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IBM’s Smart Planet Initiative Recognizes the Importance of Geospatial

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Karasick, a vice president of technical and business strategy at IBM, at the recent Esri International User Conference. IBM had a big presence on the show floor at the event, and a team of more than 40 brightly dressed booth personnel that were promoting IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative [...]

Written by Matt Ball

August 6th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

IBM to Open a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon

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IBM is opening a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to develop sensors and systems to monitor the state of infrastructure. The intent is to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure. The software and systems will be tuned to process, monitor and analyze the data from [...]

Written by Matt Ball

July 29th, 2010 at 1:40 pm