 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | | | Cloud, mobile, and social computing are driving the big data era, and the difference between the winners and losers in this era, according to Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, will be in decision-making, value creation, and value delivery. That's true for business, government, and nonprofit organizations, she said.
This was the message Rometty delivered Thursday night in a speech before more than 170 business leaders at the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. Rometty pointedly avoided mention of products or particular technologies during her remarks. But when asked to say more about technology during a question-and-answer session, she said that we're now entering a third wave of computing that will be about computers that learn.
"It has to be [about learning] because information is too big and growing too fast," Rometty explained. "The computer has to learn by itself." Not surprisingly, this led to discussion of Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer turned medical, insurance, and financial adviser.
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