In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot. Specifically, the massive gamble he took in 1964 to introduce the System/360, which had the potential to ...

With Watson 1.0, IBM Corp. deviated from the Silicon Valley mantra — fail fast — as it took nearly a decade for the company to pivot off of its original vision. In our view, a different dynamic is in ...

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 ...

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Siemens is planning to integrate Watson Analytics, among other IBM analytics tools, into its cloud-based operating system for the Internet of Things. By integrating these tools into the system, called ...

IBM's Watson supercomputer is poised to power the "cognitive era," which will have a transformative impact on digital-savvy businesses that can make sense of big data, CEO Ginni Rommety said Wednesday ...