The arrival of the Watson system will enable new leading-edge research at Rensselaer, and afford faculty and students an opportunity to find new uses for Watson and deepen the systems' cognitivecapabilities.
Portrayed by Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (who's already had a blockbuster summer as Hawkeye in "The Avengers"), Cross is an agent with another government program called Outcome, which creates agents with medically enhanced cognitive and physical capabilities.
The next stage, said Mr Kinsella, would be what is termed "cognitive radio", a technology that has the same capabilities as SDR but also searches for and exploits bandwidth that is not being used.
And then cognitive computers capable of learning and sorting information will make sense of the waves of data and give us knowledge and capabilities we never thought possible.