Smart Machines – IBM′s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing

John E. Kelly III is senior vice president and director of IBM Research, one of the world's largest commercial research organizations, with more than 3,000 scientists and technical employees operating in twelve laboratories in ten countries. He also helps guide IBM's overall technical strategy. Kelly's top priorities as head of IBM Research are to stimulate innovation in key areas of information technology and quickly bring those innovations into the marketplace.

Steve Hamm is a writer and videographer for IBM after working in business and technology journalism. Most recently, he was a senior writer at BusinessWeek magazine. He is the author of two books, Bangalore Tiger: How Indian Tech Upstart Wipro Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Competition and The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer.

Preface by John E. Kelly III
1. A New Era of Computing
2. Building Learning Systems
3. Handling Big Data
4. Augmenting Our Senses
5. Designing Data-centric Computers
6. Inventing a New Physics of Computing
7. Imagining the Cognitive City
Coda: An Alliance of Human and Machine
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