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Bert Latamore
Q3: Now that IBM Watson is its own business unit, how does that enable the technology to grow?
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Bert Latamore
Will this mean increased resources for Watson?
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Adrian Bowles
I thought this was a huge announcement - my take here http://youtu.be/hb797MewsHo
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John Sing
It certain seems increased resources , forming the IBM Watson Group clearly has fostered noticeable uptick in multiple Watson external job postings/hirings
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Adrian Bowles
The focus on Watson from Ginni ensures resources...and demands results.
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jameskobielus
A3: #cloudchat #IBM has been growing #Watson from the start through deep investments in R&D, partner enablement, prof services, and so forth. New Watson Solutions Division assumes those responsibilities & deepens Watson footprint throughout our portfolio.
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John Furrier
I think that Watson has the potential to change the game on the use of data. We call this #datafirst strategy where data is the critical input for applications and infrastructure. Watson is poised to impact the notion of systems and data
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Zach Small
this is a significant strategic move for a company the size of IBM. By centralizing all of the resources around Watson into one business unit, our product development cycle will improve drastically
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Adrian Bowles
The Nov announcement (about the ecosystem) was important - it's an ecosystem economy more than an API economy
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jameskobielus
A3: #cloudchat By being its own business unit, the Watson team is also growing the technology by bringing in new customers and thereby boosting Watson's contribution to our bottom line.
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Bert Latamore
Does being in the Watson BU help focus attention and eliminate distractions from other IBM projects for BU members?
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jameskobielus
Actually, we want to encourage those "distractions" from other IBM business units. Our push with Watson is founded on bringing its DeepQA/cognitive computing technologies into our full portfolio of business analytics, big data, and info mgt offerings.
Bert Latamore
Q4: It’s been 3 years since IBM Watson appeared on Jeopardy!. What do you think is its most significant contribution thus far?
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Adrian Bowles
driving awareness of the potential of cognitive computing. also, building the first commercial cognitive computing ecosystem
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Zach Small
without a doubt it is the progress that we are bringing to the healthcare space. Watson is able to optimize individual treatment plans and save doctors significant time with medical research
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Adrian Bowles
the technical contributions in healthcare are big, but the business implications are already huge.
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IBM Cloud
Not sure about most significant, but the work it's doing with brain cancer are fascinating: http://onforb.es/1hwr1WF
IBM's Watson Attempts To Tackle The Genetics Of Brain Cancer
This morning, IBM and the New York Genome Center announced a partnership to test whether Watson, the computer that won on Jeopardy, can sift through the genomes of cancer patients and help doctors pick drugs. This effort could hold the key to making ...
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Adrian Bowles
if you are building enterprise apps today & haven't considered the role of CC, you're late. (IMHO)
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IBM Watson
Our recent partnership with the NY Genome Center is an important step towards improving oncology research through gene sequencing
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jameskobielus
A4: #cloudchat #IBM #Watson most significant contribution so far is in demonstrating not only that we deliver innov R&D from the labs into apps with astonishing speed, but also that we take commercializing one step further: competitive differentiation.
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Adrian Bowles
all the oncology work is great, big strides in efficiency soon to be overshadowed by effectiveness gains
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jameskobielus
A4: #cloudchat What impresses me, as a person who came to IBM from the analyst world, is how thorough and systematic its approach in Watson productization has been. All deliberate speed.
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John Sing
Providing base validation of the architecture of Watson cognitive computing, foundation for Watson 2.0+, i.e. multiple users, scale towards internet scale. Watson / Jeopardy was single user, text only
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John Furrier
To me interviewing IBM and other data scientists is the predictive nature of the software. Collective intelligence in understanding the how to use the data. Compute is not the issue.
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John Furrier
just because a company has data doesn't mean it can be "gold". Jeff Jonas talks about "observation space" and shift horizontal and that is the promise of Watson imho
Bert Latamore
Q9: What will IBM Watson be able to do in 5 years?
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Adrian Bowles
Win Buffet’s Billion for the NCAA Bracket challenge?
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John Furrier
@ajbowles I had to go all "black swan" and pick some wildcards. Had Syracuse going all the way winning
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Natalia Christenson
as the field of cognitive computing develops and becomes more comprehensive, Watson's capacities will continue to expand into new areas. Every aspect of human cognition will be able to be extended through #IBMWatson
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jameskobielus
A9: #cloudchat Well, I'm not in Watson Solutions Division, so I can only give U my personal wishlist. Even Watson product people cant give that long-range a roadmap. I've never met an IT product person in my life who plans THAT far ahead (& executes on it)
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Bert Latamore
Pilot the first manned ship to Jupiter?
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Crowd Doc
IBM Watson answering on #CrowdChat using its social handles!
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John Furrier
My prediction is that Watson will move the neddle on how business things about data or as we say "Data First" - the nature of metadata is changing. Privacy will be tackled by Watson I suspecxt
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jameskobielus
A9: #cloudchat Here's what I EXPECT/WISH for #Watson in 5 years: it'll be the core of all our BigData, IM, and BA platforms, plus it'll be our app development platform, plus the heart of Smarter Commerce, Cities, etc
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IBM Watson
You would have to visit our Thomas J. Watson Research Center to find out!
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Natalia Christenson
The ability to see, hear, and experience - in ways that emulate how we human beings interact with our environment and experience the world around us
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John Sing
@bertlatamore, Watson moves from assistance to understanding (builds models of itself/others) to (trusted) decision making to finally discovering things. In 5? No one knows, but that's progression.
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Jeff Feinsmith
"I'm sorry Bert, I'm afraid that I can't do that."
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Bert Latamore
Watson will work with video, audio, etc., as well as written information?
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John Sing
@bertlatamore, yes, I believe that's IBM's intent with Watson. Maybe not today but that's clearly the direction, as Watson is about human interaction as well.
Bert Latamore
Q5: What was behind the decision to reengineer IBM Watson on the IBM @SoftLayer cloud?
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jameskobielus
A5: #cloudchat IBM acquired a robust public cloud infrastructure with @Softlayer. It was clear from the start that it was the future not just of #IBM SmartCloud, but of all cloud-facing #IBM solutions going forward--especially all things #Watson.
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Zach Small
I think this touches on what we discussed earlier. The #IBMSoftlayer infrastructure is a very powerful platform and the availability of SoftLayer services across the globe allows companies to incorporate Watson into their strategy faster
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Zach Small
whether you are a local business or a global business, that's the benefit of SoftLayer, you can scale according to your needs
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Bert Latamore
Will this make it easier for customers to try out Watson or use it occasionally when they have a need?
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John Sing
IBM has clearly realized that on-premise implementation has given way to much more dynamic pay as you go cloud delivery model. Also Big Data is resident today in the cloud, too big to be on-premise.
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Bert Latamore
I see this allowing Watson to reach a much wider group of users.
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jameskobielus
A5: #cloudchat Keep in mind that #IBM moving all of our solutions--not just #Watson--to cloud. Decision re Watson-on-Softlayer part of that overall strategic decision. "Cloud-first" design principles permeate our software and appliance engineering too!
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John Sing
@bertlatamore, certainly in theory yes, trying out Watson easier to dynamically using when needed, without CAPEX or long-term commitment, becomes possible.
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jameskobielus
A5 #cloudchat It will make it easier for customers of all sizes, from very small to very large, to use #IBM #Watson on an SaaS basis with stringent SLAs.
Bert Latamore
Q8: As #cloud technology evolves and improves, how will that help IBM Watson evolve and grow as well?
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Adrian Bowles
I think we'll see apps w "just enough" Watson (subsets) delivered via mobile
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Natalia Christenson
- as #cloud technology evolves and improves over time, it'll enable #IBMWatson to deliver transformative solutions and value to our customers with greater speed and agility
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John Sing
Watson becomes much more accessible to any/all, worldwide access via SoftLayer (including local SoftLayer geographic expansion / presence). On-premise implementations much much higher entry cost.
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jameskobielus
A8: #cloudchat As cloud-computing platforms become more scalable, real-time, agile, etc, we'll bring all those advances into #SoftLayer and into all our cloud-based apps, including Watson. Speed, scale, simplicity, TCO reduction, manageabilty, etc.
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jameskobielus
A8: #cloudchat #IBM has acquired #Cloudant as our #NoSQL cloud platform. You can expect to see that platform brought more integrally into #Watson Foundations, hence into Watson Solutions.
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Zach Small
with each instance of Watson, the system learns and becomes more advanced...in order to accomplish this you need the infrastructure behind it so that is why #Softlayer technology is so key towards helping Watson develop new uses