Toshiba’s CTO Shares His Vision: The Cyber and the Physical–Part 2
Original article is hosted here. In today’s world, everything is connected through the internet. We have reached a point where using AI technology in cyber space can create value, and where major business opportunities can be found not only in analyzing data on consumption and other human behavior, but also from objects found in the […]
Toshiba’s CTO Shares His Vision: The Cyber and the Physical–Part 1
Original article is hosted here. Internet search, SNS communications, cloud-based storage of photos and movies, e-commerce and other on-line services, most of them developed by Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (the GAFA companies), have become indispensable to daily life. However, our lives do not move forward simply through cyberspace activities that exist solely on servers and […]
Toshiba Launches Brand-Building Global Advertising Campaign
Tokyo—Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) is launching a worldwide corporate advertising campaign to promote its rebranding under a new global identity. Inspired by the “Essence of Toshiba,” the July 2018 restatement of its purpose and values, and driven by the slogan “For a new day,” the video-based campaign will be rolled out in TV commercials, internet […]
Toshiba’s New Global Brand Identity to Promote Growth and Development
–Introduces “Essence of Toshiba,” a statement of values and guiding principles– TOKYO– Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has today unveiled a new global brand identity the “Essence of Toshiba,” a restatement of its abiding purpose and values. The Essence of Toshiba replaces Toshiba’s previous Group Management Vision, Brand Statement and Brand Tagline. The Essence of Toshiba […]
Generating Power from a Waterfall Only as Tall as a Man: Micro Hydro Broadens the Appeal of Hydropower
Mounting concerns about environment degradation are accelerating adoption of many and various renewable energy systems around the world, with solar, wind, and biomass power among the more familiar. However, the largest single source of emission-free, renewable electricity worldwide is hydroelectric power, which harnesses the power of moving water to generate electricity. The key advantages of […]
Bringing the New AI Era to Life – The Researchers Creating Toshiba’s Technologies
Our previous three articles introduced how Toshiba applies AI at Yokkaichi Operations, in an image recognition LSI, and in communications. These technologies all originated at Toshiba’s Corporate Research and Development Center. Osamu Hori, the Director of the Center, has been closely involved with image recognition research throughout much of his career, which is interwoven with […]
Toshiba’s Communication AI: Evolving AI-related Technologies Long Cultivated by Toshiba
AI Supports Human Communication Like Human Does In an age where technology advances at an ever faster pace, we now generate vast amounts of data each and every day. To store it, we have driven forward progress in storage to realize exabyte-level data centers—that’s an 8 followed by 18 zeros—and to mine and use this […]
Toshiba Artificial Photosynthesis
Converting CO2 into Ethylene Glycol Among Mother Nature’s many wonders, Toshiba researchers focused on photosynthesis — a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms’ activities (energy transformation). In other words, plants are able to synthesize food directly from carbon dioxide […]
AI Contributes to Cutting Car Accidents: Toshiba’s Image Recognition LSI
Figures from WHO* show that almost 1.25 million people die in car accidents every year. As more cars come onto the world’s roads, it’s a figure that’s likely to grow. But automobile manufacturers are responding, by building increasingly advanced capabilities into their vehicles. This includes collision avoidance technology that automatically stops cars to avoid accidents. […]
Toshiba to the World ~AI’s Social Optimization~
Toshiba, the traditional AI CompanyArtificial intelligence, AI, is an often heard buzzword in the world of IT, and it gets a lot of media coverage for things like “singing-chatting robots” and the interactive personal assistants on our smartphones. But what exactly is AI? Definitions usually center on making computers or systems do things that humans […]
