IBM Watson
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IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language.[1] It was developed as a part of IBM's DeepQA project by a research team, led by principal investigator David Ferrucci.[2] Watson was named after IBM's founder and first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson.[3][4]
Operators | IBM |
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Location | Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA |
Architecture | 2,880 POWER7 processor threads |
Memory | 16 terabytes of RAM |
Speed | 80 teraFLOPS |
Website | IBM Watson |
The computer system was initially developed to answer questions on the popular quiz show Jeopardy![5] and in 2011, the Watson computer system competed on Jeopardy! against champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings,[3][6] winning the first-place prize of 1 million USD.[7]
In February 2013, IBM announced that Watson's first commercial application would be for utilization management decisions in lung cancer treatment, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, in conjunction with WellPoint (now Elevance Health).[8]