{"id":35872,"date":"2017-04-04T07:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/ibm-and-watson-ushering-in-a-new-age-of-computing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:28","slug":"ibm-and-watson-ushering-in-a-new-age-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/ibm-and-watson-ushering-in-a-new-age-of-computing","title":{"rendered":"IBM And Watson: Ushering In A New Age Of Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-and-watson-ushering-in-a-new-age-of-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/symbol\/ibm\">IBM<\/a>\u2019s cognitive computing system, exhibited phenomenal capabilities while competing on the television quiz show <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> in February 2011. The grand debut and triumph at <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> drew the world\u2019s attention to Watson, which achieved a milestone in artificial intelligence (AI) while denoting a new era in computing \u2013 a cognitive era. Six years later, Watson today seems to be everywhere, revolutionizing diverse industries while building IBM\u2019s cognitive future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cognitive Computing Explained <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The future of technology is radically different from the systems that have dominated the global IT industry for decades. New generation technologies are broadly grouped together using the terms AI and cognitive technologies. At IBM, these advanced techs are referred to as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/cognitive\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">cognitive<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/software\/IBMResearch\/multimedia\/Computing_Cognition_WhitePaper.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">defined<\/a> as \u201csystems that learn at scale, reason with purpose and interact with humans naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.nasdaq.com\/article\/ibm-and-watson-ushering-in-a-new-age-of-computing-cm769166\">http:\/\/m.nasdaq.com\/article\/ibm-and-watson-ushering-in-a-new...g-cm769166<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watson, IBM\u2019s cognitive computing system, exhibited phenomenal capabilities while competing on the television quiz show Jeopardy! in February 2011. The grand debut and triumph at Jeopardy! drew the world\u2019s attention to Watson, which achieved a milestone in artificial intelligence (AI) while denoting a new era in computing \u2013 a cognitive era. Six years later, Watson [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58190,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35872\/revisions\/58190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}