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Vinony's link graph records 683 inbound references to Watson, and connects out to hard disk, IBM and Wolfram Alpha.
It sits within the topics Computer-related introductions in 2006, IBM cloud services and IBM computers.
Vinony links it to 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Operators
- IBM
- Location
- Thomas J. Watson Research Center , New York, USA
- Architecture
- 2,880 POWER7 processor threads
- Memory
- 16 terabytes of RAM
- Speed
- 80 teraFLOPS
- Website
- www .ibm .com /watson
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- supercomputer
- Named after
- Thomas John Watson, Sr.
- Participant in
- Jeopardy!
- Country
- United States
- Developer
- IBM Research
- Manufacturer
- IBM
- Image
- IBM Watson.PNG
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- Commons category
- IBM Watson
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/ibm-watson-cognitive
- CPU
- POWER7
- inception
- 2004-00-00
- number of processor cores
- 1440
- operating system
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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Encyclopedic overview
IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. It was developed as a part of IBM's DeepQA project by a research team, led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's founder and first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson.
The computer system was initially developed to answer questions on the popular quiz show Jeopardy! and in 2011, the Watson computer system competed on Jeopardy! against champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, winning the first-place prize of US$1 million.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Watson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.