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Blockchain Breaks into Enterprise Finance
Today, enterprise finance professionals are looking to blockchain as the next key disruptor in payments technology, making headlines for its benefits in eliminating redundancies in cost reconciliation and closing ...Full Article
Speed Fix for Wall Street: Tick-to-Trade Half-life Cut in Half
Wall Street speed addicts just got another fix. A triumvirate of companies, combining advanced NICs and algorithms powered by FPGAs, has announced it has cut the “tick-to-trade” life cycle ...Full Article
Digital Platform for Health Care Industry Coming from Partners and Persistent
Partners HealthCare and Persistent Systems have announced a collaboration that has the earmarks of a shared-resource industry cloud (aka, vertical cloud) – what the companies describe as an industry-wide ...Full Article
Watson Deal Targets Industrial Apps
Artificial intelligence will hit the factory floor and the smart grid as an automation specialist joins forces with IBM Watson to being real-time decision-making to those and other industrial ...Full Article
Future View of HPC on Wall Street: Machine-Time Analytics
We’ve all heard futuristic debates about artificial intelligence that are, by turn, alarming or optimistic. One side portrays a dystopian, tech-noir world where machines have grown so smart and ...Full Article
Collaborative Cloud under Development for Manufacturers in Europe
Calling itself the first collaborative cloud-based platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry, the Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET) consortium was announced today in Europe. ...Full Article
Autonomous Cars: Google No. 1, Toyota Sees Carbon-free Future, Memory a Speed Bump?
With billions of dollars at stake in the car market of the future, technology and auto companies are aggressively jockeying for position to deliver self-driving vehicles that could, ultimately, ...Full Article
‘Strategies in Biomedical Data Science’ Advances IT-Research Synergies
“Strategies in Biomedical Data Science: Driving Force for Innovation” by Jay A. Etchings (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Jan. 2017) is both an introductory text and a field guide ...Full Article
HPC4Mfg Advances State-of-the-Art for American Manufacturing
Last Friday (March 3, 2017), the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program held an industry engagement day workshop in San Diego, bringing together members of the US manufacturing ...Full Article
IBM Spins Out Analytics Platform For Utilities
An IBM-backed energy startup will attempt to advance the smart grid via a new cloud-based analytics platform designed to forecast renewable energy supplies along with the overall health of ...Full Article
