Our humanity isn’t some separate thing from business and technology. We need integrative thinking.
In business, we use econometric terms like goods and services and profit. But what if we think about goods in terms of some real goodness we can bring to another person? What if we think about services truly as acts of service to others. Then profit becomes less an end to itself, and more of a feedback mechanism for the goodness we bring and service we do.
This is our mindset in this collaborative exercise of bridging research to real world impact. In a world increasingly overtaken with technology, it’s our humanness that will define the character of our shared future.
Mark Weber presents on lab-to-market innovation at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
At a special gathering for IBM’s top clients in 2021, we emphasized how foundation models were the next big thing in AI.
Mark Weber presents research on graph convolutional networks for anti-money laundering and other applications.
Innovation Strategy Workshops are a valuable exercise when commercializing new technologies. At IBM Research, we developed a modern framework rooted in the scientific method — Study, Hypothesize, Test, and Iterate — and supported numerous Fortune 500 companies in their innovation agenda. I now utilize this framework with member companies of the MIT Media Lab, aspiring startup founders, and others upon request.
Subgraph representation learning is a technique for analyzing local structures (or shapes) within complex networks. To enable work in this space, we introduce Elliptic2, the largest publicly available real-world dataset for subgraph learning. Read more in Wired and in our paper, The Shape of Money Laundering: Subgraph Representation Learning on the Blockchain with the Elliptic2 Dataset.
In our award winning Management Science paper, we examine the financing benefits of supply chain transparency and blockchain adoption. This work grew out of a collaboration with the Mexican government and involved field research in Mexico and Ukraine (pictured above from 2018).
Fighting poverty is big business. But who profits the most?
Poverty, Inc. is a hard-hitting, critically acclaimed film examining the complexity of international development. Drawing from over 200 interviews filmed in 20 countries, the film unearths an uncomfortable side of charity we can no longer ignore.
Did you know we have a motorcycle gang?
One of my great joys and honors is serving as an advisor to the Harambe Alliance of African Entrepreneurs, which has given birth to multiple unicorn startups from the continent and many more impactful leaders.
“Remember when you knew for sure you could not do it, but stepped forward all the same until you did.”
From the Grand Canyon to the Camino and the Bear 100, ultramarathon running has become much more than a sport to me.
Moto-backpacking across the American west.