In January, President Obama handed the reins to Joe Biden to head a "moonshot" initiative to cure cancer, and a major step toward that end has just been made. At the National Cancer Moonshot Summit on ...

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 ...

Jennings and Rutter played against Watson the following month at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The greatest "Jeopardy!" player of all time is moving to San Francisco -- a computer named Watson. Watson, an IBM super computer, was a fearsome opponent on the game show and ...

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 ...

IBM plans to introduce technologies from its Watson computer, which beat humans on the game show “Jeopardy,” for information-discovery use in enterprises. The company hopes that Watson’s underlying ...

One year after IBM’s Watson defeated two of the greatest champions in Jeopardy history, the supercomputer is taking a “job” on Wall Street helping banking giant Citigroup analyze data. It would be ...

IBM has made its Watson supercomputer available for developers and retailers to use in analysing data streams. The Watson Personality Insights service can help sectors such as retail, banking and ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — As smart as IBM’s Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn’t be able to hold a conversation with or speak intelligently to the ...