IBM is preparing to give third parties access to its Watson supercomputer with the aim of spurring the growth of applications that take advantage of the system's artificial intelligence capabilities.

I’m pretty sure IBM’s new supercomputer is out to take my job. The machine, codenamed Watson, is under development at IBM’s research labs and on its way to becoming a contestant on ...

IBM’s supercomputer Watson — known for winning Jeopardy! in 2011 — is headed to Africa, the company announced Thursday. IBM plans to invest $100 million in a 10-year initiative to use Watson ...

IBM's newest research project, Watson, is a supercomputer that can analyze and -- somewhat -- understand natural language.

Technology Watson turns medic: Supercomputer to diagnose disease. More than a year after it won the quiz show Jeopardy!, IBM’s supercomputer is learning how to help doctors diagnose patients. By ...

Watson, the cognitive computer that can be an expert in any subject, is moving to the cloud, and will soon be accessible via smartphone app By Paul Marks 28 April 2014 ...

IBM’s Watson supercomputer might have crushed the puny likes of Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, but it was no match for former physicist and New Jersey congressman Rush Holt.

Along with Watson, the Grand Challenges have spawned Deep Blue, the machine that famously beat grand master Garry Kasparov at chess, and the Blue Gene supercomputer. In the mid-2000s, IBM was on ...

Internal IBM documents show its Watson supercomputer made multiple "unsafe and incorrect" cancer treatment recommendations as IBM was promoting the product.

IBM’s Watson supercomputer is about to begin work evaluating evidence-based cancer treatment options that can be delivered to the physician in a matter of seconds for assessment. IBM and ...

IBM has been applying Watson’s machine learning — or “cognitive computing” — technology to domains such as health care, but now the company is ready to share Watson with the broader world.