Watson may have won Jeopardy, but the supercomputer’s real-world uses–in medicine, education, and beyond–are only now coming into play. Terrell Jones, the founder of Travel... Read more
Intelligence is a subjective word. For instance, if a computer can beat a human chess grand master, does that represent intelligence? That was a grand challenge that was designed in the 1960... Read more
Linguists, computer scientists use TACC supercomputers to improve natural language processing It’s not hard to tell the difference between the “charge” of a battery and cri... Read more
Ushering in a new era of cognitive computing systems, IBM today unveiled the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor Delivered From the Cloud and Into the Hands of Mobile Consumers, Watson Provides Fa... Read more
Watson could, for example, provide a list of likely diagnoses, or a list of potential treatments IBM’s Watson frequently had the right answer when the supercomputer competed on Jeopardy last... Read more
What makes Watson work? Is it thinking? And what does that mean? Author Stephen Baker provides the answers Earlier this month, the nation watched as Watson, a computer system designed by IBM... Read more
IT WAS not quite a foregone conclusion, but all the smart money was on the machine. Since the first rehearsal over a year ago, it had become apparent that Watson—a supercomputer built by IBM... Read more
IN the category “What Do You Know?”, for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything in existence and it means to... Read more