In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot. Specifically, the massive gamble he took in 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential to ...

IBM’s Watson computer is increasingly being used in heathcare, analyzing the big data created by organizations to better improve healthcare delivery. Here are four developments on Watson’s role in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fourteen U.S. and Canadian cancer institutes will use International Business Machines Corp's Watson computer system to choose therapies based on a tumor's genetic fingerprints, ...

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 ...

Open source software such as Lucene and Linux played a crucial role in IBM’s Jeopardy computer The software that helped IBM’s Watson computer reign victorious on the Jeopardy game show in February ...

IBM has been running a series of ads promoting its Watson computer system, which uses artificial intelligence to learn and is capable of examining vast amounts of data—in one ad, Watson says it can ...

Tom Watson Jr. was CEO of IBM during the period when that company created the modern computer industry and launched the digital age. More than Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford or even Gates, Jobs, and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp on Wednesday launched a computer system that can quickly identify patterns in massive amounts of data, an ability that IBM said should ...

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 ...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. — Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information designed to help speed ...