The idea, basically, is that the projects are too expensive and high-risk for one company, and that Amgen will contribute manufacturing expertise while Watson will deliver marketing know-how.
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Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx and Emma Watson will receive special awards during Sunday night's two-hour broadcast.
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.
ENGADGET: Cleveland Clinic and IBM team up to make Watson a Doctor (video)
Watson will likely be invaluable for integrating new medical data and published content in the medical literature.
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Watson will remain in Ipswich for two days before rejoining the Australia team before Friday's second match in Hobart.
Watson will market and distribute the product in the U.S., and Pfizer will receive a share of the net sales.
Medical students will interact with Watson on challenging cases as part of a problem-based learning curriculum and in hypothetical clinical simulations.
ENGADGET: Cleveland Clinic and IBM team up to make Watson a Doctor (video)
Watson will be playing against Rutter and Jennings in another game Wednesday night, which offers humanity a chance to redeem itself.
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And thus things like Watson will be able to spread more quickly.
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Watson will play Peng, the world number 72, on Thursday for a place in the semi-finals against defending champion Wickmayer or Simona Halep.
Over time, the expectation is that Watson will get "smarter" about medical language and how to assemble good chains of evidence from available content.
ENGADGET: Cleveland Clinic and IBM team up to make Watson a Doctor (video)
Students will help improve Watson's language and domain analysis capabilities by judging the evidence it provides and analyzing its answers within the domain of medicine.
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When the 24-hour lightning tour ends early Wednesday afternoon, Watson will have made at least eight television appearances and that many more on the radio.
Through engagement with this education tool and Watson, medical students and Watson will benefit from each other's strengths and expertise to both learn and improve their collaborative performance.
ENGADGET: Cleveland Clinic and IBM team up to make Watson a Doctor (video)
After several iterations and teaching the machine what answers are accurate, it is expected that Watson will develop enough expertise to assist a doctor in a practical situation.
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Conservative councillor Alastair Watson will look after education.
In summary, Precision Medicine, defined as rules (algorithm) based medicine by Clayton Christensen seems on the horizon, where medicine and drug discovery will ultimately be supported by intelligent systems (compare Watson) that will enable completely new therapeutic concepts, not least with the advent of mobileICT-based companion (monitoring)diagnostics.
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With three days to go, Australia will keep fighting, but the big guns of Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey and Shane Watson, will need to produce something magnificent if they are to stay in this Ashes series.
It'll also be the new global HQ for IBM's Commerce business, which will focus on bringing Watson's capabilities to retailers and more consumer-focused companies.
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Pfizer will be manufacturing one of the no-name Lipitors, the so-called authorized generic, that will be sold by Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Regardless, an authorized generic from Watson Pharmaceuticals will launch on that date.
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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It's a system that has been trialled in the UK for the last two years, and one that Watson hopes will improve donation rates.
As part of a Shared University Research Award granted by IBM Research, the company will provide Rensselaer with Watson hardware, software and support services.
Ponting and Australia coach Tim Nielsen have spoken to Haddin, Johnson and Watson and will also now also speak to the rest of the squad.
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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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' cognitive capabilities.
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It is the software advancements achieved during the development of Watson that will be most beneficial to IBM, rather than the addition of new and more powerful POWER7 processors to its portfolio.
In a sign of the increasing hunger among drug giants to get in on the potentially lucrative market for copycats of expensive biotechnology drug, Amgen, the largest standalone biotechnology company, and generic firm Watson Pharmaceuticals will collaborate on developing copycate medicines for cancer.
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