The Cognitive Era;

Cognitive
Computing
Comes
OfOfAge
AI
(Accessible
Intelligence)
Comes
Age
Dr. Bernard S. Meyerson
Chief Innovation Officer
IBM Corporation

Where It Begins; With

Big Data and Analytics
And Why We Care About
It

BABY CRASHING; WORKING TO SEE THE UNSEEN

University of Ontario Institute of Technology Research Project to monitor
premature infants in the ICU at Sick Childrens Hospital

With Data Acquired;

Nosocomial Infection Prediction

Sources

On-the-fly stream computing

InfoSphere Streams

Files, TCP Sockets

Monitoring heart rate variability with

other information to predict sepsis
System was shown able to warn
of life threatening sepsis up to
24 hours earlier than
experienced ICU Nurses
http://www.youtube.com/ibmhealthcare

Persist/Enrich
solidDB

Persist
stream data

ODBC/JDBC/SA
solidDB, DB2, IDS
InfoSphere
Warehouse

COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION: IBM STATOIL

Operational

process optimization and

equipment monitoring.
Accelerated production and increased
reserves, in addition to standardization
and automation of work processes, OLF
estimated value of US$50 Billion over five
years (ref. Norwegian Oil Industry Association [OLF])

Environmental Factors

 2014 International Business Machines Corporation

Location; Freetown, Sierra Leone

Ebola Data Collection and Analysis(IBM Nairobi, Kenya) via;
Open Govt Initiative Operators
Anonymous SMS data
Generating Daily Heat Maps Pinpointing
Critical Issues(suspected cases, non-compliance,.)
Services required(ambulances, volunteers,..)
Supply shortages(electricity, food, soap, bleach.)
Danger (Bodies, Blood, ..)

Data is the New Oil

In its raw form, oil has little value.
Once processed and refined, it helps power the world.

Ann Winblad,
Co-founder
Hummer Winbald
Venture Capital

Dr. Bernard Meyerson

Define Big As In
BIG DATA

Oil & Gas

Modern facilities have

more than 80,000
sensors in place, and
a single reservoir will
produce more than
15 petabytes of data
in its lifetime

Retail

Consumers post
500 million tweets
and 55 million
Facebook updates
each day

Healthcare

Each person will

generate 1 million GB
of health-related data
in their lifetime
equivalent to about
300 million books

The price of not understanding can be extreme.

Welcome to the dawn of the Cognitive Era.

AI: Accessible Intelligence

Compassion

Intuition

Deep Learning
Discovery

Design + Machine
Human
Large-scale math

Value judgments

Common sense

Fact checking

Cognitive
systems
must learn
at scale,
reason with
purpose,
and interact
with humans
naturally.

Rethinking whats possible.

Rethinking Personalized Education

Rethinking Genomic Medicine

Rethinking Medical Imaging

Rethinking whats possible.

2015 International Business Machines Corporation

THE COGNITIVE ERA

Man/Machine collaboration becomes the norm.

We store knowledge, not data.
Business transforms by intent vs. trial and error.
The digital divide disappears.
Government services define Happy versus
Satisfied as the new standard.
Limitless..