In October, I had the good fortune to be an IBM Analytics Insider at IBM’s World of Watson event in Las Vegas. Almost 20,000 people attended, packing all three floors of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and the T-Mobile Arena to hear keynotes by such luminaries as Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman and IBM Chair and […]
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Making the next BIG discovery, with experts from Bayer, Elsevier, IBM Watson, & Harvard
The first time most people heard of Watson, IBM’s artificially intelligent computer, was when it won the quiz show Jeopardy against two brilliant former (human) champions in 2011. A few years later, Watson moved on to a more ambitious challenge: the cure for cancer. In partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine, Watson looked through […]