The Hartree CentreThe UK Centre for Collaborative

Research & DevelopmentDr Adrian Toland

05/03/2023 GM AHSN Design Group

Industrial gateway to cognitive and data centric computing

05/03/2023 GM AHSN Design Group

2015 Major Investment in Collaborative Research

• Data Centric & Cognitive Computing• Embedded IBM Research Centre• Extended industrial & scientific reach

The Hartree CentreEstablishment

2012 Creation of Hartree Centre asindustrial driver in HPC • Investment from BIS• Economic impact through

Software & Modelling• Focus on industrial engagement

Industry

Public Sector

Academia Government

Science

High Performance ComputingData Centric Science

Cognitive Computing

What is the Hartree Centre?Joint Centre for Collaborative R&D in the UK

ResearchInnovation

DevelopmentDeployment IBM Research Division

IBM UK Research

STFC Daresbury Laboratory

Lenovo / Arm development system

• Expand use of Data Centric technologies across the UK• Research into Cognitive techniques for use in industry and government• Develop and deploy solutions with clients and partners• Exploit embedded IBM Research Centre to benefit UK science

Our vision: through our capabilities, know - how and talent, we want to be the 'essential' and 'go to' partner for “UK PLC” R&D activities in Data and Cognitive Science, by adding significant competitive advantage.

The Hartree Centre Mission

Better products & servicesdelivered faster & cheaperDeployment

Development and prototyping

Research & innovation through collaboration

What is cognitive computing?

• Makes new problems computable

• Humans are gifted with intuition but have difficulty handling huge numbers of possibilities

• Cognitive computing is a tool for generating ideas and learning from outcomes

Adaptive: Learn as information changes, and as goals and requirements evolve. Resolve ambiguity and tolerate unpredictabilityInteractive: Interact with users to define needs. Interact with measurement/experiment/data uncertainty

Iterative: Aid in defining a problem by asking questions or finding additional sources

Third phase of the IT revolution after mechanical calculators and programmable systems

A cognitive business has systems that can enhance digital intelligence exponentially.

REASON

They can reason, grasp underlying concepts, form hypotheses, and infer and extract ideas.

UNDERSTAND

Cognitive systems understand imagery, language and other unstructured data like humans do.

LEARN

With each data point, interaction and outcome, they develop and sharpen expertise, so they never stop learning.

INTERACT

With abilities to see, talk and hear, cognitive systems interact with humans in a natural way.

SystemIntelligen

ce

1900 2011

Tabulation

Cognitive

Punch cardsTime card readers

1950

Programmatic

SearchDeterministicEnterprise dataMachine languageSimple outputs

DiscoveryProbabilisticBig DataNatural languageIntelligent options

IBM Watson represents a bold step into the new era of computing

Traditional Analytical methods of computing and data capture fail to keep pace with the explosion of Big Data. We do not have the required time or resources to utilize unstructured data and make it consumption-ready…

…therefore, we need a new and different approach to better detect and interpret the vast amounts of unstructured data present in business environments today

Why cognitive computing now?

2020

Percentage of unstructured data

40 zettabytes

We are here

Today data is reshaping technology, business, and society

When will it impact society?

How you invoke insights from all data will determine your digital intelligence.

Structured and active Unstructured and dark

Data that’s coming

Data outside your firewall

Data you possess ++

ExplorationVisually depict and

analyze data for clear advice

DecisionHelp users make more informed

evidence-based decisions

DiscoveryHelp people create

new insights by synthesizing information

EngagementHelps organizations

build stronger relationships with

constituents

Watson allows organisations to unlock capabilities in various domains to give them a competitive advantage in the industry

Value Proposition

Thank You.

IBM Watson / Bluemix A Platform For Cognitive Computing

Watson APIs / Bluemix • IBM Watson famously won the Jeopardy Q&A game show

in 2011 winning $1million prize money • Clafifcation:

– The Watson APIs are not a way to access/use a single mega-computer called Watson.

– Over 100 different techniques were used behind the game-winning Watson.

• The tech behind Watson was split into a set of reusable APIs that developers can use to perform different cognitive tasks (a developer toolbox).

• These cognitive tasks are those that humans are good at, but which are extremely challenging to do with computers.

Sample cognitive tasks:– Image recognition – Understanding natural language text– Understand tone/sentiment behind text– Extract intents, entities, keywords, relationships between

entities – Build dialog/conversation based on above (chat-bots)– ….more….

• Some services need to be trained for your domain.• Training can be performed by non-developers (no coding).• Training is iterative, refine and improve. • Integrating the Watson services into an app/product

requires coding.

Language

Speech

Vision

WatsonService Portfolio