
IBM doubles down on health with Watson
IBM doubles down on health with Watson: Hot off its Jeopardy win, IBM’s clever Watson quickly started looking for problems that might help Big Blue recoup some of the project’s development costs. Healthcare was one obvious area, with relatively constrained sets of problems, copious data to ingest and understand, and oodles (a technical term) of […]

Why IBM’s Watson Computer is Still a Moron
“The computer is a moron” – Peter Drucker Computer programming technology is still dominated by “if – then” logic. That means computers are still using logic (human programmed) to determine the answer to a question which must be part of a pool of answers. If the answers are not in the pool, the computer will […]