Comments on: How Watson works: a conversation with Eric Brown, IBM Research Manager

By: eldras

eldras — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:31:13 +0000

This is being debated on the Forums here @ present which includes ibm’s latest public film on Watson

By: Watson Isn’t the Future of the Interactive Fiction Parser | Live Granades

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:50:48 +0000

[...] the IBM program that beat two top Jeopardy! champions, is an eye-catching advance in natural language and reason-engine-style processing. It crushed its two human competitors at reading answers, teasing out the clues in those answers, [...]

By: Understanding ‘Watson’ and the Age of Analytics | simplesitetutorials.org

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:58:24 +0000

[...] According to Dr. Eric Brown, an IBM research manager who works with Watson (whose core technology is called “DeepQA,” for “deep question-answering”), Watson is not listening to Trebek when he’s reading the clue. So speech recognition is not involved. Instead, Watson is taking a snapshot of the clue when it’s revealed and processing words. Now doesn’t that sound familiar? (You can read the Kurzweil website interview with Brown, from which the quotes in this article are taken, here.) [...]

By: POWER7 vs. Ken and Brad « benchmarkingblog

POWER7 vs. Ken and Brad « benchmarkingblog — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:31:41 +0000

[...] much already written around this event and we are counting down the days. But have you heard about the actual system being used and its performance? Let’s take a closer [...]

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Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:26:50 +0000

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