IBM’s Watson Goes From Jeopardy Player to Scientist Used by J&J
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International Business Machines Corp. wants you to know that its Watson technology can do more than win “Jeopardy!” -- it can now help accelerate scientific research and discoveries.
IBM, in a peer-reviewed paper with Baylor College of Medicine, used the Watson Discovery Advisor technology to map connections within troves of scientific research. The ability to point scientists toward new hypotheses and patterns in data is also being used by Johnson & Johnson to help develop medicines and find additional uses for existing drugs, IBM said in a statement.