History repeated itself in 2011, when IBM Watson defeated at the game of Jeopardy!
The IBM supercomputer Watson beating humans at Jeopardy is a recent example of how they have applied research.
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IBM's Watson supercomputer is to help train doctors at a medical school in Cleveland, Ohio.
Craig Rhinehart explained in his IBM blog, Watson is a step beyond search to something called Question Answering (QA).
But in 1973, when then IBM chairman Thomas Watson Jr. suggested that design drove sales, he was putting forth a provocative assertion.
Apparently, IBM has put Watson to work treating cancer.
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On September 21, 1953, IBM CEO Tom Watson, Jr. sent a letter to his management team stating that the company would hire the best people for positions, regardless of their race.
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IBM's Watson supercomputer can field an awkwardly worded question, figure out what you're trying to ask, retrieve the answer and spit it out fast enough to beat human champions on the TV quiz show "Jeopardy!"
We heard almost a year ago that Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center had turned to IBM's Watson as a tool to help doctors provide the best cancer treatment recommendations, and it looks like those plans are now starting to be put into practice.
It's rare to find a dictatorial leader like Thomas Watson Sr. of IBM who could engineer the appointment of his son as chief executive, as he did in 1956 even though the Watson family at the time owned only a small percentage of IBM's stock.
Watson has been gaining knowledge in the field of medicine, and Cleveland Clinic with IBM recognized the opportunity for Watson to interact with medical students to help explore a wide variety of learning challenges facing the medical industry today.
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Or computers, computer programs perhaps like Siri from Apple or Watson from IBM.
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In May 2011 IBM had already trained Watson to have the knowledge of a second-year medical student.
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By comparison, IBM's massive Watson computer, which beat two human rivals on "Jeopardy!"
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.
What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM in the early 1950s on mainframe computers or the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft in the mid-1990s on Windows if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) in the early 1950s on mainframe computers, the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) in the mid-1990s on Windows, if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?
The original Watson remains at IBM's Research Headquarters in Westchester County, about 100 miles south of the school.
As part of a Shared University Research (SUR) Award granted by IBM Research, IBM will provide Rensselaer with Watson hardware, software and training.
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Is that another way of saying we will all have access to Watson, the IBM computer that won Jeopardy, in whatever we do?
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We're at IBM's HQ in upstate NY, where IBM will pit its monstrous Watson project (in the middle buzzer spot) against two Jeopardy greats, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
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Speaking at the 2011 High Performance Computing for Wall Street, Edward Epstein of IBM Research, explained that Watson was designed to work with natural language content and deep analysis drawing on all the available content.
Your story about Mr Watson the founder of IBM was noteworthy for bucking the current trend about lay offs and warehousing finished product.
During a viewing of the tape of the show earlier today, David Ferrucci, the IBM manager who heads up the Watson project, explained that Jeopardy!
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The Watson system developed by IBM Research is a key innovation in this space, and over a hundred partners have adopted its Big Data platform already.
The IBM team of researchers that created Watson will work with Cleveland Clinic clinicians, faculty and medical students to enhance the capabilities of Watson's Deep Question Answering technology for the area of medicine.
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To date it has played 55 games but IBM is keeping mum about how well Watson performed.
Jon Iwata, senior vice president for IBM marketing and communications, says that Watson can ask the right questions and then select the right answers and do it very, very quickly.
It came to market in the 1960s and surpassed the hopes of IBM's very own CEO, Thomas Watson Jr.
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