Now that IBM's Watson supercomputer has proved itself to be better than humans at Jeopardy, it's time to put it to work in a more productive setting: the healthcare industry. Watson's ability to parse ...

It got famous on Jeopardy! and has been keeping its head down "going to med school" in hospitals like Memorial Sloan-Kettering. But now Watson, IBM's "commercial cognitive computer system," is ...

It's man versus machine on Jeopardy!, as two of the game show's most successful players compete against an IBM supercomputer four years in the making. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter will take on the IBM ...

Hard to believe, but it's now been six years since IBM's Watson competed (and won) on Jeopardy and, soon thereafter, was one of the big splashes at HIMSS11, where Big Blue announced a partnership with ...

Natural language problem solving could be applied to any number of disciplines. In UC, I think it can spur advancements in social networking. I'm a big time Jeopardy fan, so I was planted squarely in ...

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City announced a collaboration with IBM to develop a decision support tool using Watson, the computer system famous for its victory over a human on ...

Health insurer WellPoint is expected to announce a partnership today with Watson technology — the IBM data-crunching software featured on “Jeopardy!” in January — to help physicians diagnose and ...