Over the past few decades, the mining industry has been mired in a productivity slump of sorts. On the whole, production efficiency is down and costs are up. Mining companies have naturally looked for ways to turn this around, and digitalization has been one of the chief approaches these companies have followed. Mining companies have a lot of data at their disposal. Sensors are seemingly everywhere in their underground operations. But thus far it has been very hard for mining companies to capitalize on all their data because of the difficulty in making sense of it all.

ARX Maritime, Chief Executive, Josh Hutchinson looks at how artificial intelligence is impacting the maritime industry and questions whether one day, artificial intelligence could take over from human intelligence completely. There is a "D" word in the maritime industry that won't be going away any time soon. It's the process of questioning existing methods and practices to make them more efficient with the use of digital technology. Although it's often associated with futuristic ideals, digitalisation is nothing new, the term has been around since the late 1950s, starting with digital computers and digital record keeping. Since then, we've accepted and embraced it, and have become steadily more dependent on it.

IBM is bringing its enterprise artificial intelligence assistant to IFTTT, paving the way for intelligent services that can do much more than tell users the weather or answer trivia questions, the companies announced on April 26. Watson Assistant, formerly Watson Conversation, made its official debut on March 20 during IBM's Think 2018 conference in Las Vegas. In addition to new analytics capabilities and features that allow developers to create more fluid and robust conversational interactions, the virtual assistant is now available in versions tailored to the automotive and hospitality industries. IFTTT, short for "If This, Then That," is a San Francisco technology firm whose web service enables users to automate tasks across various other services or cloud applications. Using applets, each with a set of conditional commands, users can trigger a chain of actions like automatically adding new iOS contacts to one's contact list on Google or use Google Assistant to post a note on Slack with one's voice.

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While the Genius of Things event in Boston is over, I'm still pondering. There are so many interesting ways that our customers are using Watson IoT to change the way we live and work. In addition to the great speakers, there were also some very impressive technology demonstrations that our partners and colleagues brought to the event. We did, when we stopped by to chat with the Persistent team. Persistent has been a leader in developing humanoid robots with Watson IoT.

Michelle Barbee-Vargas, Global Client Reference Manager for IBM Watson Internet of Things, gives us her impressions of the Genius of Things event in Boston earlier this month. I arrived in Boston fresh off the train from my small town early Wednesday morning excited to hear about what IBM and our clients are doing in the IoT space. As a Client Reference Manager my day consists of hearing about how our clients are transforming the world using Watson IoT solutions, and I was eager to see some of our work in action. After getting my badge and finding a seat, I made small talk with the person sitting next to me about how IoT is impacting every aspect of our lives. We talked about how amazing it is that companies are intelligently filtering and leveraging massive amounts of data in that pursuit. This ended up being a nice segue into the opening remarks, given by Deon Newman, Vice President of Marketing for Watson IoT.

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