IBM and Watson have made Cognitive Computing famous and are now employing such technologies for a range of different applications, “cognitive systems have the potential to reshape computing, and are an area of computing that you should not ignore. I recently watched this video The Future of Cognitive Computing by Dr. John Kelly, Senior Vice President at IBM Research and Solutions Portfolio. Not only did I find the subject of cognitive computing completely fascinating, but also highly informative. I strongly recommend that you watch this video to learn about cognitive systems from a very high level, and realize the magnitude of impact that these types of systems are going to have on the face of computing and how we interact with systems and data at large.”
The article discusses the video in depth along with a number of different areas where Cognitive Computing is making an impact including healthcare, transportation, oil & gas, and retail where “consumers post 500 million tweets and 55 million Facebook updates each day. From our partnership with Twitter, we now have direct access to tap into this “big hose” of data. This data can help identify buying patterns, preferences, insights, and where society is moving – Insights that can be moved across every form of commerce.”
And, “IoT is one of the next great frontiers. Watson is unmatched in natural language processing. Watson also can handle images and vision. Think about signal processing. Machine-to-machine data will dominate the market in just a few years. That is noisy, unstructured data, perfect for cognitive computing. Smart, connected appliances will grow from less than 1% of the market today to more than half in 2020. This could be appliances, or could be smart connected cities. Think of the implications of city security or traffic management.”