Officials with IBM and RPI say Watson's college tenure also will prepare RPI students for jobs in cognitive science and "big data, " a field where demand is quickly outpacing supply.
If the shy or the scatterbrained take cognitive enhancers, it is not obvious whether this is levelling their playing field or giving them an unfair advantage.
Some friends of mine in the cognitive science world agreed this could make some sense, as when one is a novice in a field, you have limited working memory about the topic.