How Watson Will Impact Your Future with Jerome Pesenti

09/07/14 • -1 min

After defeating mankind at Jeopardy, Watson is displaying humility and mercy by taking on a new role: assisting humans with research and finding smarter answers, for example, helping treat brain cancer. In this episode we discuss Watson and how it will impact your future with, Jerome Pesenti, VP of Watson Core Technology.
IBM continues to make a huge bet on cognitive computing through Watson, and is extending this bet into the cloud, making Watson available to a much wider audience in the form of Watson-as-a-Service, Is there a place for it in your architecture? After all, having some level of machine learning and intelligence may quickly become a base requirement for enterprise applications. Listen to learn more...
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Books that were mentioned:
Permutation City
Diamond Age
Everything is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us
References:
Watson Ecosystem
How Watson Changed IBM
Build with Watson
Watson Q&A at IBM's Developer Works (interesting to peruse)

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Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (A Book Review)

Bett and Russ review Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder". We previously reviewed Black Swan, and thought, in preparation for a deeper discussion of how Antifragile's concepts can apply to software development and architecture, that we should review this book, also.
References:
Humans need not Apply
Everything is Obvious *Once you know the answer
Thinking Fast and Slow
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References:

Sitting is the new smoking: http://youtu.be/Fc-Csmlv1b0
Mobile apps that Jyoti created: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/jacksonville-health-wellness/32ebb157-76d7-41d5-a692-6243852cfd9b
Bett's recent speech that relates: "The World's Most Dangerous Job"