Editor's note: This is a guest post from Tilak Agerwala, Vice President, Systems, IBM Research.The IBM POWER7 processor behind Watson is specifically designed to meet the demands of workloads, like IBM’s DeepQA natural language processing technology. POWER7 is an ideal system for running thousands of analytical tasks at once, which is what the Watson Deep QA software requires. In order to answer
Monday, 27 December 2010
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
IBM computer system a scientific achievement in natural language processing
Posted on 05:21 by Unknown
Editor's note: This is a guest post from Charles Lickel, Vice President, Software, IBM Research.The IBM Watson computer system, named after company founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr. catapults data analysis by understanding the nuances of "natural language" that humans use every day. A breakthrough in the scientific field of DeepQA – a field aimed at furthering computing intelligence – when we
Monday, 13 December 2010
Congratulations to IBM's newly appointed ACM Fellows
Posted on 16:01 by Unknown
Each year, around 40 world leaders in science and technology are part of an elite group that are selected to be named ACM Fellows. The distinction of ACM Fellow comes to those achieving accomplishments that are driving the innovations necessary to sustain competitiveness in the digital age. ACM Fellows are born out of the world's leading universities, corporations and research labs and serve as
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
IBM scientist becomes a Humboldtian
Posted on 01:19 by Unknown
Dr. David DiVincenzo, a quantum physicist from the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt International Award for Research in Germany. Named for the German naturalist and explorer, winners of the award, also know as Humboldtian's, will have access to a grant worth up to five million Euros to conduct cutting-edge research at German
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