Told You So!

The IBM “supercomputer” Watson left its opponents, arguably the best Jeopardy players of all time, in the dust in last week’s competition. IBM engineers spent 4 years and dedicated computing power equal to 2800 desktop PCs to the effort. They ended up with a machine that learns as it ingests and “experiences” answers and successful questions (the Jeopardy format).

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New Partnership Provides New Study Tools

Data scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, are beginning a large-scale collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanography Institution (WHOI), utilizing a more than $2 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

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Expert System’s Semantic Approach Lands Framework Agreement

Semantic software provider, Expert System, has been awarded a framework agreement by Buying Solutions for Digital Continuity. The agreement has been developed and delivered in collaboration with The National Archives and consists of six Lots. Expert System will provide solutions for Lot 5, eDiscovery Solutions, for the mining of unstructured information.

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