Friday, December 9, 2011

Watson now hunting down patent trolls, plans Ken Jennings' elaborate demise

Watson now hunting down patent trolls, plans Ken Jennings' elaborate demise

The Watson supercomputer used its speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning and data mining abilities to crush puny human Ken Jennings' dreams of winning at "Jeopardy!", but now Big Blue has it chasing down medical patent trolls for fun. Incorporating the Strategic IP Insight Platform, IBM has now programmed Watson to scan millions of pharmaceutical patents and biomedical journals to discover, analyze, and record any info pertaining to drug discovery.

Engadget, Watson now hunting down patent trolls, plans Ken Jennings' elaborate demise

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