In January, President Obama handed the reins to Joe Biden to head a "moonshot" initiative to cure cancer, and a major step toward that end has just been made. At the National Cancer Moonshot Summit on ...

Jennings and Rutter played against Watson the following month at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter competing against IBM Watson at a press conference at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on January ...

IBM’s Watson computer is increasingly being used in heathcare, analyzing the big data created by organizations to better improve healthcare delivery. Here are four developments on Watson’s role in ...

Now that IBM's Watson supercomputer has proved itself to be better than humans at Jeopardy, it's time to put it to work in a more productive setting: the healthcare industry. Watson's ability to parse ...

It's man versus machine on Jeopardy!, as two of the game show's most successful players compete against an IBM supercomputer four years in the making. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter will take on the IBM ...

Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college. IBM will provide a Watson system to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first time the ...