(December 19, 2011) One of the many great things about working
with the Emerging Technology Services team is that I am always focused on
“what’s next.” For a long time speech
recognition fitted into this category as the computing industry looked to make
technology more pervasive to free our finger tips from typing and to help us
become more productive.
We are benefitting from this today
with voice recognition for our cars, smartphones and even automated phone
services for banks and travel reservations.
Now that speech recognition is
becoming mainstream, and many other forms of human computer interaction have
come along, like touch, gesture recognition, etc., we are thinking about what’s
next - or in the case of the IBM 5 in 5 - what's next by 2017. In my view there
will be huge leaps made in bioinformatics - this is a large topic, so I am more
specifically referring to the use of sensors to understand our thoughts.