In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot. Specifically, the massive gamble he took in 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential to ...

Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information designed to help speed diagnoses and ...

IBM’s Watson computer is increasingly being used in heathcare, analyzing the big data created by organizations to better improve healthcare delivery. Here are four developments on Watson’s role in ...

That day, IBM’s Watson supercomputer finished off a three-game shellacking of Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Trailing by over $30,000, Jennings, now the show’s host, wrote out his ...

Open source software such as Lucene and Linux played a crucial role in IBM’s Jeopardy computer The software that helped IBM’s Watson computer reign victorious on the Jeopardy game show in February ...

First Watson won 'Jeopardy!' and now it's coming to your iPhone app. In this file photo, visitors check out a slimmed down version of the IBM Watson supercomputer at IBM's stand at the CeBIT ...

If you have seen any of the video of its preliminary bouts on Jeopardy! you know that IBM’s Watson computer is pretty amazing. One of the main reasons it turns out is that IBM enlisted the ...

NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Fourteen U.S. and Canadian cancer institutes will use International Business Machines Corp's Watson computer system to choose therapies based on a tumor's genetic ...

Remember the date. Because February 16, 2011, may likely go down in history as the day that human intelligence was surpassed -- or at least matched -- by the intelligence of computers and software ...