Inside IBM Watson's New NYC Digs

"New York is the city where the future comes to rehearse," said the late NYC Mayor Ed Koch in 1986, at the dawn of the personal computing age. His statement proved quite prescient, as modern startups and major tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google have made the Big Apple their second home

Now they're joined by a supercomputer most famous for beating a human in Jeopardy, as well as a string of high-profile cognitive computing innovations.

That's right: as of Wednesday, IBM Watson calls New York City its permanent home.

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Cognitive computing is the secret sauce that makes Watson special among supercomputers. Not only does it interact with people in a more natural, human-like way, but it can learn. Watson ingests vast amounts of information and helps its users quickly pinpoint all kinds of information Read more...

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