Computing is changing. Though the changes are gradual, the end result will be to transform computers from essentially dumb devices capable only of crunching numbers with extraordinary speed to devices ...

Finding new sources of oil underground is an expensive and risky undertaking. Now IBM is working with energy company Repsol to look for ways in which new cognitive computing techniques could help ...

That may sound like a scene from a low-budget, science-fiction movie, the one where a giant brain in a glass case is the central processing system for a futuristic society. But the IBM project, which ...