Dr. David Ferrucci
Principal investigator for the DeepQA team responsible for building Watson.
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The Research Team
Algorithms Team
The fifteen IBMers responsible for Watson's DeepQA architecture.
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Strategy Team
The group working on Watson's game play and betting strategy during a Jeopardy! match.
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Systems Team
The team that designed the complex system of POWER7 cores that power Watson.
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Speech Team
The IBM researchers who developed Watson's voice and speech recognition capabilities.
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Annotations Team
The linguistics team that developed the taxonomy for Watson’s search databases.
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IBM Research - China
The group primarily tasked with how Watson links data from different sources.
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IBM Research - Tokyo
The group that helped to develop the system Watson uses to attach meaning to the words in a question.
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IBM Research - Haifa
The team responsible for optimizing the search process of Watson’s DeepQA architecture.
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Project Management
The team that managed the relationship between the Watson research team and the Jeopardy! production staff.
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Applications Team
The team working to develop systems that apply DeepQA technology to real-world problems.
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