TechHive: The Watson cloud: IBM prepares to open supercomputer to third party developers

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thumbnail The Watson cloud: IBM prepares to open supercomputer to third party developers
Nov 14th 2013, 14:36, by Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service

IBM is preparing to give third parties access to its Watson supercomputer with the aim of spurring the growth of applications that take advantage of the system's artificial intelligence capabilities.

Watson, which is derived from IBM's DeepQA project, drew worldwide attention in 2011 after it soundly defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy! game show.

IBM has been applying Watson's machine learning—or "cognitive computing"—technology to domains such as health care, but now the company is ready to share Watson with the broader world.

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