Further, using this data, Watson will then provide cognitive analytics that deliver insights enabling the hospital to in essence think, sense and feel what is happening within it. Patients and their families at Alder Hey will be able to access this pre-admission to hospital through a digital application on a tablet or smartphone, such as a mobile app.
The app is being developed in parallel to the cognitive hospital, using funds raised by Alder Hey Children’s Charity. Using natural language processing, Watson will be able to better sift through text in content like blogs or news reports to determine potential threats. IBM Security has announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based spinoff from its Watson cognitive technology platform that will be trained in the language of security. IBM is planning to begin beta production deployments of the technology by the end of the year.
At the core of the issue IBM is trying to address with Watson is the imbalance between the number of security data analysts with the skills required to make accurate determinations regarding data breaches and the sheer volume of security data that needs to be reviewed. The plan will combine some 20 years’ worth of IBM’s collected knowledge on how to protect computers against hacking with other constantly updating data sources, like databases of software vulnerabilities and research papers. Designed on the IBM Cloud, Watson for Cyber Security will offer cognition of security data using Watson’s abilities to reason and learn from “unstructured data”.
In fact, the average organization taps just 8 percent of the data available to them that is not generated by a network security product. Among the universities participating are California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; the University of Waterloo; and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. A team of experts from the Hartree Cognitive team, made up of the Hartree Centre and IBM, will use this information to train “Watson” to anticipate and respond to questions from patients and families before they come into hospital.
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SK Holdings C&C CEO Park Jung-ho and David Kenny, general manager of IBM Watson, pose after a signing ceremony of their strategic partnership at IBM Watson’s headquarters in NY on May 4. Faculty and students working in the ACCL will apply cognitive computing to complex cybersecurity challenges to build upon their own prior research. They will also collaborate with IBM scientists and leverage IBM’s advanced computing systems to add speed and scale to new cybersecurity services and technologies.
The new lab will be led by Anupam Joshi, who heads up the university’s Center for Cybersecurity and chairs the department of computer science and electrical engineering. IBM has been putting Watson’s super computing powers to task in health care since 2011, when it started assisting doctors in making clinical decisions. Watson became one of the world’s most famous artificial intelligence systems after winning the game show “Jeopardy” five year ago and for designing Karolina Kurkova’s Met Gala dress last week.
Date: May 23, 2016