Monday, February 11, 2013
IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare from Forbes: Over the past two years, IBM’s researchers have shrunk Watson from the size of a master bedroom to a pizza-box-sized server that can fit in any data center. And they improved its processing speed by 240%. Now what was once was a fun computer-science experiment in natural language processing is becoming a real business for IBM and Wellpoint, which is the exclusive reseller of the technology for now. Initial customers include WestMed Practice Partners and the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine & Blood Disorders. […] [read more] [via reddit] [Image by Clockready / Wikimedia Commons]

IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare

from Forbes:

Over the past two years, IBM’s researchers have shrunk Watson from the size of a master bedroom to a pizza-box-sized server that can fit in any data center. And they improved its processing speed by 240%. Now what was once was a fun computer-science experiment in natural language processing is becoming a real business for IBM and Wellpoint, which is the exclusive reseller of the technology for now. Initial customers include WestMed Practice Partners and the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine & Blood Disorders. […]

[read more] [via reddit]

[Image by Clockready / Wikimedia Commons]

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