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Solving for the Customer

Solving for the Customer

By Denis Pombriant on February 23, 2015

You might remember Garry Kasparov, the last chess grand master to beat a computer. That was about 20 years ago when he went up against Deep Blue, the IBM megaframe that is the direct ancestor of Jeopardy!-winning Watson. A re-match between Deep Blue and Kasparov a year later did not go so well for the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Artificial intelligence, customer science, Deep Blue (chess computer), Garry Kasparov, ibm, Jeopardy, Watson (computer)

Disrupting Today's Workplace - Part Three

Disrupting Today’s Workplace – Part Three

By Michael Fauscette on July 14, 2014

Technology is one part of the impetus for change in the workplace and has historically been a lever in major transitions like the one we’re currently experiencing. There are new technologies like mobile, cloud and social that are a big part of this change of course, but there are some other specific technologies that are […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive Computing, decision support, disruptwork, FoW, future of work, Jeopardy, Watson, work

Watson on Jeopardy! Big Data Analytics and User Experience

Watson on Jeopardy! Big Data Analytics and User Experience

By Evangelos Simoudis on February 22, 2011

Last week five other VCs and I were invited by IBM’s Venture Capital Group to a private viewing of Jeopardy’s final round where Watson was competing.  Following the show, and Watson’s win, we engaged in a very interesting conversation with Eric Brown, Watson’s technical lead, and Anant Jhingran, CTO of IBM’s Information Management Division, about […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, ibm, Jeopardy, Watson | 1 Response

Beyond Jeopardy! with IBM Watson – Quick Analysis

Beyond Jeopardy! with IBM Watson – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on February 18, 2011

Seeing a computer play two humans at Jeopardy! is a lot more entertaining than I thought it’d be. I’d been ignoring most of the hoopla around Watson figuring it for a big, effective PR campaign on IBM’s part. It is that for certain, and good on them for doing it. I’ve been more interested in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged AI, analytics, Big Data, Companies, enterprise software, ibm, ideas, Jeopardy, marketing, Open source, POWER7, Quick Analysis, The New Thing, Watson

Three Lessons Watson Taught Us to Improve Customer Service

Three Lessons Watson Taught Us to Improve Customer Service

By Esteban Kolsky on February 17, 2011

Well, I had to do it.  I had to rip off the headlines and apply it to our customer service problems. In case you call a rock your comfortable abode (or have a life outside of the echo chamber of Twitter that does not include watching Jeopardy), the news is that IBM created a super-computer […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged artificialintelligence, Customer Experience, customer service, ibm, Jeopardy, Knowledge Management, Watson | 3 Responses

IBM’s Watson: The Future of Business Analytics?

IBM’s Watson: The Future of Business Analytics?

By Bob Warfield on January 13, 2011

IBM’s Watson software is the subject of this week’s SmoothSpan InfoBoom-sponsored posting. In it, I discuss the ramifications of IBM’s remarkable Watson software for Business in the next 10 years.  It’s amazing to watch the videos of IBM’s Watson participating in Jeopardy rounds against the human champions.  Watson answers faster and more accurately, and it seemingly […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ibm, Jeopardy, SaaS, Watson

IOD Keynote: Computational Mathematics and Freakonomics

IOD Keynote: Computational Mathematics and Freakonomics

By Sandy Kemsley on October 27, 2010

I attended the keynote this morning, on the theme of looking forward: first we heard from Mike Rhodin, an exec in the IBM Software group, then Brenda Dietrich, a mathematician (and VP – finally, a female IBM exec on stage) from the analytics group in IBM Research. IBM Research has nine labs around the world, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BI, Freakonomics, ibm, iodgc, Jeopardy, research

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