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MIT Receives IBM-Donated ‘Satori’ Supercomputer
IBM has donated a computer cluster valued at $11.6M to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help further the university’s artificial intelligence research work, MIT News reported Monday.
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in Executive Moves, News
Kirstjen Nielsen Resigns as DHS Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday stepped down from her post as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, CBS News reported Sunday. President Donald Trump announced in a tweet that Kevin McAleenan, commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection, will serve as interim DHS secretary.
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in Healthcare IT, News
VA, IBM Enter Partnership to Use Watson Cognitive System For Cancer Treatment Identification
IBM‘s Watson Health business unit and the Department of Veteran Affairs have formed a public-private partnership to help VA doctors identify personalized cancer treatment options for veterans. The VA said Wednesday scientists and pathologists will use IBM’s Watson for Genomics technology to determine possible cancer-causing mutations from patients’ genetic alteration files and identify potential treatment options for those mutations. […] More
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in Healthcare IT, News
IBM to Acquire Merge Healthcare for $1B; John Kelly Comments
IBM plans to acquire medical image management provider Merge Healthcare for $1 billion in a move to further help physicians diagnose and treat patients. IBM plans to integrate Merge Healthcare’s medical image processing platform into the Watson image analytics and cognitive system, IBM said Thursday. “Healthcare will be one of IBM’s biggest growth areas over […] More
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in Industry News, News
John Kelly: IBM Invests $3B in R&D Big Data, Cloud System Microchips
IBM has unveiled a five-year, $3 billion investment to develop nanoscale chip technology as the company aims to improve the performance of cloud computing and big data systems. A team of IBM researchers will aim to scale silicon chips to 7 nanometers or below as well as research carbon nanoelectronics, silicon photonics and other semiconductor materials that […] More