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Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing

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In the last decade, the availability of massive amounts of new data, and the development of new machine learning technologies, have augmented reasoning systems to give rise to a new class of computing systems. These "Cognitive Systems" learn from data, reason from models, and interact naturally with us, to perform complex tasks better than either humans or machines can do by themselves. In essence, cognitive systems help us perform like the best by penetrating the complexity of big data and leverage the power of models. One of the first cognitive systems, called Watson, demonstrated through a Jeopardy! exhibition match, that it was capable of answering complex factoid questions as effectively as the world's champions. Follow-on cognitive systems perform other tasks, such as discovery, reasoning, and multi-modal understanding in a variety of domains, such as healthcare, insurance, and education. We believe such cognitive systems will transform every industry and our everyday life for the better. In this talk, I will give an overview of the applications, the underlying capabilities, and some of the key challenges, of cognitive systems.

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        cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
        ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 50, Issue 4
        ASPLOS '15
        April 2015
        676 pages
        ISSN:0362-1340
        EISSN:1558-1160
        DOI:10.1145/2775054
        • Editor:
        • Andy Gill
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          ASPLOS '15: Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
          March 2015
          720 pages
          ISBN:9781450328357
          DOI:10.1145/2694344

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        New York, NY, United States

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