Mayo Clinic and IBM today announced plans to pilot Watson, the IBM cognitive computer, to match patients more quickly with appropriate clinical trials, beginning with research studies in can... Read more
Can extract information from Wikipedia, “understand” it, and reason from that information, IBM claims “Can a computer with access to large bodies of information like Wikipedia ex... Read more
A hydrogel that knows when to go Rice University bioengineers have created a hydrogel that instantly turns from liquid to semisolid at close to body temperature – and then degrades at precis... Read more
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
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
The SafetyNet system tackles the problem of overfishing by providing escape exits for juvenile and non-target fish caught up in commercial fishing nets For the past month, the judges have be... 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