Yorktown Heights-based IBM plans to help
scientists fight COVID-19 through its high-powered supercomputers.
Dario Gil, director of IBM Research, is spearheading a global
consortium to share coronavirus data worldwide.
Artificial intelligence and supercomputers are one aspect to
research as they can measure
compliance like mask wearing and social distancing.
The data can produce a snapshot of how the COVID-19 pandemic may
look in six months.
"We take those decisions and how they connect to future
incident rates, future cases. As we gather more statistics, we can see what may
happen based on the choices we make as a society of how we behave,” says Gil.
The director also tells News 12 the data has the ability to help
researchers navigate future pandemics.