IBM Watson’s three new application program interfaces available to developers boost the supercomputer’s emotional and visual capabilities. The cognitive APIs are available to developers in beta form, ...

As part of the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, 25 app developers have been using Watson’s data processing capabilities to construct, test and refine their apps. This group of 25 developers, ...

IBM Corp. plans to sell its imaging and population health software along with Watson Health's data and analytics business, the company said Friday. The tech conglomerate and private equity firm ...

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's Watson technology, famous for outsmarting humans on the game show "Jeopardy!," will be offered as a cloud-based tool to application developers, letting them tap a resource capable of giving ...

IBM has made its Watson supercomputer available for developers and retailers to use in analysing data streams. The Watson Personality Insights service can help sectors such as retail, banking and ...

Here’s another practical application of IBM Watson technology in healthcare: Boston Children’s Hospital is going to tap the supercomputing platform to improve diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases.

IBM's computer Watson trounces humans in night three of "Jeopardy!" challenge. Feb. 17, 2011— -- Move over mortals, the machines are on their way. In the three-day man vs. machine "Jeopardy!" ...

The Weather Company, an IBM business, set out to change advertising Thursday with the first consumer use of IBM Watson technology for advertising. The Watson Ad unit allows consumers to interact with ...

One year after IBM’s Watson defeated two of the greatest champions in Jeopardy history, the supercomputer is taking a “job” on Wall Street helping banking giant Citigroup analyze data. It would be ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp said on Wednesday it had acquired AlchemyAPI, a fast-growing startup selling software that collects and analyzes unstructured text and data in ...