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Smart machines: IBM's Watson and the era of cognitive computing by Kelly, John E., III, Hamm, Steve

“…We are crossing a new frontier in the evolution of computing and entering the era of cognitive systems. The victory of IBM's Watson on the television quiz show…”
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DESIGNING DATA-CENTRIC COMPUTERS by Kelly III, John, Hamm, Steve

“…All most people know about Watson’s hardware is what they saw on TV: the machine’s cool, purple façade, the avatar that stood between the human contestants…”
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AUGMENTING OUR SENSES by Kelly III, John, Hamm, Steve

“…Watson’s performance onJeopardy!was remarkable. The machine searched through millions of pages of information for possible answers and came up with solutions…”
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CODA: AN ALLIANCE OF HUMAN AND MACHINE by Kelly III, John, Hamm, Steve

“…Ever since Watson won atJeopardy!, people have been asking the research scientists who designed the machine if they’d like to try to pass the so-called Turing…”
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IMAGINING THE COGNITIVE CITY by Hamm, Steve, Kelly, John E., III

“…After a fire broke out in a building visible from Yankee Stadium during the 1977 World Series, broadcaster Howard Cosell captured the zeitgeist of that moment…”
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BUILDING LEARNING SYSTEMS by Hamm, Steve, Kelly, John E., III

“…In November 2009, when IBM’s Watson was under development for its showdown onJeopardy!, the machine made one laughable mistake after another in test matches…”
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A NEW ERA OF COMPUTING by Hamm, Steve, Kelly, John E., III

“…IBM’s Watson computer created a sensation when it bested two past grand champions on the TV quiz showJeopardy!Tens of millions of people suddenly understood…”
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HANDLING BIG DATA by Hamm, Steve, Kelly, John E., III

“…The global financial crisis of 2008 had many causes, but, boiled down to the essentials, it comes to this: Institutions and individuals didn’t fully appreciate…”
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INVENTING A NEW PHYSICS OF COMPUTING by Hamm, Steve, Kelly, John E., III

“…More than other single technology, the microchip has driven the tremendous improvements in computing performance over the past sixty-plus years in everything…”
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Smart machines: IBM's Watson and the era of cognitive computing by Kelly, John E, Hamm, Steve

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State-of-The-Art Sparse Direct Solvers by Bollhöfer, Matthias, Schenk, Olaf, Janalík, Radim, Hamm, Steve, Gullapalli, Kiran

“…In this chapter we will give an insight into modern sparse elimination methods. These are driven by a preprocessing phase based on combinatorial algorithms…”
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From the Brink To the Big Leagues by Steve Hamm in Hopkinton, Mass

“…When Joseph M. Tucci, chief executive of storage giant EMC Corp., bought VMware Inc. in December, 2003, analysts scratched their heads. Sure, VMware, a maker…”
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An eBay For Business Software by Steve Hamm in New York

“…Since he co-founded San Francisco-based Salesforce.com six years ago, CEO Marc Benioff has been dreaming up big ideas at a dizzying clip. The most recent one…”
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TWO PILLARS OF IBM'S GROWTH LOOK SHAKY by Steve Hamm in New York

“…The day after IBM announced earnings on July 18, it announced a shakeup of its $45 billion global services business. Division head John R. Joyce is leaving for…”
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China's First Global Capitalist by Steve Hamm and Dexter Roberts

“…Yang Yuanqing is chairman of Lenovo Group Ltd, the leading PC company in China. Last year, when Lenovo bought IBMPC Co., Yang stepped onto the world stage. He…”
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Tech Has a New Top Dog by Peter Burrows and Steve Hamm

“…When eager engineers at Hewlett-Packard Co. took it upon themselves to create the company's first computer in the mid-1960s, normally fearless HP co-founder…”
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UNDERWATER PERIL by Steve Hamm and Spencer E. Ante

“…After earthquakes struck on Dec. 26, rock slides took out cables near Taiwan. Like dominoes, telephone and Internet networks toppled in Taiwan, China, South…”
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Good Timing, Carly by Peter Burrows, with Steve Hamm in New York

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SAP Dangles A Big, Fat Carrot by Steve Hamm, with Sarah Lacy in San Mateo, Calif., and Jack Ewing in Frankfurt

“…Hasso Plattner, the spark-plug co-founder and former chief executive of SAP, always held annual executive retreats in the dead of winter at his thatch-roof…”
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Scrambling Up The Development Ladder by Steve Hamm, with Pete Engardio in Bangalore

“…India is gearing up to reach the next level - technology innovation. By leveraging their software wizardry and cheap engineering and software talent, Indian…”
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