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COVID-19 Symptom Evaluation App, Built with Watson, Becomes Call for Code Regional Finalist

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to spread, doctors and hospitals have been overwhelmed by anxious patients worried about a symptom and unclear on what COVID-19’s symptoms are or which warrant a visit to a medica Read more…

Inside IBM’s Rejiggered Watson Lineup

Think you know Watson? Think again, as IBM has made extensive changes to the lineup of AI and cognitive products and services that bears the name of its founder. Sumit Gupta, the VP of IBM's AI, machine learning, and HPC Read more…

Power Couple: IBM Joins PowerAI Hardware with Watson; Launches Multi-Hybrid AI Services

As IBM kicked off its annual Thinkconference, a high-production extravaganza this week in San Francisco, the company this morning made a series of AI-related announcements, including the merging of its PowerAI integrate Read more…

The Scent of an AI

"A fresh, fruity floral with an innovative twist in the top note." That's how master perfumer Dave Apel describes the first perfume created by artificial intelligence, which a Brazilian beauty company plans to start sell Read more…

IBM Challenges Amazon S3 with Cloud Object Store

IBM Thursday took the wraps off a new multi-tenant cloud-based object storage system that it claims is 25% cheaper than Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3). In addition to being cheaper, Big Blue claims its Read more…

Real Machine Intelligence Making its Way into the Enterprise

Hundreds of billions of dollars lies dormant in data. From retailers and healthcare providers to government agencies, untapped data has the ability to generate savings, drive efficiencies, and make entirely new paradigm- Read more…

IoT Seen Driving AI Adoption

While hardware vendors view it as another vehicle for selling more chips and servers that would allow enterprises to move processing power closer to data, the torrent of sensor and other information the Internet of Thing Read more…

New IBM Data Analytics Software Targets Workload Management, Spark Adoption

IBM announced additions today to the infrastructure layer of its high performance data analytics software portfolio, including “cognitive features,” such as scheduling and resource management, and capabilities aimed Read more…

Watson’s Take on the State of the Union

Every year, as the State of the Union address comes to a close, analysts, political correspondents and politicians alike come forward to offer unique take on the president’s speech. This year, however, one new voice is Read more…

Content Analytics Gets a Natural Language Boost

Natural language processing technology continues to be integrated with "data exploration" and content analytics as vendors seek to offer better tools designed to help enterprises tap into more data and leverage analytics Read more…

IBM Issues Challenge to Make Watson Mobile

Ever since Watson proved its mettle on the Jeopardy quiz show nearly three years ago, IBM has been actively working to commercialize the cognitive computing technology. Having just launched the IBM Watson Group as a separate unit inside of IBM last month, Big Blue now wants to put the power of Watson in the palm of your hand. Read more…

IBM Makes A $1-Billion Bet To Make Watson A Business

For the past two years, since its Watson question-answer system went on the Jeopardy! game show and beat the two best humans at this game, an IBM team with a few hundred people centered in Austin, Texas, has been working on ways to commercialize Watson and put it to work. With the launch of the Watson Group inside of IBM today in New York, Watson is entering its third phase, where IBM is investing $1 billion over several years to extend the technologies underpinning Watson and get them into mainstream products and services. Read more…

Watson Moves Into the Call Center

Today, IBM announced that their cognitive computer system and Jeopardy star, Watson, is expanding its reach from healthcare, across the enterprise, where IBM says customer service will be a priority. Read more…

Watson: Coming to a Cloud Near You

The cognitive computer known as Watson will soon be available as a service in the cloud. For now, we'll resist calling this "WaaS" and opt instead to point it as another step along the path of creating more robust, big data-ready cloud services. Read more…

Chaotic Nihilists and Semantic Idealists

Technology author and analyst, Alistair Croll, shares his ideas on the chaotic nihilists and semantic idealists who are shaping the big data conversation. The future of data is a blend of both semantics and algorithms, argues Croll, pointing to numerous examples of approaches in the ecosystem that are... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

In this Friday's roundup of some top news items during the week ending May 18 we take a brief look at how IBM Watson is being put to new use, how Caltech sought to address its storage limitations, see how insurance fraud is being targeted, and relay an interesting use case from an unexpected source.... Read more…

Mr. Watson Goes to Wall Street

IBM has already been able to establish a series of compelling use cases for Watson in healthcare, but if the price is right (and it seems like it could be in this case) financial services could be where the fruits of the massive IBM labor.... Read more…

Researchers Make the Analytics, Non-Profit Connection

For many non-profits, the era of big data means that the common tools of the trade for monitoring contributor movement are being outpaced by a growth in available info to fine-tune collections. This is the case with the international aid... Read more…

IBM Investing Billions in the Big Data Frontier

At a colloquium honoring Big Blue's centennial that explored the four frontiers in IT innovation, IBM's Senior Vice President and Director of Research, John Kelly III pointed to strategic investments in the coming years that emphasize R&D. Among these are big data and associated analytics as well as innovations in machine learning. Read more…

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