• Beyond Limits, a Glendale, Calif. - based artificial intelligence and
cognitive computing company, raised $ 20 million in Series B funding.
Not exact matches
It's also been buying up startups and big
companies alike to jump start demand for its Watson
cognitive computing business.
Asked for comment, an IBM spokesman said the
company is «aggressively transforming its business to lead in a new era of
cognitive and cloud
computing.
Together, the IT
companies are partnering with Mayo Clinic to apply Watson's
cognitive computing capabilities to EMRs.
IBM has been embroiled in an ongoing transition from many of its legacy businesses to newer, high - growth initiatives that the
company calls strategic imperatives, which include
cognitive computing, analytics, cloud
computing, security, and mobile.
And in April, IBM launched IBM Watson Health and the Watson Health Cloud, services that use the
company's
cognitive computing technology to process large amounts of health data from diverse sources.
Today IBM unveiled a new «
cognitive computing» microchip that, according to the
company, emulates some of the brain's abilities.
Cost cuts will bolster the bottom line, and the
company's Watson
cognitive computing division is showing early promise.
If
cognitive computing continues to evolve, conceivably we could one day be living in a world where a lawyer could simply ask a natural language question like, «did any
company officer tell outsiders about the bankruptcy before the stock price fell?»
In our latest Talking Tech video, Jan Van Hoecke, the CTO and co-founder of RAVN Systems, talks to Charles Christian about the
company's evolution from the enterprise search sector and emergence as a provider of AI (artificial intelligence) and «
cognitive computing» solutions for lawyers.
Albeit not quite Robot Lawyer in cute metallic form, ROSS is the smart result of a deal between the
company, Apple (using Siri's slick voice capabilities) and IBM (Watson's
cognitive computing prowess) and will be a huge boon for lawyers, law firms and clients; potentially.
With the addition of
cognitive computing to the
company's technology arsenal, the way in which banking works can be dramatically...