IBM Watson, AI computer system, IBM, Armonk, New York, USA

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Developer - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Website - ibm.com/watson

twitter.com/IBMWatson

IBM Watson on Wikipedia

Watsonx, AI platform

Watson Assistant, AI assistant

Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer - Rob Thomas

Co-creator - David Ferrucci

Team Lead Watson Game Strategy and Knowledge Capture and Learning groups, February 2005 – September 2012 - David Gondek

Projects:

Watson Media's Video Highlights

IBM Watson Internet of Things

CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN), mobile and autonomous assistance system

Lucy, cognitive assistant for marketers

Rakuten AI Platform, internal Rakuten system which will introduce chatbots with automatic response functions into customer support

Watson Beat, musical project

TJBot, open source project designed to help you access Watson Services in a fun way

Project Intu, platform designed to enable embodied cognitive functions in IoT devices

IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a Cognitive Computing Competition

Connie, hotel concierge robot

Jill Watson, AI-powered teaching assistant

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Article "IBM Watson Engagement Advisor hopes to improve customer service"

May 22, 2013

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IBM's "Watson" in Layman's Terms by Dr. Eric W. Brown

Published on Feb 25, 2013

Last Thursday, Feb 21, 2013, Dr. Eric W. Brown from the IT giant IBM came to visit Helsinki, giving an introduction lecture on "Watson". Named after the founder of the company, Watson is a computing system, which took part on the American quiz show Jeopardy! against two human champions -- and won. What it is all about and what's the future of it? Vapa Media asked Dr. Brown to explain it to the camera.

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Cookin' with Watson | Engadget at SXSW 2014

Published on Mar 10, 2014

Here at SXSW, IBM set up a "Cognitive Cooking" food truck in partnership with the Institute for Culinary Education (ICE). Using Watson's recipe system, which combines three elements (ingredient, cuisine and type of dish) to create unconventional new fare.

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Hungry? IBM's Watson can help cook

Published on Mar 10, 2014

IBM's supercomputer nicknamed Watson is at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas this week, but it's not competing on a TV quiz show, rather it's helping chefs come up with unique, personalized recipes.

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SXSW 2014: IBM Cognitive Cooking Demo

Published on Jul 8, 2014

Cognitive Cooking is a IBM Watson project that uses a vast database of ingredients and human tastes to create recipes.

Read about it:

"SXSW 2014: IBM Demonstrates Cognitive-Cooking Food Truck"
As our computers grow increasingly intelligent, one disturbing question is whether they will be able to replicate even leaps of inspiration from the human mind. Here at SXSW, we found a supercomputer that tackled an as-yet untouched aspect of human brilliance: cooking.

by Davey Alba
March 8, 2014