their email more efficiently. Since
email-related activities also involve collaboration, a set of
additional research technologies (e.g., loops, e-cards) have
been incorporated to offer such functionality. |
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| alphaWorks |
A rich collection of free advanced IBM software
from the research and development labs. |
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| ASME—Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper
Engine |
IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME)
provides an interactive 3-D model of the human body that displays
health information at a glance. Created at IBM's famed Zurich
Research Lab, the technology uses an avatar—a 3-D representation
of the human body—to allow doctors to visualize patient
medical records in an entirely new way. Called the Anatomic and
Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME), this innovative visualization
method allows a doctor to click with the computer mouse on a
particular part of the avatar "body" to trigger a search
of medical records to retrieve relevant information. |
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| Asset Tracking, Location Awareness and Safety
(ATLAS) |
Asset tracking in complex and hazardous environments
leverages sensor input such as RFID to enable an enterprise
to locate staff in an emergency, improve rescue team response
time and safety, limit times in hazardous environments such as
in confined spaces or where Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
(SCBA) are used, and comply with safety regulations and provide
auditable data. The solution can ensure that people have proper
training and certifications to enter hazardous areas, push location-based
safety and maintenance information to people, track other categories
of assets (equipment, high value resources), and assist in cost
reduction during maintenance. |
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| Athena |
Mobile Learning for Retail (ExtremeBlue
Project): A solution focused on two concepts—training
and sales—that makes learning part of the sales process
by delivering product information to employees through pervasive
devices. Each retail sales employee carries a wireless handheld
device to scan item bar codes to learn more about a particular
product or take a training module on it. |
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BedSide
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A wireless companion for medical personnel to
facilitate access to patient data in the hospital room: patient
history, lab results, assistance for prescriptions, allergy warnings,
and electronic transmission of prescriptions can be shown. |
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| BillyScope |
The BillyScope application is a stand-alone, Java-based,
real-time demo of BillyGoat, the IBM worm detector. BillyScope
receives events from the BillyGoat detection system when worm
attacks take place on the network. The generated events contain
detailed information (IP address, time, etc.) about each attack.
With the help of a database, BillyScope finds the physical location
of the attackers based on their IP addresses. The physical locations
are then displayed on a map of the world to allow visual
tracking of attacks over time. |
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| BlueEyes—The Smiling Robot |
A smiling robot that detects your eyes and tracks
your gaze. |
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| BlueSpace |
An "office of the future" prototype
characterized by the integration of the physical workspace with
the digital world through advanced communication and display
technologies, and sophisticated human-machine interaction techniques.
The goal is the development of new work environments and office
paradigms that lead to improved comfort, better personalization,
and higher productivity, resulting in greater office worker satisfaction
and effectiveness. |
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| BusinessFinder |
A middleware solution that exploits the presence,
availability and current location of mobile business entities,
and enables subscription-based "BusinessFinder" services.
Business entities subscribe with the Service Provider (SP) to
register their individual portfolios. The middleware solution
manages dynamic subscription and unsubscription of businesses,
leverages location databases of existing SPs to track the business
entities, and uses vicinity-based search techniques to provide
consumers with the requested business. Such a solution can enable
a value-added service for mobile service providers and lead to
an "On Demand" business in a mobile marketplace. |
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| CarPC
- SmartBox |
This demo showcases a telematics solution based
on the IBM TCET platform, which was developed for clients in
the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to enable various applications
such as speed control, emergency calls with localization, and
wireless connectivity of mobile devices. |
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| CDL
Paron PDA |
A wireless PDA with fingerprint reader for secure
mobile transactions. |
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| CELM—Customer Equity and
Loyalty Management |
Mathematical modeling and optimization algorithms
are applied to data collected by an airline to predict the eventual
value represented by a customer and to forecast a
frequent flier's potential travel decisions. This results in
higher customer satisfaction and reduced marketing costs while
increasing marketing response rates. CELM was one of the innovation
highlights in the IBM Annual Report. |
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| Customer Prospect Optimization (CPO) |
A marketing and sales solution to obtain new
business for insurance agents. Data mining and Web technologies
deliver optimized prospect lists. |
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| Deep Computing
in Materials Science and Biochemistry |
Computer simulations of basic atomic properties
provide new insight into materials science and allow the design
of new materials. |
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| Deep Computing: Protein Bonding |
A life sciences research project with applications
in the pharmaceutical industry (video simulation). |
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| Deep Computing: Vortices simulation |
During aircraft takeoff, trailing vortices cause
delays of several minutes between consecutive starts and therefore
create waiting queues during peak traffic hours. Using a BlueGene
supercomputer, ZRL researchers can accurately simulate and gain
new insights into the formation and dissipation of these vortices.
This leads to improved aircraft design and shorter lead times
at airports. |
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| Deep Reasoning Dialog System |
A demonstration of the Semantic Engine developed
in IBM Research, which shows how the technology functions "behind
the scenes"
based on a mortgage application scenario. This
technology is being piloted in the call center of a major international
bank and in a Web-based application in IBM. The Semantic Engine
provides model-driven advice based on a customer's historical
profile and information provided by the customer throughout the
course of an interactive session. The underlying model represents
expert knowledge in such a way that it can be used to drive complex
customer dialogs. |
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| DIOS (Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution) |
This technology demonstrates IBM's capabilities
in the area of spare parts management. It is an integrated solution
based on SAP and includes a research component called DIOS (Dynamic
Inventory Optimization Solution), a highly sophisticated tool
that helps companies conduct a detailed analysis of their inventory
levels and stock requirements in order to achieve optimal warehouse
operation in terms of both minimized costs and improved service
levels (avoiding out-of-stock conditions). DIOS's key
differentiator is its unique embedded analytics engine to calculate
optimal safety stock quantities for a wide range of demand patterns. |
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| Display Technology |
The highest-resolution, flat-panel computer monitor,
enabling photograph-quality imaging for business-critical tasks:
the IBM high-definition, thin-film transistor color displays
with 9 million pixels. |
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| e-Mail Categorization |
This solution uses a compact tailored expert system
to analyze and categorize incoming e-mail at a customer's in-mail
system. |
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| e-seminar |
Automated ingest, search and integrated replay
of talks, including streaming video synchronized with slide
show presentations. |
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| Eternal Egypt |
Eternal Egypt is a multi-year partnership between
IBM and the Egyptian Ministries of Culture and IT/Communications
to present more than 5,000 years of cultural heritage to a global
audience. Teams from IBM and the Egyptian government digitized
thousands of cultural artifacts and created a special story-based
content management system for the multilingual delivery of information
to a richly interactive website, to a PDA-based "Digital
Guide" in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and to cellular
phones and devices. |
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| Fraud and Abuse
Management System (FAMS) |
FAMS is a risk management solution that uses
advanced mathematical algorithms to process massive amounts of
claims data. It is intended to identify providers of healthcare
services who may be submitting fraudulent, abusive or wasteful
health insurance claims. FAMS supports the various aspects of
fraud investigation and management including prevention, investigation,
detection and settlement. Using a range of sophisticated data
mining and business intelligence tools, it identifies suspicious
claims and reveals irregular behavior from previous claims. FAMS
uses data such as number of claims for a provider, range of charges,
procedures, visits per given time periods, and other parameters
that can indicate undesirable behavior. It sorts through tens
of thousands of providers and tens of millions of claims in minutes,
and ranks providers by degrees of potentially abusive behavior.
Predictive analytics capabilities locate fraud claims before
they are paid, therefore helping investigators and auditors identify
providers who are possibly submitting fraudulent or abusive healthcare
claims. |
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| Glass
Engine |
A navigation tool for the music of classical composer
Philips Glass. The engine affords a personalized view of hundreds
of music tracks through a highly flexible taxonomy that quickly
adapts to the user's expectations. Users are encouraged to explore
and express affinities with the music along ten objective and
subjective dimensions, such as date, length, title, as well as
intensity and joy. The tool is useful for browsing many complex
information spaces, particularly those involving such media as
images, video, or sound. |
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| Home Page Reader |
The HOPE travel system provides
a telephony speech interface to Web content. The system invokes
a conversational biometrics session in order to verify the
caller. Subsequently, upon verification of the user, it accesses
travel Web content using the HOPE server, allowing the user
to navigate through travel reservation data. The information
includes flights, hotel, rental car information as well as
a live weather forecast for the designated trip destinations. |
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| HOPE |
A spoken interface to the Internet for
blind or visually impaired computer
users. It provides Web access by efficiently
reading Web page information aloud in a logical, clear, and understandable
manner. |
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| idemix |
First practical and provably secure system implementing
anonymous credentials with very strong privacy properties. IDEMIX
supports certificate revocation, attribute certificates, anonymity
revocation in case of misuse, and prevention of certificate lending.
It demonstrates a privacy technology where business can
be performed at various levels of anonymity, for example when
renting a car. IDEMIX was also a research project by the European
Community, in which the Zurich Research Lab participated. |
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| Insurance Service Hub |
The IBM Insurance Service Hub is a service offering
for insurance companies. It is a collaboration platform for all
parties involved in claims processing. This platform enhances
the cooperation of the parties involved in automotive claims
settlement. It enables and supports the structured exchange of
data among automobile repair workshops, expert organizations,
and insurance companies. Furthermore, this solution provides
insurance companies the capability of validating documents such
as damage estimates and invoices and receiving technical advice
at the level of detailed individual positions. This transparency
allows the direct exchange of statements and data between
workshops and insurance companies, and therefore, accelerates
claim settlements. |
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| Integrated Digital Medical Records (IDMR) |
A hospital-wide integrated picture archive and
communication system for patient folders—filmless and paperless. |
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| Intelligent Device Discovery (IDD) |
An asset discovery and inventory tool for hardware
and software in a heterogeneous, unknown systems and networking
enterprise environment.
IDD is a network-based IT asset discovery and categorization
tool. It combines various discovery and scanning programs with
enhanced data collection, data integration, and distributed automation
into a single best-of-breed application built upon the IBM WebSphere
Application Server e-business platform. IDD enables IGS Strategic
Outsourcing to make accurate service cost predictions faster
and at reduced cost. |
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| JCOP biometrics |
Smart cards and biometric patterns (fingerprint)
offer robust user authentication and enable secure electronic
transactions. The technology was used in an On Demand Innovation
Services engagement with a customer and was highlighted in the
IBM Annual Report. |
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| JCOP
Marketing & Profiling
for Retail |
JCOP smart cards can be used as efficient customer
loyalty tools, bringing benefits to both the customer and the
retailer. On the customer side: enhanced convenience, shopping
trip support and personalized services; on the retailer side:
the ability to better profile the customer for more effective
marketing programs. |
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| Many Eyes |
Many Eyes is an innovative visualization Website
established to allow users early access to emerging
software services from IBM. Developed at the Research Visual
Communications Lab in Cambridge, Many Eyes combines information
visualization with social computing software, enabling groups
of users to collaborate on visualizations. Fourteen interactive
visualizations provide insight into a variety of topics from
American SAT math scores to the fertility rate of
countries worldwide. Visitors can also upload new data sets and
create their own visualizations, point out interesting findings,
share possible explanations, ask questions, and contribute new
information to the site. The research goal behind this Website
is to explore new ways of adding communication capabilities to
data visualizations. |
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| MASTOR |
MASTOR is a speech-to-speech translation technology
aimed at meaning/intention preservation and natural language
understanding. This new, integrated approach for speech translation
results in highly robust, conversational speech translation and
better performance than a simple combination of recognition and
machine translation components. Multilingual speech-to-speech
translation is considered the "grand challenge" of
speech and natural language technologies, demanding the best
technologies in: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech
(TTS), Machine Translation (MT), Natural Language Understanding
(NLU), and Natural Language Generation (NLG). This demo showcases
the speech-to-speech translation for English and Iraqi. |
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| MetaPad |
This demonstration features a portable computer
core running Microsoft Windows XP® software and all its attendant
applications. MetaPad quickly transforms output into handheld,
desktop, laptop, tablet, and wearable formats, depending on the
user's needs. |
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| Millipede |
An alternative storage technology made possible
by advances in the field of nanomechanics. |
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| Mobile Measurement Technology for a Greener Data
Center (MMT) |
MMT is a new technology from IBM Research that
measures 3-D temperature distributions within data centers. The
new mobile measurement machine includes a position monitoring
system with a network of sensors used to gather thermal data
at a granular level, with unprecedented speed and accuracy as
it travels through the data center. MMT was implemented at Pacific
Gas & Electric’s three data centers in California,
where it accurately visualized hot spots, air leakage and other
inefficiencies across their 40,000 square feet of data center
space in a few days, as opposed to a few weeks if surveyed by
hand. With IBM’s new Mobile Measurement Technology (MMT),
companies are able to survey the relevant physical parameters
of their data centers and to visualize—via 3-D images—hot
spots, air leakage and other inefficiencies. The data is then
used to build customized thermal and energy models to help mitigate
hot spots and rectify imbalances within the data center. This
results in a better use of the power resources and significant
savings in energy needed to operate the data center. |
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| mySpace |
MySpace, a continuation of BlueSpace, is a portal
solution that provides personalized, role-based access to people,
assets, and applications. It creates an interactive visualization
of a building, displaying information at the floor, room or
device level. It integrates localization information with other
key sources of enterprise data and communication applications.
The goal of this project is to allow localization of assets,
support team collaboration, as well as to improve the ease and
efficiency with which users access information and communicate
with other team members. |
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| NameVoyager |
The NameVoyager software presents a new way of
performing dynamic queries on time series. It allows prospective
parents in America to visualize name choices in an interactive
way. Starting with a timeline of nearly
5,000 names, the user can then zoom in to focus on how those
names have been used over the past century. Each stripe is a
timeline of one name, with its width reflecting the name's changing
popularity over the years. The same approach can be used to explore
datasets ranging from sales data for a large company to the prevalence
of selected topics in email histories. |
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| Network
Usage Profiling |
IBM Network Usage Profiling enables a network
manager to quickly identify congestion periods in a profiling
history via a Web interface. A zoom report that the network manager
generates on demand provides a focused breakdown of the traffic
during the congestion periods. The breakdown clearly shows the
cause for the heavy traffic and enables the network manager to
make an informed decision on how to remedy the problem in a timely
fashion. |
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| Non-Life
Automobile Damage Detection |
This demonstration facilitates the incorporating
of image and context analysis to reduce claim triage time, loss
adjustment expenses and loss payout. The solution is intended
to capture comprehensive damage information from the first responder,
including image data, and to provide early and accurate exterior
assessment of loss based on image analysis, enabling fine-grained
placement of the claim into enterprise workflow. This results
in a faster end-to-end claims process. |
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| Paper Media Portalization—Electronic
Clipping System using IBM Invisible Barcode Technology |
This demonstration shows the purchase of digital
content and services from printed materials using a cellphone
camera. Any printed material can have a portal capability with
IBM's invisible barcode technology when used with existing printing
systems. The solution is composed of a 2D barcode extracting
technology, which takes an invisible image (created with
commercially available UV ink) of an overlapped barcode on printed
material, and a layout technology for printing systems to optimize
the position and size of the barcode for 100% recognition extraction
reliability. Using the UV invisible ink, this technology enables
all printed materials to utilize metadata without affecting
appearance. |
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| Personal Care Connect (PCC) |
Personal Care Connect (PCC) enables the use of
remote medical sensors in the delivery of healthcare. The sensors
can be used for monitoring patient vital health signs and prescription
medications pertinent to the treatment of patients in virtually
any environment, anytime. Solutions based on PPC can improve
the quality of patient care while helping to reduce overall
costs. |
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| Pinehurst (NYSE PDA) |
The wireless handheld device used by traders on
the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was custom-designed
by IBM E&TS to meet specific client needs for speed, mobility,
security, power, ease-of-use, and durability. Exchange traders
needed a reliable portable wireless device to access buy-and-sell
orders. The handhelds are built for high-speed communication,
featuring sub-second response times for users. They
also improve accuracy, which is important given that more than
2,700 companies trade daily on the NYSE, the world's largest
equities market. |
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| ResearchExchange |
A research exchange provides customers with a
highly secure workplace that includes access to a wide range
of information and data sources as well as state-of-the-art
tools. In this expanded environment, exchange members can perform
joint R&D and engage in transactions or collaboration with
business partners, third-party service providers, peers,and colleagues.
IBM creates research exchanges to provide researchers with an
environment that will allow them to work globally, securely,
and collaboratively. |
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| Responsive Information Architect (RIA)—RealHunter |
An intelligent interaction framework that supports
full-fledged, context-sensitive information seeking. Using intelligent multimodal
input and multimedia
output technologies, RIA engages users in a dynamically
generated multimodal, multimedia conversation to aid them in
their information seeking. Unlike existing information browsing
paradigms that force users to explore information following
predefined paths (e.g., GUI menus), RIA allows users to express
their information requests in a flexible way using multiple modalities,
such as speech, text, and gesture. Using a rich context, such
as conversation history and data semantics, RIA is capable of
understanding user input, including complex data queries and
even abbreviated, imprecise and ambiguous
requests. Currently, RIA technologies are embodied in a testbed
called RealHunter™,
a real-estate application that helps users find residential properties. |
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| RFID Retail Self- Checkout |
A self-checkout system for stores based on RFID
technology. |
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| RFID Warehouse |
An order picking warehouse scenario is demonstrated.
The warehouse employee uses a wireless handheld device
equipped with an RFID scanner, which receives order details
from a server. Based on this information, the employee collected
the required components from the warehouse stock and assembles
them onto a pallet for shipment. All boxes and
pallets have RFID passive tags. This ensures that the pallet
is loaded with the correct goods, thus increasing the quality
of deliveries and preventing returns. |
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| Secure ID cards & biometric
passports |
Governments and commercial organizations are moving
toward using secure personal identification systems as a way
of verifying the identity of individuals. Secure ID systems can
help businesses and agencies restrict access to physical locations
and secure networks, as well as provide an identity verification
process for receiving government services or conducting online
transactions. The demo shows the basic technologies that will
be used in the near future to issue electronic ID cards and passports
with biometric support. The Secure Identity Cards project provides
an end-to-end solution for the issuance of identity cards, including
card production, user enrollment, card personalization, and card
usage (user verification). The solution architecture includes
IBM products and unique IBM Research capabilities tuned to this
market, as well as technologies from leading vendors that were
evaluated and integrated as part of this development. |
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| Secure Trade Lane |
More than 90% of world trade travels in containers
aboard ocean-going ships. Every year, some 20 million containers
pass through 220 ports around the globe. Criminal
and terrorist threats as well as other factors are a challenge
to today's cargo transport industry, driving the urgent need
to establish a secure global logistic chain. IBM Research has
developed a highly secure end-to-end cargo security solution
to tag and track
the data of ocean shipping containers, guaranteeing data authenticity
(black box) and objectivity (not reliant on shipping
companies for data extraction). |
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| Sign & Go |
A technology that uses dynamic signature recognition
for verification and identification of persons. |
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| Smart Surveillance System (SSS) |
A new kind of security system with video-based
behavioral analysis capabilities that allows automatic
and smart data analysis of video sequences either in real time
or from recordings. The system distinguishes between vehicles,
persons and groups of persons, thereby making it possible
to search video data for behavior patterns. It recognizes, for
example, an abandoned item such as a suitcase
in an airport terminal. Other possible uses include traffic monitoring
in tunnels and other accident-prone areas and the compiling of
statistics for traffic management systems or shoppers’ habits
in malls. |
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| SoulPad |
“Make any PC your PC”. This innovative
Watson Research technology demonstrates how the state of a Windows
desktop (documents open for editing, music and video files playing,
etc.) plus the operating system and all files and data can be
saved onto an Apple iPod or other portable storage device. That
same computing environment can then be restored (documents still
open, music still playing) on a completely different computer
without installing any new software on the target PC. |
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| Speech Analytics |
The voice analytics server (WVS-SA) allows the
transcription of speech data, archiving the transcript along
with the original speech, as well as indexing and searching for
words over the entire archive. It uses state-of-the-art Large
Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) technology and
text analytics technologies such as search, annotation, and categorization.
The demo shows transcription and search functions applied to
thousands of IBM helpdesk calls. Target customers for this technology
are call centers from various industries such as insurance or
banking, help desks, e-learning and many more. |
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| Speech Technology |
Speech recognition and telephony applications
in natural language, e.g. for directory services and traffic
information, with multilingual support. |
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| TALES (Translingual Automatic Language Exploitation
System) |
The TALES project
captures video broadcasts—primarily from China—and
transcribes them in real-time. It could be used by travelers
wishing to follow local news abroad, businesspeople participating
in live conference videos in foreign countries, or journalists
looking for podcasts in unfamiliar languages. |
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| Telematics Track & Trace—Intelligent
Telematics Gateway |
The IBM Device Gateway is a system that acts as
a communication gateway and management system for low-cost devices.
It can be used to connect telematics devices as well as remote
meters for electricity, water, gas, and heat. The gateway provides
a Web interface that can be used to perform various management
tasks such as device integration, configuration, data and software
management, and access management. The demo illustrates the live
tracking of vehicles equipped with telematics devices on Google
maps, with the option of displaying a full journey and its parameters
in Google Earth. |
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| Try
Science |
A virtual science museum, the first Web site to
capture the very best in science from over 600 museums around
the world. Anywhere and anytime, teachers, pupils, students and
parents have instant access to experiments, exhibits and scientific
breakthroughs. It was created by IBM scientists and scientific
institutions to encourage students to study the natural sciences. |
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| Underwriting
Profitability Analysis (UPA) |
Helps an insurance company develop the most competitive
rules and rates. |
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| Veggie Vision |
A computer vision system used for object recognition
(e.g. identifying fruits and vegetables in the produce section
of a supermarket). |
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| VIVA (Voice Identification and Verification Agent) |
The Voice Identification and Verification Agent
(VIVA) is an implementation of conversational speech biometrics
in the telephony environment. It allows user identification
and verification using spoken natural language. Conversational
speech biometrics combines two sources for authentication: (1)
physical speech biometrics (the voice print) and (2) user knowledge
(e.g., passwords and personal information). The combination of
these two information sources increases the security and reliability
and provides a flexible framework for various authentication
scenarios so as to maximize user convenience. Technologies utilized
to enable conversational speech biometrics include acoustic speaker
recognition, speech recognition, natural language understanding,
and dialog management. In our prototype, the verification consists
of one or several short interviews involving randomly asked authentication
questions and an acoustic voice-print check. The length of a
session depends on the correctness of the answers and the estimated
voice-print confidence. Users can enroll in the system via
an HTML form and a telephone server. Measured on real data,
casual impostors are falsely accepted by the system in fewer
than 0.00001% of all cases, balanced by a 3% false rejection
of bonafide clients. |
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| WatchPad (Linux
Watch) |
A wrist watch computer running embedded Linux,
fitted with Bluetooth for wireless communication and sensors
that make it possible to control other devices remotely. |
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| Wearable Computer |
We show IBM's light prototype of a wearable computer
including an IBM microdrive storage and a head-mounted color
display, as well as the Xybernaut Mobile Assistant IV, a robust
wearable product. |
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| Web Lectures |
Uses the Internet to distribute
learning material to students quickly and
cost-effectively. Lectures can be attended remotely using a computer
or a handheld device. |
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| WebSphere Matchmaking Environment (WME) |
WME is a set of tools that allows the easy development,
management and support of a distributed automated matchmaking
space for complex products and services. |
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