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Last month, IBM (IBM) supercomputer Watson won 1 million dollars on Jeopardy. But the defeat of the computer of Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter was more than just a publicity stunt for International Business Machines. At the heart of Watson's success has been what is called a semantic analysis technology (SAT) - a way for computers to search more intelligent large amounts of data. Businesses use SATMonster Beats IBM and its competitors to increase their profitability through a wide range of applications, including better customer service, more efficient analysis of documents used in the trial, and to discover and arrest financial fraud before it costs money to banks. Companies are getting high returns on investment in SAT, and so can you - by investing in those who provide this technology: IBM and two other companies that you have not heard from BAE Systems (BA) and Autonomy (AU). There are also private companies that could make public if they can take advantage of market growth SAT: Keep an eye on cataphora and Clearwell Systems among potential IPOs. How Watson wins for business But what exactly is SAT? IBM describes it as a technology that allows customers to search a data store complex on the basis of a group of conditions sharing a common sense rather than a simple keyword. Links In Jeopardy, Watson downloaded about 200 million pages of documents - including encyclopedias and screenplays. When Watson got a question, eg, in category "Church and State," Saturday Night Live on the famous "Is not that amazing!" Comment by Dana Carvey, it searches the pages - known as his body - and came with hundreds of possible responses which correspond to certain indices. Then, according tfivefingers o IBM researcher David Gondek, Watson has applied an algorithm to assign a confidence number to each response based in part on the number of connections to the index, and weighed these numbers - to choose the best. In this case, Watson thinks - "The Church Lady" - was correct. Although the application of the SAT is still emerging in the arenas of different cases, three areas appear to be the most promising technology: 1. Improve customer service Sat IBM has used to help insurance companies to convert dissatisfied customers who were preparing to change insurance provider in long-term customers who renew their policies. insurers to Saturday, as IBM helped Japan's Dai-Ichi Life and United States Assurant Solutions, a unit of Assurant (AIZ), increase their incomes by an average of 37% of customers renewing their policies: The number these have increased 119%, according to my interview with IBM's Christian Biecke. Sat revealed that some agents are better customer service to the satisfaction of specific customers, based on matches between certain traits of agents - such as where they grew up - and client characteristics - such as education or income according to my interview with Vice President Assurant, Cameron Hurst. By matching agents with clients, they are likely to perform best with IBM has helped companies boost revenue and profits. 2. Boost productivity litigant During the discovery phase of a trial, lawyers may need to dive into the more than one million documents to find the relatively small number - for example, 50 000 - which will be relevant to their case. Three or four lawyers can spend months - costs $ 500,000 or more customers - to propose a short list of records, only 60% that are relevant to the case, according to the steering systems of Clearwell Marketing Kamal Shah. But thanks to an e-discovery software from companies such as autonomy, and Clearwell Systems cataphora using SAT, litigants may spend about $ 100 000 to obtain 95% accuracy in just a few days, said the cataphora former client Bill Herr, who led the e-discovery for a large chemical company. The effect on the productivity issue is creating a growing market for software e-discovery. 3. Kill financial fraud in the bud Fraud against banks, iVibram Five Fingers nsurance companies and tax authorities is endemic. According to Imam Hoque, Director of Technology Detica, whose parent company, Norkom Systems, was acquired by defense contractor BAE 336 million in January 2011, a particularly important form of financial fraud is called break- out. In a break-out fraud, the author deposits $ 10,000 per month, say, 10 accounts with the credentials of the author flew unsuspecting students without credit history. After several years of regular deposits of the author, the bank decides that these 10 account holders should get loans because of their apparently excellent cash flow. The author is the break-out loans, adopt the accounts, and skips town. Hoque believes that a large bank may lose $ 100 million break-out against fraud - but if that bank goes what I estimate to be approximately $ 2.5 million and several months to install the software Deticaheadphone dr dre dr headphones dr dre earphones doc dre headphones doctor dre headphones dr dre headphones headphones dr dre, it may define the links in the networks of these account holders and to quell financial fraud in the bud. SAT and software recognize the flag, for example, that the 10 account holders are not regular payments from their accounts for things like credit card bills or rent. This will mark the fraud department of the bank to dig deeper to determine that the accounts are wrong, and stop them - before making loans to the fraudster. How you can enjoy In the longer term, the best way for individual investors to gain momentum Sat brings to the productivity of firms may be investing in IPOs corporate e-discovery - should they occur. Of the three companies mentioned, autonomy is the closest thing to a pure-play Sat. She bought the company Zantaz eDiscovery in 2007, when it had sales of 106 million dollars and the market for e-discovery has been growing at 47% per year. Assuming that these sales is growing at 40% per year in 2010, autonomy may have collected about $ 291 million in 2010 sales from its e-discovery Protect software, which represents about 33% of its total 2010 Business of $ 870 million. In addition, SAT is only a small portion of the revenues of other public companies that supply it. For example, income Detica are probably around $ 40 million to $ 50 million - compared to the parent company of BAE 2010 sales of approximately $ 22 billion. Sat IBM and revenues are a tiny fraction of its $ 100 000 000 000 Income in 2010. So if you want to bet on the benefits of future technology Watson, the stock of autonomy may be your best bet for now.

OMAHA, Nebraska-A top executive of Berkshire Hathaway, which was supposed to be on the inside track to one day succeed billionaire Warren Buffett as CEO resigned suddenly. Buffett said Wednesday that the resignation letter David Sokol, delivered by his deputy Monday night, was a "total surprise." But the resignation came less than two weeks after Buffett has learned about the trades made before Sokol actions that Berkshire has announced its $ 9 billion acquisition of chemical company Lubrizol. Buffett said Sokol, wBeats by dreho had served as chairman of Berkshire MidAmerican Energy, and Johns Manville NetJets units, said he wants to spend more time on philanthropy. "As I told you about in the past, my goal is to use the remaining time of my career to invest resources in my family to create the equity and sustainable business which we hope will provide an opportunity to my descendants and the financing of my philanthropic interests, "Sokol wrote. Buffett said on two occasions, most recently two years ago, Sokol had spoken to resign for similar reasons, but Buffett and other board members convinced him to stay with the company. He accepted the resignation Sokol, this time. "I'm totally shocked," said Andy Kilpatrick, the stockbroker-author of "Of Permanent Value, the story of Warren Buffett." "It seemed only minutes ago, as if (Sokol) was the guy." Buffett said he learnfive fingers shoes ed March 19 that Sokol bought 2300 shares of Lubrizol in December, one day after asking an investment banker to contact the manufacturer of specialty chemicals talks about possible deal. Sokol initial shares sold them a week later, but then purchased nearly 100,000 shares of Lubrizol in early January about a week before recommending that Berkshire bid. Buffett said the decision announced on March 14, offering $ 135 in cash for each share of Lubrizol was entirely his own, but that the agreement would not have happened without early efforts Sokol. Buffett said he does not believe that these share purchases were illegal because Sokol facts before he had even suggested the Lubrizol case, and said Sokol says in passing, he had shares in the company during the One is the case under discussion. Buffett also said he has not asked to resign Sokol and Sokol noted that he was told that the stock purchases were not a factor in his decision to leave the company. "Dave contributions have been extraordinary," said Buffett. Buffett declined to comment beyond his statement. Sokol did not immediately respond to a message left Wednesday. Glenn Tongue, a managing partner at investment firm T2Partners, Buffett says he looks like he believed he needed to disclose the purchase Lubrizol Sokol for investors. "It seems like something that would have been uncomfortable with Mr. Buffett," Tongue said. Buffett has repeatedly praised the work Sokol - especially the recovery of NetJets, he oversaw - and many investors have speculated that Sokol was on the shortlist to succeed the company Buffett Vibrams FiveFingers of Omaha, Neb.-based. Sokol addition, other managers Berkshire who are suspected to be potential successors are Ajit Jain, head of the reinsurance division of Berkshire, Greg Abel, president and CEO of MidAmerican, Tony Nicely, Geico and CEO of Burlington Northern Santa Fe CEO Matt Rose. Language Sokol said resignation shows why Buffett was smart not to nominate candidates for next CEO of Berkshire. "To be named a successor Sokol headphones by dr dre by dr dre dr monster monster dr beats headphone beats earphones monster by dreat this point and have him resign would be a bad thing", said the language. Finally, Berkshire plans to split the 80-year employment Buffett into three parts - chief executive officer, president and several managers. Buffett remains healthy and does not intend to retire, but he said the Berkshire board regularly discusses succession and who knows who he choose as CEO if an immediate need arises. Because of the departure Sokol, Buffett said Abel became president of MidAmerican, Todd Raba, president and CEO of Johns Manville, will become president, and Jordan Hansell, president of NetJets, will become president of that unit and CEO. Berkshire owns about 80 subsidiaries, including clothing, furniture and jewelry business, but its insurance and utility companies typically represent more than half the company's net income. It also has major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. Berkshire has over 260,000 employees worldwide, but only 21 at its headquarters in Omaha.

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