What Impact will Watson Have on the Use of Analytics in Business? An Overview of Deep Q&A Technology

Christer Johnson, MBA, North American BAO Advanced Analytics Leader, IBM Global Services
IBM Corporation

In February 2011, a computer named Watson beat two all-time Jeopardy champions. From an artificial intelligence perspective, Watson included many innovative breakthroughs in deep question and answer technology. But will the innovative algorithms and natural language processing capabilities of Watson have a significant impact on how businesses use and apply analytics? And if so, what kind of impact will that be, and when would it start to happen? In this presentation, you will hear about the analytical innovations behind Watson and how they might change the way companies use descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to improve their performance. You will also see how deep question and answer technology correlates to the results of a study asking 3,000 corporate executives how they see the analytics space evolving over the next few years.

This presentation was filmed at the 2011 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research
http://www.informs.org/Attend-a-Conference/Analytics-Conference

Learn more about INFORMS, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences:
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