#ALGORITHMS: "IBM Sends Watson to College"

IBM's Watson cluster supercomputer has already conquered the game-show Jeopardy by beating the human champions, has already advising doctors for more accurate diagnoses and is advising traders on which stocks to pick--all that without going to college. However, now that Watson has enrolled in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researchers there promise to expand its field of applications as well as teach how to do "deeper thinking" than it does today: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog

A more general-purpose version of IBM's artificially intelligent (AI) cluster supercomputer called Watson will be be installed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where it will be used by researchers there to deepen the AI's cognitive abilities as well as to explore new application areas.
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