When musicians have chemistry, we can feel it. There's something special among them that's missing when they perform alone. Anyone who's heard a Mick Jagger solo album knows that's the case. Clearly nature wants us to jam together and take flight out of our individual selves. The reward is transcendence, our bodies tell us so. It's a question that one of the most refreshing neuroscientists who studies music has been probing lately. Refreshing because her lab is not only in academia but also on stage, where she performs as an opera singer and with chamber ensembles. Talking to Indre Viskontas is a treat because she animates her research as a scientist with her experiences as an artist.

When musicians have chemistry, we can feel it. There's something special among them that's missing when they perform alone. Anyone who's heard a Mick Jagger solo album knows that's the case. Clearly nature wants us to jam together and take flight out of our individual selves. The reward is transcendence, our bodies tell us so. It's a question that one of the most refreshing neuroscientists who studies music has been probing lately. Refreshing because her lab is not only in academia but also on stage, where she performs as an opera singer and with chamber ensembles. Talking to Indre Viskontas is a treat because she animates her research as a scientist with her experiences as an artist.

At IBM Think 2019, enterprises embarking upon their AI journey were squarely focused on how to get data ready for successful AI deployments. I attended Think during my second week at IBM. Here are five notes from the event that, in combination with adopting a prescriptive approach to AI (modernize, collect, organize, analyze, infuse), will strike a winning tone for the AI era. Watson AI is coming to your cloud of preference: public, private, hybrid cloud. It will even be on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

At IBM Think 2019, enterprises embarking upon their AI journey were squarely focused on how to get data ready for successful AI deployments. I attended Think during my second week at IBM. Here are five notes from the event that, in combination with adopting a prescriptive approach to AI (modernize, collect, organize, analyze, infuse), will strike a winning tone for the AI era. Watson AI is coming to your cloud of preference: public, private, hybrid cloud. It will even be on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Kazuo Hirai looks set to end his six-year reign at Sony Corp. on a high note. The electronics giant said Friday its president and chief executive officer credited for turning around the once-struggling company will assume chairmanship and be replaced by his right-hand man. The announcement came as Sony posted a nearly fourfold jump in third quarter operating profit and raised its full year profit to a record high, underscoring how a restructuring drive led by Hirai, focusing on image sensors and gaming, is reaping rewards. Effective April 1, Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida, who alongside Hirai worked to steer Sony back to profitability after years of losses, will take on the role of CEO. "I have been pondering about when to step down and decided this to be the ideal timing, both for Sony and myself, as the company prepares to embark on a new mid-range plan," Hirai said at the company's headquarters in Tokyo.