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How Watson Works

Dr. David Ferrucci, Principal Investigator for the Watson project, provides background on IBM DeepQA architecture. Dr. Ferrucci explains why he and his team have chosen to undertake this momentous challenge – from his interest in teaching a computer to understand natural language to the potential impact this technology could have on different industries.

“We are using information as it exists and making the computer smarter in analyzing that content to compute answers.”

Dr. David Ferrucci
Principal Investigator,
DeepQA/Watson project