Watson

What Watson Will Be Studying at RPI - Posted March 7, 2013
James Hendler recently discussed what the arrival of Watson at RPI will mean for the growing technology. He writes, "The Watson program is already a breakt... [semanticweb.com]

James Hendler on the Arrival of Watson at RPI - Posted February 4, 2013
Friend of SemanticWeb.com Dr. James Hendler recently shared his perspective on the arrival of Watson at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: "Every single stu... [semanticweb.com]

Watson is Coming to RPI - Posted February 1, 2013
IBM will provide Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a modified version of Watson, making RPI the first university to receive the technology. The article states, "The arrival of the ... [semanticweb.com]

The Cyborgs are Coming: Futuristic Patents at IBM - Posted January 16, 2013
Brian Jackson recently discussed three of IBM's latest patents that could, as he puts it, "be used to create a futuristic cyborg." Jackson explains, "Well, it's possible. Out of the ... [semanticweb.com]

Watson Teams Up with the Cleveland Clinic - Posted November 1, 2012
IBM recently announced "the formation of a collaboration to advance Watson's use in the medical training field. The I... [semanticweb.com]

IBM's Watson Gets to Work - Posted August 7, 2012
IBM reports that the company is putting Watson to work: "Watson's cognitive capabilities were designed to take on the real-world challenges of Big Data across a range of industries. From the outset, the aim was to put ... [semanticweb.com]

How Watson Works - Posted April 23, 2012
Ivan Herman recently offered some insight into how Watson actually works. Herman reports, "I was at Chris Welty's keynote yesterday at the ... [semanticweb.com]

Watson Suits Up For Wall Street Gig - Posted March 7, 2012
Watson's gone into banking: Citi is evaluating ways that IBM's Deep QA technology can help advance digital banking efforts, through analysis of customer needs and processing tons of up-to-the-minute financial, economic, product and client data, according to a ... [semanticweb.com]

The Future World Is A Semantic Tech World - Posted February 13, 2012
[caption id="attachment_26664" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image Courtesy: Flickr/substack"][/caption] A new report from the Institute for Global Futures, Global Futures Forecast 2012, lays out the top trends that it believes will shape the coming year. It's looking ahead to a future that it says may be characterized by complex trends,... [AllTwitter]

The Future World Is A Semantic Tech World - Posted February 13, 2012
[caption id="attachment_26664" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image Courtesy: Flickr/substack"][/caption] A new report from the Institute for Global Futures, Global Futures Forecast 2012, lays out the top trends that it believes will shape the coming year. It's looking ahead to a future that it says may be characterized by complex trends,... [semanticweb.com]

Big Data For Lean Startups, Or, A Poor Man's Watson - Posted January 18, 2012
What do big companies have that most emerging businesses don't have to help them get value from Big Data? Well, to start with, there's lots of money and a ton of technology resources. Never fear. At the upcoming Semantic Tech & Business conference in Berlin, Christopher Testa... [semanticweb.com]

Semantic Tech in 2011: The Year In Highlights - Posted December 21, 2011
To accompany our recent podcast looking back on 2011, we've accumulated some additional perspectives from thought leaders in the next-wave Web space on the year that's quickly passing us by. Some highlights follow. You'll see respondents hit on some common themes thro... [AllTwitter]

Semantic Tech in 2011: The Year In Highlights - Posted December 21, 2011
To accompany our recent podcast looking back on 2011, we've accumulated some additional perspectives from thought leaders in the next-wave Web space on the year that's quickly passing us by. Some highlights follow. You'll see respondents hit on some common themes thro... [semanticweb.com]

New Paper: Toward a Basic Profile for Linked Data - Posted December 9, 2011
IBM recently published a technical paper entitled Toward a Basic Profile for Linked Data. In the introduction, ... [10,000 Words]

Great Jobs in Semantics - Posted March 23, 2011
IBM is looking for a Research Staff Member for their Semantic Analysis and Integration Department in Hawthorne, NY "to work on research and applications of intel... [semanticweb.com]

Patent, Patent, Digital Reasoning's Got a Text Discovery Patent - Posted March 18, 2011
Are you starting to hear more about patents that relate to the Semantic Web space? There was an interesting discussion by Erik Sherman here on Facebook's patent for automatic search curation as feeding its semantic search ambitions, for instance. Generally speaking, in fact, patents are big in the news, with the passage... [AllTwitter]

Patent, Patent, Digital Reasoning's Got a Text Discovery Patent - Posted March 18, 2011
Are you starting to hear more about patents that relate to the Semantic Web space? There was an interesting discussion by Erik Sherman here on Facebook's patent for automatic search curation as feeding its semantic search ambitions, for instance. Generally speaking, in fact, patents are big in the news, with the passage... [semanticweb.com]

Hey Watson, Toronto's In Canada! - Posted February 15, 2011
Probably the most surprising moment on tonight's edition of Jeopardy! featuring Watson was the final round. The smartest computer on the planet answered, "What is Toronto?" to a statement about the U.S. city whose largest airports were named after World War II heroes and battles. How'd he (it,... [AllTwitter]

Watson Ties For First Place in First Round of Jeopardy! Challenge - Posted February 14, 2011
The team at IBM responsible for Watson must be feeling pretty good about its work right now - and rightly so. On the first day of the Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge, Watson tied fo... [semanticweb.com]