IBM integrates blockchain efforts into artificial intelligence and cloud computing business unit

Briefing

December 8, 2016

Briefing	AI, cloud and blockchain – Integrates blockchain team and projects with Industry Platforms business which includes artificial intelligence and cloud computing initiatives Industry Platforms – Will research and develop blockchain technologies, connect IBM’s financial services work to Watson artificial intelligence, and foster open technology standards to increase market adoption Previous IBM blockchain projects – Include proof-of-concept project that joined BitTorrent, Ethereum and TeleHash together, leveraging Watson in distributed ledger technology, and new Watson Centre in Marina Bay Singapore which will develop artificial intelligence for blockchain applications
Accelerator	Artificial Intelligence, Cloud-Based Services, Web3 Ecosystems, Tokens and Consensus Mechanisms
Sector	Financial Services, Information Technology
Organization	International Business Machines Corp.
Source	del Castillo, M., "IBM bridges blockchain, AI with new business unit", CoinDesk, http://www.coindesk.com/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	August 29, 2016

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